Colleen[19]: A nice day out; a strange but pleasant evening

[mdlbear]

The morning went by far too quickly, scouting medical equipment stores and making a few essential purchases. The coffee and gin will have to wait.

Picked up Colleen at 1:30 for an outing. We bought a wheelchair -- a Nova 22" folding transport chair, with 12-inch rear wheels, handbrakes, and removable arms. It's significantly lighter than the standard chair we've been renting, and a little narrower; it'll be usable on trips as both a wheelchair and a walker. With a little significant amount of tinkering it might even be possible to electrify it, but it would be inadvisable to count on that.

After that we went out for a drive: out Leigh to Camden, out Camden until it ends, looping around via Harry and Almaden, and back to Leigh. Bookmarked the long paved path that runs along outer Camden as a good place for me to take her for a walk. Or rather, for me to walk and her to ride in her shiny new chair.

At home briefly for her to catch up on LJ and hug the kids, then back to White Blossom. Was informed that my right headlight was out, so back home to swap cars.

Then I went to pick up Joyce to go to the $COMPANY holiday party at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto. High-end, and delicious. Good company, good conversation. Must take Colleen there some time to make it up to her. Very strange not to have her there; it's the first company party that I've gone to without her.