Two and then three, Patching it up

My weekend felt like it went quickly as I kept myself busy in one way or another most of my waking hours. Friday night I skipped happy hour completely and just went back to my old school pizza and Mexican Coke, concluding with a session of WoW. Although it was unsocial behavior, I enjoyed it.

I played pickleball both Saturday and Sunday mornings. On Saturday I didn’t set an alarm and didn’t get to the courts until close to 10 so the broiler effect was already in action. I played 6 or 7 games with a couple people as partners and won all of them. I felt I played well, better than Friday at lunch when I was making unforced errors at a much higher rate than I should be. On Sunday morning I played with my good buddy Juan who makes every session funny with his uncontrollable outbursts of emotion. I played with him at Talis Park where I have not been in a couple months.

On Saturday night I wound up doing a live stream. Before doing so I had dinner at Tacos and Tequila where I had a couple of the stronger margarita varieties. Two of them was enough to get things flowing.

The stream was a unique one where I had a friend of mine, Dale, from Australia on the stream as well as Roger, one of my friends from California. We talked about EUC and non-EUC content in a free flowing manner which was fun and enjoyable. Roger was sort of a captive audience as he was stuck slow charging his Tesla in the middle of nowhere because a component on his car stopped working which prevented it from super charging.

One of the tasks I tended to was trying to touch up a section of drywall that is butted up against the tile for the shower. It’s the edge right along the shower door. It had sections of rust showing through the paint where the metal edging material was deteriorating. I had just hit it quickly with some paint months ago but the rust had returned.

When I was sanding the rust down the drywall in a couple spots sunk down since it no longer had an intact metal frame behind it. I had to then expand the scope of the repair where I used heavy duty drywall patch to fill the sunken spots to build them up and then let them dry overnight so I could sand it back to flat the next day. The repair is good enough that you won’t notice unless you are looking for it. One of my longer term project ideas is to renovate the master bathroom. When that happens that wall will likely be torn down or transformed into a half wall so hopefully my patch work will get me through until that happens.

I got to hang with Gladys a little over the weekend as well which was fun as she heads back to the island this week. Whenever she is in town she normally has a lot going on so it was nice to get a block of her time.

I did have a brief period of time on Sunday where I was just laying in my bed, tired from my pickleball session. Elsa came up in the bed and joined me, winding up in this cute position inverted from me with her head pressed up against my leg. It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling I appreciated. I value that feeling and embrace it wherever I find it at this point.