While I love my truck, the closest Ram dealership leaves a bunch to be desired. I finally got hold of them and they actually had the parts in stock to fix the last two of four recalls that were left. So I’m completely up to date.

It was kind of cool in that they took a video of everything and the only thing that needed done was some stuff like brake/steering fluid drain/flush and an alignment. All things that can wait for the new job to kick in.

I started the day at the gym, it was a nice morning so after a 30 minute walk, I took the long way back to the truck by the Hurst river. It was pretty, with all the rain we’ve had it was flowing and it was nice to hear the waterfall.

On rare occasion, I do/need retail therapy. My retail therapy is relatively cheap, I started at Ollie’s where they have ‘good stuff cheap’. I don’t really buy a lot, I mostly shop and make mental note of where cheap stuff is. Ollie’s has it for car wash stuff and painting supplies. I did find hooks I’ve been needing for the storage shed half the price I’d pay at Lowe’s so yey for me. Finished up by heading to Aldi’s and shopping there, more cheap stuff and it’s eatable.

Finished off the evening by burning the dead wood that I packed into the burn barrel, beautiful night for it.

We were due for some rain today so I got up early and got some stuff done and even had breakfast. Did some work on podman and Sandy and I walked the mall to get some steps. It was a nice lazy day and I hope to get some more done tomorrow.

Made it to the gym this morning for another 5k start to the day, that’s 5,000 steps not the 3.1 miles. Came home and took a nap. Got up but didn’t feel like doing much of anything but I finally got up and got Sandy to go to Walmart to get Spackle as we’re painting the master bedroom at some point.

Got home and we went for a bike ride (Sandy had a rider) and when I got home I started the process of cleaning up the last area that needs to be bricked. Hopefully I can make quick work of it as it’s going to rain on Thursday. PaiWei for dinner, way too many carrots for my tastes but the chicken was good.

So as the old saying goes, nothing changes if nothing changes. So today it was back to a bit of a routine. Made it to the gym at 5:30ish am and had all three rings closed by 6:30 am. I got home and got my USA Jobs profile set up and was going to apply to the IRS position but got side tracked on if I have enough statistic credits from school. Did get an app sent in for a CA company for data scientist intern. Will do Workday tomorrow hopefully.

Got home around 7 am and woke Sandy up. She had exercise class at 8:30 am so I told her I’d hold off until 9:30 for breakfast. I really enjoyed sauteing the mushrooms, I do like cooking.

We didn’t get a whole bunch done today but we had a good time. It rained and it does that so infrequently that it’s so nice when it does. Between showers we got to take a bike ride and found the most beautiful wisteria that’s in the parking lot of my dentists office.

Today, it’s been six months since I left ThinkTalent. That means that it’s time to go back to work. I’ll be back in the office for 9-2-5 come Monday and start looking for work in earnest as well as finishing up the RHEL certification training. It’s been amazing to have the time off but it’s time to find the next gig to get me to the next level.

Today I tried the dough program on the bread maker and we got edible bread. While it still doesn’t look like what you’d expect it works. We’ll try if for French bread medallions for breakfast tomorrow and see. This is good progress.

Also got a 5 mile bike ride between the rain, love the smell after a rain, smells clean:)

Sandy had wanted to go biking to Trinity park and I honestly hadn’t been there in ages so it sounded like a good idea. Until, that is, we realized that it was spring break, and it was half-priced Wednesday at the zoo. It was packed but we manage to do about 20 miles. It was nice.

I attempted to make sub rolls again. I used the white bread recipe with the bread maker and put it in the oven for the final rise and bake. As you can see it didn’t work out. Tomorrow I’ll try the actual dough recipe on the bread maker and see if that does a better job. I also got wheat bread flour and we’ll give that a shot when the bread we have is close to done. More on that later.

Picked up Sandy from the airport, she’s been awake since 3:30am eastern so she’s exhausted. Gave me a chance to mow the back yard and take a bike ride. I’m at 400 miles on the bike. It’s a bunch of fun and I got a rear view mirror for it but it’s too convex, I’ll figure something out.

The other thing I have to get around to is fixing the Blackstone grill. I let it go the first time I used it and now it’s gone to pot. Not the good way. But I’ve heard there a how-to on their website to get it back to new.

While I do like it when I have the run of the place to myself, it’s awfully nice to have her come back home. It also gives me a reason to clean and get housework done. That way she has a nice clean house to come home to. I do believe that I broke the switch on the vacuum cleaner, oh well, I’m sure I can fix it.