Fore May 2018

A new month, a Friday and the first opportunity for an entry and this report could go in virtually ANY direction. Let’s start with the Week in Review for starters and an overall high level look at activity.

Monday was so full of frustration(s) that depression came to mind after a series of phone calls, emails & ‘reach-outs’ went … unfulfilled and fruitless. The weather was poor, overcast and very windy with a distinct threat of rain. After a two (2) hour training ride the day before, was causing mild discomfort and ache where the machine meets the human interface

So a day off & break from training was acceptable.

Tuesday was more of the same weather and Navidad showed up at 8:45 for 9:00 appointment to clean the casa. Navidad got the bid because she came over, in person, with her daughter who helped her with Ingles and her price was better. She brought her husband to actually clean and they got right after it and did a great job. I was happy, would recommend them and certainly use her again but not on a regular basis.

In the evening I began a Ancient Alien marathon. I checked out a number of dvds from McKPL and the Ancient Aliens had not only multiple disks but each disk contained MULTIPLE episodes!!

SO WHAT DID YOU LEARN ?

Are you kidding?

They are here, been here AND are coming back. They came here searching looking for ‘intelligent life’ and keep checking back for the same so I am thinking apparently they are NOT locating any.

Generally speaking of course.

Does anyone see a striking resemblance here between these two ... 'people' ?

Wednesday I drove up to Sherman up 75 about half-an-hour to pick up a cord for my wood burner.

Wanda & Dan were both wood workers & carvers and run a little tool business from their outbuilding shoppe. It turned out the connection on the one end would not fit my burner so in a sense it could have been written off as a ‘wasted trip’ but Wanda had an order pending and added a heavy duty cable that WOULD fit & work and will just mail it to me.

Then she gave a quick tour of the workshop where the wood and heavy tools were. Lots of wood and all of the tools and we spoke about possibly using the power plane to reduce the thickness of a piece of walnut I have to make the chess set.

In the afternoon, things continued to turn in my favor much to my delight.

Walt had recommended his pool buy to look at my growing pool mess and Shane came over and he took a look at things and in a no –bull way got things assessed and in much better order. He also recommended a weekly service less than Destiny Pools so I put a call in to Preston.

Thursday the main scheduled event was a MAST planning committee meeting. I took a couple of important action items and made my contributions. While the meeting was in progress it FINALLY rained and rained hard so no bike ride again for now 3 or 4 days in a row.

Preston called back, we talked and set up a time for Saturday. I then called Destiny to inform them their services were no longer needed as of 1 My (Ma CANNOT be aka ‘May’ for it MAY or MIGHT lead to CONFUSION contextually and eventually HISTORICALLY the month of March which is singularity ‘M’).

The resulting ‘free time’ was ‘cashed in’ painting the Bbp and the three (3) Achilles tangs. Each is getting much closer and during breaks & drying times I looked at other pending projects in process and worked on correspondences such as the MAST action items to completion as they were more urgent with deadlines.

I made a nice supper and thoroughly enjoyed a cool evening in the hot tub which Shane corrected the valve configuration to make the spa hotter. First time this season of many until it gets warm enough to use the pool proper.

This morning it was raining hard by the time I left for First Friday Mass and it seems that the rainy weather and wet street combination causes idiotic behavior to sprout in some drivers. I was once again appalled seeing cars speeding AND the driver does not even have their lights one.

On top of that there was an accident IN THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE so a Double-Dip delay.

Nice is what I am talking about..

I guess that’s about it.