Keeping The Windmill Alive – September 2025

not much of anywhere to go to miss all the traffic.

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Flying out west next week. This holiday weekend was too crowded and too expensive so next week made more sense to travel.

Happy Labor Day to all members.

Happy start to September

My laptop is being totally weird today. I'm getting weird error messages and I'm worried I might have acquired a stupid virus of some kind. It looks like I'll be spending time running various tests and stuff. BAH! I hate stuff like this. I have stuff I'd rather do than spend time fixing random crud some dirtbag put out there. It's odd though as I'm quite careful about what I do online.

Doesn't that depend on where you live? Lol

RT

to Delaware again yesterday, and stopped by a restaurant we found with pre pandemic pricing and huge portions (we took home 60% of our dishes). Today I stayed home while wife and son went swimming.

But imho I got a lot done. Changed the oil on her new car at 900 miles. Was incredibly easy, it would seem that truck based SUVs have a lot of things as accessible, unlike the crossover we last had.

I then trimmed the hedges, cut the lawn, washed her car (it's big), used the weed trimmer, then washed my car, and finally activated an Airtag.

I didn't bother with the new phone we got our son, just didn't want it to turn into a long affair and then the above doesn't get done.

At least I felt productive on this holiday.

Hit the mall for their labor day sales

Washington, DC to Dover, DE.

Took a small ride yesterday and picked up a few things from the grocery store we needed and got an ice cream.

If all goes as planed, it will cool off this month.

to the orthodontist's office for son, and was asked to be on time, next week.

Understandably so.

School bus 20 minutes late coming home.

Appt. was made by wife, such that if the school bus were on time, we could just make it.

Very stressful. Avoid. I got advice on another forum. Many of these stressful ordinary situations can be avoided (schedule later, or another day). They take years off of our lives at the tail end.

The end.

To the dive shop to teach a pool session.

Through the combat zone known as the urban freeway.

Getting ready for football.

they must be fixing every road in this state ! im late almost all the time waiting for my lane to move! or they closed the road i normally travel on.

nothing

Planning another trip.

Watched Friday football on YouTube, Not the greatest game as KC couldn.t get their stuff together.
Now just waiting for Sunday to get here.

Got a new set of tires from Costco: Michelin Defender 2.

Again

Picked up a new coffee pot had Taco's for lunch a few groceries and to large Waffle cones with 2 scopes of ice cream. Late dinner.

...when the North hates the Metro and the Metro hates Private schools and Everyone hates Edina

Happy Sunday to all.

Beautiful day near Golden Gate Bridge

What a pleasant cool summer and and September we have had in north central Texas.

hello

5 day RTO being the norm, traffic is the roughest it's been in about 5 1/2 years. It's interesting to me for anyone to threaten to walk now if they can't work remotely, sorta like being on the Titantic

Went on our first cruise last week.

Where did you go? If you haven't cruised there, try the Alaska cruise. That was my favorite, here in the US.

Going to fail to keep my 5 weeks of posts alive to stay eligible for the Red Lights POI, etc. Will be out of the country for a month or so and likely won't get the post count in. Ah, well... I'll fix it when I get back.

much of anything.

RT

Very wonderful, amazing, unseasonably cool weather for early September in Texas. Just beautiful

Warming up again.

Planning another trip.

Went to Wienerschnitzel for Lunch (Corn dogs).

no trips are planned.

Just flew back. Going was a 7 hour delay. Newark Airport has been brutal this year.

Here i am again for week 4

nothing

I got nothing.

Not today.

Spent most all of the morning in the Dr. office and lab

Spent day in lower Manhattan World Trade Center

will be getting a new fence and step railings in two weeks.

NYc has congestion pricing. There are lower till rates for traveling into the city after 9pm. So instead of going back home after a dental appointment, we headed upstate and came back after 9pm. They shut down the FDR drive for construction. The GPS did not know about it. I got off the FDR and took 2nd Ave. After several traffic lights and slow moving traffic I got on 2nd Ave. After a few blocks, 2nd Ave was shut down. The GPS did not know about that either. I detoured back down to the FDR and had to take the service road for a while until I was able to get back onto the FDR. Living in the city is a real nightmare. The city officials are very stupid and incompetent

I tried to avoid the NJ tolls. I spent hours in traffic on local streets

It is very difficult driving in NJ. There are constant lane changes and roundabouts. I watch the GPS carefully. One minute I hink I made a wrong turn, The next minute I am back on the same road that I thought I had mistakenly gotten off of. How did people drive in NJ without getting lost before the GPS?

our routine, we went to two rinks over Fri and Sat.