Sunday, May 5, 2024

Missy is home! Last one added back into the formerly empty nest. She was done with class on Wednesday, so after work Beth and I and Alex headed down to Muncie to get her loaded up and hauled home. Both vehicles. We got there around 7, and took around an hour to make a few trips up and down with the cart. Everything but the bike was in the van. We ate at Cracker Barrel on the interstate and got her home by around 11. 

Friday my group from work had a team building exercise... going to do an escape room! First one in a while. We all went out to lunch at an Asian fusion place, then to Tippecanoe Place, the old Studebaker mansion, which is a very impressive gilded era mansion (though not like in Newport). They have turned one of the upper rooms into an escape room. The theme was we were hired to break into the Studebaker mansion and steal blueprints that the heir apparent was going to sell to a competitor. Anyway, our team completed it in nearly the fastest time ever :) but we were probably held back by having so many people that it made it hard for everyone to know what was going on everywhere. But we solved it, and it was fun doing it. 

Also Friday, I took the van to get detailed. One of the college kids at the church has set up his own auto detailing service, and has gotten a bunch of equipment to do it nicely, and we'd wanted to get that done for a while now so I took it to him. He had it all day (he drove me in to work after I dropped it off at his house) but by the time I picked it up it was like new. He did a really good job with it, got down into all the crevices and everything. There was a lot of gunk he got out. And it smelled so much better!

Saturday, Natalie and I sold her car. As previously reported, the repair bill for it was already at about $1500 so I told her we were not going to get it fixed and she agreed to sell it. It's been sitting at Boggs all this time, and someone stopped by their office to ask about it and they put him in touch with me. He has another G6 already and is planning to use Nat's for parts and maybe see if it's worth fixing himself (I doubt it). We just got the new title in the mail Friday, finally, so Saturday we arranged to meet him at Boggs and sold him the car for $350. So now it is off our hands.

Softball finally had our season opener after last week's rainout. We won! We are in the lowest division this year which is probably where we belong, but a W is a W. We had a lead early and blew it late, but came back from a 4 run deficit in the last inning on a walk-off home run (inside the park). I had a couple nice hits myself. Singles, though.

Saturday morning bike group rides are back again! I haven't ridden since last fall but it was nice to get back on the road with the group. We did 25-odd miles going to Larwill and back on Saturday. And this was the first time I've ridden more than a little bit with the new bike shoes (clip-ins) I got last year. I only fell over once, and didn't hurt myself badly this time. I tucked and rolled right, I guess. I've been working out on an elliptical at the Y a couple times a week for a few months now, but I'm going to have to re-adjust the schedule if I'm going to bike and run too.