Good morning. Hello. How are you? #1150
A+ chore weekend, no complaints, what a great weekend. Monday Mounjaro blues.
Good morning everyone, sorry I’m late. Before I get into it I would like to wish happy belated birthday to two Aries friends of mine, Anne and Jess. They do not know each other, but they are both swell.
Felt like absolute garbage this morning because I took my wonderdrug last night after a month off from unavailability. And not a moment too soon since I gained twelve pounds in that month. Just ridiculous. But whenever I take it, the first day after that, I get really sick. On top of that I had a whole glass of red wine, mixed with ginger ale, natch, last night. Because I am pretending that it is still 2019, back when pandemics didn’t exist, which is irrelevant to this topic, but also when scientists still told you that glass of red wine a day was a good thing. Back before scientists coalesced around the obvious truth that alcohol is terrible. So I’m driving home from dropping Jane off at school (A+ Jane morning, gotta say) and I just felt so terrible. So terrible that the thought of sitting down and writing for an hour, which usually fills me with joy, felt like a chore. So I said “fuck it” and went back to bed for two hours. It was absolutely the right move, and I feel much better, thank you.
(Really lucked out, too, because I thought I had a 10:30 call with the lawyers, but it turns out it was at 10:00. And I was going to wake up at 10, but I had a default alarm at 9:50 and who wants to go into the iOS alarm submenu and futz with things, so I figured 9:50 was good enough, two hours of sleep. And thusly I did not miss my call with the lawyers.)
It’s a real pickle because I love this medicine, but I hate being sick. I am less sick on this medicine — Mounjaro — than I am on the old one I was taking — Semiglutide. But really what it comes down to is you have to pick a day to be sick each week. And, you know, I mean, a responsible little capitalist drone would pick a weekend day but screw that. Also I feel like it would be worse being sick while I’m doing manual labor instead of sitting in front of the computer. I should probably move it to Friday, but I figure hey, Mondays already suck, let’s just pile it on. This approach is of dubious merit.
All that being said, I had a fantastic weekend, thank you very much. Got so much done. It was the first weekend I can think of in months, years, where I got everything I set out to do done. I said on Friday “if I can get this, this and this done, I will be happy.” And I got all of those done and so much more. It was great. A+ weekend no complaints.
But first a quick update on the telephone number saga. To recap, a new EU law means that if you are a commercial entity publishing an app in the EU, you have to add your phone number to the app store page. And this has proven to be an endless saga because it can’t be a cell number, and has to be in the company’s name. Well, Apple has to verify you own the number, but we use a Google number, so it can’t get texts, and when Apple calls with the verification PIN, they won’t leave a message. So the only way to confirm the number is yours is by uploading your documentation. Except our phone number is in the old name of the company. And, get this, Verizon won’t let us change the phone number without sending a technician to the office and turning off the phone (and internet!) for a day and then turning it back on. All pro.
So, after I wrote to you Friday, I went to Walmart and when I was at Walmart I remembered I needed to tell our subletters about this internet outage on Tuesday. So I text their CEO, who is a friend of mine. He calls back since we haven’t chatted a while. I am not expecting this call, so I do not have a headset with me. And I would rather die than put a phone to my head, so I just talk to him on speakerphone, while wandering around in Walmart. Weird sensation. Lots of dirty looks. I was “that guy.” But it made for a different sort of unique Walmart Friday. He even got to hear a few snippets of Walmart radio, all very exciting.
Also hit the recycling center, the hardware store (for the first of three times this weekend), the mailing place and the grocery store to buy grammy some more ice for her shoulder cooling contraption.
Saturday morning I listened to a lot of great new records while I worked on pool company stuff and learned how to reconcile bank accounts in Quickbooks and it was so exciting. Only did one of them, though. Still gotta do the other one. It really is stunning how you think you know Quickbooks when you use it one way, in one industry, but then you use it another way in another industry. So much I did not know. OH. Speaking of which: anyone out there know if you can use a single Quickbooks Online instance and have multiple company names, or business lines? Really seems dumb for me to buy another license for the Storage Company. It’s all under the same holding company I don’t want to pay twice.
Here is a list of all the amazing gardening stuff I got done this weekend: I planted the next wave of my succession crops in the greenhouse. I received lime, orange, and banana trees and got them potted up. I planted some chives and garlic chives in pots cuz those things grow like weeds.
I got the 4x4 post painted grey, and mounted into the ground using one of those ground screw mounts. And then I mounted the new goth black Hoselink (Rick recommended) hose system on it. It looks great. The post is a little wobbly, but I think it will be fine. Then I reworked all the hoses so there is water going to 1) the Hoselink, 2) the pressure washer in the garage, 3) the greenhouse, and 4) any other drip irrigation I need.
Then I bought the appropriate PVC fittings to attach a hose to the PVC pipe that runs underground into the greenhouse. I learned about FIP (Female Iron Pipe) and FHC (Female Hose Connectors), that are both 3/4” but have different threads and are not compatible. I used PVC pipe glue and it was great. I got the water hooked up to the greenhouse, and in the greenhouse I got a splitter connected so I could have a hose in the greenhouse and also get my drip set up using the Eve Aqua (Rick recommended), which I had from the old house. I reset that device and got it connected to the HomeKit for Chore House.
OH right. Miter saw update. New Bosch miter saw is unpacked and set up, mounted onto the Dewalt portable miter saw stand. It works great. It does not have the cool laser line that the Dewalt has to line up your cut. AND it is $100 more. But I like it. It will do.
SO, in celebration of this new miter saw, I cut a bunch of 2x4s and made a sort of 30”x36” box frame, to put it outside and use it as storage for all of my rebar, T-steaks, grow steaks, hardware cloth, grow hoops, etc. I have a shit ton of this assorted stuff and have had nowhere good to store it all. And now I do, and it looks great. So I built the thing, and then gave it a good coat with Bin Shellac primer - Rick recommended, even though one can of it had a faulty nozzle and bubbled over and got oil-based primer on my garden clogs, dammit). But still. I am very happy with it.
OH! And to top it off, I did some nice things for my wife. I finally repaired the lawn ornament giant mushroom that I drove over like a year ago. Aren’t I nice? And I set up her wifi bird feeder thingy I bought her for Christmas ha ha. Got it all working and we just got our first bird this morning! Look!
Hrm they have more hi res images that was just one from a text from Emma. Anyway, very happy that is finally set up. Only took four months.
Yeah, man. Great weekend. And I capped it off with an A+ Jane bedtime where she set up a school with Brown Bear and Caticorn as pupils, and I was the teacher (Mr. Daddy) and she was the teaching assistant (Ms. Jane). And we taught the students about gravity and friction and inertia and entropy and momentum and then atoms and molecules and compounds and sub-atomic particles and then we got to dark matter eventually. Wait is dark matter still a thing? Or did it go the way of a healthy glass of wine? Well anyway, I explained how there are things in the universe we think exist because of math but haven’t seen it yet. Jane liked that very much and had no problem with it. We hadn’t done physics in a while and I am pleased to report school hasn’t dumbed her down much.
So that was great.
What a weekend, what a weekend.
Back to the grind. Time for Kristen’s one on one! Byeeee.
Today’s Media of the Day is “Red” by Treble Charger cuz it came on shuffle on Saturday right when I had gotten the Hoselink set up and it was the closest I have come to true happiness in months. What a great song.
All right let’s tackle the shit out of this work week. Talk tomorrow.