Many little things, First One, 47MPH

Friday night I met up with my buddy Jeff to play some pickleball. We started off playing some singles but then were asked if we wanted to play some doubles by two guys. These guys were good, both 4.0 players. We hung with them two out of the three games we played but they wound up taking all three. They were the type of players that you could not make an unforced error against else they would make you pay. Jeff and I played a couple more singles matches afterward before we packed it in. I wound up my Friday by heading straight to Carrabas to grab a beer and dinner. It was a good start to my weekend.

I tackled a number of small to do’s Saturday morning after grabbing groceries. In the span of 60 minutes I had knocked out a number of things that had been on my plate for awhile but not checked off. It felt good to finally do so.

Saturday afternoon I packed up the truck and headed to the swamp with the Lynx on hand to do my swamp test. There has been significantly more rain than normal this dry season. The end result was the swamp was much wetter than I hoped. Along the trail there were many muddy areas that I either carefully rolled across or had to dismount and walk in some situations. I only saw one gator during the ride which was surprising.

Saturday night I did my first public live stream of 2024. Somehow it managed to stretch to three hours in length. A ton of different subjects were touched on with much less personal relationship talk than the NYE episode.

Sunday morning it was chilly. My thermometer showed 50 degrees when I rolled out of bed. I still got my pickleball session in albeit I played the entire time in a hoodie. It was still enjoyable. The group at Talis Park that I play with are really nice people.

I got my last significant testing done on the Lynx Sunday afternoon, my high speed runs. I got the wheel up to 47mph, the fastest I have ever traveled on an EUC. The scary part is the wheel can probably go another 10MPH+ faster if I was willing to push it, I’m not.

The rest of my day was split between video editing and watching parts of both playoff games which were both good games. Just imagine how Buffalo fans feel having to hear “wide right” once again.

I have been forcing myself to watch the new Marvel series, Echo on Disney+. I had heard from multiple reviewers it was terrible, they were right. I am just trying to get to the end of it. It seems Marvel/Disney has decided that they need to make super hero content for every ethnicity and class. Echo is about a native american woman that is missing a foot and deaf. The story sucks, is boring and it just seems like an effort to appease with little else besides allowing them to check the native american box.

My mood this weekend was generally decent although I still have more internal dialogue and struggle than I would prefer. I think only the passage of time will eventually create that callous that sticks. Until then I keep my head up and eyes forward.

Last year at this time I just got over the massive hump related to painting my old house.