On Tuesday night I go to sleep feeling fine. At some point I wake up a cough a bit, but then I'm back to sleep. But later I wake up with a high fever and shivers that I cannot control. I keep trying to bundle up with more clothes and blankets and even a hat, but I just keep shivering uncontrollably away. As the alarm is about to go off I turn it off and see that I have a 2.5 degree fever. And I sleep until 7:30 am. I consider whether to go to work or not and I finally drag myself out of bed and head for work. As the day wears on I feel better and better and after a Valentine's day shopping stop on the way home I get in a heavy session with the weights and mt temperature is back to my normal. I remember a similar 24 hour thing (more like 12 hour thing) happening to me a few years ago where I shivered uncontrollably and maybe thought I was having a series of seizures. But all is well by Wednesday night.
On Friday I get up an hour later I'm leaving on the road bicycle to meet up with Derrick on the Los Angeles river trail. We both agree that we like these Friday rides because there so few runners and skaters to get in the way. We ride down to the pier and I know that I'm starting to run out of steam again (maybe from the high fever from a few days ago) but I carry on and really lose energy as we're fighting a headwind going north. But I make it to my exit, wish Derrick well, and ride on home. I rest for a few minutes and then pull out the lawn mower and trimmer to take care of yardwork. After a shower I have a light lunch of potatoes and vegetables and then start running my errands. Person Ti_Ca is feeling the effects of a flu or something so he stays home and rests. But I get gasoline for the car, get the car washed, go shopping at Target, go to the bicycle store for more electrolytes, go to the ATM, and then finally to the grocery store for supplies. When I get home and unload the car I get down on my hands and knees and start waxing the gold wheels on the World Rally Car and then put some wax on the rear part of the car. Now I'm really spent, so I put the car away and catch up on finances late on Friday afternoon. And wait word from Ruby and Joseph who are pitching to investors at Pepperdine in Malibu. Later in the evening I walk over to a coffeehouse and have a strawberry smoothie with Oliver.
Since I don't sleep well on Saturday night and my legs are still a bit sore, I text Derrick and say that he's on his own for Sunday's ride. I eventually get out for the loop ride and for the last half of the ride I crank away quite nicely - much nicer than I should considering how tired my legs felt at the start of the ride. On Sunday afternoon and into evening I relax and perform some errands around the house and do some programming.
On Wednesday we present some work to our customer and he/she are happy with the results. On Thursday and Friday at work I continue to work on the details of the models and simulations. It seems that everytime we get closer to being ready to run the simulation and start generating useful results, we find more little details that are inconsistent and prevent us from going. We still can generate some intermediate results and some people are surprised at the results that we are getting (since they tried in the past with a lot of effort and time and couldn't get realistic results). I get in great heavy workouts with the weights on Wednesday and Friday. Except for the right shoulder, which has bothered me for years, I don't have any joint pain or soreness now so I look forward to increased weight next week. On Thursday after work I go for an hour long walk and then later, as Person Ti_Ca goes out to dinner with friends, I have him drop me off at a coffeehouse where I read and surf the Internet before I get bored and walk back home.
I have a bit of trouble sleeping on Friday night but I get up at a reasonable hour, wait for a bit for some morning warmth, and then get out on the road bicycle for about 50 miles. It's a good ride and I only faced a short difficult period that I had to work through. When I get home I fertilize the front yard and clean up the roses and finally get in a warm, soapy shower to relax. I run a few errands and than wait for Ruby and Joseph to come over (since I received an email late last night "We must meet to get things together or else we are dead" and followed with a text message saying "We're coming over to your house at 2pm".) Ruby and Joseph come over and we have an almost three hour meeting and I have some actions to move forward. When Ruby and Joseph leave Person Ti_Ca try to eat dinner at Red Lobster, but there is a one hour wait, so we walk over to Marie Calendar's and have a healthy low calorie dinner (with food left over for future lunches or dinners). When I return I hem and haw and finalyl decide to go to sleep early rather than go out clubbing - I'll aim for next week.
On Monday I have a reasonable day at work continuing to work on details of the simulation. When I get home I have a heavy session with the weights, though I did not increase the weights as I expected that I might. Maybe on Wednesday.