Refreshed my Senn PX-200 with new ear and headband pads.

 

Edited July 14, 20214 yr by morphsci

Bike ride, then lots of cold beer.

 

Nicely done on both fronts.  I haven't gotten out at all this week other than to commute to work and back.  Hoping to get a good ride in tomorrow AM.

We changed the name of our ride from "the afternoon ride" to "the Hades ride". 

Installed Hellwig front and rear sway bars on the Ram to make it suck a bit less and a Bedrug to protect all the gear I am moving around for shows as I have 8 more concerts and a talent show to fit in before it gets cold. 

I installed a rear sway bar on my Colorado this past spring, though the results were subtle, I was very pleased with the results.  I've put Bedrugs in my past 4 trucks and couldn't be more pleased.  Super product!

Set back up the equipment rack Steve gave me a long time ago, to get some of the mess off my desk.

And to make room for more incense! 

Got gas. Thanks hit and run brodozer. 

21 hours ago, Fitz said:

Set back up the equipment rack Steve gave me a long time ago, to get some of the mess off my desk.

I've always wanted to say this, but being gay I never get the right opportunity...

Hey, nice rack!

Today in "no good deed goes unpunished" I divested myself of a bunch of things including a pair of JBL 630s from the mid 1980s.  In the process, my wallet disappeared.  I noticed it was missing when at the checkout of the local grocery store.  Two calls later and neither place I'd visited had seen it.  I've torn apart my house and my car, but it's just flat out missing.  Great way to start the weekend.

My first day back at construction work for over a year.

Well, first day back at a job not run by Milo and Otis.

Well, it was really only a half day, gathering materials for the project. You can't rush into these things all at once. I found it refreshing to get back to it, but Suzy has a completely different attitude about this whole back to work thing.

Oh, and I got a haircut. 

congrats on the haircut... !

 

{oh and the other things as well}

Since Olympic fencing is over ( is there any other Olympic sport?), our friend is back in Italy chillin so at 4 am we dropped Lance off at LAX for his flight to Milan to visit our friends and perhaps do some training. Lance was supposed to help with a fencing camp near Milan next week but that conflicted with the move in for Gonzaga. So being in Italy for a week and not working or competing will be hard for Lance to endure but that is life.

I broke my foot and sprained my ankle badly doing swing dancing in late May. 
 

I finally feel healthy and fit, so HEMA today and judo Tuesday, and maybe Jeet on Thursday.  I’m sure I could have done this already but I can do push-ups without pain today. That was a sort of my threshold. 

Edited August 8, 20214 yr by EdipisReks1

2 hours ago, haurs said:

i found new girl online 

Pictures or it didn’t happen. 

23 minutes ago, naamanf said:

Pictures or it didn’t happen. 

One assumes he/she meant...

 

I was thinking mail order bride.

Which always has me wondering...

How many stamps would that require?

Note, photos of Airbnb houses can be deceiving, not the "beach front trendy bungalow" I was expecting.

 

 

Got my replacement Amazon(tm) Chase(tm) credit card and activated it.  Still waiting on my Sears(tm) Mastercard(tm) one.  Also ordered a new Taxachusetts driver's license online.  $25 and "7-10 days" for it to arrive.  Solid Masshole/10 right there.  Currently shopping for chain wallets on BozosRocketFund.com .  As the zoomers would say I am unironically buying a chain wallet so I don't have to go through this ballbust again.

Checked my online banking this morning to find a couple fraudulent charges on my debit card. 😒

Called my bank as soon as customer service hours started, and got a dispute filed and new card issued with a five minute phone call. So at least that part was painless.

Glad it was an easy turnaround.....sorry you had to even go through it though.....

Been there done that - several times - with a credit card.  Also an easy dispute and replace process, but still some PITA.

Yeah, it's a pain, but at least this time the fraudsters picked a time when I don't really need to use it in the few days until the new one arrives. Much more convenient than when they did it right before I was going out of town.

We're kind of lucky in that regard. The smart systems at Barclaycard Visa spot potentially fraudulent activity within seconds, and either phone or text you to confirm a number of transactions.

I gave one Visa lady pause for thought when she called to verify transactions. There is a company that sells high end navigation gear called Shaven Raspberry https://shavenraspberry.com/ . Of course with a name like that it could be anything, and the Visa lady clearly thought the worst "and a transaction for X from, er, Shaven, er, er" "Raspberry" I said. The relief when she got onto asking the next transaction was obvious!

I don't blame her, I wouldn't wanna know about your raspberry shaving habits either if I didn't have to.