Day 76+40 – (AD 1,238) – 20.0 Miles – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,


The day after Thanksgiving, I’m back on my Schwinn 170 and I pedaled 20.0 miles. Totals: 26,408.8 miles; 42,500.9 kilometers.

I have now completed 44.5% of the distance to my next destination and goal point.

Soapbox –

Just wondering how many persons on either side of the aisle will continue to be happy with the results and consequences of this soon-to-be-installed government administration?


Quilts SB update - 1,308 pieces of 3,230, (give or take), pieces have been cut for the 2 tops of our new quilts. Ran short of 2 greens. All top and back fabrics are Robert Kaufmann Kona.  Titles of our 2 new quilts soon to be revealed.

Our 3 quilts - Betwixt and Between; Cosmo's Moon 2.5; and Apollo 1, The Beginning will be included in the Fly Me To The Moon collection at the following events:

January 19-22, 2017: Road to California in Ontario, CA
May 4-6, 2017: 14th Annual HMQS Home Machine Quilting and Sewing in Salt Lake City, Utah
June 2-4, 2017: Quilters Unlimited Quilt Show in Chantilly, VA
June 22-24, 2017: Sew Original Quilt and Creative Expos in Reno, NV
October 2017: Indianapolis, IN Guild Show
January 11-13, 2018: Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show

Our Apollo 1, The Beginning will be on display at the Johnson Space Center, The Christopher Kraft Mission Control Building in Houston, TX January 23 to March 31.  This display is in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 1 tragedy.

This is my 1,340th post. Per Blogger Jim’s Trek has recorded, as of this writing, 117,975 Pageviews.

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Have a healthy day and smile,

Jim

Day 75+40 – (AD 1,237) – 20.5 Miles – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

And the day before Thanksgiving I pedaled my Schwinn 170 20.5 miles. Grand totals: 26,388.8 miles; 42,468.7 kilometers. With a false tooth and continual pedaling my fitness cycle I should be able to hold the addition of extraneous pounds.

Today is my 75th day pedaling, the virtual part that is, on the surface of Mars. And one would think that I would see something more than just dirt and more dirt, rocks and stones.



And I can honethtly thay that I can now thing the Chrithtmath thong with aththurd determination...

Long thtory thhort. Many yearth ago Mocth, a family Lab, broke my two front teeth. I had them crowned. Thome yearth back Tinker, our thmalletht Rat Terrier bit my hand. I thcreamed, chomped down, and broke my crown.

Thith week, yethterday, that crown broke. And yeth all I want for Chrithtmath ith my other front tooth. And to think Thankthgiving thupper ith tomorrow...

Fabrics – all solids - have been chosen for our latest and newest project; 2 quilts. 8 shades of green and oyster white. (Sounds bloody boring... at this point.) The two quilts will be composed of 2" squares and created triangles. Thematically, Andy and I hope that these will create that which we hope to accomplish.

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Have a healthy day and smile,

Jim

Day 74+40 – (AD 1,236) – 20.6 Miles – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I did not want to get on my fitness cycle. I did not want to expend the energy. I really felt that I did not want to go anywhere near my Schwinn 170.

But I did. And I did complete my routine 60 minutes. This morning I pedaled 20.6 miles. My totals are now 26,368.3 miles; 42,435.7 kilometers.

Today I have pedaled a total of 230.9 miles to my next destination and goal point. I am 37.9% of the way there.

A phone call just received from (813) 503-1862 at 2:30 pm. Fembot begins -
"This is Rachel with Card Services...etc., etc., etc.."

I immediately press "0" on my phone.  A male human, with Asian-of-types accent, responds.
"Theeeese is Chawrrrrd Serveeeces.  How are chyu todaaaaay?"

My retort -
"This call is now being recorded with the Federal Agency of Who's Gonna Get You."

The other end of the receiver -
"Click."

Soapbox –

Our newly completed Blue Hearts has made it to its new home. Just in time for the freezing Florida winter weather. Check with Quilts SB; the details have been posted.

We will soon be announcing the new quilts that we are currently working on. Here are two clues.

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Have a healthy day and smile,

Jim

Day 73+40 – (AD 1,235) – 20.2 Miles – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I pedaled 20.2 miles on my Schwinn 170. If anything, I am consistent. My totals now equal 26,347.7 miles; 42,402.6 kilometers.

