5:13pm: here is car, the building, a little of the ocean. Moved everything in. Cats ran away or are hiding. Looked on all floors, stairwells. Walked Dad outside, where Debbie and Naiem had been waiting. Leo had left in the u-haul without telling anyone. My car battery had died. Dad’s face looked worried in a new way once he accepted battery was dead. Naiem and I pointed at things under dad’s hood, looking for ‘negative charge’ area of battery. Dad said ‘no, you know, you’d think to look under there, but it’s just computer chips under there.’ Removed the casing to the thing and he was right. He said ‘the negative charge can be on anything metal,’ but he continued to look for an ‘official negative charge’ area, saying distracted/directionless things about how my battery could’ve died, how it usually works with cars. His worried face. The way it looked when he said ‘if it doesn’t start tomorrow, well. Someone will have a jumper. You really should take it to a place soon, a mechanic. New batteries aren’t supposed to die out this fast.’ Felt aware of double-meaning. Then Debbie and Naiem walking to us from some place I didn’t see them go, talking excitedly about the ocean.

Alone ass…car needs to run for an hour to charge battery. Going to drive to ikea.