I skipped BJJ and emailed them telling I want to cancel. I think my 'combat sport' phase of life has just closed.

The radon test people came by today to setup a tester to read the post-mitigation levels. Since they don't have 'before' data it's not going to be that interesting but I have that data and already know how the system is working.

It went to 0.32 and is now back to 0.45. I was hoping it was going to end up at 0.25 or less all the time but I guess if it spikes the system can't keep up exactly? I'm going to reset my tester so the 3.97 year long average is gone and we start to build a new post-mitigation long term average I can actually see.

Totally forgot, I got my whatever20 vax today in prep for the ear surgery. It went well, I didn't freak out much and didn't faint after.

Last week's splurge lunch, the $5 meal at Burger King before book club.

This weeks' splurge lunch, our 18th anniversary at some fancy Japanese place in Cary. Food was good, just expensive. The owners moved here from Oakland last year, they kept getting robbed in Oakland. Gee, what a shock.... said no one.

Range yesterday with the Hornady 75gr match 556 to give it a try, and in the first box of 20 I had 4 rounds that would not fire. Don't look like light primer strikes, so I guess just bad primers? Disappointing from Hornady even in their budget line that it's not as reliable as wolf/tula 'junk'. I've contacted them, be curious to see if they reply.

Ordered gravel on Friday and it showed up Saturday. We had to haul it around the barn by hand but it only took a few hours. The floor is nice and flat now, let's hope it solves the water issue. I don't think it will, but happy to be wrong about that.

FG&G had their 20th anniversary blowout weekend. I went Friday for the 11am drawing because I was literally next door at the gravel place ordering the granite sand and then had to drive past them to get to the propane store. Didn't win anything in the drawing, but Paul slipped me a free T-shirt that is one of the drawing prizes. So I win, in a way. Won't ever wear it but the woman will as a barn shirt at some point.

Minor repairs around the barnyard today. The lid to the nesting boxes was starting to rot and crumble, it's just a piece of siding and the leading edge is getting exposed to a lot of water. I didn't have anything to replace it with so I got some pressure treated 1x4 and reinforced the edge. Should hold for a long time.

The other fixes were to redo the trim I had to remove to put the board on the other day, replaced all the rotted trim on that corner and move the goat brush somewhere they could get to it again.

I wanted a strap for the Taylor for the gig "just in case". I've had the guitar slip while just holding it in my lap so I wanted some insurance against that and either dropping it (unlikely) or screwing up my playing (likely). I didn't want to go cheap, so I went to Harry's and they actually had a color matched one from Taylor. The guy pulled it up in the computer and said they had one that was made for my exact guitar and year (the new version of mine doesn't have the ash top anymore) and we just had to look around to find it. It seems to match pretty well:

Played Hotel California as planned at the open mic night, this time at Fainting Goat instead of Abby Road. I really couldn't hear myself playing, just did the best I could and we survived. Probably the last one I'll do of these based on the upcoming surgery.

Back in the early 2000s I bought a 3 pack of the Microsoft Elite keyboards thinking they wouldn't make them any longer and they were my favorite keyboard. Just this week, the last of the 3 died on me, just randomly lost like 1/3 of the keys. I got a replacement off amazon that was close, but not quite it. You can get the actual Elite keyboard still, for $300. It's not worth that much to me, I can learn to use something else.

That said, I hate the new keyboard. It's just close enough that I screw up typing most of the time because the keys are almost in the right spot. I moved it to the server and stole the old Dell keyboard from there. It sucks, but it's familiar and I'm screwing up less with it. Probably should learn to use the new ergo one some day... maybe.

We're working out at home and I wanted a real pullup bar now. The woman agreed somewhat reluctantly. I found them on facebook for $15-20 used, but new on amazon they're... $24. So it's totally not worth $4 to have to deal with some facebook flakes and drive around at random times to get a stupid bar. One day shipping and it's here and installed and I didn't have to schedule anything or drive to a breeder neighborhood in Cary somewhere.

We've been getting close to the seven million mark in the brokerage account, and crossed it today mid day. It's about $8k over now at the close but I suspect it will go down significantly tomorrow. Someone, or lots of someones, have got to do some profit taking on that peak.

Dad's chop saw finally died. It was sorta working if you spun the blade by hand before turning it on but eventually even that didn't work. The guys on the forum said to change the motor brushes. They were $11 off amazon and while the old ones didn't look too badly worn, when I replaced them it fired right up. Just removing/replacing the old ones didn't do the trick, I tried that first.

Just a gross picture from the implant pre-op appointment. The doc looked to see if the tube in my right ear was healed and it was, with the tube itself stuck in some junk in the ear canal. It was itching me for days but I couldn't get anything out, it was too far inside to safely do myself. He used some really crazy long tweezers and pulled this out. Ick.

Went to the Modern Samurai Project red dot class in TN last Thursday/Friday. Did it right by driving over the day before and staying a day after so I wasn't dead tired trying to make a 6+ hour drive early in the morning or crazy late at night. Class was good, learned a lot of new things I'll have to try to get into my shooting technique.