Road Cycling Aliens

This day is kind of meh. It's laundry day, so I didn't expect to do much studying. I was tired before noon already. Then I went out to throw in my vote (city and district votes here), recycle some bottles and do the groceries. Normally I like going out and doing groceries and stuff, but today I found it kind of stressful.

I took the city bike to be a little faster and the first upsetting thing happened when I just left the house: Some big van came speeding up behind me and passing me way to closely. Some car drivers really seem to get some kind of pleasure out of that because they don't like when cyclists are on "their" street. I would be on the bicycle lane if it wasn't bumpy as hell everywhere and on top of that the bicycle lane is blocked with parking cars. What do they expect me to do? Fly?!
Well, anyway, the fat van passed me to close and too fast just to stop right in front of my nose at the traffic light. Yeah, pretty pointless.

Whatever. Got this done and that and went shopping. Think of this what you may but I am one of the few and rare people who still wear a facemask in most public places. Like in the supermarket. This one is tiny with very little space, so I wear a mask. I just think better safe than sorry, can't harm at least, right?
Then first thing when I walk in, two middle aged - or a little beyond - guys (yeah, white guys) come in after me and saying stuff like "Oh, covid!" and "There's quarantine here!"
Worst of all: they were wearing shirts of an aid agency. A Catholic one! 🤡 Must be nice to be cared for by these dudes, huh? Really, why can't people just shut their mouths if they got nothing nice or useful to say? Nobody wants to hear their crap.

Okay... rant over.

At least I also got some dinner inspiration while I was there and I thought I'm finally gonna tackle the onion pickling! Because I saw this recipe on YouTube the other day... or week... and really wanted to try it :) ⬇️

 

 

I also bought sinful cinamon mini rolls and ate them together with my wife 😏
But right after that I made the pickled onions :-) They smell so good already, oh my! I'll add some to the dinner. I am planning to make some Soba today with crispy fried fish, little mushrooms and spring onions on the side! Probably with a bit of salad too.
Preparing the onions was nice and relaxing.

After that I could still have studied for like an hour and a half but I thought to myself "You know what? To hell with it today" and decided to do something less draining. I can catch up another day.
So instead of studying I customized this journal just a little more with a tiny bit of CSS and changing some colours as well. I also wanted change some stuff in my website over at Neocities but I didn't get far. I looked around on Glitter Graphics and changed the background(s) on my website and also linked this journal.