I get to work on Tuesday and make great progress with some final details and mo co-workers are happy to know we've fixed these last few details and can get to a final review before geenrating results. Person Ti_Ca sends me a text message with a picture that shows a large bees' nest on my front porch. Now I know where the two bees from last night came from. I call the city of Long Beach and it will be my responsibility since the bees nest is not on public property. But the guy says to get some wasp spray, wait until later in the evening, and spray them - killing them on contact. And this is my plan. Until I get home and am stunned with a bees nest that is one foot wide by two feet long and six inches deep. THere is no way I'm going to spray that mess! So I call some people and within an hour - the time it takes for me to go walking and make a quick stop at the grocery store - the bee man is at my house. It turns out he sucks them into a large vacuum cleaner/trap and sells them. And he's finished within an hour and with $85 of mine in his pocket. But worth every dollar. Later I do more web programming as this project is coming up on a deadline.
Friday starts with a mountain bicycle ride to the pier and back. There are very few cyclists or runners out today because it's a Friday and there is some coastal fog. When I get home I edge and mow the lawn and then get cleaned up. I run errands inlcuding a haircut and getting to the library to pick up a book recommended by my brother and on hold at the library. Person Ti_Ca and I do some homework for a bit of time and then he announces "We need to go cut up all of those tree branches". I had told Person Ti_Ca that I would need his help cleaning up the trimmings but I expected it to happen later in the weekend and only with a struggle. We get out and clean up 90% of the branches until I say that we should quit. Person Ti_Ca has pushed me this far to get to 90% as I wanted to quit for the day a while ago. After a brief rinse in the shower I lay down and rest my back. But soon I'm up again and starting to wax the Yamaha YZF-R1. I get halfway through with it and decide to quit since I'm tired, my shoulder hurts, and it wasn't even scheduled in until Saturday. Later in the evening Person Ti_Ca heads to a club with friends as I relax and head for sleep.
I have difficulty sleeping on Saturday night into Sunday morning. I get up well before 7 am and start the Australian Grand Prix where my favorite driver starts from pole. At a convenient break I get on the mountain bicycle and have a good strong ride to the pier and back - seeing Terry going in the opposite direction just as I'm finishing up. After a shower I watch the rest of the race as my favorite driver has some tire trouble and finishes 3rd. Person Ti_Ca and I do homework before he goes off to the gym for a workout and I relax around the house.
On Tuesday through Thursday I just have the most productive days at work as thigns come together on some good results on the models and simulations I've been working on. There are no steps backward this week as everything comes together. I even throw in a 500 run Monte Carlo simulation for tension uncertainty and get ready to spring that on people on Friday. The workouts are good with the reduced weight workout on Wednesday and a mountain bicycle ride after work to the pier on Thursday.
Saturday is a good day! It starts with a dry qualifying from Malaysia for the F1 race and the rain starts to make it semi-wet. My favorite driver gets the pole with a very good lap in the rapidly drying conditions. I get out for a mountain bicycle ride to the pier and back home and ym legs feel strong throughout. I follow this up with mowing and trimming the lawn and I'm interupted by a neighbor who works at my company. We talk about the downhill ride that our company is on and when we are going to retire. (I remember when I first moved into this house 26 years ago and I found his company badge in the street gutter in front of my house. I didn't know who he was yet because I had just moved in, so I turned the badge over to security. And much later I met him.) After a shower Person Ti_Ca and I do some homework. In the afternoon I get an error list for one of the websites and I just say, Oh leave me alone". But then I look through the list and plug away at fixing the bugs - most are easy to fix even if I'm not in a "fixing" mood today. Later on Saturday I walk over to a coffeehouse and read a book and enjoy a strawberry smoothie - no laptop interruptions and no friend interruptions.