We are getting ready for our first Sacramento run. It’s an annual low rider cruising event held at William Lan Park. The plan is to hook up with a few relatives that are into the season.

This year has to be characterized as one of the worse in many people’s lives around the world. The pandemic took its toll and continuous to fuck up many lives. A constant topic for my blog had been the weekly stats as they came out. The news was so messed up I really didn’t have the motivation to do my regular nonsense postings on life. It seemed so trivial compared to what is going on around us, I mean all of us. There’s not a person around who’s has escaped the affect whether directly or indirectly.

I’m not sure what 2021 will bring but the assumption and hope it has to be better than what we just went through. Or will it? In our county we hit 1,131 confirmed cases. I think the number is higher. I believe we had it COVID-19 during the last week of February. We had other friends suffering from crazy ass flu symptoms and never went to the hospital thinking it would pass like it always does.

Even though people are now aware of COVID I don’t think they are going in and being tested. A lot of these folks are considered essential and don’t want to be out of their workplace thinking they may lose their job. Out of site, out of mind.

So, on a good note. We will be celebrating New Years the same way we did with the previous holidays. Just the two of us, this time spaghetti and giant meatballs on the menu along with lobster tails for Mami.

What cool sunset view tonight.

Stopped by our favorite burger joint and grabbed an order of nachos with the bacon cheeseburgers!

A rough guesstimate would be around +30 new cases a day are being reported at our county.

Those two words in the same subject line says it all.

I tried repairing my Mackie MCU Pro but could not located the transformer that I suspected as being faulty. I ended up buying the entire power supply board. I did the replacement this afternoon and after testing, verified the annoying high pitch whine is no longer being emitted.

It was worth reaping the mixer as this is not a cheap piece of gear and it should last for more years to come.

Cases are still on the climb though this update is not as bad as the recent postings.

Heading to work this morning in the fog. This photo was taken near Pardee Dam. It was foggy at the higher elevations. Once I hit the valley it all cleared up.

What’s weird is looking through the iPhone screen I get better visibility. Direct view through the windshield is hazy and what appears to be more fog than it actually is. Odd shit.

I got a really good deal on a few more signs (like I really them). The seller happened to be in the same city that I work at so it was meant to be. Yeah… that’s it.

I have about a half dozen signs I need to hang up. I’m just about out of space inside of the Manetarium but have plenty of room on the exterior walls. I just don’t want it to be visible from the road level traffic.