Other than walking over to WLF@UFO to plant some bush bean seeds, which in all likelihood will get dug up by something, I didn’t do a heck of a lot yesterday. It was nice to get to meet another fellow UFO gardener.
Yesterday I learned that the Spanish speaking world calls England Inglaterra. I said it before, I will say it again, even though they now the call their country Türkiye, I still call it “Turkey”. After all we don’t call Germany Deutschland, do we?
Today is new bike day! This morning I will be driving up to Smyrna to pick up my new bike. I have a little regret that I am no longer in a financial position where I could have sprung for a higher-end model, like many of my fellow riders have done recently, but that’s a “me” issue. What I am picking up today is generationally better than the bike I took to BRAG, so there’s that. And, when Allan is done putting all of my old components on the new frame I will be a four-bike man! Then I will owe both Allan and Steve meals for their generosity. I knew BRAG would be expensive, I never realized how expensive… I’ll have bout a month for getting used to riding the new bike before I take it to Brevard for NC Mountain Ride this year.
Wordle: three, my starter was COUPE.
First!
Different languages have different words for everything, that’s like the definition of different languages. The French say Angleterre.
Today I get out at 2:00 pm in anticipation of tomorrow’s Juneteenth holiday. I am looking forward to a long weekend. On Monday I have been called for jury duty. In general I don’t mind doing jury duty but this time around I’d rather not go. Crossing my fingers I won’t have to.
That’s my point, so I don’t want shit when I say “Turkey” and not “Tur-Kay-Eye”.
Wordle in 4 and coulda been 3!
Happy for your new bike day and be glad to have an easy fix to your broken frame. Remember all that fancy technology doesn’t get your a$$ on the bike. It’s still man and machine.
Gave the scooter a bath after all the road crud from Tuesday’s rain. Looks pretty good, even with new scratches. Debbie “let” me take her out to dinner last night. There was supposed to be grocery shopping after, but she ran out of gas.
18 miles and got a little rained on. Just made it more steamy.
-FP
FedEx is rumoring to be delivering the new to you frame tomorrow – we will see.
It is in VA this morning, so I’m guessing its moving ground.
Allan is at work today -so I’d guess he might work on putting it all together this weekend.
What time are you coming up this way? If you want to have lunch, I could be free.
Tropical storm Arthur is on his way to us. I have been receiving panicked emails warning everyone about flash flood warnings for tomorrow.
I am lucky I haven’t subscribed to any of those emails (or texts) – somehow
This is the Emory Emergency Preparedness office. They are the most panicked people. They send 8-10 emails in the days leading up to any weather event with underlinings and all-caps, and then the weather event turns out to be nothing. *eyeroll*
Thank you for explaining why Delta sent me a “the sky is falling on Saturday, rebook your flight now” email last night. My son is flying solo back to Atlanta, so I’m going to preemptively rebook him on the first flight out Sunday morning. ChatGPT says the weather should be through Atlanta before Saturday, but that Delta might still be catching up from operational delays.
wordle in 5 – y’all are better than me,
And- the app tried to make me subscribe, but I finally clicked the right place to get around it. I have yet to have to login………..
Worked too much yesterday, but did go to Chicken Salad Chick for lunch, it has been a while since I’ve been there.
Does that place specialize in chicken salad? I need to try it. I think there’s one at Ansley.
I’m surprised that such a niche market as chicken salad can make it, but it is really good. The one in Newnan stays pretty busy.
OOOOOOH! It’s on DoorDash! I know what I’m doing for lunch next week.
Never have used DoorDash, only used Uber Eats in 2020. Food delivery is not my thing.
ITS A HUGE CHAIN – they have I’ll guess 10 different flavors – plus pimento cheese – and I saw they’ve added some other stuff, like turkey (I guess for those people that don’t like chicken salad)
I really like the broccoli salad side too
Speaking of chains, I drove past a Caribou Coffee today. I always forget that they are still in business.
What if I want just a plain chicken salad sandwich? I will have to study the menu.
A bartender explained the rise of the bicycle-shaped scooters to me last night. The scooter company paid the city of Denver a couple million dollars to buy out the bike share program, and then immediately shit-canned all of the actual bicycles. Capitalism at its finest. ‘Murica! This is exactly why we can’t have nice things.
Classic case of “buy out, shut down competition”.
I figured out how to make it rain on Wee Little Farm. All I had to do is buy a nice expensive bicycle and drive it home on the back of my car on the bike rack.
And now the sun is shining. Oy vey!
We had rain, then sun, now the clouds are back. More coming.
Gee Steve it looks as if you left Vermont a few days too soon. They are getting hammered by thunderstorms with the potential for a tornado in the southern end of the state.