I slept better last night, it was almost 6 when I woke up this morning. In fact, I felt pretty happy all day, even though Gerald was leaving. I worked on the reimbursement requests and made progress. I went to lunch with Gerald. Ray joined us for dessert after his faculty retreat. Gerald paid! I left work a little after 3, had to stop and get some more sugar because Captain and Vanessa needed it to freeze peaches. I didn't want to go home by way of Kroger, so I stopped at a gas station Food Mart--they didn't have sugar! The Golden Pantry at another gas station did, but in small expensive bags.

After about an hour at home, it was time to take G. to the shuttle. We agonized over the decision of whether to drive him to the airport or make him take the shuttle. It's partly an environmental question, but it was also the first night of choir rehearsal--and we just to tired to be driving back from Atlanta at 10 o'clock.

After we dropped him off, we stopped by Democratic HQ. Note to self: pick up nametags for Grand Opening. Make donation box. Make volunteer handbook. Then we had about an hour before potluck. Rather than drive home, we went out to the Toyota dealership. They have been advertising big sales, and there are some good ones. A basic new Prius is less than $23,000. If you add another $1000, they have some really good financing offers--0% for 2 years, 2% for 4 years, I think. But they also had 3 used Priuses. One is only $13,000--it is 5 years old, with almost 60,000 miles on it, but it looks really nice. I don't really want to trade in our existing Prius, but does it make sense to trade the Corolla when it has about the same mileage? I am not sure they would take the Protege, especially since I don't think we can drive it there. And then we would have 3 cars plus a truck, probably more than we need. Hmm. Our Prius has a cracked radiator and needs its catalytic converter worked on. If we trade it in, we won't have to worry about that. But otherwise, it seems to be still going strong at 160,000 miles.

After that, we went to potluck and choir. It was fun, but I started dozing off and now I have a stiff neck!