Early Green

After giving blood yesterday (legally, at a blood center); SoulSlam returned home a little after 6:30PM. Figured I'd vacuum the pool (again). What did he find?

It was somewhat green on the bottom. Now, the water temp has risen quite a bit in a week. as we've had some sunshine and mild evenings. But I have never, and I mean never seen it get green in a couple of days this early in the season. So vacuum I did, then chemicalized the b-jesus out of the water. Added copious amounts of PH! Then some shock (not too much to start). Left filter running all night. Went outside at 6am, walked back to clear skimmer basket and...broke the skimmer door. To be fair, the little plastic pins were getting futzy anyway.

HOLIDAY WEEKEND DOINGS:

Replace thermostat on Tahoe. Time to sell or get rid of, depending on outcome of mechanical work

Pool maintenance

Sunday Memorial Day Parade past the House of SoulSlam...should take 10-15 minutes

Watch some baseball (all on TV, Mets out of town)

Maybe go see Deadpool 2

Have a great one!

Pool 2018

So this year, SoulSlam didn't open the P-O-O-L until a week or so ago. Traditionally I have the cover off in late April, but it was about 40 degrees here in late April.

Here's the pool timeline:

Cover came off after pumping water off it for the sixth time on Sunday 5/13

Filter assembled the evening of Monday 5/14, along with adding water to the necessary levels. BTW, I was attacked by mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds and had a puffy face for my efforts

The "thunderstorm to end all spring thunderstorms occurred in Tuesday 5/15. Power out for the next 30 hours. So other hings take precedence for a few

Filling pool recommences on Friday 5/18. During which one the guys working for my contractor shuts off water valve to my hose, so that kind of slowed things down

Saturday 5/19. Enough water in pool to start running filter. Water is pretty murky and green now. Added some PH

Sunday 5/20. 10AM. Water is sufficiently clear to see what's doing. Every whirlybird off the trees now resides in the bottom of my pool

Start cleaning off bottom of pool with trusty leaf rake. Fill a nice sized garbage can with leaves and whirlybirds. Vacuum begins, stopped 4x to clear basket in filter. All told I spent ~ 3 hours cleaning pool.

So now it looks pretty good. Still another vacuuming required. Gotta drop the ladder. But YSSS jumped in yesterday and said whhoooo!

SUMMER OFFICIALLY BEGINS!

Power Outage 2018

So we had a big thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Lots of wind, rain, etc. The stuff that makes up a May thunderstorm...and we lost power. By all accounts it happened at 4:45 PM EDT. And right now, almost a full 23 hours later, we are still w/o power. You can imagine the happiness.

So what is going on? We had a massive power outage with Hurricane Sandy in October-November 2012. Afterwards, the promises of "we'll do what we can to upgrade the infrastructure and system" began. Which was absolute BS. In March 2018, a severe Nor'easter came through and lots and lots of people lost power (we did not). More of the same language from the power companies. Now, in mid-May, we get a storm and the power is gone again. And we are supposed to "be patient".

FYI - the estimate is it will be on by 11:30 PM on Thursday. That's 32 hours from now. Un-fucking-real.

It's Finally Nicer 'Round Here

Weather has been ok. Not the warmest start of May, but we'll take what we can get.

I'm lifting a lot of weight. It's basically what I do now. No coaching on horizon; I go to YSSS' HS games...and the gym. And lift. I have a bit of a shoulder thing going on so tonight we will hit legs (again). I like #LEGDAY.

Mets are becoming what I figured they are. a .500 team at best. No speed, defense is below par and since everybody's hopes and dreams were pinned to a pitching staff, the early excitement is now tempered with cold, hard truth. They are 18-17 (after a 14-2 start!) and playing the red hot Phillies (can't believe I just typed that) this weekend. It's getting late. Not too late, but late enough.

Deadpool 2 starts next week. Love Deadpool.

The Death of 32bit

Tried to post a "HEY, HOW YOU DOING!" kind of post yesterday from my iPhone 8. Clicked on my app for this corner of the internet and I was met with this:

So apparently if I'm not sitting at my computer screen I can no longer communicate with the masses on this here platform.

So my question is:"HEY, HOW YOU DOING!"

In other news, Fear The Walking Dead killed off a main character (Nick). Carrie Mathieson has gone bat-shit crazy after being in a Russian Gulag for seven months. There are only 12 Angels powering Heaven. And on and on.