Happy Halfway to Halloween!
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pshaw_ravenI saw on my phone last night that the forecast calls for a low of 49. I thought it was a typo until I heard one of our Google Homes repeat that figure, and she gets her weather from a different service. We're weather nerds, we have like four different weather apps between us. Anyway ... 49! IN MAY. We might open up tonight for a while, just to let all the cat farts out. Anyway, it's 61 right now, which might make for good outdoor running for a couple of days.
I've been nursing a minor ouchie. The ball of my foot and into my smaller toes hurts, and that actually has a name but right now I forget what the actual medical term is. But when you go up on your forefoot to break into a sprint - that part is what hurts. It's not so bad that I can't run on it, but I guess I might as well not exacerbate it. It's actually been hurting for several weeks, but it's never quite bad enough that I can't ignore it. But I don't want it morphing into something worse. I'm considering picking up a shoe insert next time I'm out, one of those that just goes into the toe. Today it feels decent, but there's now an odd pain on top of the foot that actually feels more like a blister though there's nothing there.
Fascinating stuff, yes?
Fox and Jeremy are likely going to be upgrading our tower this weekend. This has become more of a priority as one of the towers nearby is offline and the guy dropped his service. He was feeding two other households off his, so they're moving their service to ours. I think they are "only" going to add two sections, but that's twenty feet of height, and it should allow us to see over the trees well enough to see Belmore, and several other places where, right now, we're still looking at the canopy of some of the taller pines. Jeremy is bringing his crew and renting a crane, so all I have to do is ... nothing. Go watch if I want to. Last time we had to rebuild, Fox and I were doing this ourselves.
Our weekend at Walt Disney World was good. The parks are at about 35% capacity, and you can tell. Posted wait times for rides were often estimated high, and I think our longest was for Runaway Railway, which posted 50 minutes and took about 30. We even managed to easily snag a boarding group for Rise of the Resistance, and got to ride that around 11 a.m. I'll want to do that one again because my nerves were really shot by the time we started the pre-ride show and I would like to actually be able to enjoy myself. New rides stress me out, even if I've watched a video ride-through. One of the culinary highlights was getting cookies from Gideon's Bakehouse - highly recommended if you're ever in Orlando. Holy shit these things are amazing. I got the April special, which was a candied orange praline, and we picked up some regular flavors as well. Fox liked the cookies and cream, which he described as a meta-cookie where someone made a cookie out of other crushed cookies. I preferred the triple-chocolate because of course I did.
We added a third hummingbird feeder but it has an annoying design flaw. When the nectar in the base gets low, for some reason, more doesn't bubble down from the reservoir unless you tap the base. So the birds drink the base down, more nectar doesn't appear, and they stop coming to it. I've put tapping that feeder on my daily routine now but it's very weird how it's not quite working right.
I've been nursing a minor ouchie. The ball of my foot and into my smaller toes hurts, and that actually has a name but right now I forget what the actual medical term is. But when you go up on your forefoot to break into a sprint - that part is what hurts. It's not so bad that I can't run on it, but I guess I might as well not exacerbate it. It's actually been hurting for several weeks, but it's never quite bad enough that I can't ignore it. But I don't want it morphing into something worse. I'm considering picking up a shoe insert next time I'm out, one of those that just goes into the toe. Today it feels decent, but there's now an odd pain on top of the foot that actually feels more like a blister though there's nothing there.
Fascinating stuff, yes?
Fox and Jeremy are likely going to be upgrading our tower this weekend. This has become more of a priority as one of the towers nearby is offline and the guy dropped his service. He was feeding two other households off his, so they're moving their service to ours. I think they are "only" going to add two sections, but that's twenty feet of height, and it should allow us to see over the trees well enough to see Belmore, and several other places where, right now, we're still looking at the canopy of some of the taller pines. Jeremy is bringing his crew and renting a crane, so all I have to do is ... nothing. Go watch if I want to. Last time we had to rebuild, Fox and I were doing this ourselves.
Our weekend at Walt Disney World was good. The parks are at about 35% capacity, and you can tell. Posted wait times for rides were often estimated high, and I think our longest was for Runaway Railway, which posted 50 minutes and took about 30. We even managed to easily snag a boarding group for Rise of the Resistance, and got to ride that around 11 a.m. I'll want to do that one again because my nerves were really shot by the time we started the pre-ride show and I would like to actually be able to enjoy myself. New rides stress me out, even if I've watched a video ride-through. One of the culinary highlights was getting cookies from Gideon's Bakehouse - highly recommended if you're ever in Orlando. Holy shit these things are amazing. I got the April special, which was a candied orange praline, and we picked up some regular flavors as well. Fox liked the cookies and cream, which he described as a meta-cookie where someone made a cookie out of other crushed cookies. I preferred the triple-chocolate because of course I did.
We added a third hummingbird feeder but it has an annoying design flaw. When the nectar in the base gets low, for some reason, more doesn't bubble down from the reservoir unless you tap the base. So the birds drink the base down, more nectar doesn't appear, and they stop coming to it. I've put tapping that feeder on my daily routine now but it's very weird how it's not quite working right.
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Date: 2021-05-09 01:07 am (UTC)The outside sensor for my weather station quit working recently & that really bummed me out. I can buy a new one but it's not the first time I've done so. It's kinda irritating that it stops working. It was doing fine until it wasn't.
The formerly broken toe on my left foot has been aggravating me again since I increased my walking & running distance. It really is a bummer.
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Date: 2021-05-10 03:57 pm (UTC)The nearest station used to be about two miles from here, but the man who owned it took it offline and it hasn't come back. He's an older guy so I don't know if something happened to him or what. Then the next nearest is about six miles away at an elementary school. They keep theirs in good working order, but they're also in a rather different sort of area. It's hilly here and we're in a hollow, where the school is on a higher elevation and in a flatter area.