Timestamps generally in Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome to my Oatmeal Daily which is generally posted & syndicated to different websites daily by me, Oatmeal Joey Arnold, feel free to mirror, edit, clip, reupload my content. For more information, see some of the links on this page or you can try to Google search or look me up using keywords like Oatmeal Joey Arnold @ joeyarnoldvn and other keywords. Try using different combinations of words in search engines for better results. Bed by 4. Up by 9:50 AM. Cold outside. Grabbed my computer bag from the car for packing. Breakfast: 10:10 AM. We got ready. Mom felt flustered not remembering to bring the apple juice. I asked why she didn't make more time. She runs out of time. She expressed trying to give herself extra time to get ready for things. Yet it seems never enough. We made it in time to study Ephesians with Ron. Mark and his wife too. We talked about what we are thankful for. Well, it starts around noon, we got there like 12:05 PM. Few minutes late but they didn't start yet. Mark was off on a phone call connecting with a relative which was good. We did prayer. We went off towards Oregon around 01:00 PM after that in the rain, turned at the casino. But missed a turn as I struggled to see any extra roads or turns on the Google Maps GPS system app on my phone. Mom said we did this last time which I think is true. We stopped at a gas station but saw no rest rooms. The next one did have one across the street, a honey bucket. We drove behind a few slower vehicles for an hour or a long time. Mom didn't want to pass them. Mom wanted to stop at a restaurant but we failed to stop at one in Astoria. Mom finally found one but I was not sure which one. First, we stopped at one which was closed. After that we drove passed a Thai restaurant over a bridge. We turned around and drove by it a second and third time. Finally, we made it, we had dinner around like 05:00 PM, we will call this lunch. I had pineapple chicken egg rice which I enjoyed. Mom had something that was possibly similar. I had her extra rice. Mom got a senior discount. Mom tried telling the young man at the cashier that we were from like the Olympia area but he seemed not to know enough English to really followed. I said the food is amazing and he said thank you. He even got me water. My socks got wet walking into a puddle trying to get into the car. We set the GPS, made it over to Karen's new place, it was a sun set, got there around like 06:00 PM. I am not your uncle. Brian teased my mom, that is her brother, he would mess with her. She might be like him. Interesting stories and conversations. Mom told a story of how she realized a friend was black and said it to herself oh my friend is black which got Alan without his beard looking like his former self onto the ground laughing which was interesting. A story about my mom's dad and the second. See, she might have used words back then as some might. I will not say anybody mentioned the N word. But you have to understand the world she was from. She might have thought of Nathan as the good kid which he said it is true he had book smart but that he was more street smart. We ate cheese pizza, I had ice cream bars on it. I had water. I had some popcorn. She mentioned she never did the canyon thing even tho she is off at college there. She asked Karen what might be cooler the Grand Canyon or Honduras which is cool if is somehow connected or closer to the Maya thing. The Mayans. The Mayonnaise ruins. Now it is 08:20 PM. Also tested a few games on my game boy handheld gaming device. I played Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Paper Mario 64, Rival Turf, etc. Alan showed her a newspaper. Jim in front, Don my dad in back. Odd since they usually put taller players in the back, this was like 1970. I forget if it was when they were in high school, college, city league, or what. Alan told a story of how Don would pass the ball to Jim without looking, Jim would dunk it. They were pros. I saw some of it a few times. Last time they really played together was a pickup game at the court at our park in Forest Grove a block from the trailer home I grew up in, this was the summer of 1993 when we had family reunion at Hagg Lake, three families. Food log: Breakfast: coffee, tangerine, 10:10 AM. Lunch: I had pineapple chicken egg rice which I enjoyed, 05:00 PM. Dinner: pizza, like 07:00 PM.