Ideal Hump

The day started off with a mild sleep-in. In my pre-wake up haze I noticed that I’d received an email from Home Depot and my new toys had arrived at my local store and I could pick that up. That was exciting news. I got myself cleaned up knowing that I’d be leaving the house to pick that stuff up. I dressed for such an occaision even. With the sleep in and the proper start to the day, I found myself running short on time. Luckily I still had some of those blueberry breakfast treats to eat. I nuked it and dressed it up and then got ready to go to work.

I called out to my old research farm to check if they were around and figured if I was going to leave the house I’d might as well get some value out of it. I needed to stage the soybean plots to lock in when my fall tour was going to be at the location. Last year I did that and then the buggers harvested everything before we got there to walk through it all. I was well annoyed by that. I also wanted to see their new offices in the house, they’d finally moved in. It took about an extra year for them to get in there. When I mounted my truck I hoticed that my RainX seems to be working at least in some capacity. Notice the beading of the moisture. Ideally when driving those beads will just roll up the windshield and make everyhing more visible for me. I have hight hopes of that system working well.

I made my pickup without ceremony and moved on to see the farm and the new setup in the old farmhouse. I was impressed by how it worked out. And by the size of the old bedrooms, it is much more spacious inside than I would have imagined from seeing the outside all those years. I let myself in after filling in the survey on the internal COVID tracking app. They are just getting set up stil but it’s a nice start. They have two offices upstairs for the two site leads and then many other workspaces for their assitants and some “hotel” space for people like me to work from. They even had a pair of boardrooms for meetings. One of my other reasons for visiting them in person was to get some printing done. My printer doesn’t seem to work right since IT started randomly deleting files off our computers. I needed to print my COVID vaccine receipts before my travel begins.

After spending some time helping the crew with some old files and knowledge, I stepped out to the plots to have a look. I walked through them and then decided I would put the drone up also to have a look. That and it is one of the places I can fly it freely. I grabbed overhead shots of all the blocks then thought I should send it way up and out and get some wider views.

You won’t know this but this a pretty accurate recreation of my desktop background on my work machine. A guy who is no longer with the company somehow got himself a Mavic mini back a handful of years and took some pictures for me. Now ai can control my own destiny. My version has a lot more colour and some clouds to make it look more interesting. The farm looks way different from when I used to run it, changes to the layout and a lot of building updates. I’m a little jealous of the extensive improvements to buildings and equipment. Just more stuff to look after I guess.

I got home around noon and tackled my inbox that had been largely unattended all morning. It was pretty slow so I found myself reheating the leftovers from last night by half twelve. It was pretty good, the gnocchi was a bit more wooden than appropriate. It was the right size to get me fuelled up for the afternoon.

I needed the fuel too. I found myself pretty busy for the after lunch portion of the day. I had nothing scheduled but managed to be busy. I was focused on clearing up issues before I had to get on the road. I spent half the time on the phone priming people to advance issues before the end of the week. I started setting up files and lists for later in the season. Around five I’d had enough of that and called it a day. My first job in the personal side was to assemble my new toys. I read the manual and did it correctly. Then I tried them both in the house. I strongly advise not using a leaf blower indoors.

My one error on that purchase is that I assumed my drill was a 20V, 4.0AmpH battery too and I could swap them around. Not the case. I will have to investigate getting a second battery if one won’t last long enough to do the job. Supper was a cardboard pizza and a beer. I added cheese and hot sauce on the pizza and the beer was because as feeling a bit saucy after an outing and getting my new toys.

The capstone of the day was our regularly scheduled D&D session. We were in a heated battle when we left off and it took us the whole time to win it triumphantly. We then took time to loot the place and we gained a village worth of followers/worshippers/slaves. We found a treasure trove of gold to the point we’ll need our new minions to manage it for us. Things are getting interesting, we’re heading into the hardest portion of the campaign. My travel means I can’t play next week and not the week after either. We’ll have to figure something out. It was a fantastic finish to a fine day. It was a good one and I recognized that, taking time to be present for the enjoyable moments. And I’m glad I did, it’s not something we get to do as often now. Hopefully I get a few in a row.