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A Day In The Life

Another Unexciting Day

Saturday, September 5, 2026 Leave a Comment

Seeing as I don’t do the Instagram thing anymore, I don’t have a place to “show off” my completed jigsaw puzzles, so from now on, here they’ll be.

I started the morning by doing the Sunday morning thing today. I’ve added a little bit more on the loop to take it from ten to 12 miles. It was mostly cloudy, but it was just warm enough for sitting outside Stomping Grounds and watching the traffic go by.

I finally figured right. For the last two weeks I’ve thought about getting a spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-Fil-A on those two Sundays. Today I finally remembered to get that sandwich along with waffle fries and a lemonade. By lunch the sun had came out, so I ate my meal outdoors too, in that little park between Chipotle and Chick-Fil-A.

They were predicting thunderstorms in the afternoon, so I didn’t think I would be able to eat all 3 meals outdoors, but they never materialized, so I could have, but it was mid-game and I didn’t want to do the whole relocation thing, so I ended up eating inside.

Tonight is route planning for the Everyday Driver adventure and finishing off the last 23 post offices in Oregon. I have added 2 full days on the way over and one more on the return trip exclusively for post office pictures. In total, it is going to be another 10-day trip.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 97.6%

 

Tagged: A Day In The Life, Walking

Another Exciting Day

Friday, September 4, 2026 Leave a Comment

So, the night before last, you got just a picture. There was no post yesterday, so you didn’t get any words to go along with the no picture. Tonight you get both, but the picture has nothing to do with the words…


 
Started out like a normal Friday: breakfast, grocery shop, buy a latte, make a cameo at the coffee clatch, 2-mile walk, lunch, and dinner in front of a baseball game on TV. Shortly after finishing eating, a text pops up from neighbor Tere: Interested in joining me at the dice game tonight? Me: I’ll be outside in 9 minutes.

I didn’t even know there was a dice game; I didn’t have anything happening, so I met her outside, and we walked up to the community center. In it was a private party; actually, it was a celebration of life for someone. Everyone was all dressed up, and I was in shorts, and Tere was sporting a camo hoodie. As an added plus, everyone there was African-American. Felt a little like in the movie Animal House when the Delta’s are out with dates and stumble into a black roadhouse.

After we backed out and gathered our wits, I asked her, “Where did you get this intel?” Another resident told her it was on Tuesday and Friday nights at 6:00pm. So I called the said resident, and Tere asked what’s up? Her source knew of the private party but didn’t know if the game had been moved or was cancelled. Stymied, we headed back down the street to our respective homes.

One more movie reference: in Star Wars, as Obi-Wan is handing Luke his father’s lightsaber, he says, “Your uncle didn’t want you to have this. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade.” Today, along with the other day’s ride along with her to a car wash, leads me to believe I might have a bit of Luke in me to her Obi-Wan. Uncle Owen would not be happy.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 97.9%

 

Tagged: A Day In The Life, Star Wars, Walking

Shoulda Woulda

Friday, December 19, 2025

Friday was supposed to go a little something like this:
1) ride exercise bike
2) eat breakfast
3) grocery shop
4) get a latte
5) go to the coffee klatch
6) start a jigsaw puzzle

I missed #1, did two, three & four, didn’t do five and never made it #6. Instead of the last two I did number seven instead. Not too long after lunch PDX Wraps called and said the car would be done by 2:30ish. So I ordered up an Uber who picked me up a little after 1:30. What would, if traffic free, takes 45 minutes took close to an hour twenty minutes. It took about a half hour until the car was done then I set off home. The weather was dreary and I hoped to find a not so dreary spot to pull over and take a picture of the GTI, but I had no luck with that. By the time I got home an hour and a half after leaving Sherwood it was almost full on dark. So I snapped this one teaser image for now with hopes that a bit of sun materializes in the next couple days.

Tagged: A Day In The Life, GTI, GTI Mods

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Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to 'crap'.

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