Absolutely nothing happened today! Well, it was sunny in the morning, but the wind was blowing the 36 degree wind all over the place... I decided that the yard had to be mowed because it is to rain for the next several days...
But I don't like to go out and make too much noise before someone else breaks the silence... So when the neighbor's hired people brought out their riding mower, then it was fair game for me too....
That took about an hour and a half.... But then the Black scooter had to be moved to put the John Deere tractor back in the garage... That became kind of an excuse, as I rode the scooter around about an 8 mile square block...
It needed some fresh gas you see... And it was warmed up completely in the process.. And its tires needed air..... It still starts sort of sluggish on its original 2009 battery... It had a tender all winter, but then I ran it flat accidentally... Its straight lead acid, and while some folks get 7 years or more, its never been my luck...
With all that put back away, I came in and read the blogs.... And the sun had gone completely under... Until I decided that the wind was gone.... and checked the temperature to find it was in the 60s..
That was too good to be true, so it was back out on the big cycle... This time I rode quite the distance to the small town of Spring Hill South of here.... Where the sports apparel store used to be that sponsored the June rides... They moved away and my friend is now working for a big MC shop over in Missouri... So much for that annual ride.... I assume no shop, no ride this year.... At least not as it was anyway...
At the end of that ride I stopped at Wendy's for my burger.... And tonight I have been reading Nick Russell's first book called Big Lake... Its available on Amazon for $2.98... I don't have a Kindle, but saved the book to the Cloud Reader.. Using the App on Google Chrome here.. I think that will let me check in and read it no matter if I am using the Linux desktop, the windows laptops, or the android tablet... Since you can't run Chrome on an Apple, I'm not certain how to get to the Google Cloud reader from there...
Nick has four of these books, and I'm only on the first few chapters of book one... Its fiction, but he is as accomplished as any author I have read anywhere else... Its a murder mystery, and takes place right in Arizona where things are very familiar.... It will be well worth the $2.98...
I think most everyone is familiar with Nick and the Gypsy Journal.... And of course his opinion blog called Bad Nick... Man can he pack in the comments on that journal....
Retired Rod
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Wrong link to Nick' s blog. Fortunate there's a link to the new location. Thought you'd want to know.
ReplyDeleteI fixed the link.....
DeleteI read Nick's book and really enjoyed it also. Glad to hear you got out on the Scooter. Makes for a great day.
ReplyDeleteRod, I can't tell you how to do it, but you can run Chrome on Apple toys. I have it on my iMac, MacBook Pro and iPad. Suspect it might be on the iPhone, too, as these things seem to copy over. Again, not sure how I did it. The little toys were probably an app, and think I downloaded it on the computers from Googles website.
ReplyDeleteI have Chrome browsers on both my iPad and iPhone. Will get a glitch occasionally where some site won't load but very seldom. It is an app available for download.
ReplyDeleteIts been almost a year ago that I was trying to load Chrome on the Ipad 2 that we have... And it was a no go then... Perhaps they have allowed it to be part of the store now.... That would be good, because I am more used to it than Safari..
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