Sunny but cold this Thursday

No wind which helps but it’s still hardly a warm sunny spring day. I know those days are coming, but they are not today.

I had a big plump mouse run across the kitchen as I was heading out the door yesterday. I should fix the traps or maybe set up the bucket trap but I don’t care that much one way or another. I did care more that I left my headphones home, so I had no music or podcasts to listen to while I worked yesterday which made Hump Day drag on longer then necessary.

Its been great doing so much riding to work lately. Feels great, feel like I’m finally getting into good shape after the long winter and COVID. I eat healthy but the exercise is key. The ride was good both ways, not getting much jumping now the chain has stretched a bit but I plan to monitor the chain length and when it’s above 0.5% then I’ll put a new chain on, swap on new cassette I have, and also replace the rear brake pad. Figure do all that work at once. Also going to need tires again for the bike come early summer, based on wear and miles I ride. Also adjusted the rear derailuer, was sticking again and not shifting into eight gear last night.

So last night was cold, so after a dinner of frozen salmon, onions, beans, broccoli it was to bed to snuggle under the covers with the heated blanket. Not turning on the heat or using the space heater at this point! Seems werid heading to bed while the sun was still up I was going to read but I ended up not getting a books out of the library app, but instead first went down the internet rat hole of drop shipping, where somebody goes and buys a palette load of cheap knick-nacks on Ali Express – – most recently I’ve been seeing ads on my blog for bunny toys, Veterans whiskey glasses, and this werid patrotic eagle poly vinyl chloride wreath – – sold through a very scammy looking Shopify store for a big markup. Buy two! Only $60. For products that cost $3 on Ali Express.

And then I got looking up Wildwood Homestead in Arkansas on Google Street View – what a dump but still I love it – and then Whimsical Acres in Missouri. You know goat-farming off-gridders that certainly burn their trash and make do with so much inexpensive junk hobbled together. That spend their limited income primarily on grain and hay. That said, I’m still jealous as fuck. I just hate how suburban life is so disconnected from reality, the cleanliness and moderniness of suburban life is just hid by the power lines hooked to a distant power plant and garbage truck that hauls big loads of refuse to outskirts of town. Plus all kinds of interesting stuff about the old 6502 processor used on the Apple II and similar computers of early 1980s. It’s amazing such processors are still produced 50 years later, but it turns out such old technology is still used to drive a lot of industrial and legacy products to this day, and while emulation is possible on more modern microcontrollers, truth is nothing beats the simplicity of such old technology. Then I went to bed.

I am increasingly desperate for an night in the wilderness but I don’t see it happening again with rain all weekend. Depends I guess where the front lands. But it does look stormy. Maybe next weekend I’ll go to the Adirondacks. Do a long weekend! Depends on the weather and the work schedule.