Today
...has been a good day of me doing nothing of significance. It started with me not waking up early. Mostly this is because I didn't have much to wake up for. Nothing epic was planed. I would wake up & go to sleep in the same bed. No people here, no dog, no work, no real responsibilities. It was refreshing to just kind of get up...whenever.
I started reading Darwin's Radio today. I've had this book in my stack for an unknown time period and it came up in a different context this weekend so I picked it up. This book is Science Fiction. I have to say that I've been reading a series of duds lately so I'm hopeful this is good.
Then I saw myself on IG in a Flow State post talking to the VMBA guy.
In anticipation of things to come, I needed to do some work today so I set myself a timeout from 9-10 to do my first block.
Then I went outside and worked for 90 minutes on the BATT then to mow sectors 8 & 1 again. I think I can call the lawn fully cut right now but as it's raining currently I'm sure this won't last long. The BATT is coming along and I spend various bits of time doing this & that. I do not have the energy to put in a ton of rock work right now but this is what it needs. My day laborer is not here.
The picture is from the start of the berm. The keen observer will note that...well, we just pointed this thing in the wrong direction a little bit. I'm still not sure how this happened but I've started to flare it out to make the landing wider and to transition better into the berm.
Then I took a shower and ate lunch. Worked another block from 1-2, did some laundry, and started working on the better pair of MTB shoes that I need to drill out the seized cleat bolts. Got 1 shoe done but my cobalt bit ground to a nub on shoe #2 and the local hardware store is not opened today. I should also mention that the previous old-old shoes I fixed should have been throw away a long time ago because they are split on the sides. I have no idea why I save this shit.
Worked on a JORBA mailing, then put together a Trello board for the Q3 newsletter which should start to take shape this week. And then put in my 3rd work block from 5-6. Talked to the wife in there and texted a bunch with KenS about stuff. I will say after this past weekend my affinity for Ascutney went up just a little bit. I want to go back to try Jim's Jam.
Side note: Ascutney is only ~2 hours from my work HQ.
Did some old travel blog work, some blog housekeeping, and ate some odds & ends for dinner because I'm tired of salad and just wasn't hungry enough to make anything substantial. Funny how much less my appetite is when I don't ride for 2 hours.
Now I need to work for one more hour before the end of the night.
