Trading seats, Uncanny timing, Lots of light, Finally fixed, Dead, Not Ideal

On Friday night I traded my bike seat for a tractor seat.  I wanted to get the main yard around the house mowed to clear up some time on the weekend as well as avoid complications from precipitation potentially.  I went at a rapid pace, getting off the tractor in less than two hours.  I then went in and had my Friday pizza a little later than normal, it still tasted good.  While I enjoyed it I watched the final of Obi Wan on Disney+.  It was FANTASTIC.  I have loved every Star Wars series they have done on Disney+ so far.

On Saturday morning I had a long errands run with Elsa, I did not return to the house until after 1PM, spending over three hours out and about.  I unpacked and set up some new solar torch style lights around the pool.  They are from the same company that I got the other lights from, meaning I can change their color to any one of 8 or 9 possibilities.  I like the way they look.

I spent my Saturday evening with Gladys’s sister Monique, we made plans to go out to Ave Maria.  On the way there we stopped at the house so Monique could meet Elsa and Kathy.  I walked her around the house and property, both of which she liked.  As normal Elsa was hesitant about Monique at first but let her pet her a bit towards the end of the visit.

We headed out to Ave Maria with very ominous clouds in the sky.  The rain luckily held off while we walked the town square.  The big thing I wanted to show Monique was the church.  She had never gotten to check it out and was very interested in doing so.

We walked in the front door and saw there were people inside for a service.  The service evidently just started and the usher assumed we were there for it so he opened the door for us and we went in.  I could hardly believe it but we just happened to walk into a spanish service, I did not know they had them there.

For Monique this was perfect as spanish is her native language and she got to take in the beauty of the church interior.  My understanding of spanish is very basic, I can make out maybe a few words out of every sentence but I didn’t care, I told Monique I was fine staying as long as she wanted because I knew she was really enjoying it.  After maybe 15 minutes or so she said she was ok to head out. I commented several times how coincidental the timing was of the service with our arrival.

We walked around a little more before eating dinner at a local restaurant, one of only two that I saw open Saturday night.  We both got the stir fry dish, me with shrimp and her with salmon.  We had a good meal.  It became easier to talk once the live steel drum musician closed out his set.  By the time I drove her all the way back into Naples it was after 9:30.  Once again we had a nice time.  Monique is leaving this week to go visit Gladys and have an extended visit in Honduras with her mom.  She will basically be gone all of July.  I guess I will be going back to lone wolf mode for awhile.

My Sunday started sort of slow.  When I did the chicken chores I strapped my GoPro to my head.  The reason was to record what I normally do for Ali and Shugs so they have a visual reference.  It’s almost a real time depiction meaning in total they should only have to spend 20-30 minutes a day doing what I normally do.

During the afternoon I wanted to get out on the Gyroor hoverboard to get some more practice in.  About 10 minutes into riding the board acted weird.  I stepped off, turned it off to reset it and then hit the button to turn it back on.  It was dead somehow.  I captured my disappointment on video.  I tried various tactics to troubleshoot the issue, none of them worked.  I sent an email to the company rep sharing the problems and telling him they can have their board back.  They sent me a return label but want to send me another board that is hopefully 100% functional.

Sunday afternoon I FINALLY got my Prusa MK3S printing again after being out of order for close to a couple months.  I have had to order 3 rounds of parts to get it going again after the blob from hell destroyed the old hot end assembly.  I need to do some additional test prints to make sure everything is good to go but my initial 6 hour print completed successfully.

Sunday night I decided to do a live stream.  Sunday evening is not a good time to do this normally as I have a 5:30 alarm waiting for me on most Monday mornings.  Because of this the stream was shorter than most, clocking in at right around two hours.  By the time I shut it down my eyelids were getting heavy.