Back and forth, Testing my patience, Balling, Return to riding, No pills

Friday after work I walked into Bruninas to enjoy happy hour and was surprised to see standing room only at the bar. Evidently they were doing some special event for their 20 year anniversary and the place was packed. I only drank one beer before heading out. Meaghan, the bartender felt bad, she thought she told me about the event. If she did I totally forgot. I used the extra time to get my grocery shopping done.

Later when I was sitting at home enjoying my pizza in front of the computer I got a message from her asking me to come back. She said it was less crowded now. I wasn’t all that excited about putting pants back on but I did and made the 5 minute drive back there. The bar was still quite full but there was a single stool open at least. I found out the motive for her message.

One of the regulars whom I know casually was there with her girlfriend. Evidently when I was standing there looking dumb the first time her friend who I assume is single said I was cute. Meaghan knows my relationship status so she was trying to be matchmaker. I did talk to the woman a little bit. I’m not sure there is a match there but she had good energy and I said that I would be open to hanging out in the future. If that ever happens, who knows. When I went home the second time I got some WoW time in which I DID know I liked.

My potential Saturday morning pickleball session was wiped out by rain so I redeployed that time in a useful manner. One of the tasks was getting around to installing the rim protectors I bought for the Tesla. The good looking wheels are very exposed potentially to damage and I wanted to do what I could to minimize that risk. The guards I got had the selling point of being individual sections that snapped together, allowing you to replace just damaged sections if it came to that. It sounded like a good concept until I started the install project.

It was in four words, a pain in the ass. Each wheel has 11 “blades” which equates to 11 pieces of the guard, per wheel. The kit requires adhering these vinyl underlayment pieces first, 22 per wheel. Then, if you followed instructions you had to peel off 22 more pieces of double sided tape that is on each plastic piece. After the first wheel I disregarded this step and didn’t bother with the tape. Finally you snap the 11 pieces onto each wheel which requires a large amount of finger and hand strength, more than many people posses I would guess. It sucked.

Even with my dropping the tape removal part of the install I spent close to two and a half hours on this project in the garage which had me soaked through my shirt very early on. The final result is decent but the combination of miserable install process and high cost would make me not recommend these guards to someone else. The good news is I recorded the install which captures my frustration pretty well.

Saturday night I opted to hit up the nearby sushi place. Now that we are out of season it was much less busy. There was no more live music which brought out the old folks that liked to dance. The amount of the people at the bar could be counted on one hand, not even needing the thumb. Regardless I had a nice time, enjoying my sushi while downing a few Miller Lites.

Sunday I got to play pickleball finally for a couple hours. I played with the same guy the entire time, we only lost one of the 7 or 8 games we played against some good competition. I started out playing very well for about 3/4 of the session. Towards the end I started making an annoying amount of unforced errors which frustrate me. I blamed it on fatigue as I was sweating buckets in the high heat and humidity.

I got an email from a lady in our neighborhood that is a realtor. She was the listing agent on my house and she was also the agent on my neighbors who are unexpectedly selling. She asked me to stop by at the open house she was hosting until 1PM, apparently the foot traffic had been nonexistent. Well I was curious what the deal was with the sale so I stopped over.

It’s a beautiful home, significantly larger than mine. I found out there was nothing “bad” going on. The wife has a new job in Cape Coral, an hour or more north of us and they want to relocate in that direction. I am skeptical that they will get anywhere close to their asking price but if they do it will raise the values of all the homes in our area.

During the afternoon I took my Master out for a ride, my first significant ride after I installed the fairing kit and new tire. It was my first real ride in awhile thanks to the rain and other things commanding my attention. It felt good to get back out there for a bit. After the ride I also got around to installing the fairing kit on my V13 which should be the last wheel related project on my plate for a little while. By the time I got done doing all the editing my weekend was over and it was time for bed.

Speaking of bed, It has now been at least 10 days since I have popped a Unisom. I have found that I am able to sleep pretty consistently without it which is a good thing. I don’t feel like it is as sound of sleep where as Unisom can almost put you into a coma but I am not suffering from those maddening episodes of waking up and then not being able to fall back asleep for hours. To me it’s a sign that some of the mental/emotional issues that used to keep me up at night are losing their once sharp edge, and it’s a good thing.