Fast and hot

On Saturday morning I knocked out the few weekly chores I had because I wanted to get over to Christine’s place to help with some lawn maintenance both at her place and her grandmothers. When I moved out of my old place I forgot to grab the electric weed whacker I was going to bring. So Friday night I went and bought another Dewalt unit to help with these tasks. Christine mows her own grass but didn’t have a weed whacker. Her grandmothers place also badly needed some weed whacking. Even though it was relatively early in the day I sweated my ass off. The heat here in Florida, like pretty much everywhere in the country is just oppressive.

During the afternoon I got back out on my Patton to do a second speed test. My numbers were lower than I expected for the first run so I made a few tweaks, including unlocking a mode on the wheel that allows for higher top end speed with the drawback of being less safe. The change was noticeable. I topped out at 44.4mph and could have gone faster if I wanted to step a little closer to the edge.

Saturday night I went to the movies with Christine. For the first time her two boys went with us which was cool. We saw the new Teenage Mutant Turtle movie. It used a pretty cool animation style that reminded me a bit of the Spideyverse movies. The movie which I would give a B wasn’t bad but normally I would watch something like that at home. It was fun to have the boys along.

Before the movie I got to walk the mall as some school shopping was needed. I was amazed that the mall was actually busy. I am so used to malls being ghost towns anymore but the place was legitimately busy, I was a bit shocked.

On Sunday I made plans to drive up to Plant City with Christine in the Tesla to go watch her one son play football. Plant City is a haul of a little over two hours. The Tesla made for a comfortable drive as always. The comfort ended once we stepped out into the scorching heat and humidity. It was rough just watching as a spectator, I can’t imagine how hot the kids had to be playing, just brutal. We only stayed for the first half because the start of the game was delayed due to storms so by the time we got back it was around 8PM. Despite the heat the day was a lot of fun and as often is the case the weekend felt like it flew by much too quickly.

I have been taking some steps recently to try to clear my head and be able to course correct towards a direction where things make more sense and the fog of uncertainty can start to dissipate. I need to lock the rudder in place and keep moving forward towards things that serve my happiness and away from things that do not.