The weeks are just flying by. I went to moms today to help her with the tree that came down. I was kind of impressed with the chainsaw working well after it was sharpened. We made quick work of it. I got there at 8am and stayed for a couple of hours. I came home and Sandy was still awake, she didn’t last long and went to bed. I went for a bike ride for 12 miles around the town. I passed 1600 miles on the bike and took pictures of the closed restaurants over by the mall and the Mason lodge tear down.

Sandy is awake and she hasn’t slept much and has to work again tonight. My only worry is the trip home for her, that’s when it gets a little hairy. People not awake yet and someone without sleep don’t make for a good combo. Oh well, she can handle it.

Myself, I’ll be in bed as soon as she leaves and probably asleep before she gets to work. But then again I have to be at the keyboard at 7am, she’ll be going to sleep.

I did knock out that other project that’s been dogging me. Now I can see if I can’t knock out my class in 3 weeks, always running a day late and dollar short but lord knows I have good intentions.

We’re moving forward and life is good.

I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to but I never do. I was going to do the ball joints on the Xterra, I took it down to where it was time to use the ball joint separator and I chickened out. I really didn’t feel like doing it and have to be at mom’s tomorrow so I put it back together, sharpened the chainsaw blade and packed up the Xterra to take down that fallen tree at moms tomorrow.

We had the windows open until it got to 82 inside, then it was time to close it up and turn on the AC. Sandy got called into work tonight. She’s working the 10pm to 6:30am shift at a nursing home. I feel bad for her, I don’t know if I could do it. I would have had to taken a nap. Then I probably could have, I don’t know what I’d do overnight to keep me entertained.

I’m getting worried about my arthritis, well not worried as much as pissed off that it’s just getting worse. I took some OTC meds for it today but now that it’s the end of the day, it’s starting to hurt again. I’m not sure what can be done about it, there’s just not a treatment for it. I need to check with sister about that tomorrow, also what she thinks about 23 & me going belly up. Need to remember that.

Goodnight world, I’ll catch up with you in the morning.

That last hour was a bear to get through but that too shall have passed. I did get the task I was working on more or less knocked out, some clean up and testing to do but it looks like we’ve made short work of it.

I did get a chance to take a look at the whole house fan, while it didn’t have a grease fitting, it did have a belt that hadn’t been replaced since Zakery has been walking the planet. About $13 at Ace and we’re in business. It quieted the thing down immensely and made it so we can hear while it runs and it runs faster I believe so a big win.

Changed out the clock spring on the Xterra too so I have a horn again and the turn signal is working as it is supposed to be, even though I’m missing a plug in on this clock spring, the cruise control is working making me think that it’s radio controls that I just didn’t have on the steering wheel. Still need to get the lights out but that will come soon enough. This one is supposed to be warrantied for 3 years, the last one made it one year. We’ll see how it goes.

Tomorrow is going to be a nice day and time to get more done.

I got the back yard cut and some clean up done. I got all the twigs put into the wheel burrow. A bag of leaves raked up. I like doing yard work. It’s funny, in a lot of places they spend the summer getting ready for the winter. Not here, you spend the winter getting ready for the summer. Because you don’t want to be doing anything you don’t have to in the middle of the summer.

Sandy’s back from Austin. It’s nice to have her back. We had a cold front move through and it feels wonderful. I need to do some maintenance on the whole house fan. I think it may have a grease fitting that’s never been used or at least needs sprayed down with WD40 or PB Blaster to quite it down. I love pulling in the fresh air when it’s nice out.

After playing lumberjack over the weekend, I finally got time to clean up the limbs. The little battery operated chainsaw made quick work of the limbs and the loppers did the trick with the smaller sticks. I still have a bunch to cut up but we’re due for some rain and with any luck I can burn a lot of it if I can have a fire.

Work is good, life is good.

