Today is going to head up to 83 which isn’t too bad. But then again it is May 21st and Memorial Day Weekend is just around the corner.

Early mail voted this morning ✉ for the Democratic Primary and plan to vote in the school 🚸 board election this evening 🌃 on my way out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. 🐦 Already need to start thinking about the weekend, I’ll probably pack on Thursday night and stop up on camp ⛺ supplies on Friday morning on the way to work.

Went to the laundromat yesterday 👚 and got groceries. 🛒 Only fifty bucks in groceries as my pantry remains fairly well stocked. 🍏 Plus as it’s gotten hotter out my meals 🍴 have gotten simpler. It was a nice night out last night,  🌠 sat out back until a little after 9 PM when I was tired and retired to bed. I don’t mind going to the laundromat, though I kind of wish I had my laptop  💻️ but I was fine just using my phone. I rarely have my laptop home any more, though I will be getting my work laptop running so I can start using it at home again.

I decided my phone is working well enough 📱 that I’m going to see if I can get a few more weeks out of it. I think I know what the replacement will be but I figure if the screen is working good enough for now I’m good. Sometimes procrastinating isn’t a bad thing, I would prefer to maximize the usefulness of things. A factory reset might help clean up my phone and make it work better.

I took apart the food processor yesterday ⚙️ and I think it’s the plastic planetary gears inside that are slipping but none of them look worn. I’m going to take a second look tonight and if I can’t fix it I’ll probably get another mini food processor / chopper so I can shred carrots 🥕 and onions for pancakes 🥞 and Johnny cakes. Or maybe I’ll look at something like a hand chopper. It would be nice if it was small enough I could easily run it off the inverter in the truck to use at camp ⛺. Especially in the autumn if I can work remote, I’m going to want to be to chop things up. 🗡

I discovered that there are several inexpensive bolt-on kick stands  🚵 I can get for blackie, as I really miss not havng a kickstand on my bike. It’s annoying the bold snapped like that but I think a bolt-on model is a better option then trying to tap and die the snapped bolt on the braze on for the kick-stand. Kind of a bad design by Trek I have to say about the kickstand on the bike.