What are you doing today?

fooferdoggie said:
we just hit 2k on our bosch powered tandem. timed it a bit bad it was getting dark could not get mount hood in the pic. the bike has a great headlight it worked well on the dark ride home on the unlighted path. My wife is blind and I found her a cool jersey that I think has a blind stick figure on. not sure I got it from Australia
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Wow how cool is that, that bike looks awesome. Also, what a treat that must be for your wife! That is so thoughtful of you.
 
ericgtr12 said:
Wow how cool is that, that bike looks awesome. Also, what a treat that must be for your wife! That is so thoughtful of you.
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we used the stimulus money to pay most of the cost. my wife could not go anywhere when the pandemic kit but to work so getting the beast let her get around again we almost never walk anywhere anymore. we get 45 miles on on Sunday and 15 to 20 on the rest of the days. though I ride 25 miles a day on my commute I have been getting 40 miles a day every day this week.
 
fooferdoggie said:
we used the stimulus money to pay most of the cost. my wife could not go anywhere when the pandemic kit but to work so getting the beast let her get around again we almost never walk anywhere anymore. we get 45 miles on on Sunday and 15 to 20 on the rest of the days. though I ride 25 miles a day on my commute I have been getting 40 miles a day every day this week.
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That’s fantastic! I’m waiting for the weather to turn cooler so I can start walking again.
 
Alli said:
That’s fantastic! I’m waiting for the weather to turn cooler so I can start walking again.
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How great, and hope the excess of tropical storms stay away from your area now. Waiting for cool though? That was me back sometime around August.

Here I'm readying to log my walks in a circle through the upstairs rooms and hallway, whenever true mid-autumn weather here asserts itself with rainstorms and early snow showers. So far so good though, with a nice mix of sunny afternoons but sometimes frosty mornings. When those rainy days show up is when I catch up big time on podcasts while making my way around a fake outdoors "track" upstairs.
 
Grinding coffee, - there is nothing worse (and I am not a morning person) than arriving downstairs for my first cup of coffee to find that I need to grind coffee; I know that the aficionados all say that you should grind your coffee mere nano-seconds before you prepare it, but life is too short - and I am too sluggish - to do that each morning.

Browsing here and The Other Country: Reading newspapers (online, alas). Browsing some coffee sites.

Put the bins out - and retrieved them and tucked them away in their respective corners once they had been emptied.

Reading my library books, and laughing aloud at Nick Hornby's book (Juliet Naked).

Debating whether (and what) to cook for myself; deferring my French homework.

It is grey, gloomily overcast, quite threatening, and spitting rain, and the fact that I neglected to stock up on beer yesterday is a source of annoyance.

As is the fact that I finished my organic milk this morning. (The local shop stocks some for me each week when they receive a delivery, so I am debating whether I should risk venturing out to collect my organic milk, and my organic double cream. Otherwise, my coffee shall be consumed black tomorrow morning....)
 
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@Scepticalscribe ^^ Thanks for two reminders... bins to the road, and grind some coffee.. the trash haulers changed their schedule and now don't come around until mid afternoon. The whole neighborhood promptly cheered that idea (prior was "out by 7am please") but then also promptly began putting stuff out later and later... and later. I was always just reminded by noticing a neighbor's bins out there down the road a bit. Well that reminder has gone by the boards so I'm lucky I haven't completely forgotten about it some time. Today is close, and a warning!

On the coffee, I quite agree. I grumble about even setting up the pour over process or French press sometimes, I don't need to add having to grind what to brew right in front of that.
 
Yes, the bin schedule changed here, too, not long after my mother died.

They used to be collected at around 10.30 in the morning, hence the carer used to put them out the night before; then, her friend, who did some light housework for me until Covid ensured that she has not left the house where she cares for an elderly lady in six months, used to also take responsibility for the bins.

Indeed, both these lovely Filipinas - for weeks after that - still used to text me to remind me to remember to put out the bins in time.

Collection is fortnightly.