I blew a lot of money today. It started with a trip to the big Walmart because I was down to the last bucket of cat litter. Blew through there and got bread, tic-tacs, gummy bears, and a small pack of Snickers with 3 buckets of litter. They didn’t have the hot dogs I wanted which facilitated a trip to the small Walmart for hot dogs & buns, pecans, cheese pickles and chili. This was followed by an Amazon order for window cleaning squeegee and sponge and a spotlight that will be here tomorrow.

Then I blew $300 at Harbor Freight buying, a battery operated chain saw, a battery and charger. A 4.5 inch saw with masonry and wood blades, ball joint press kit, ball joint separator, c-clamps and a chainsaw sharpener.

That was almost $500 worth of stuff, but I think I made $800 so today was win.

I got the excryption working at work and everything is ready for testing tomorrow, nice to be making progress on that front. Oh and this is kind of unreal. When I was testing things and watching them run in dos, I noticed that the integrations are saying that it can’t find cp65001 and is instead using Windows 1252. WFT, I’ve been fighting with it rendering to 1252 instead of UTF-8 for about 3 weeks now and it may be an issue with the installation. Oh well, that’s why they pay me the big bucks…

Wow, what a day. I had a meeting at the Arlington library, not sure how that one went. Then I had another meeting where we were talking about encryption keys and I was able to rock it. No one could point me to the right public key but we stole it from a different user, it works but it’s not 100% but then again what it.

Sandy blew out of town for Austin. After I got done with work I rocked the yard. The tree trimming limbs need to be cut down and put to the curb and I vacuumed up the leaves on the west side of the house, got the front limbs done and mowed and bagged the front yard to mainly get rid of the leaves. It really looks good.

10k steps and plenty of calories burnt, another day with forward progress.

I never did get the hang of Sunday’s but today is about as close to perfect as a Sunday gets.

Went to moms house for breakfast and I was about 45 minutes early but it turns out that was perfect as mom had started cooking already. She’s got a tree down in the back yard but didn’t tell me about it so I’ll be back next Sunday to take care of it. Poor mama, her brain just doesn’t want to work the way she wants it to.

Left there and headed over to Harbor Freight, I got a Bauer starter kit with a battery and circular saw and also a chainsaw pruner. I’ve been meaning to try some Bauer tools and now seemed like as good as time as any. Also got some c-clamps and my free ratchet tie downs. Which is nice as the Xterra doesn’t have any and all my old ones are filthy.

Got home and it was tree trimming day. Hit the front tree a lick and got it trimmed up and cleared the flag area, who knows maybe Donny Dipshit will buy the farm and I can fly old glory again. Then it was off to the back. That POS in the back corner and I did hand to hand combat and it even took my poll saw but I won. I did a good job of hacking it up and cleared all my lines to the house. The electric line looks gorgeous without tree limbs all over it. Even managed to clean up the neighbors line without meaning to. After that I called it a day. 10k steps and a bunch of limbs to trim up but I got stuff done.

Tomorrow will take care of itself, today I am at peace.

I got a good nights sleep and woke up about 5:30ish, but I laid in bed and finally fell back to sleep, it was just chilly enough to fall in and out of sleep, it was so nice. Finally called it about 9am and hauled my but out of bed. After another hour of being lazy I finally got it shifted into gear and got the vacuuming done, cleaned the bed room and living room. Cleaned up the office, got 4 extra hooks put up on the porch to hang plants. Removed the old mail box from the porch. Cleaned up the workbench in the garage. Washed and cleaned my old running shoes. Had the windows opened all day.

Around 2pm Sandy and I went for a bike ride to see the plaza they’re about to tear down and then the water tower that’s under progress and then to Moe’s for Gyro’s and ate them at the park next to the fire station. We then went to Brahms for malts and rode around the park and headed home.

When we got home from the 6 mile bike ride, I jumped into the shower and then headed over to get my hair cut, got it cut short for the upcoming heat wave that’s sure to be here before too long.

I’m heading over to moms tomorrow morning for coffee and breakfast if I can talk her into it. I’m happy today, or at least very content. My mind is at peace.