| Recovering/Work |
[Jul. 19th, 2009|10:47 am] |
Cold's still here, but better. Not feeling the need for quite so much sudafed to keep the sinuses in check today, more like just the normal allergies dosage. Let myself sleep in, and now I'm sipping coffee from my SF Zoo mug this morning and missing my boys out in San Francisco. And as much as I love my apartment and my neighborhood, it's times like this when I wish I'd bought a place up in northwest so it were easier to get out & about to places for things like "food".
Brought some work home this weekend, so that's what I'll be doing most of the day. The newest political in my chain of command came from the private sector (with no gubm'nt experience), so I think his expectations don't quite match the reality of being a federal attorney. He'll learn. But in the meantime I'm going to try and redo this memo such that it doesn't suck completely. 17 pages? I don't think so. 5. Maybe. Note to field counsel: footnotes and glossing are your friends, especially with a busy management chain.
Anyway, off to go give y'all more gubm'nt than you're willing to pay for.
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| Down a Bit |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|10:38 pm] |
I love when the body decides it's time to slow down. Took today off from work to recuperate from a head cold that's currently driving me nuts. The down time did give me time to finish up the last sock and start a new pair (I'll take pictures later), and get the laundry done (clean sheets!), but otherwise it's just been annoying (mainly because of the excess snot being produced now).
Did figure out patient zero this evening - a friend I saw out at a party on Saturday evening had something similar, and since the symptoms cropped up Sunday, that seems to be the likely vector. So far I don't seem to have it as bad as he did, and am keeping my fingers crossed that it won't get worse. Last night was the usual sleepless night, so should be on the upside soon.
Hopefully it'll die off soon so I can get back to training. One month until the next race and I'm completely unprepared at this point.
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| Notes on the New Bike |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|09:50 pm] |
First, I'm loving not having to shift gears. You just get on and start pedaling - no worrying about whether you left it in the right gear, whether it'll be too loose or too tight to get going, you just go. If there's a hill, it's harder to pedal, if it's downhill, it's easier. Simple.
Second, it has a kick stand. I cannot express how awesome that is. For years now the "cool" bikes did not come with kick stands (and probably still don't). And certainly, if you were using your bike for racing (which I've done on each of my other bikes), you didn't want a kick stand, for practical as well as "cool" reasons. But being able to prop the bike up on its own while I fumble with getting the lock and cable out and in place? Priceless.
The brakes are still a little noisy, especially on a quick stop, but I'm sure that'll work out as they get worn in.
The other bike store I tried also did not have shoes in my size (grrr!), so it looks like I may have to order some from online. Not my favorite choice, as my feet seem are odd enough that I pretty much always want to try shoes on right in the store to ensure proper fit, without endless back and forth shipping of shoes. Blah. But not having clips on the pedals, while not fatal, was kind of annoying. I wanted the increased power of being able to do the full rotation of the pedal and not just mash down on them; I'm definitely far more comfortable being clipped in as it gives one a better control over pedaling and balance.
Anyway, so far so good. Won't be able to bike to work tomorrow as I have a long night planned with my friend Drew beginning right after work, but I do look forward to trying it out on the morning and evening commutes.
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| Reintegrating |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|10:05 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | biking, club, commuting, dating, diet, exercise, food, habits, knitting, leisure, mood, motivation, shopping, sleep, stuff, travel, triathlon, work | ] |
For some reason the reintegration back into real life has been a bit difficult. There was the inevitable backup of work at the BGA ("vacation is its own punishment"), breaking things off with someone I'd been dating, adjustment back to east coast time (which means I have to try and fight my normal nature to be a night owl), and just doing the little things like unpacking everything and putting it all away, sorting mail, grocery shopping, etc. Still haven't done the grocery shopping, so I've been subsisting on ever-shrinking supplies of staples from the freezer and cabinet. Not a bad thing, it's good to clear those out every now and again, but not perhaps the healthiest meals I could be eating.
One thing I've been doing to integrate some of our practices from DLOC has been to post "appreciations" over on FaceBook. Just little things to acknowledge those things I'm appreciative of for whatever reason. It does help to make one more mindful of what's going on in your life, which has made it a useful tool for me.
Past that I'm trying to find my motivation to get back to tri training for my last two races this season, and finish up my commitment with the club's volunteer work this month. "The Pile" of books has grown since coming back, including some re-reading of classics I feel the need to reexamine in light of the DLOC and SF experiences (The Ethical Slut, the Tao Te Ching/Dao De Jing). I'm about 1/2 an inch from finishing sock #2 on pair #2, and I have another pull ball ready to go on the next set, but the one sock's been sitting here unloved as I try to work myself back into life.
Picked up another bike yesterday. I wanted something a bit better for zipping around town than my mountain bike (which is a good bike, but not the best for commuting). I went in a slightly different direction, a single gear, and put "campus pedals" on it (clipless on one side, regular pedal platform on the other), so I don't have to throw on bike shoes just to zip somewhere if I wish to bike out. My goal there is to bike about more to things in town, and sweat be damned. It even came with a kickstand! I feel so retro with a kickstand on a bike - I don't think I've had one of those since high school. With the bike, though, comes the last big purchase for the year, I think. Need to back off and pay off the remnants of vacation and the bike and plan for the end of the year and Giftmas. And to plan for the next body electric workshop next year, of course.
It's hard to fully describe the changes wrought by DLOC, but I'll be working on them this year.
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| Cosas |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|08:24 am] |
On the way into work I heard a bank commercial on the radio, promoting a bank as being customer friendly through a story of how they raised a man's ATM daily withdraw limit so as not to embarrass him in front of his friends. Instead of making me want to run off and bank there, it just pissed me off, cause all I could think was "Hombre, you're acting all happy that they're letting u actually get to your money!" Yes, I know he was just an actor. The comercial coming on right after a report on how free checking is likely to disapear because it costs "too much" for banks to maintain and hurts profits, likely didn't help. |
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