Wednesday, April 1

It's the fourth anniversary of my retirement.  Of course we spent it at home.

Actually, I did ride my bike down to the park.  I hit on the bang board for 15 minutes or so, then a guy from the city came out and put up signs that the park was closed due to the virus.  Hmm.  I was a good boy and packed up and went for a longish bike ride home.

I replaced the shutoff valve under the sink.  The old one was leaking.  I tried to use the nut and compression fitting from the old valve with the new valve body.  That is supposed to be reasonably ok plumbing practice.   Alas that was not going to work.  But my new pulling tool came and I was able to easily pull the old pieces off and then put on all new parts.  We're leaving cabinet doors open until tomorrow to make sure there are no leaks, then put all the under sink stuff back.

I bought a couple additional plumbing tools - the puller mentioned above and a special wrench that is supposed to work great on the type of valves I just installed.  It didn't seem to want to get around the new nut.  It make need a bit of file work.  I've been collection plumbing tools for awhile.  The issue with plumbing is not that it's difficult, but you rarely have a lot of room to work, and you are usually in some strange physical position that doesn't help.  So any tool that has reach and doesn't need finicky adjustment is worth its purchase price.

Pretty quiet otherwise.  I ran across some "Carb Control" tortillas the other day.  I had two tacos with them yesterday.  They tasted very good.  And I made a small pizza with one today.  I've not said much about the diet I'm on, but basically I'm trying to eliminate all carbs.  Doing that will cause your body to burn its fat and not the carbs you're eating.   It seems to be working quite well.  Lots of loose skin here and there.  But my activity level has been crashed with the shutdown.  I think I'm going to spend more time on the bike and take some longer rides.  I can feel my thighs burning a bit.

I bought some stuff to make Keto ice cream.  I was balking at $6 a pint at the store, but I'm not sure the raw ingredients might go that high.  I'll report back on that when it comes out.

The weather is warming some.  It hit the high 60s today.  Hopefully warmer tomorrow.  I may pitch the hammock.  I want to get more sun exposure and I have some pesky tan lines that I would be happy to, er, tan.

Still lots of reading is the time sink.