350 miles, Fixed, Volunteered, 7-0, Most annoying

Saturday morning I was up with the alarm to load up Elsa to head 175 miles north in my Tesla. The destination was PEV Connection in Clearwater. I was going up there to drop off and pick up a wheel. I have documented here the discomfort I have been having with riding the the F22 due to the steep dihedral angle on it’s pedals. Well I came up with an unconventional solution, get rid of the barely one month old wheel.

I made arrangements to trade my F22 for a Nosfet Aero, a very cool small form factor suspension wheel that recently came out. In terms of dollars the trade was definitely not in my benefit however in my reality it was. The Aero will fit my needs just fine where as the F22 was basically not being ridden because it caused me pain to ride it.

I met Rob who is one of the owners of the store. Despite being in the hobby for roughly nine years I had never been in a brick and mortar PEV store. He seemed like a real good guy and his shop had a little bit of everything. I got a chance to not only ride the Aero I was picking up but also two different Nosfet Apex which I never rode before. I hung at the store for roughly an hour before reversing direction and heading home with my new wheel in hand. I never had a situation where I got rid of a new wheel after roughly a month. Hopefully I never have to do so again.

Saturday afternoon I worked on getting my A1 printer functional once again. I bought a new filament detection sensor to replace the one I damaged trying to clear a jam. The repair/replacement had some tedious aspects to it but I was able to get the printer functioning once again after a few headaches.

Since I did not get to play Saturday morning I decided to head to the pickleball courts Sunday morning to get some games in. I did not get there until after 9:30 so the heat and humidity was already ramping up. I played seven very sweaty games but managed to win all of them. I feel nervous about jinxing myself but I am playing better because my IT band issue has been feeling much better. Hopefully it continues.

After eating lunch I grabbed the painting supplies the HOA president had dropped off for me the previous day. The two large signs at the entrance to our community needed some attention. The grey trim portions of them was badly faded from the sun. Instead of paying someone to do the work I volunteered to do it to save the HOA a few bucks. The work was hot and sweaty but not awful. I got the first coat on in about 90 minutes. I did the second coat the following day.

Sunday night I did a short live stream where I talked about my F22 for Aero transaction. I then headed for a late night showing of the last Mission Impossible movie at 10PM. As always the movie had tons of action but overall I thought it was sort of dumb and silly. The villain was laughable as his lines and actions were just incredibly corny. The depiction of the Entity was dumb as well. You would think Tom Cruise could kick Superman’s ass by the end of it. I’d give it a B. However the movie itself was almost secondary to the sideshow that was sitting next to me.

In that seat was an old man, an old man that apparently never ever breathes through his nose. He was a mouth breather and a very loud and annoying one at that. Whenever the sound from the movie died down you heard this guy breathing, that is unless he was eating food or sucking on one of the several lollipops he brought. It was unbelievable either the lack of self awareness this man had or the deficit of fcks he had if he annoyed everyone sitting around him.

If all of this wasn’t bad enough he had one more annoying habit. He was one of those people that isn’t able to keep his thoughts in his mind. Instead he was speaking his thoughts as the movie went along, it was just nuts. I should have moved but the theater was rather full, in retrospect I still should have relocated. The movie was long, almost 3 freaking hours so I did not get to bed until the wee hours of the morning.

My Memorial Day was good. I got a bunch of small tasks done around the house. Later in the day I got out for my first substantial ride on the Aero. The 10 miles went by quickly and I enjoyed not being in pain while riding it. I’m happy with my trade.

I have a short week ahead of me as I leave Thursday for a long road trip to Texas for my niece’s high school graduation. I’m sure it will be quite the adventure.