August 17 – 25, 2014
Tuesday
August 19, 2014 – Day 3 &
Wednesday
August 20, 2014 – Day 4:
Today, I called the front desk at my
hotel and asked them if I could extend my vacation to next Monday August 25th. They said that was fine and asked me to
provide my credit card again so that they could re-swipe it and charge me for
the additional three nights. So, I have
now paid for all eight nights here already and that will make my checkout very
fast and easy next Monday morning.
Today (Wednesday), I am going to call the
Greyhound bus terminal to ask them how much my one-way fare back to Toronto
is. I had already paid for my full bus
fare (as an advance purchase), but now that the date of my return has changed, I’ll
probably have to buy another ticket, unless by some miracle, they can just
change the date of my current ticket. I’m
also hoping to get the seniors’ discount because I am now 62 making me eligible
for it, I believe.
First, I looked on the Greyhound web
site and it told me that I could pay for my new ticket by phone using my credit
card and then pick up my ticket the day I want to travel home. However, it seemed like a much better idea to
me to just take a cab over to the bus terminal this morning and pay for my new
ticket in person. That way, I would be
able to board the bus next Monday morning right away and not have to worry
about standing in line to get my ticket first.
After all, there could be a lineup for tickets and I do not want to take
the chance of not being able to get a seat on that bus.
So, now I have my new ticket, which cost
me $84.30, instead of the full price of $124.30, which means I got the seniors’
discount – thank God! Also, there is a
good possibility that I will get a partial refund of my old ticket. To get the refund, I had to mail the old
ticket into the Greyhound corporate head office today and they should be able
to refund me about $74.00, I think - at
least, that’s the amount I would want back.
I was also hoping to be able to get one
of my prescriptions re-filled at the Station Mall Drug Mart store here in the
“Soo”, due to the fact that I was unexpectedly running low on it. They first had to call my Shoppers Drug Mart
store in Ajax to confirm that I have an existing prescription there and then
they were able to fill it right away for me – thank God!
Finally, I had to purchase a new
backpack for the journey home. The
original one that I’d brought with me is pretty much garbage now and should not
be re-used. The price I paid at Sears
was about $48.00 – a little pricey for me – but, it was a discounted price, so
I was still ahead of the game in this respect.
One more thing to be thankful for today!
I started preparing several postcards to
advertise my second book in the United States in a different way. I’ve never used these postcards before in
this way. They were part of my original
marketing kit from Authorhouse and I finally figured out a good way to use them
for marketing purposes. I just hope that
the Barnes and Noble book store owners start noticing my book this year, or as
soon as possible. This time, I am aiming
for book store owners that I have not yet approached before.
I’ve been watching several of my
favourite full-length feature DVD movies – ones that I haven’t seen in quite a
while. For example, I’ve seen “Black
Widow”, “Employee of the Month”, “The American President”, “Green Card”, and
“Fatal Attraction”, so far. I brought
enough DVD movies to watch for the entire nine days, which is a good thing
considering I was only going to stay in the “Soo” for six days in total.
Hopefully, tomorrow and/or the weekend
days are going to be better, weather-wise.
It’s been kind of rainy and cloudy out this week – not very sunny. However, if it’s sunnier tomorrow, I am going
to spend more time out on the boardwalk again; that’s a really nice place to be
when the sun is out.
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