I came up with a color-coded way to distinguish mine and Janet's progress on the Bingo Bucket List. Of course, as you'd expect, Janet surged ahead the first week. She's also way ahead of me on steps.
BUT... in my defense, my new bike came in this week and I'm absolutely in love with it. It's a carbon fiber eBike (extremely lightweight) with a torque sensor. My other eBike has a cadence sensor meaning all you have to do it turn the pedals and it zooms up the hill (kind of like a scooter). A torque sensor feels more like riding a real bike. It makes it easier to pedal, but you still have to do the work - just like when you downshift to a lower gear. Since our weather has been staying unseasonably warm, I've taken it out every day. So, this counts as my bingo "day in the sun."
I went out with the bike club on Friday, but it was cloudy and a little brisk, so we didn't get many riders. It was still warm enough to sit outside the coffee shop for our break (the guy in the orange coat is even wearing shorts). And like usual in Colorado, the minute we got home, the sun came out.
I get free books every week from Joffe Books - a UK publishing company that specializes in English mysteries. I thought I'd try to start posting reviews in my sidebar of what I like/dislike about the books. The most recent book I read was The Twin Sister. I don't normally read psychological thrillers, but Yvette Davies was voted Best New Author by the Joffe editors. She wasn't a bad writer, but the story was just a little too weird for me. A lot of psychological thrillers seem to equate to dysfunctional families. I prefer to stick with traditional crime-based mysteries.
The Senior Center has a whole roomful of puzzles that members can check out. When Courtney was here, we put together a 500-piece puzzle (or rather, Courtney did most of the work). I thought I'd picked a picture with a lot of variety, but when the pieces are really small, it's hard to see any detail. So, I went back to the Senior Center and checked out a couple 300-piece puzzles. The pieces are about twice as large making it easier to put the puzzle together quickly. I'm not one of those people who wants to spend a couple weeks working on this.
I tend to watch a lot of movies on Tubi, mostly because they're free and they tend to be more entertaining than the movies on Amazon (in my opinion, Amazon should get out of the movie production business and stick to shopping). I thought it was funny that on New Year's Day, most of the Christmas movies disappeared and the Valentine movies showed up (Tubi didn't waste any time). I watched a movie called A Valentine Carol, which imitated A Christmas Carol with a ghost who tried to get a radio host to clean up her act by taking her to her past, present, and future dating life (the lady in red is the ghost). Good grief, can no one come up with an original theme? I just saw a trailer for the new Bridgerton series on Netflix, and season 4 is based on a Cinderella theme. I'm not quite sure why they didn't just stick with the theme from the book.
Courtney and I are taking another online painting class on mountains. It's definitely appropriate for me, since I live near the mountains. Knowing Courtney, she'll probably get inspired to head off to some place like the Swiss Alps on her next Thanksgiving adventure.
