Softer, Ghosts in the machine again

I had a productive night. I recently had curbed the passenger side front wheel on my Tesla. Luckily I had installed curb guard protectors shortly after I got the car for this very reason. The wheels that come with the Model Y performance series are expensive, cool and unfortunately very vulnerable to any curb damage. The protectors I have are modular so I was able to just replace the three sections that were missing and be back in business.

I did my second short ride on the V9 last night. During my initial ride last week after pumping up the suspension to the recommended pressure for my weight I was not thrilled with how bouncy the suspension felt. Instead of absorbing impacts it was more like it was bouncing off of them which did not feel good. Last night before riding I reduced the pressure in the shocks significantly below the recommended range and the ride felt significantly better to me. I did a short video describing the change.

When I got home last night I noticed that the Echo device in the garage was playing music which was odd as I don’t recall it playing anything when I left in the morning. I gave the device the verbal command to stop, which it did. Later when I was inside the house I heard noise out in the garage again. Yes once again the device was playing music without my command to do so. This time I took the more drastic step of unplugging it to hopefully clear out whatever issue was going on. I plugged it back in and went inside confident that should be the end of it.

Nope, later I once again heard music going on in the garage. I was now legit aggravated so I unplugged the device and just left it that way. Hopefully some extended time with no power will cure what ails it. This is the oldest Amazon device I own. Some of you may recall this exact same scenario happening years ago with this same device, although in that situation the garage was right next to my bedroom so it actually woke me up in the middle of the night. Have the Chinese infiltrated my Amazon device? Maybe.

I returned to yoga for the first time in three weeks yesterday. I did not apparently re-injure my back doing so but I do feel little tweaks and twinges in my body from being moved and stretched in ways that are not routine.