Filling up

 For the longest time I was driving into Ohio to get gas because it was so much cheaper. Then there was a stretch where the savings wasn't big and several weeks where Pennsylvania was cheaper than Ohio so I got in the habit of going locally.

Last Sunday I decided it was time to drive back to Ohio. 

This was Pennsylvania's price. $4.59 but with my club price I would pay the $4.46

I checked my app for the place in Ohio that I go to and this is what it was

$4.09 is the regular price but if you are signed up you get another .10 cents off a gallon so that means I paid $3.99. For that much of a savings I made the trip. It's just under 15 miles one way so not that far away.

Lunch

 Now that it's just me in the office I get help from out of town. My manager comes from Ridgeway Pa 2 days a week and the Division president usually comes a couple times a month. Whenever he comes he always buys lunch. 

He usually asks what I want for lunch. This last time I really didn't know and he asked if I knew of any good burger places that weren't fast food. I told him my son had mentioned Bro Man's Birria n' Burgers and said that they were really good. It's not too far away from the office so he said we would try it. 

He asked if I wanted fried which they called Brotatoes, and I said I was good with just the burger. He asked if I would split them with him if he ordered them and I said sure.

The potatoes were sort of a thick cut potato slice with seasoning on them and they were very tasty. 

If it weren't for bad luck

 Ide have no luck at all.

So to continue with that tire. I was filling it once a week when the low tire pressure light came on and it was only the back drivers side tire that needed filled.

Last Saturday I took it to Walmart auto center since the place I got the tires is only open Monday-Friday till 5:00

I was a walk in and they told me they would get to it as soon as possible.

I walked to the pharmacy to get my prescriptions

She told me they didn't have any ready. I told her I got the text saying they were ready. I pulled out my phone only to discover I never did the text ALL to have them filled. OOPS! She said it would be about 25 minutes. I told her no problem I'm also waiting on my car.

I sat on the bench and waited

When I finally got my prescriptions I went back to the auto center and waited some more.

Turns out I picked up a nail somewhere and it went in at an angle towards the outside wall of the tire so it couldn't be repaired. I had to buy a new tire. I asked if just one would be ok or if I needed to buy two. He assured me just one would be fine.

By the time I got home and forced myself to do some cleaning, I was done for the day. I never did finish everything I wanted to get done.

Rechargeable

Last winter there were several times my low tire pressure light had come on. The machines at the convenience stores didn't work well in the cold temperatures and I asked my son a few times to fill my tires for me. Later I was having a conversation with my daughter-in-law and she asked if a rechargeable tire inflator would be something I might like as an early Christmas gift. I told her I had been considering them and was looking at them on Amazon. She ordered one for me and believe it or not my tires didn't say low pressure again until this month.

This is the inflator that she got me. 

For size reference, here's one with my hand

It was very easy to use and filled the tires well. Turns out though that one of those new tires I bought in July had developed a slow leak. After a couple times filling tires this inflator needed charged and I couldn't get it to charge. Turns out I was plugging the USB cord in backwards. But I did discover that this can be used to charge a cell phone in an emergency. And thankfully this is again fully charge.

All of this leads up to tomorrow's post.