Spin Bike and Glass Block Removal

Welp, the republicans have retaken Virginia.  In addition to that fact is the disturbing trend manifesting in the suburban areas (as opposed to the rural areas) of support moving to the pubtards.  Youngkin ran a smart race, campaigning on keeping the evils of Critical Race Theory out of the K through 12 class rooms.  Never mind the fact that CRT is taught in LAW SCHOOL, the little children needed to be saved from the horrors of the liberal demon spawn.  I guess we're marching towards dictatorship and these dullards who voted against things that aren't real are just happy to get on that bus.  It's an excellent time to be old.

We had about 20 or so kids for Halloween.  The 100 piece bag of candy was more than enough.  I kept the M&Ms, and dumped the rest in the trash.  We can not have that in the house.

Not much has been happening here up until today.  Last week we decided to bite the bullet and buy an indoor exercise bike because it's clear that the season for riding is ending.  Now that I am in my dotage, and totally not acclimated to the cold, 53 appears to be the bottom of my cycling climate range.  Getting that thing in the house was hard.  There's a heavy fly wheel and I swear the rest of it is made out of iron.  We unpacked what we could in the garage and then put it on a moving pad and dragged it down the hall to the staircase to the basement.  Fortunately we had rope on hand, which Jim threaded through the hand holds on the box.  He stayed uphill controlling its speed of descent, and I guided it down the stairs, one riser at a time.  Fortunately the box was small enough to make the turn on the landing.  Assembly was not too awful, so that was good.

The room that seemed infinitely large has now been made smaller by the addition of stuff.  We're done now, we don't need anything else.  So far we've done one 20 minute beginner spin class and it was so hard!  There are a lot of intervals being done on the bike.  It'll be good this winter.

Today, which by the way would have been an excellent riding day (52 degrees at 11:30) we're having the glass block shower enclosure removed.  Why, you wonder.  It leaks and the lack of a door lets the shower stall get very cold.  Neither of these things are good.  It is pretty, and at first we were charmed by its appearance, but then the ugly reality set in.

Here we are, during demo.

It's good that we did this.  The person who did the bathroom did not attach the sill plate to the threshold.  No silicone, no grout, no nothing.  That might have explained some of the leaking.  The arrow (above) is pointing at the sill plate.

That's the piece of tile in the background, Matt (the contractor) is going to put Liquid Nails on the threshold, and then a bunch of silicone.  So, with any luck we will be water tight.  Friday a frame-less glass shower door will be installed.

Here is my homage to fall.

And here is the neighborhood.  Note that the fall color is gone, and the trees are shedding their leaves.

From the department of you can't fix stupid, we have the QAnon people, gathering yesterday in Dallas at Dealey Plaza, convinced that JFKJr would come and greet them.  He would then become the orange one's VP.  How deranged can these people be?  How do they hold jobs?

That's it!  I have covered it all.