Almost out
This four day weekend has chugged by quite quickly. On Friday and Saturday I got the majority of my tasks completed the biggest of which was mowing the entire property as well as weed whacking. If done back to back it can take close to 6 hours. I also got the Tesla prepped for pick up by a Vroom carrier. As I was doing some of the prep I shot a video talking more about the less than perfect process so far.
Friday night Deb came over for us to watch the new release of Black Widow courtesy of Disney Plus Premier. The $29.99 price tag struck me as a little steep initially but when compared to the nearly double I would spend on a typical movie theater trip I was less salty about it. This was the first post Covid Marvel movie that has been released. I liked the movie. It had good action and told the Black Widow back story which is a bit ironic because she is currently officially dead in the MCU. It was a good flick but if I am judging it on a Marvel scale it would be in the lower half as far as my favorites go. I’d go B+ I think going in depth into a dead character let some air out of the balloon for me.
Saturday evening we watched Dark Waters, a movie about Dupont and the horrible things they did in the name of non-stick surfaces, also known as Teflon. They not only knowingly poisoned employees, landfills, and water supplies, they also have been poisoning the world with Teflon which utilizes PFOA’s which have a laundry list of terrible health side effects. I recall in the last decade or so hearing negative news about Teflon and I have made efforts to avoid it since but all I recalled was the surface could flake off and only then was a problem. No it’s a problem, all the time. It’s crazy to me that there are still a ton of non-stick surfaces sold under the Teflon brand. Supposedly they haven’t used PFOA’s since 2013 but I have no doubt whatever is being used today is not significantly better.
Cindy of course was freaked out by this. After the movie she did a full audit of our cooking pots and pans, pulling out anything with a teflon-like coating. We went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond yesterday and got a couple cast iron pans and another set that supposedly had none of the chemicals Teflon was infamous for. The movie painted a very dark picture of just how gigantic companies have immense power. They were able to stall prosecutors for well over a decade and even when they did pay out it didn’t change their core business process based on profit first, public safety a distant second. If you aren’t afraid to have your eyes opened you should watch the movie. It’s an A.
Yesterday I took out my little Mten3 into the driveway for a little putz around session. As I mindlessly rode in circles and both directions I rambled about various topics, just because.
Over the past two days I have been playing a game my nephew loves called BTD6. It’s a tower defense game, something I used to enjoy years ago. Tower defense games have gotten much crazier and complicated over time. After playing a few games solo to get a basic understanding of the game I played several co-op games with Griffin, which he seems to really enjoy. It’s a fun way to connect even though we are far away.
The last 48 hours have been pretty chill by my standards, not a lot of work has gotten done and I am trying to be ok with it. Today I was on my way to get coffee when I saw a call on my cell from Fort Myers. I rarely pick up on a number I dont know but for some reason I picked this up. It was a car carrier company saying they were supposed to pick up my car, today. WTF. The email I got made it seem like I would get a call and the pickup would be scheduled a couple days in advance. I said ok, when are you coming? “In about an hour…” Um ok, doing the time calculation in my head I figured I had time to get coffee and do the couple remaining things I had to do on the car before releasing it.
So I haul ass home and just as I finished up the tasks I get a text from that same number asking if we can do it tomorrow….. WTF for the third time. I asked what happened to picking it up in an hour? She said the truck had some sort of problem so they can’t come until tomorrow. I told her in that case it would need to be late in the day which she agreed to. So, if things go as planned, which is not a certainty of course, the Model Y will be moving on to it’s new destination tomorrow afternoon.