10/31/2023

Tuesday Halloween… going downtown.  Will do a walk from 30th. Pick up 1/2 n 1/2 on the way.

Did the walk got the creamer.  Having a coffee and bagel at my desk.

Chilly this morning. Need to make sure that the hose is off the faucet when I get home. It will colder tonight.

Great, just got an email we are on another program?!? We don't have the bandwidth to finish what we have.

Trying to get some LinkedIn Learning done today. 

Lunch was great.  Pork, stuffing and soup.

May have gotten @Paolino.net up and running... Needs more testing..

Have a major headache... taking some IB. Is it a headache or stress?

Got Paolino.net email working for me... Have to set it up for M.

Nice walk to station after work. When I got home M and I walked a couple of miles on the path.

Sunset is coming quick these days!  Going to be cold tonight. Outside water faucets are locked down for the winter.

Tomorrow I have a late meeting so I'm going to do elliptical after work. 

10/30/2023

Monday… rainy day and working from home.   Not real great to go walking this morning so I went and did the elliptical in the basement.   Got stuff to do this morning.  Finish writing up a support case that came in over the weekend and the end / beginning of sprint e-mail.  

Thinking of doing another round on the elliptical this afternoon.   Feeling up for it.  I think….

Looking into setting up new e-mail addresses for  @Paolino.Net.  Bought the domain and we'll see if we can set up economical hosting… One more subscription… UGH.

Read a review on the beta of the IOS journaling software . The reviews says am I missing something?  Said it seems basic and really not worth using.   Well then this set up I have looks like it's working and no great need to change it. 

Cloudy again today… not going to break any solar production records! 

Hour before lunch, felling quite empty… Come on lunch!!!

Going to have to shut off outside sink today.  Going to be freezing this week at night.  Want to get to it before it destroys the sink. 

Made lunch, leftover grilled pork sandwich and salad, for M bbq pork and stuffing. 

Shut off water to outside sink. Just have to disconnect hose from faucet.  Then ready for cold weather. 

Ugh.. Been all stressed out today at work.  Had 3 conversations going on at once. Juggling support, now and future all at once.  Just want to do good at work, not great just good. 

Went to the store to get shampoo and small stuff. 

Getting set up to use the iPhone to journal at work… Company laptop not giving me access to my OneNote. 

10/29/2023

Early wake up on Sunday.  Getting ready to jump on elliptical. 

45 min on elliptical.. Coffee, oatmeal and music on the radio.  Good Sunday morning!

Espresso has been great! Have a shot in my coffee.. K cup Cuban coffee, café buestelo nice and strong and tasty.

Rainy day… not much solar production today!   Only thing I have to do is clear out the planes in the back of car.  Good day just to rest

Chatting with Mike and Chris about Electric cars over text. 

So far the blog looks good. Got a good cadence going.  Journal during the day and post the next day. 

Went to Wegmans. Going to do an financial experiment. Only going to Costco and Wegmans in November. I can get a list of everything I purchased there on the website.  I know a little creepy eh?  However, it will be good to see what I’m spending on groceries. 

Made some cornbread stuffing. The stuffing has been hanging about in the closet still good however it needs to be gone and I was not in the mind to toss it.  So Chicken and stuffing for lunch!    

Before going M gave me a hand bring in the RC planes from the car to the basement.  I found two more batteries down there there are way past their prime and I’m discharging them and going to have to bring them and another one over to Home Depot for recycling. 

Don't know why but I always feel stressed on Sunday.  Didn't help I had to set up and respond to a support case today.   I really hat Mondays… and it's still Sunday!!!

Watched Vera mystery tonight.  

Setting alarm for the morning.. Elliptical on tap for tomorrow. 

10/28/2023

Saturday.  Nice.  

Made steel cut oats for breakfast.  Going for a 3 mi walk this morning.  

Did the path this morning with M.  3 mile walk before breakfast.   Oatmeal and coffee was excellent this morning. 

Watched Inspector Morse last night.  The series is a little deflating after watching Endeavor.  I think the writing was much more crisp on Endeavor. Maybe it will pick up in later episodes. 

Winds may be a bit high, I going to the flying field none the less.  Tomorrow the winds would be better but rain is in the forecast.  Bringing planes that I tuned to be better in the winds, Lets see if that works out.

Oatmeal looks good, needs a bit of water.  Ugh, It's still dark at 7am.. 10 more mins before walk

Went to the DVRC field. Wind was blowing out of the west at 9 gusting to 15.  At least its down the runway.   Brought the Tundra and Bighorn. Both flew well. Has to turn up the bighorn elevator a bit.  Both planes cam home in one piece.  

Made the Costco boneless pork chops marinated in Peruvian marinade.  Got the marinade from Wegmans.  

Super nice day today. Could not be better. Solar is only generating 35kwh per day.  Used a bunch for charging the car kinda breaking even. 

Charging the iPad to do streaming tomorrow morning.  It will be raining and I'm going to use the Elliptical for 45 min while streaming. 

Going to make more slow cooker oatmeal for tomorrow morning.  

Watched Van der Valk mystery for fun tonight.

10/27/2023

TGIF!  Day off, not doing stand up for work. A full free day! Yay! 

Watched Battlebots last night. Texted with Mike.  A lot of meh fights. I want to see parts flying, batteries burning and lots of mayhem.  

