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Jul. 28th, 2019 10:03 pmOw. I should have done yesterday's running around yesterday, instead of doing it at lunchtime today before going diving tonight. But yesterday was the day after the faculty retreat, and I got snuck up on by a couple of naps yesterday afternoon, so running around wasn't going to happen.
So around lunchtime today I went out, and came home with 80 lb (more or less) of kitty litter, 60 lb of which was on wheels but very badly balanced by the time it got off the T. But it got home and got up the stairs and I took some Advil and sat around sweating and sore in the arms for the next half an hour. And then I got off my ass and made coffee for iced coffee, and cleaned the litterbox, and vacuumed the living room rug. And then I packed up and went diving, but this time I went the long way. I took the B in to Kenmore and the D out again, and it took most of an hour. I just didn't feel like walking to Reservoir today.
My ear was less happy today than it was last week, for no discernible reason. But I got the open water skills done in my own wetsuit and a mere 16 lb of lead weights, and learned to play underwater egg and spoon race (which is actually harder when the (plastic) egg wants to float and you have to keep the spoon on top of it), and walked home from Reservoir, and got up the stairs with the last remnant of energy I'm going to have until at least tomorrow night, despite throwing several things in a pot and coming up with smoked duck and dark mushroom soy sauce ramen noodles for dinner. I really should take tomorrow as a personal day, and I don't think anyone would blame me because the retreat was on Friday.
The retreat went very well, and we didn't solve all the problems in the HSDM DMD universe, but we didn't run into any truly unsolvable problems either. It was a long day, though, and complicated by some film studio or other shooting a movie at the Babson conference center (which was pretending to be a nursing home). Nobody famous was involved, or at least not that I saw. But anyway, retreat is over, so it can get on with being summer now.
It turns out that both my one-on-one instructor and I are on vacation at the same time in August, and neither of us are going much of anywhere, so I might end up doing the open water dives in the middle of one of my vacation weeks. To be determined, though. And she lives in Dorchester, so I don't have to figure out how to get myself and my gear to Barnstable on a bus.
Right now I have to figure out whether falling asleep in a cool bath is enough, or whether I want to drink another pint or so of cold water first.
So around lunchtime today I went out, and came home with 80 lb (more or less) of kitty litter, 60 lb of which was on wheels but very badly balanced by the time it got off the T. But it got home and got up the stairs and I took some Advil and sat around sweating and sore in the arms for the next half an hour. And then I got off my ass and made coffee for iced coffee, and cleaned the litterbox, and vacuumed the living room rug. And then I packed up and went diving, but this time I went the long way. I took the B in to Kenmore and the D out again, and it took most of an hour. I just didn't feel like walking to Reservoir today.
My ear was less happy today than it was last week, for no discernible reason. But I got the open water skills done in my own wetsuit and a mere 16 lb of lead weights, and learned to play underwater egg and spoon race (which is actually harder when the (plastic) egg wants to float and you have to keep the spoon on top of it), and walked home from Reservoir, and got up the stairs with the last remnant of energy I'm going to have until at least tomorrow night, despite throwing several things in a pot and coming up with smoked duck and dark mushroom soy sauce ramen noodles for dinner. I really should take tomorrow as a personal day, and I don't think anyone would blame me because the retreat was on Friday.
The retreat went very well, and we didn't solve all the problems in the HSDM DMD universe, but we didn't run into any truly unsolvable problems either. It was a long day, though, and complicated by some film studio or other shooting a movie at the Babson conference center (which was pretending to be a nursing home). Nobody famous was involved, or at least not that I saw. But anyway, retreat is over, so it can get on with being summer now.
It turns out that both my one-on-one instructor and I are on vacation at the same time in August, and neither of us are going much of anywhere, so I might end up doing the open water dives in the middle of one of my vacation weeks. To be determined, though. And she lives in Dorchester, so I don't have to figure out how to get myself and my gear to Barnstable on a bus.
Right now I have to figure out whether falling asleep in a cool bath is enough, or whether I want to drink another pint or so of cold water first.
