Out earlier than I thought.

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It does seem the walking dead have taken up driving.  Yeah, holiday, but... speed limit!  Gah!  Never mind.  Then again, ahead of me someone driving 15 miles under the limit with someone riding my bumper behind.  Of course.  No way to pass, for me.  The car behind me had many chances.  I made it to town without blood letting.  Just cranked the stereo.

I called first, didn't want to go if my friend had already found some other way to town.  Though... today... maybe.  I really wanted to get fresh eggs, baking soda, and check the sale at the sporting goods store.  He did want to go and hadn't found a ride.  Didn't seem all that happy to see me, but that's fine.  Sort of sullen.  I have been busy, haven't been stopping in much, but the weather is too cold and wet for him to like to be out, I have been busy as noted, and such.  I think there is something else though too.  Not sure which, blog or real life either, might have got him in a snoot.  He'll either tell me, sooner or later, or not.

I couldn't find anything I wanted, other than some things not really on my list, for there.  The price was quite good, from where else I have looked, so I bought six 10 pound Olympic weights.  I used to have four, but they have disappeared.  Must make great anchors?  Anyway, I was just going to buy four, but then remember that four was always a bit shy.  If I begin using a set on each dumbbell, that is that.  The extra pair means, if I need 10 pounds on two other bars, I can use the tens and four fives.  usually I would have enough to much around.  I like adding a very specific weight as I am working things up, and adjusting to a felt resistance want.  It's a bit of trial and error, but with some decent guestimating going in.  Flexibility is key.  I got six, and really nice ones (not by brand, by function... hand holes for ease of picking up!), for the price I would have paid for just four at the next best priced place I found.

I was hoping for a bench, and stands, that can hold 1k.  Their sales were good enough that I might have been willing to buy those ahead of time.  Otherwise, as is the case, I will wait until I am doing two sets of 200 pounds benching before moving up.  That is the limit of my current setup.  Not if, when.  Hopefully later this summer to mid winter.  Christmas present?  Maybe.  Cheaper than the camera!

Then I just took my friend home.  He didn't seem to need or want anything else.  I even offered to cover something he seemed to want but was short regarding (until he could get to the bank).  Nope!  So, I just took him on home and went on about my business.  More fruit was an add I hadn't intended.  Eggs, milk, baking soda, and a few other things made it to the cart.  I am really watching what I buy, and buying only what I am sure I can use, or mostly use.  Fruit is... tricky.  Sometimes it will last three days, sometimes eight or nine.  You never know.  Three or four apples, oranges, and grapefruit this time.  I try to mix it up, but there aren't that many easy to clean and eat fruits, really.  I'm just not into mucking around slicing up watermelon or cantaloupe, or messing with seeds inside something, or...  Simple.  Keep it simple.  Wash, maybe, then put in a basket.  Pick up later, and just eat or peel and eat.  Easy.

Not much done today, but a bit.  I might do a few last things this evening.  Since I'll be letting the girls crowd in tonight, I best turn the furnace off.  Oh, had another late teen to 20 something like my hair.  At first I couldn't tell if he was hating, or being weird, or what.  I did something, and it almost spooked him into offering the compliment.  I really thought about suggesting he just surprise everyone and go get it, or something like in more to his liking.  It's essentially a flat (but long, just kept/swept back) mohawk, with a high pony tail, and a secondary band near the middle of the pony tail.  I didn't, but I should have.  Might have gotten in serious trouble, but that, my friend, is how you learn.  If you can take it, and do so, understand you best be able, and willing, to keep it, take the pain, and even lose it.  That IS life.  Even on these little detail things.  Fourth compliment from a younger man on this particular 'do'.  Not why I do it, mind you, or for dames.  I do it because it is how I like it, it is cool (literally, with the side venting), and yet I keep some longer hair.  It's not style, or social, it just works.


Well... later.  Oh, but first... a little song I teased a little sister with.  Not sure how she took it, but... it was meant to be in a groovy, funky, fun, maybe funny way.  I know, when I made the connection and added the link... I giggled like a little girl.  Yum!  Just like when I use "yum", I'm... messing with a particular lad.  "Doh!  The bastard!"  Yeah.  But I'm your bastard, if you can handle it.  I'm hard to handle though, true enough.  Yum!