My Tuesday night riding season is over for the year. I bailed on the ride last night because my bicycle wasn’t ready to be ridden, and more importantly, darkness occurs before the end of the ride. I will have to start getting myself out for solo day rides now, one of the benefits of being unemployed.
On the weekend I saw a flyer for a Gen X Singles Night at one of my local record shops. Given that I am on the upper limit of Gen X, I considered going, even with the $25 entry. Then I realized how unlikely it would be to find someone with whom I’d have mutual attraction at such an event. I’ve had 45 years to meet a mate and failed, so I think it’s time for me to give up and accept that it just won’t happen for me.
Wordle: three, my starter was FRAUD (unfortunately LOSER and ALONE have already been Wordle solutions)
I’ve baked another edible, unimpressive loaf of bread this morning. I just don’t get the rise I expect to get. I need to figure out what I am doing wrong, though I don’t know how I will accomplish this.
Wordle in 3.
Could your yeast/baking powder be old, or could you be rushing your proofing? (See what you learn when you watch GBBO?)
I pulled the trigger on a new laptop. I had been looking at BestBuy, but I just don’t care for them much. After thinking about who else sells such things, I remembered Micro Center, found a similar model to what I found at BB for $100 less and hit enter. (Sorry I did not stop by, Barb).
Games meeting- we seem to be ready. Working a tabletop exercise for Sunday night takedown with a new tent steel trailer. Sequence of events stuff. Lots of moving pieces. And we are always reminded of the old adage “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
=FP
Steve – is in the ‘hood and you don’t even call…………..
you could have stopped by & Allan could show you how to hook up the 2 Honda generators, so they would work correctly.,,,,,,,,,
I’ve done the generator thing and they have worked previously. I think one is not putting out all the amps it should and that’s why it failed.
And had I not wanted to get to Norcross for the pre-meeting and meeting, I would have stopped…
Yeast and flour aren’t old. I let it proof overnight, then for another hour on the pan in which it was baked while the oven heated. I’m so bothered by my inability to bake bread. I’m sure I’m doing something fundamentally wrong.
And these recipes are from on of Paul Hollywood’s books, and measured by weight not volume, so I expect better results. I also have a thermometer in my oven to ensure its is at the proper temperature.
It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma!
I am not a baker, but it sounds like you are proofing it too long. If you proof it too long it will deflate and become dense.
That is a possibility, though I have read/made recipes which call for many hours of proofing.
My next loaf will use one such recipe from another source, and see how that happens.
I decided to schedule our Covid booster & a flu shot at CVS yesterday.
Did you know that the CSV app & the CVS pharmacy are sort of 2 different websites?
Well – I can log in etc, – but when I go to the “schedule vaccine” tab – it tries to text a code to an OLD land line we had 20 years ago. (and no way I could figure out to change it). After way too long on the phone with them, it might be fixed to my cell #. We do have appts at 1210pm today. The pharmacy might still have our old Roswell address – who knows.
Our regular pharmacy wasn’t doing the shots, or at least not that I could tell. Went to the Minute Clinic at another CVS and they have you check in via wireless- only the wireless in the store is shite. The NP looked out from her room and called me over. She knows the wireless is shite and just deals…
I know this will be controversial, but I’m going back to being a non flu (and now COVID) shot person. I’m not “anti-vaccine”, though I must admit I’m wondering why my left shoulder, my COVID shot shoulder, inexplicably hurts these days…
I just decided we are going to InterAm with way too many of our not closest friends in New Orleans at the end of October – maybe a shot or 2 might help ward off the hasher crud. Maybe.
I’m really not for or against the shots, I haven[‘t bothered in a while – but big groups of people have too many germs anymore.
I kinda miss giving a shit about hashing, specifically travel hashing. I actually considered InterAm but then the dates were not open in my calendar.
Research has proven that if everyone gets a flu shot, the disease goes down radically by dint of mass immunity. However since you very rarely are around other people, I think you’re less of a risk.
wordle in 4 – you guys win
Quiet night at home watching baseball. The last 5 games this week and watching the Sox maybe getting into the playoffs is nail-biting.
My wiper blades are less than useless, they actually make the windshield dirtier. I ordered some more to put on the car. I feel like these blades were just put on in April. How often do you guys change out your wiper blades?
Living on a dirt road, it’s sometimes if a blade gets damaged by the crap. I’d say annually.
Seems like mine need it every 6 months. This has been true my entire car-ownership-career. Maybe I’m doing it wrong?
I have no idea when I switch them out – just when they start sucking.
But- I tend to go to an auto parts store & buy them & have them install for me. (because I’m lazy)
I, too, am lazy, too lazy even to go to a store. The blades will arrive at my doorstep and the male human who lives in my house will install them.
Whenever they streak the windshield. Okay, about three months after they start streaking thw windshield and I finally release cleaning them does no good, and I remember to buy some when I am near an auto parts store.
Who needs them anyway, it’s never going to rain again!
Oh its going to rain, I’m laying wheelhopper this weekend so it will rain 🙂
Lol
Yeah, EAV Strut is Saturday, so it will probably rain then. So sayeth Eeyore.
My truck lives in my garage so my wiper blades last forever. I only replace when they stop working so well, no real schedule.
Went out for a walk again this morning. This time my route randomly led me straight into Betsy’s walking group. I joined them for the last half of their walk before circling back and heading home.
Related: it’s humid, I sweat a lot.
Weird! I just used DuckDuckGo to search for “in person baking classes near me” and one of the (sponsored) results was from Groupon! Did anyone know that Groupon was still in business?
Also weird: DuckDuckGo still thinks I live in Illinois, because it returned a lot of results for classes in Chicago.
When I’m on the bank PC, because of where our internet connection resides, it thinks I’m living outside of DC. Or New York. If I’m shopping, I always have to check what store I’ve defaulted to. Frequently Manhattan.
Thinking about this, I realize that I’m using a T-Mobile 5G router now. I wonder if this device defaults to Illinois, or that’s where its internal phone number was registered? Not a big deal, unless I accidentally book a class in Chicago. Lol
When I do things on my hotspot, it locates me in different parts of Atlanta, or in Birmingham, but I don’t think you would go so far afield as Chicago.
OMG yes, I get emails from Groupon like twice a week. Every time I’m like, how do you still exist?
I quit buying them – because I was so good at never using what I bought. I cancelled the emails……. but I heard they are still around.
Sleep number bed air chamber saga is continuing.
now they are saying the air chambers are back ordered – and can’t get me any sort of idea when they will be able to ship a new one.
So -we are going to piss them off & buy a whole new bed, get it delivered & return it with the bad air chamber. We will probably have to pay a delivery fee, but………
Damn, that sucks.
and now – the Cumberland sleep number store says they will get us an air chamber from their store – they really don’t want us to buy & return a bed.
we have the new air chambers – next up – right a very nice review of them everywhere.
Strange how a little complaining can get you what you need!
I don’t get it- don’t they WANT you to buy another bed?
because if we buy & RETURN, then they get a “hit” at the store.
we got a few minutes of some rain today