I can tell cause I spent most of the day working on the front steps (heavy damned manor stone!) or mowing. Well, only got the back yard mowed since I let the mower run out of gas! And none of the 5 5-gal cans had any in them! So that got put on hold until I go pick SWMBO up this evening.

Which I’ve done (since it’s Friday Routine). Got 4 gallons of gas and have put about half of it in the mower and moved it to the back of the house. Not that I’d be really worried about someone stealing it; but why make it too easy?

Busy  week. Wx has been Hot and Cold and points between so we’ve gone from naked to dressed to both at the same time. Rained a bit yesterday. Which was almost nice as it didn’t last more than a couple of minutes.

I sound disjointed tonight for some reason. Could be my blood pressure. 126/66 a bit earlier but my pulse was 102. Hmmm. Not used to this “normal” bp shit.

Anyway, just wanted to get sorta caught up cause I do forget to post sometimes. If more than a couple of days goes by I forget what I’ve done and everything. Just keeping busy outside as much as possible while the good Wx lasts.

Supposed to be 80+ this weekend! We all know what that means, don’t we! Western WaRshingtonians will be dropping like well cooked flies! Wx weenies!

My 857d is all boxed and ready to be sent off. Got busy or I’d have done it today. Monday! For sure! Really.

Direct to video. Picked it up at Walmart yesterday. Watched it today. At first I wasn’t impressed. Got better the 2nd time through. I think they made Burt Gummer just an angry Old Man. WAY louder than he needs to be most of the time. Ah well. Still one of my favorite series of movies.

Not a whole lot gonig on. Date Day yesterday was nice. Tried a new meal at that Mexican place in Shelton that I did not (NOT1) like at all. Everything tasted okay (except that corn on the cob covered in what the HELL is that!?) but EVERY cut of beef in the weird taco’s I ordered were mostly gristle. I am not kidding. So about the only things I ate were the rice and beans. Which were good.

SWMBO and I spent too much at Walmart as usual. She got her hair cut and dyed so she looks a lot different. Still looks like my Schweetie but different than she’s been for about/over 10 years now. Still cute as hell!

Did I mention that I got rear ended in the drive through pharmacy line on the 1st? That’s about the only thing that’s happened to me lately.

Hmmm… Boring shit today. Oh, Weather is right on nice today! Me and the Dog got to take off all our clothes and go for walks and it was just perfect out. Sunny!

I made some kind of crock-pot chicken for dinner. We ate it. Wasn’t too bad but not sure if it’s a keeper or not.

Been watching how to convert a cargo trailer to a mini-camper. Think I’m going to do that for when the Dog and I have to get somewhere by ourselves. We just don’t need that 23 ft Caravan for the two of us!

But, that’s the joys of home ownership I guess. Got off my ass and worked on the front steps a bit more today. Moved some more dirt. Need to buy 20 (or so) more Manor Stone(s). Need about 20 80-lb bags of cement too.

Got a bill in the mail from the Good-To-Go folks for $7 complete with threats to “PAY NOW” or else. So, why do I have $60 in my GTG Account when they never automatically use it? You can bet they won’t just refund my money either. Once the “Government” gets hold of your money they don’t let it go very easily. So I get to call customer service, again, and go through all that crap, again. Dipshidiots.

Also got a recall fix-it letter from Chevy. Seems that during low-speed turns I can “experience a temporary loss of electric power steering.” Joy. So I get to call and make an appointment for that. Or just make high-speed turns from now on.

One of the guys from the Club has replaced all his solar panels and is offering me the old panels for $15 each. Says they all still work fine but need some cleaning up and TLC. I’m gonna go look at them tomorrow. If they work, I figure I’ll use 2 to keep my radio battery charged and 2 for the Caravan. Will have to figure out a bracket and maybe a couple more batteries for the back of my truck. We’ll see.

Could also use them to run a heater in the Caravan during the coldest part of the winter. Hmmm…

Not a whole Hell of a lot going on. SWMBO is home and fed. YouTube has shown me several War movies today and is now pushing Battle of the Worlds (1961) but I’m about to go lay down and read a bit.

I miss it. Spend way too much time on “social media,” ie: Facebook or Tumblr (but mostly FB) and not really reading any more. Books. I miss reading a good book.

Nice out side today. Got up to around 80 degrees and the Sun was mostly out. Nice enough this afternoon to lay out an hour or so. Nice. Gonna miss it. Looks like Thursday (next) will be the actual last day of me and the Dog taking off all our clothes and going for a walk around the back 40 for the summer. Bummer.

Helped our Renters pick up some shelves at the local junk store. Faith in Action I think. Yeah. Gawd those things were heavy! (OR I’m just fookin’ Old now!) We got two of them in the back of my truck and managed to get them unloaded at the house without tearing them up too bad. Heavy but I don’t mind helping. Nice to feel somewhat needed sometimes.

Started up the Pi with Ubuntu on it and have been running psk31 all afternoon. Tried calling AB3ML just to see how far my signal got out. Using that multi-band fan dipole I built 7 years ago (that the plastic is falling off the actual wires from exposure) and a measly 15 watts my signal was picked up all the way over in New York. And places between too. Not bad.

Mostly I was doing it to see if using the pi and Ubunto would reset my radio like it did a couple of weeks ago. Once when I transmitted it reset it back to factory settings on everything and wiped the memorys. That really sucked! Can’t get the radio to connect to CHIRP on the Pi or the Laptop either so I had to manually start putting stuff back. Luckily, so far, it hasn’t reset the radio. I’ll keep playing with it though. And the radio.

Had a headache most all of yesterday. When I went to bed I froze my brain, went right to sleep, and didn’t wake up until 0700 this morning. Think I’ll try that again tonight. (Don’t have a headache but who knows!)

Anywho, SWMBO is home. Think I’ll go visit before laying down and READING!