For Four

Looks like I have the full four day weekend to wrap up, let’s dig in.  On Friday morning I met up with Gladys for one more ride on the Greenway, her on her pedal assist beach cruiser and me on the V12 which I had not ridden in awhile.  When I almost dumped it on my ass doing a tight turn I realized I should have checked the PSI of the tire before leaving, it was dangerously low.  I kept my riding appropriately conservative the rest of the way.  It was yet another fun ride, we went on something like four or five rides during her time in the area.  This was the first one I had the video camera along for.

Friday afternoon I plugged another tire on the Tesla.  This one had a small nail in it.  I am pretty sure I have been picking these up during my drives into Babcock with Ali and Shugs since it is an active construction site.  I figured since I was driving across the state on Saturday I should fix the tire ahead of time.  The tire plugging process went smoothly and so far has not dropped a single PSI.  I videoed the process this time, just for the hell of it.

On Saturday morning I tried to get up and going early.  I offered to take Gladys back across the alley since she was flying out of Miami.  The Tesla makes drives like this stupid easy.  With the seats folded down it had plenty of room for her stuff.  With the car being long range I didn’t need to charge until the way back at the half way supercharger and only for 10 minutes.  Gladys and I had a lot of fun hanging out during her time here but she lives full time on an island off the coast of Honduras so it was bittersweet to see her go.  It’s been a good couple weeks.

I didn’t get home until almost 4:30 but I still reached out to my buddy Don to see if he wanted to hang out a bit.  He gave me the green light.  I went to his place to see his dog Lucky who I hadn’t seen in a little while.  Despite the absence Lucky remembered who I was pretty quickly.  I love the little guy.  Don suggested we go to the Yard House, a bar/restaurant I never had been to before.  The bar was massive and the food was good.  My list of bars in my rotation are growing, this definitely made the list.

Afterwards Don said we could drop in at South Street to see what was going on.  The answer was, not much. Despite it being Saturday night there was no live entertainment and not a lot of people.  We only hung long enough for me to drink half a Miller Lite and then we rolled out.

My Sunday was a mixture of small projects and tasks.  I got the four replacement LED light fixtures installed, upgrading the dull and dreary builder globes that came with the house.  It was stupid easy, by the time I got to the last one I completed it in 10 minutes.  I also opened up the air handler to replace the UV bulb, an annual task.  It went ok.  The biggest pain is the screws that hold the sides on and the holes they go into are pretty worn out, making it a bit challenging to get it zipped back up the way it should be.  It felt good to get the task out of the way.

Elsa and I drove Sadie back up to Fort Myers to Ali’s place.  We hung there for a little bit.  Elsa is just hilarious when she first gets there.  She goes into total spaz mode just running around saying hi to everyone.  It’s very cute.

Last night I watched Operation Mincemeat on Netflix.  It’s a movie based on the podcast I listened to called the World’s Greatest Con.  It’s about an incredible deception the Allies pulled off on the Germans during WWII.  The minuscule details that went into this plot is nothing short of amazing.  That being said, I enjoyed listening to the podcast more than the movie which I would give a B.

This morning I got out on my Sherman for a very high speed DD ride.  I have not been filming as much while Gladys was visiting but now that she isn’t here I expect my schedule will become more normal.  It was a good ride and I feel the video reflected exactly that.  Tomorrow it’s back to work, luckily I don’t mind work much, unlike far too many.

Oh I forgot to mention I have locked in for an early July trip to northern New York with my dad, stepmom, brother, sister and their significant others/family.  I went there many, many years ago.  It is a beautiful lake area that is very, very remote.  It is the sort of place you truly go to uplug which is something that surprisingly to some sounds pretty good to me now and then.  I plan to do a lot of reading, maybe some writing and just appreciate the good things while letting the bad fall off behind me.