I'd been tracking the Alcatraz tickets online for a week or so.  Again, I'm not a planner so that seemed like a giant level of effort.  There were plenty available so I didn't bother to purchase them.  Let's keep things...

DISCLAIMER: I may make a commission off of the links on this page. Total cost of the repairs in Watsonville: $800 and some change.  I think it was $350 for parts and the rest was labor.  They replaced the solenoid...

So... I'm pretty sure we're going to be stuck at Grandmom's house for eternity (or at least the entirety of this year).  Of course that's not the intention, but we're certainly running into plenty of "opportunities to flex our problem...