Doug pitched the idea of going out to Front Royal today, rather on the late side. We didn't leave until after noon. We put the dog in the car, and off we went. Doug wanted to go look at a specific neighborhood, which it turns out on paper it looks good but wow. Dirt roads, out in the woods, further out in the woods than it looks like on the map.
The two houses we did a drive by on were nice. Super nice. Unfortunately, too remote for my liking and I don't want to do this to us. The very first snowfall when Geoff has to leave for school, it is going to suck.
We went back into town and there are two houses for sale right next door to each other near the private military academy right in town. We walked around the yard and the bells were chiming on campus, and it was very nice, very relaxing.
Both houses are listed by the same agent, one looks in better shape than the other, but both are being sold "AS IS." And the as is, well it's rather more than I think I'd like an as is to be.
There's a LOT of potential there but I don't want that. I want move-in ready and hang up Guster posters. Not hire contractors and gut the kitchen because it is from 1972.
"We bought fixer uppers in the past, and we never really got to fixer uppering on them," I said to Doug.
But our mortgage could be a thousand bucks on one of them. That's tempting.
We decided to go to another brewery. The dog was being so good, riding in the car and everything, she needed a break. We hit up Backroom Brewery, and it was slightly confusing because they have a BIG function hall that we thought was the taproom, but there was a private event happening there. A tiny little "taproom" sign pointing the way to the back of the property. We were not sure at all we were in the right place, no other cars were there.
We parked and I got out of the car to go see what the situation was. There was a tiny little sign on the door that said "Taproom" but really, it felt weird.
A car pulled up behind us, and four people got out.
I looked at one guy and said "Is this really happening?"
He replied, "I don't know, you tell me."
It was an old co-worker who left our employer back in 2021. Of all people. Right there, deep in the woods, far from everything.
We hugged and one of his friends said "Oh they really do know each other!" We confused her, she had no idea what was going on.
I said hi to his husband, who I hadn't seen for years, and met the two friends with them. We went to check out the taproom, with Doug sitting in the car wondering what the hell was going on with me hugging some rando dude in a parking lot.
The taproom was indeed open, they served food which was important because I was feeling way drained from being out all day driving around hell and half of Appalachia.
Doug brought Toffee in and there was a nice sitting area where we all hung out. I caught up with my former co-worker, talked a lot about Guster (well, they asked! and he knew exactly what a fangirl I am), and we just had a really sweet visit.
A little thunderstorm rolled through, we had this hangout space all to ourselves and a wonderful chill time.
How weird.
Lost two hours of steps by sitting in the car, and I didn't feel like trying to cram 4k+ steps into the evening once we got home.
Today is the first day in like 32 days that I didn't knock down 10k steps, so I let it go.
Here we are. How fun.
digits
exercise: 10/12 hours. Missed 2 hours while riding in the car. No exercise, 6k steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
8am: 145
n/a
10:30pm: 119
food:
coffee/water
8am: phentermine
10am: met+glip
11:30am: english muffin w/pb & low sugar j
5pm: 2 beers, bratwurst (skipped the roll) cole slaw
7:30pm: left over chinese food, met+glip; mixed nuts
2 more beers
9:45pm: jardiance
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