Labour Day

Early to bed and early to rise. If I can keep this up and keep sliding it ahead a bit every couple of days it should make waking up at 3:30am next Monday morning a little more palatable. I’ll be on an 8am flight to Winnipeg and I live ninety minutes or so from the airport. Assuming no COVID delays, if I leave my house at four in the morning and arrive at the airport at half five and park and then get through security I should be around an hour ahead of departure time, which is recommended for all flights. So we’ll see if I can keep it up, I doubt it. I spent the next hour in my bed playing Marvel Strike Force and doing my other daily things, except Duolingo, if you wait until late in the day often times you have an easier week. It’s not foolproof but it’s been working for me. I moved to the office next and did the day’s MSC challenges and got to work on the last couple of drafted Musings and got them posted, my scheme worked perfectly, I’ll be fully caught up by the end of the day, success! After computing I went down to the kitchen around nine and started working on a pretty elaborate breakfast. I used two packages of Pilsbury Crescents to make Lazy Kolaches. The filling was the usual, four strips of bacon, two chorizo sausages and four scrambled eggs with a hint of shredded cheese. I didn’t use the Pilsbury Grands this time, I like that I can make sixteen little bites and one breakfast burrito for immediate consumption. The leftovers keep nicely in the fridge. Because this was a long process and it was on in the day and I hadn’t had much of a dinner I decided to make an appetizer of some McCain Breakfast Potatoes that I had leftover from the other day. I dumped some Kraft Bacon Ranch dressing on there to make it tastier. I think I’d cooked the whole bag when I made the perogies just to have something easy in the fridge, they were tasty.

I decided to eat out on the deck because it was a nice cool day. I didn’t check the temperature but it didn’t feel much different between inside and outside temperatures. In fact, I’d had the patio door open all morning and at times opened the front door as well. The resulting wind tunnel was excellent for airing the funk out of the main floor. It didn’t take me long to crush this breakfast. I think the last time I did this it was longer because I ate more and I had a little cigar to enjoy during as well.

I got everything cleaned up and then started doing a number of small errands. I got my tacklebox cleaned up in the garage. It had gotten really dusty being in the bed of the truck for a couple of days. I used Lysol wipes and paper towel to clean it up. Then I incorporated all the new elements I’d purchased in the summer into the containers. I came in for a bit and computed lightly and listened to another big section of my audiobook, eventually finishing it. I wasn’t ready to dive into the fourth book in that series yet so I chewed through some podcasts that were released today while I was cleaning a bathroom. Next I decided that I needed to put the RainX water repellent I’d purchased yesterday on the windshield. I painstakingly washed the window with Windex and paper towel twice before letting it dry for fifteen minutes in the hot sun. I wiped it again with a shop towel to be safe. I should say I was also using my step ladder to really get every inch of the glass. I applied two coats of the RainX, leaving about ten minutes between. I hope it set okay and I didn’t just wipe it all off at the end. I guess we’ll see when it rains and I’m driving next, whenever that will be. While I was doing that task I spotted the telescoping fishing rod I’d picked it on clearance. I took the reel off the other rod with the snapped tip and put it on there. It took awhile to move the clip over cause I tied a bad knot initially but that little task was completed while the final coat of RainX dried. My idea is to put it and the small tackle box under the back seat and then if I’m driving home from somewhere and see a spot I can pull over and try some casts. I think it’s fun and it looks good.

I had a few minutes of just laying down and listening to a podcast next. I’ve got a couple more things I want to do today before my evening plans. I tried to sneak in a nap but that didn’t take. I grabbed some A/V stuff and went to the kitchen instead. I had myself a good old fashioned mustard tasting. I made some hot dogs and used them to taste a bunch of mustards. I filmed it from two angles. Not sure how I’ll edit that but I’ll give it a go. Should make a fun video.

I finished that project and started testing my file moving process and ran into a snag. The GoPro9 uses a format for some videos that won’t play on my computer or my phone. Might need to investigate that further. But that will have to wait. My entire evening is booked with a bonus D&D session. This one is extra long too. We’re going for an extra two hours. The idea is to complete the encounter this week. I can tell you that it is nuts. We’re facing a legendary monster, a powerful wizard and their cult. We lost one of our party and possibly a second and we’re all in jeopardy now. Each of us is down considerable health points and our enemy is as strong as ever. It was intense, tempers flared at one point. I was wired by the end. Here is a picture of the map at one point. It’s a cylinder cavern with bridges weaving across the various floors and a 20’ drop each floor. It’s nuts, enemies come from everywhere.

My character did a crazy move and I pulled a twenty out on the roll to make it work. After rolling garbage all night I finally got one! I couldn’t sleep right away. It was ten last eleven when I was finally able to trick my brain into powering down.