Came out of the trail that is my favorite morning latte walk and found this. I was tempted to move the Miata, but the size disparity was great enough even with the two vehicles separated by 15 feet. Over the years I’ve taken a few of these types of photos, and every time I am reminded of the West Wing episode where Allison Janney is involved in a walk and talk with Kristin Chenoweth.
On Saturday I went for that bike ride and didn’t use the car. Yesterday, Sunday, I didn’t ride the bike, and I didn’t use the car either. I’m blaming Accuweather. They said it was going to rain in the morning; it didn’t. Then they said the rain would start in the afternoon; it didn’t. So it made me watch a bit of an NFL game, the Red Sox baseball game, and all of season five of Slow Horses. I hope they are sorry.
Tomorrow it’s supposed to rain, so I did the ride for a latte and muffin today. I’ve been slowly increasing the ride length, started out around 8 miles and grew steadily to about 12 miles. On one of my just bike rides, I stumbled onto a paved multi-use trail that runs due south for several miles. So today instead of returning directly from Stomping Grounds, I followed the trail for a few miles before turning back and ended up 18 1/2 miles.
Now for the rest of day I’ll be parked on the couch. There is a Red Sox baseball game to watch and it is on to season four of Slow Horses. I’m bingeing all five seasons because a new season starts on this coming Wednesday.
Ahhh, Andor. A week or so ago I mentioned watching the second season of the show but could take it or leave it. I did take it but almost did quit at about the halfway mark of the season. Then the show started to tick up on the scale. And the last four episodes were great. Which made me, directly after finishing all twelve episodes, jump right into watching the Rogue One movie. Which slots in the timeline right between what I just watched and the OG Star Wars movie, A New Hope.
Because today was the day I was supposed to ride the exercycle, I opted to do the Sunday ride today. I had my usual latte and muffin at Stomping Grounds, and I was home at 8:30, and, since I had some time this morning, I watched the first episode of Season 2 of Andor.
I finished off Season 1 last night. And while I am enjoying it, if I stopped right now, I’m pretty sure I would carry on with my life just fine. This afternoon after the Red Sox game I watched the second episode, so I guess I’m in it now.
On a side note, the Sox won the game; it was their twelfth in a row. But as a true fan of the team, I know it is only a matter of time before they revert to the “loveable losers” I know them to be.
I had contemplated seeing Project Hail Mary in theaters but preferred to wait and watch it in the comfort of my own home. This way I could control my own intermission. 🙂 At the beginning of July, it became available on Prime Video. I sat down to watch it all excited, and I turned it off after about 5 minutes of Ryan Gosling failing around.
Truth be told, when I first started reading the book this movie is based on, I didn’t care for it and stopped. Even tried a second time and didn’t get too much further. So I thought I should give the movie another shot. I started where I had left off, and after a minute or so, it segued to before when our protagonist was launched into space. He was a science teacher, and his teaching style seemed like he was failing around there too. Turned it off.
I had stumbled onto a YouTube video about Andor and it was being discussed as the best Star Wars property ever, a story for adults. So at lunch today, I restarted watching Episode One. That’s right, I had once, several months back, started to watch the series and quit on it halfway through the first episode. I backed up about 15 minutes and started. I just finished Episode Nine of the first season…
It’s all his fault I’m buying a FlightWall.
Like most of my impulse buying of nifty gadgets and items of clothing recently, it started because of an ad on Instagram. This photo shows what the entrance to the kitchen from the living room looks like. And I always wanted to add something in between the cutout above the entryway and the ceiling but never found anything that I liked. Until the FlightWall popped up. For $175 I could put one of those up there. I am literally right under the landing path to PDX!
The Mini for $175 is 12.6 inches long x 6.3 inches high. That is roughly the same area as a sheet of paper and would look kind of silly in that spot. But they also sell a Wiidescreen model that is 50.4 inches long x 12.6 inches high. So how big is that opening? It is 52″ x 15″ tall on the shorter end and 20″ on the taller end. It’s like they were thinking of me when they offered that size.
I have had a shortcut to FlightWall on my phone’s home screen for about three weeks. Every other day or so I’d look at it and think I should buy it, then think the Widescreen is too expensive, at lmost three times more than the Mini, and not follow through. Tuesday, I deleted the shortcut off the phone.
On Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he had the other four members of the Strike Force Five (insert thunder crash sound effect here) as the only guests. At the end they teased a final 13th episode of their pandemic-created podcast. So yesterday I watched/listened to it on YouTube, and near the end, they had the wives answer the question, “What does he want for his birthday?” Steven says he’s been dropping hints about a nice leather desk organizer. This is the answer his wife gave:
So maybe in reality it is not Steven’s fault I bought the Widescreen FlightWall this afternoon; it is his wife Evie McGee’s.
