Ooof, tired, depending on how I recover tomorrow, I might wind up taking Tues off, I'm knackered and sore, I left around 1030 and got home around 1630 with almost no break.

What'd I do?
Well, there's this property in Pana I'm interested in, a buildable (presumably) lot, so I was planning on going out to look at it and the town. So, spur of the moment this morning, I decided to go.
Yeah, not the best of ideas, no weather check, planning or anything else, just go. Didn't work out too bad, but… Well, it was a heck of a drive, further than my previous trip, just over 100 miles one way. At 80% I get around 225 best case scenario, so that took a lot out of the battery.

So, what to say about Pana? I like it, I didn't remain in town nor wander up and down every street, but I did go to the address in the ad, doesn't look as wide as they say, but I was able to view it from both front and back, service alley and brick street(!). I kinda vibe this stuff, how does it feel in the town, and while the ones I've looked at last time were good, this one really grabbed me.
Will I buy that lot? Maybe, nice location, and only $4K, so really good deal, but we'll need to talk to a realtor, or real estate lawyer, or…? I'll pay them to tell me why not to buy it without batting an eye.

From there I ran up to Taylorville, the nearest Aldi, WalMart and branded grocery store. So then it was time to charge on the way home, right? Well, I punched in the Troy charger I used last time, 72 miles away, and… Uhhh, 77 miles of range best case scenario. Yeah, that's not going to work, but thankfully there was a charger due west about 20 miles on Rt 104 at Circle K. And then things got interesting, I plugged in, went in, bathroom, water from the store, and lunch from the attached Subway… And the car stopped charging. After a few tries, I moved to the other dispenser, and thankfully that one worked. Oh, and got to the Circle K during a massive dust storm, they closed the 104 just past the Circle K, and the car was rocking the whole time.

Filled to 60%, and off to a few stops, Litchfield to look at their downtown, Mt Olive to check that town out, and check the coming soon charging locations in Staunton and Hamel. Problem was that wind, I was using 3 to 4 miles of range for every mile on the freeway at 70MPH. Uhhh, that might be a problem.

So, from that was surface streets to Edwardsville, for no reason but that I prefer that over freeways, though I did have to get on the interstate at that point. While in town, I did hit a Tesla station for a charge, first time despite having an adapter since last year. Seriously, I can kinda see why people like the Tesla charging experience, the only wrinkle in my experience was that as you can expect, I needed to update my billing profile, I mean it had been over a year since I set up the account. From there though was the smoothest charging experience ever, plugged in, it quickly got up to 50Kw charging, while a third of what its capable of, better than any CCS charge I've done, or at least a lot flatter, no ups and downs, just a steady 50 that caused the car to activate the battery cooling.

Then finally home, and done, right?
Well, about ½ hour or so later, I dragged m'self off to do the grocery shopping, spotted a surprise charging station in Bridgeton, well, one being built, and finally came home. Still need to get laundry done, mow the lawn (its been two weeks, gotta do it), and cook up breakfast sandwiches. Those are going to be some interesting sandwiches, couldn't get the skinny bagels I usually use, so I'm going to give potato hamburger rolls a try. Oh, and I think I need to whip up another cold brew coffee.

Yeah, good chance I'm going to be too totaled to work on Tues.

So that was my #today , what about yours?