Since I’m doing the ribs tomorrow, I had to get them rubbed. So 4 racks of ribs are sitting in the fridge all rubbed up and we’re out of kosher salt. I’m excite about the plan to smoke up all the ribs and then taking half racks and vacuum sealing and freezing them. I figure we’re eating half a rack tomorrow, one rack to sisters meaning 5 half racks for the freezer. We’ll see how it goes but Billy Martin said it should be fine.

Also made some Ghee today, I only got half a jar from a pound of butter, I thought it was more and I thought that it was easier to strain the product with coffee filters, but its still good. With the advent of the cast iron usage the ghee is pretty important as it’s the best possible oil for that.

Made it to the gym and took the truck, I need new batteries for it. It lasts longer between maintenance but maintenance is more expensive.

I like Monday’s that don’t feel like Monday’s. This is one of those. I had no work to do, well nothing that really needed to get done which let me do some of the other things that I needed to get done. But there’s an issue, I just don’t know where to start. One of the things I really need is a sharable task list. I’ve been looking for one and there’s tons of open source ones and I have a new server but I don’t even know where to begin there. I need to figure out how to be more… I don’t even know what to call it. I’m directionally challenged, not for directions but what to do. I’m at a place where I need someone to follow or at least point me in the right direction.

So oddly enough, the Cowboy’s beat the Washington Redskins Commanders in a shootout to the last minute. It was exciting to watch a game that they hadn’t already lost in the first quarter and even more amazing that they won. We got to see the 49ers get spanked by the Packers in the second game so it was a win win.

Got the sheets changed, and generally ready for the upcoming week even though it really doesn’t feel like there’s anything going on. I’m almost at a holding point so not a whole bunch for me to do.

I finished pinning the molding down today so it’s complete. I have to caulk and do some clean up but for all intents and purposes it’s complete. There are a couple of spots I’m not very happy with. I mean I’d be pissed if a contractor left it that way but I’m not a contractor and this is the first one that I’ve done so I’ll give myself a little leeway but I’m going to have to go back and fix it. It’ll be nice just to get the stuff put back in there. It was a storage room.

Johnny and Katie came over today and brought the InstaPot that Keli & David set aside for us from Claudia’s things. It’s newer than the one that we’ve got so it may be a replacement or good for the RV.

We also made a trip to the mall today, it was packed. I was actually surprised how packed it was. Of course I can’t remember the last time I was there on the weekend as I’m usually there during the day during the middle of the week. We had lunch at the food court and then headed back to the house. All told I was up around 9k steps and that’s what I’m looking to get back to.

I wrapped up work in short order and it’s Friday! Beautiful day out. I pulled out the smoker. We picked up 4 racks of ribs yesterday at Sam’s club. There are 4 racks so 1 rack per rack and rotate as needed. The premise is that we’re going to try freezing the finished ribs. I was told by Billy that it’s completely doable so we’re going to cook and cool them and then vacuum seal them. We’ll do them next Wednesday so we don’t have to do anything for Thanksgiving except show up.

Since the Cowboy’s are circling the bowl about to be flushed, it’s nice to watch a good football game regardless of who’s in it. Tonight was no exception with the Steelers and Browns playing in Cleveland. It started out clear and was a white out by the end of the night. The long shots they took of the stadium and the snow actually made me miss it.

I think I’d like to try living in the snow again. Yeah I’m a little more sensitive to cold but I’ve got a $70k machine that would laugh in the face of bad roads. I probably would need some chains but that’s doable.

I blew $113 at the grocery store today. I bought strictly the sales so 5 tubs of Blue Bell, 60 cans of assorted sodas, 5 pounds of butter, 4 bags of Doritos, and a 5 and a half pound ribeye roast. Kroger has this neat little trick in that they don’t take any discounts off until you click pay now. It’s kind of like a casino machine, you’re root for it to pay off and take the money off. It was at $240 then I hit the pay now and it line itemed $127 off in discounts. Rock on.

I went to the gym today and I even managed to run a couple of laps. It felt good to get the pulse up to 151 for the first time in a while. It’s painful but it’s gotta be good for you.

So I think that Sandy and I are going to talk to Ron to get a spot for the RV up on the Peach street property. I need a 30 by 15 foot spot, I think I could get by with 12 feel but the 30 is pretty set. I’m thinking that maybe it could fit behind the fence in the courtyard, that would be nice. It would be great to have a place to put in and have water, electric and sewer. That would be nice so we can go up when there’s a reason. We’ll ask and see more when we visit the family on Thanksgiving.

I got some work done today and I think that we’re coming into the home stretch so that’s cool. Managed to take a bike ride and walked around the mall, probably the last week to do that for the year because, historically, you don’t want to be anywhere near the mall for the Christmas rush. It’s not like it was but it’s still pretty crazy.

It’s nice to walk around the mall and see what’s changed. Watch them get ready for the holiday’s. I did a brief walk through Dillard’s and it felt strange, it reminded me of my retail career and after 30 years not much has changed. It made me want to go to this grocery store I knew that reminded me of the 70’s.

I need to get my career back in the right direction. Get started on the certs and get a real job.

Well if it’s gotta be Monday it might as well rain. I’m happy with that as I actually like rainy days, don’t care for the Monday’s but who does? The Carpenters don’t like either (ha ha).

It still turned out to be a nice day. Sandy and I took a walk around the neighborhood this evening. We walked almost two miles. I’ve been biking so much it’s been a while since we’ve gone for a walk. It was kind of nice.

I didn’t feel like getting out of bed this morning, I don’t think I really crawled out until 11am. I got some of the baseboards pinned in and just have two more to go although that may wait until tomorrow. I’d like a nice quite evening. We did get a bike ride in, it was 4.8 miles just around the neighborhood, it was a day for it.

At least we didn’t have to watch the Cowboy’s lose today, they lose tomorrow night on Monday night football. Hopefully I’ll knock out work stuff in short order tomorrow and it’ll be a quick work week.