Today was smooth. Made my steps by 10ish, got a bike ride in at the end of the day. Got stuff done at work. Ate well too, started with the cold oats, lunch was tuna fish and salmon for dinner. Had it not been for the chocolate and gummy bears I would have been on a good track.

I think the honest truth is that I have to get rid of the unhealthy snacks because I love them and it hurts me when I see them and can’t enjoy them, it makes me sad. So do carrots and couscous.

And my quest to do sit ups isn’t really gaining traction. I hate sit ups. I’ll work on it. Thankfully, I did good today and if I’m given tomorrow I’ll work on doing better.

The day seemed to drag but I made it through it. It was good and busy and usually that speeds things along but today wasn’t one of those. But progress was made and that’s what counts.

Sandy got home this morning while I was in the shower and was asleep by the time I got out, she was indeed dead tired. She slept to about 2pm so she got about 7 hours, that should keep her good for a bit. No work tonight but the next 3 so she’s on night shift all week.

We had spaghetti for dinner using the sweet Italian sausage rather than the normal mild. I’m not sure that was much of an improvement. I think that we’ll stick with mild. At least I tried something new.

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…