However, in the year and a half since Mother passed away, the bins are now collected a lot later; never before lunch, and usually in the hour or so between 14.00-15.30; that means, that nowadays, I rarely put them out the night before (we have had a few gales where bins were making their merry way off down the road, and had to be retrieved during the small hours), but have to remind myself (around the time of my first coffee, which coincides with the switching on of brain cells), that bins need to be put out.

So, some Ugandan coffee and some Ethiopian coffee both ground; more than enough to take me to the week-end.
 
Our trash goes out on Thursdays with bulk collection on alternate Wednesdays. The city has completed 50% of the debris pickup from Sally at this point, and hoping Delta stays far enough west that it doesn’t redistribute the already piled debris.

Meanwhile I spent the morning on the phone with my stats prof. Thank gods he grades based on effort, cause I don’t understand slope at all.
 
rdrr said:
Celebrating my Birthday. Stayed up until 12:01 am (birth minute) this morning, something that I haven't done since my mid 20s. Boy was that a challenge and now I am paying for it... :sleep:
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Happy Birthday! 🎂
 
rdrr said:
Celebrating my Birthday. Stayed up until 12:01 am (birth minute) this morning, something that I haven't done since my mid 20s. Boy was that a challenge and now I am paying for it... :sleep:
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Happy birthday! So how old are you, and what will you do to celebrate once you've caught up on your sleep? (I don't believe I have ever stayed up until midnight to welcome in a birthday.)
 
we rode through a great cemetery today. hits huge with a lot of woods and all uphill it seems. but actually is setup for bikes to use it to get across the hill.
I love this crypt before you get to the main part I think it is about the oldest there. I could not find much info about who is in there as there were several with the same name. the tree is snacking on people and looks happy doing it (G)
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fooferdoggie said:
we rode through a great cemetery today. hits huge with a lot of woods and all uphill it seems. but actually is setup for bikes to use it to get across the hill.
I love this crypt before you get to the main part I think it is about the oldest there. I could not find much info about who is in there as there were several with the same name. the tree is snacking on people and looks happy doing it (G) View attachment 685View attachment 686View attachment 687View attachment 688View attachment 689View attachment 690
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Very cool, did you have to cross that bridge as well? I have a huge phobia of them and if they're really high I nearly go into a panic.
 
Alli said:
Happy birthday! So how old are you, and what will you do to celebrate once you've caught up on your sleep? (I don't believe I have ever stayed up until midnight to welcome in a birthday.)
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54, but I think since I haven't really done anything this year, don't have to count it. I stayed up until 12:01am because its my birth minute, and as my mother told me I was a stubborn baby who must have really hated October 6th or it could have been something to do with 666.

I celebrated it with my GF (am I too old to have a GF) in a local bar. Probably the first time we have been to one since the lockdown. It was a odd experience.
 
rdrr said:
54, but I think since I haven't really done anything this year, don't have to count it. I stayed up until 12:01am because its my birth minute, and as my mother told me I was a stubborn baby who must have really hated October 6th or it could have been something to do with 666.

I celebrated it with my GF (am I too old to have a GF) in a local bar. Probably the first time we have been to one since the lockdown. It was a odd experience.
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Welcome to 54, I just reached it in August myself.
 
ericgtr12 said:
Welcome to 54, I just reached it in August myself.
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54 is such a lame age. You are too far from retirement to be even dreaming about it, unless you are one of those freaks that saved every penny and could retire now and rub my nose in it. You are also too young to buy into a 55+ community with old curmudgeons like me, and being at the younger end of the scale, I figured I would be a hot ticket. jkjk

On the other hand I am seeing less and less interest in my resume. I am too old to be invited out to hang with the "cool kids" afterwork for a drink, unless they want someone with ATM card with more than a $27.92 balance on it. On one of these outings I was allowed to go out I got a, "You are so nice, I should set you up with my Mom's friend." Ugh.

Oh and to top it off, I cannot eat spicy food anymore unless I want to pay for it in a couple of hours.
 
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