I have completed 10.9% of my overall cycling goal on the planet Mars. Today I have pedaled a total of 1,446.1 miles. There’s still on hell of a lot of miles to go. Over the 73 days of pedaling on my Jim’s Trek Part V, I am averaging 19.8 miles each day.

Soapbox –

This morning the label was attached to our newly completed 86” by 86” quilt, Blue Hearts.

It is on its way to its new home. Check with Quilts SB; I’ll have the details posted shortly. Also, we will soon be announcing the new quilts that we are currently working on.

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Have a healthy day and smile,

Jim

Day 72+40 – (AD 1,234) – 19.5 Miles – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

And this is my 1,234th day pedaling a Schwinn Fitness cycle. There is some ethereal hold over me by the number 1,234. Hell, if I know what, but it has been so for many, many years.

This morning I pedaled 19.5 miles on my Schwinn 170. Tracking total: 26,327.5 miles; 42,370.1 kilometers.

Today I truly wish I was on the surface of the red planet. I have now completed 31.2% of the distance between Coogoon Valles and Commelin Crater.

Andy and just received this email yesterday concerning one of our quilts in the Fly Me To The Moon collection, our Apollo 1: The Beginning.

Our quilt was one of 12 (of 170+ quilts) chosen to be on display in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 1 tragedy.

If you're in the Houston area sometime between January 23 and March 31, 2017, look in at the Johnson Space Center, the Christopher Kraft Mission Control Building and check out the display.

If you would like to check out our details of this quilt you can see the details at our site Quilts SB - http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/q139-apollo-1-beginning-quilt-and-wall.html

Soapbox –

It is just so bloody hard to try and ignore what is happening in the interim.

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Have a healthy day and smile,

Jim

Day 71+40 – (AD 1,233) – 19.2 Miles – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

My early morning blood sugar count jumped 22 points this morning. The negative effect caused by supper last night at Black Rock Bar & Grill:

Sausage & Peppers On The Stone; Fried Asparagus; Chopped Greek Salad; and Chicago Style Hot Dog.

If I was to gander both the Fried Asparagus and the Chicago Style Hot Dog were enormously battered and deep-fried.  I'm not sure about the dressing on the Salad but I would venture to say that it was laden with carbohydrates.

Service was great, but the portion sizes, well my eyes are not a good judge of my carbohydrate intake.

This morning I pedaled 19.2 miles my Schwinn 170. Total continue to climb: 26,308.0 miles; 42,338.7 kilometers.

On Mars, I have cycled, virtually of course, beyond the ¼-mark of the distance to my next destination and goal point. I have accomplished 28.0% of the 610 miles. And to date I have traversed 1,406.4 miles of red dust.

Whether one calls it Chinese whispers, Russian scandal, Whisper down the lane, Broken telephone, Operator, or Grapevine, social media and this past election campaign has proven just that the message may not be as trustworthy as one is expected to believe. Social media, in this fast era of the telecommunication revolution, has become the new substitute of the grapevine.

A qualifying example is an image that is floating, “literally”, on Facebook, et al. It is one that appears to reflect, no pun intended, the past full moon, the enormous “Super Moon”. And as I glanced at the image, scrolling through my Facebook messages, I read the first line “Just in case you can’t see the moon.” The second line, and I interpreted following what the first line said, superimposed that the image was a captured “Super Moon” which looked somewhat like a “large tortilla”. The 2nd line read “A large tortilla on the window does the job…”

I continued scrolling through my Facebook messages, thinking that someone had captured a good image of the moon, (and had compared it to a large tortilla), when it hit me. I thought that I should go back and examine the “Super Moon” image. And sure, enough I was taken. I was fooled, and imprinted, while skirting the two lines of text. The image was indeed a flour tortilla pasted on a window glass. All I could say, “Damn you Smith, someone really got you.” Super moon be damned; I think I want a taco.

And that my friends can be an assimilation of the social media of a fair portion of the content of message and memes electronically transferred on down the line during this most recent Presidential campaign.  Bottom line: slow down, check the sources.

Our new Blue Hearts, quilting underway. This time washable woolen batting.

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Have a healthy day and smile,

Jim