Inside The Perimeter

I really thought that I would accomplish a lot yesterday, but that’s not the case. I made bacon and baked bread. I even drove down to Dollar Tree and Aldi, which initially was going to be a long walk when it was just a trip to Dollar Tree. And then almost all tangible productivity stopped.

The only notable chore I completed in the afternoon was harvesting and cleaning four small heads of lettuce that Betsy and I devoured last night with pizza.

Wordle: five, my starter was PASTE. I’ve become a lousy Wordler.

It came down to a nearly 50/50 chance in Wordle this morning, and I failed. What sucks worse is that my other choice was the solution.

Wordle: FAIL, my starter was DAIRY

TAKE THREE!!! This is my third attempt at writing a blog post today. My goals for today are to get laundry done, visit Lowe’s on my way home, and return to Tuesday Night bike riding.

Speaking of three, I am on Day 3 of another attempt at making a sourdough starter.

I strained my left knee walking in the basement yesterday when I stepped over something on the floor and my foot slipped forward. It’s amazing how easily one can hurt themselves.

I made an excellent pizza last night, with its only flaws being that I overbaked it, and it could have used a meat topping.

Wordle: four, my starter was REIGN. Was hoping my three theme would carry over to Wordle. No luck.

What an interesting weekend.

On Friday I met ITP-Readers Barb and Stacy, along with others, at St Thomas More in Decatur for some Lent fried fish. Honestly, the meal was substandard (cold french fries, dense hush puppies), but tickled my desire to eat fish and chips. We also wandered over to The Brick Store and had a beer in the beer garden.

Saturday I met ITP-Readers Barb and Steve, along with Allan, for a good 27-mile ride around Silk Sheets. I intended to drive to Cochran Mill Brewing afterwards, only to find out that they went out of business on Friday — another brewery added to my list, which now contains 27 breweries.

So there I was, minding my own business at Manuel’s Tavern yesterday, when ITP-Reader Stacy enters…

Seems as if the whole weekend was centered on seeing friends twice…

Wordle: five, my starter was DAIRY. I think I’ve given up caring about my Wordle score.

I had a really busy day yesterday, at least until 3pm when I hit the couch and crashed for a while. I strained my back a little yesterday while volunteering with Trees Atlanta; not their fault, mine.

It’s crazy, even though I thought that I made two critical passes over my driveway, it wasn’t until after I backed the car into the carport that I found errant two roofing nails. I will be going out to see if any of my tires also have nail(s) in them, but I hope that I dodged that bullet.

Wordle: five, my starter was SPADE. Looking at my stats, it’s been ten days since I’ve scored better than four!

Roof is done. All that’s left is for the dumpster to be removed, continued vigilance looking for errant nails, and for me to figure how this financial setback changes my life.

I’m getting a pet! Actually, lots of them! I’m getting set up to start vermiculture by using worms to make castings from food scraps. I’ve thought about doing this for the past few years but have always hit roadblocks.

Wordle: four, my starter was MARSH

While I never made it to a Mexican restaurant yesterday, I had a good time hanging out at Schoolhouse before ending my day at Westside Pizza.

I watch a lot of cooking videos. One trend I’ve noticed over the past five years is the wearing of latex gloves during food preparation. Unless you are working with something that will stain your hands, like beets, I don’t understand this. First, you should always be working with clean hands. Second, people think that wearing gloves keeps things more sanitary, but then grab jars and utensils after cutting meat, or mixing things like meatloaf, without washing, essentially cross-contaminating everything. I also hate the idea of all of these latex gloves getting thrown into the trash, but I admit that the human race is already fucked so maybe I should give up giving a shit too.

Ironically a couple of hours after typing this I sliced my thumb taking the disc out of my food processor, not that a latex glove would have stopped that…

Wordle: four, my starter was MOUND

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Being half Irish I spend twelve hours of St Patrick’s Day basking in the glory that is beer, and for the last thirty years a lot hours have been spent in Mexican bars. I have to admit that I miss being young and going to Ri O’Bravo in Buckhead (long gone…) with the guided notion that I was going to drink a lot of beer and the misguided notion that I was going to meet a woman who would want to date me.

I did something yesterday that has been a long time coming, I canceled my Adobe account. Much like a gym membership, paying Adobe a monthly subscription fee for something you are not using is financially dumb; I was financially dumb for far too long. I thought that I’d be getting back into taking and editing photos this year, but the first quarter of the year is nearly over and I’ve not taken a single shot with my old DSLR.

Wordle: four, my starter was OILER

On Saturday morning I met Betsy at Emerald City Bagels, as normal. What I discovered is that the idiotic DOT is in the process of pouring concrete, taking away almost all of the street parking on Glenwood Ave in East Atlanta Village, in the name of “traffic calming”. What a bunch of bullshit! Businesses are having a hard enough time these days, why install a literal barrier for their customers?

I’ve decided to allow myself two more months of ESPN+, until the Bundesliga season ends. I’ve learned that ESPN’s contract to show Bundesliga games ends at the conclusion of this season, so I will see where it is shown next season before making any future decisions. My favorite team Werder Bremen may also be relegated to the second division again this season, which may make this a moot point.

Wordle: four, my starter was DIRTY

Another Friday the 13th!
Another Friday to score 4x Fuel Points at Kroger, and given the elevated price of gas, is significant.

Awhile back I mentioned the idea of listening to a band’s / musician’s entire catalog, of course sequentially. I’ve undertaken this with my first band, REM. As of today I’ve listened to their first three albums — “Murmur”, “Reckoning”, and “Fables of the Reconstruction”. I have to admit that Fables was never one of my favorites, but I enjoyed it for what it is. I’m about to hit the sweet spot of releases— “Life’s Rich Pageant”, “Document”, “Green”, “Out of Time”, “Automatic for the People”, “Monster” — to which I have listened ad nauseam as a late-teen / twenty-something. I can’t wait!

I also put an hour in on the trainer yesterday. Woot!

I stayed up late last night because Amazon told me that my package was out for delivery and due to be delivered between 9-10pm. At 10pm the delivery status was changed to “on or before March 16th”. I’m contemplating canceling the order.

Today I’m running a couple of morning errands, and then will spend the rest of the afternoon working in Wee Little Farm and my basement.

Wordle: four, my starter was PRIME