–Went to Shingle Springs (Cameron Park) for the farmers market and the Crazy Gringo. Ordered some meat pies for Friday pickup, bought some tomatoes, salsa, jam.
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–Rode the Johnny Cash Trail with Tom Elken. Mighty hilly.
–Bing redirect virus seems to have hit again. I deleted Chrome and reinstalled it. I then spent a LONG time deleting years-old passwords and updating the list. Wish there were a cleaner way of doing this. Would try Safari, but I don’t think the paywall bypass hack would work there.
–Took Grace for big shopping at Food Maxx. Half the customers were maskless.
–Played with InnerLight brakes. Probably a mistake. Ended up (a) using a rasp to enlarge the bolt holes in the front brake housing so I could more accurately center it, and (b) fraying the inner brake cable, necessitating the online purchase of a replacement. Crap.
–SamuraiStuart suji came in. It’s okay, but handle is weird (fat and tapered) and blade is nothing special. Will toss. Konosuke HD suji also came in, with Stefan handle. Handle is good; blade required lots of cleanup with Scotchbrite belts to be acceptable. I guess Kono HDs are in fact stainLESS.
–Lost day.
–Rode the canal on the InnerLight. Tough upwind, easy down.
–Made a pizza for dinner. Insanely thick/bready crust.
–Bought a tritinova dial on eBay from Italy last night. Will put it on the 5512 and see how it goes.
–Took a shower, took a shave. Martin de Candre Agrumes scent (lemon) is a little too artificial. Fougere was fine, but I suspect I’ll end up with something British like vetiver or lavender.
–Our friend Travis from Aztec Solar came out to fix a leak. Found a couple more. As before, he was puzzled by apparent inability of strong pump to move water to top of panels. Played a bit with the pump control. Don’t know if he really changed anything. He said “No charge, under warranty,” so I gave him $40, which he appreciated. [edit: Got a bill on the 28th from Aztec for $119. I’m sure Travis knew they would be sending a bill–he would have had to tell them “time on site” so they could calculate charges. Jerk.]
–Finally found “dehaze” in Lightroom. Yay!
–Mailed off Noah’s gifts and the Rolex 1680.
–Put gas in the Honda.
–Rode the Humbug Trail in Folsom with Tom Elken. Nice day, but lots of folks walking the trail.
–Changed hearing aid batteries at 6 PM.
–Went to Noah’s Bagels for…bagels; got milk and cream cheese at Raley’s.
–iPhone SE 2016 came in–0 cycles on the battery (phew!). Got it set up.
–Takamura Uchigomo 210 gyuto came in. Needed some cleaning, but now it’s nice.