Full, Sold, Error your card

by Duf Anything and Everything

On Friday when I got home it was raining lightly so I opted for indoor riding instead.  However instead of doing an instructor lead session I just did a manual ride where I set the resistance to 20 and maintained an 80 or higher cadence for around a half hour.  Doing it this way allowed me to multi-task, catching up on some recorded DVR content. I was not thrilled when Friday night the already soaked property was subjected to yet another downpour, making it swampier, if that is even possible. I swapped out the heated bed on one of my Prusa’s during the evening as well, just to knock that off the potential tasks for the weekend.

As I was finishing up weeding the property Saturday morning I saw Jeremiah roll up on his EUC.  I had said something to him about the possibility of selling a couple of my PEVs, my S18 and OneWheel Pint.  We had talked about him borrowing them to go show his wife who was skeptical about the purchase.  So he rode the S18 back to his house while carrying the Pint.  An hour or so later he returned with his wife Emily, who was riding the Pint.  Jeremiah was carrying the S18, evidently I gave it to him in a low battery state unfortunately.  His wife LOVED the Pint and it seems she liked the S18 as well, they decided to buy both PEVs.  They gave me cash for the OneWheel and took the Pint with them.  Jeremiah said he would come back with a check later for the S18, I told him I would throw it on the charger awhile.

After finishing up I took Sadie and Elsa for an errand run which included DD, Pinch-A-Penny, Sam’s and Walmart.  After getting home I decided that despite the underwater sections of the property I was just going to mow around them.  As I completed the task I thought to myself that a month from now the drudgery of wet season should finally be behind me.

After mowing I decided I wanted to try to complete the low battery behavior test on the V12.  This was the third ride I have done since charging the battery, trying to get it’s charge level low enough to do a proper test.  I wanted to grab some afternoon coffee so the timing worked out well.  The V12 did surprisingly well in this test, once I turned off the feature that babysits you at low battery levels.

I also did a video regarding my latest Vroom appraisal on the new Model Y.

On Sunday after tending to the chickens and a prolonged bill pay session I loaded up the dogs again, this time for a DD, Rural King, and Home Depot route.  At Rural King I had a rather annoying check out experience that I documented on Facebook, it went like this:

Rural king clerk that looks like Hodor after I put in my credit card to pay.
Him – error your card three times
Me – huh?
Him – error your card three times
Me – what?
Him – you have to error your card three times (impatient now)
Me – I don’t understand what you mean…
Him – take your card out and put it back in two more times!
I do this and then am prompted to swipe the mag stripe.
Me – oh so the chip reader doesn’t work?
Him – yea
Me – (as I am thinking why the f didn’t you just say that) Now it makes sense
At first I tried to understand why the clerk would not say up front that the chip reader wasn’t working, instead of the no context directions he provided.  I then realized it was not worth spending one ounce of mental energy on.
During the afternoon I watched the Eagles game mixed in with repairing another printer my AnyCubic Chiron.  This printer has sat around unused for all of this year.  I bought an upgraded cable to hopefully fix the long standing issues I have had with it.
The Eagles game was a bit frustrating as the team moved the ball up and down the field but had very minimal points to show for it.  The 49ers are looking to be a good team this year but it was still a game the Eagles could have have won in my opinion.  The game helped temper the optimism I felt during week one.
So I have been working my way through this new living reality.  I am not sure if it was the full moon this weekend but I felt more struggle and sadness over the two days.  One thing I have not gotten used to for sure is meal planning/prep.  Cindy did all of this, I was used to just showing up.  Having to now block that time out to plan/make food has been a bit of a PIA.
The ending of our relationship of course impacts all sorts of things however I think one of the things that is particularly hard for me is I really like having a partner to share experiences with.  That is a void that is going to be hard to ignore.  I know as time passes things change but at least this past weekend, my outlook was not rosy.  I slept appropriately terrible last night, waking up before 4AM and not really falling back asleep before the alarm went off at 5:40, joy, joy.