45°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 71° today. Looks like the blob of rain making its way across Missouri this morning will miss us to the south.
One of the things we've lamented most about this shutdown thing is the lack of any Chinese restaurants open around us. Wifey found one Friday in Edwardsville that is open for pick up, so I went by there after work and brought home dinner. Delicious, but pricey. Saturday was a rainout day all day. I have a pullover hooded rain jacket with the company logo from my day job embroidered on the left chest. I found out while feeding the chickens during Saturday morning's deluge that the embroidery, while it looks nice, provides a bunch of holes for water access. I spent the rest of the day puttering in the studio. Downloaded a video editing program (oops, sorry, "app") called
DaVinci Resolve 16, their free version. Went through a few tutorials I found on YouTube, and wow, a lot more features for free software than I would have thought. Certainly more than I'll need just to throw together some YouTube music videos.
Sunday was shopping day. The Wife went to the Carlyle Walmart for groceries, and I headed the opposite direction towards Fairview Heights and Belleville. I had planned on buying the Lynxx 40v chainsaw at Harbor Freight, but they had non in stock at that store. One of the guys there found a store in South St. Louis City that had four of them, but I had too many other places to go that day to drive all the way over there. I figured I'd just order one online. I also stopped at the Belleville Lowe's to pick up some grass seed and metal blades for the reciprocating saw. I always forget just how ridiculously expensive grass seed is. Then, I stopped in the Walmart next door to pick up a few things from The Wife's list, like ground beef, chicken breasts, and chicken wings. When I got home, I went to the HF website, only to find that the Lynxx chainsaw is only available in stores. Guess I'll be calling the closer store in Ferguson MO (yes, that Ferguson) today to see if they have any. If not, I'll have to make that treacherous drive down Kingshighway to the store in South City. Not looking forward to that possibility.
Rick, your Professor Twit apparently had a sister, and I had her for a Literature class my senior year of high school. She was not shy about letting students know how much she detested student-athletes, as in her opinion they unnecessarily used up valuable college scholarships that she believed would be better used for academic scholarships. As a track & field athlete, she'd zeroed in on me from day one. On one assignment, she gave me an F on a book review, stating that rather than a "review" it was instead a "summary." Even after I'd argued that it contained all six of the things she wanted, even pointing each out, she refused to change the grade. Even my classmates protested on my behalf, but to no avail. I was clearly going to fail her class and not graduate on-time, and it was by design. I eventually went to the department head, who must have had a talk with her. She told me if I came in and took the final exam, she would not fail me. So, I went to the city library, checked out a Cliff's Notes for ... I don't even remember the book now ... and sat right in front of her writing a "summary" straight out of the Cliff's Notes. When I handed it to her, she wrote a D- on it without even reading a word and said, "You'll pass this class." That Fall when school started again, I sent her a Thank You card to let her know I was attending Southern Illinois University on a full-ride Track scholarship.
Nice tractor, RNG.
Happy (belated) Birthday, Thomas.
Ted, we used to have a couple of the Cracker Barrel restaurant rocking chairs on our front porch. I liked them, but The Wife less so. She's short (not quite 5'2") and couldn't touch the ground while sitting on them, so she found them uncomfortable. She sold both of them last week and putt a bistro set out there that was formerly in the sunroom.