It did not deliver last night.

Dropping Bolt off for inspection, having breakfast at Pumpernick's and getting passport photos this morning.   The going on a bike ride.  Have to charge the warning lights. 

Fun word of the day: salubrious : promoting health or well- being.  

Remembered paperwork for the car before leaving. Always a good move. 

Had breakfast at Pupmernick's, got passport photos, mailed off passport apps. Car was done so we picked up the car.   Now drizzling… thought weather was going to be better.   

Awesome just got a call from the Chevy dealer reminding me that state inspection is free there since I bought the car…… ufff what a dope

Mike sent a story on baked bean pizza….. I thought pineapple pizza was a crime de cuisine!!

No ride today as something clearly not sitting well with me… No more breakfast like that again. 

Went to Costco for groceries. Stayed home afterward. 

Reading stories on CNN. One billionaire from Blackstone saying people aren't working hard enough and on in India saying people should work 70 hours a week.   Are you kidding me! 

Well tomorrow looking like a better day to go to the flying field.  Maybe a little windy but it will be right down the runway.

Looks like Septa strike is off.  Good for them. However, I was hoping to stay home next week.

10/26/2023

Working from home today on a  Thursday dammit! I just want too.

Been feeling run down.  Eased up on the exercise for a few days. Going to walk today. Bike tomorrow.

Going to try to keep the mac open for a few days..

OK testing putting picture from iPhone in to journal.  Looks good!  

Also, this is my latest try for espresso. Using a distribution tool I get some killer crema.

Tomorrow bringing Bolt in for inspection.  

Why am I just so captivated by the trash truck with the mechanical arm?  It just looks so slick.

But it's still a trash truck!

Going to make grilled marinated chicken for lunch today. Pounded and marinated the chicken last night and we'll grill today… 

Happy days! Mike S. cancelled our 1:1 …. A good stress free weekend is on tap!  

Chicken was killer!  Going to try pork chops next ordered Aji pepper from amazon..

So I have been waiting for the IOS journaling software it still is nor coming.  This method seems like it will work ok, served me for a few years.  Only after my breaks in journaling I have this need to recap what has happened. This causes me to put off journaling and just prolongs the gaps.  So, I'm just going to get over it. 

It's another week in 'Murica. Some MAGA dumbass elected into an important position. The courts can't seem to handle the orange Cheeto, and another mass murder.   Is this all there is?

 

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Back to work

Ugh back to work after a very long vacation and holiday.  Monday is going very slow.....

Adjusting the treadmill

We have a Precor 9.31 tread mill. There has been a series of errors on the thing.  Error 27 which is an over current error.  Now I'm a big guy but I'm below the max load of this thing.  Me and Mrs adjust the belt to stay in the middle of the rollers and we loosen the tension of the belt a little bit. The belt had been put on with a lot of tension. The belt is not slipping when we walk on it and the Mrs can run and have no problems.  We lubed the deck just to be sure.  It seemed to work fine this morning.

More workouts.

Did an other hour of workouts today.  That make 3 workouts in 4 days.  Not too bad. now just have to keep working at it....

Pizza TIme....

M and I had Marj and Roy over for the New Year and pizza yesterday.   We made homemade pizza. Margaretta and garlic and oil varieties.  Marj brought over some homemade toffee.  All this food is stressing the new found workouts.

Happy New Year out there!!  Me and the Mrs stayed at home and celebrated.  Earlier in the day we put together our culinary skills and made ravioli pies. Small ravioli size pies made with pie crust and filled with jam.  

Workout.....

After a nice coffee yesterday at Starbucks I went to the local Korean supermarket for some fresh veggies. Planned a nice dinner of baby bok choy.   I hit the exercise bike and the treadmill for an hour when I got back. Got a good sweat on and think I'll be able to go again tomorrow.

Back Home...

Ok we are back home and starting to get back into the swing of things....  Marilyn at work. Me I sitting at at a Starbucks having coffee...  Pondering the imponderables....Also, delaying the moment I am going to jump on the exercise bike.

 --Rico

Breakfast in O'Fallon

Blog resurection ???

Should we restart the blog?

--Rico
I was all thumbs typing this in!
Sent from my iPhone.

Marilyn runs first 5k

Went to the Abington June fete 5k. Marilyn has been training to run the 5k for a while now. She had a great run. I went to cheer her on and ended up walking the course. Which was great because I won a lottery of numbers and got a stuffed bear which I gave to Marilyn.  First 5k and teddy bear great day!

RC club at airport open house

I went with the Bucks County Radio Control club to the Doylestown airport open hose. My friend Joe is part of the pilots association so we go there and have a static display of our models to support him. It was a good time and we had a demonstration pilot, Nathan. It was a good day the airport guy had a good time and so did we.

Prius Nice BUT.....

Marilyn and I saw the Plug in Prius, the Prius c, Prius v and the regular Prius.  They seemed very nice and we dearly wanted to take one of them home. BUT, I was really not convinced that we need a car at this time. So we are going to save our pennies for a while yet.

Going to look at a Prius Plug in Tonight

We are looking to replace Marilyn's Honda with a plug in Prius. The car had an 11 mile range on batteries and the train station is 3 miles away. we may not have to gas it up for a long while.