Between Tuesday and Thursday and between meetings over the days, I work on the previously-mentioned Monte Carlo simulation. Its only the transformation of the results that is bugging us and I keep finding things wrong. This continues to hamper me even until I leave work on Thursday for a three day weekend.
On Friday I start riding the road bicycle north on the Los Angeles river and meet up with Derrick. We keep going up and over the Whittier Narrows dam, down the San Gabriel river trail to the ocean, along the ocean, and back north on the Los Angeles river trail. We each end up with a 55 mile total travel loop though we've started in different places. After the ride I get cleaned up and get two fiction books from the library, do some grocery shopping, and wax the Yamaha YZF-R1. By now I'm tired so I lay on the couch and start reading one of the books. After an hour of reading I go out and edge and mow the lawn and clean the roses. After a shower I start laundry and get down for about an hour nap. When I move the clothes from the washer to the dryer I notice that I am having trouble moving and I am warm, so I lay down some more and find that I have a 1 degree fever. A bit later I take an actifed and help Person Ti_Ca with homework. And hope that the actifed knocks me out for deep sleep and to relieve the fever (probably brought on and amplified by overdoing the day).
I sleep horribly on Saturday night. I keep waking up and feel like I might have a fever though I am only about 0.2 degrees above a typical body temperature for me. I put on the cycling clothes and start north on the Los Angeles river until I met up with Derrick. At that point we turn around and go all the way back down to the Long Beach pier, grab some fluids or gel, and then head for our respective homes. It ends up being about 50 miles for each of us. Though I am very tired, I don't do bad during the cycling. I watch the MotoGP, Moto3, and Moto2 races and my favorite riders, who happens to be a Moto3 rdier, loses the world championship on the last lap. But the other races go in favor of riders that I wanted to win. Late in the afternoon Person Ti_Ca and I do some homework before I relax and get in some reading.
The motorcycle does start in the morning and I ride to work and be productive. There are some meetings that I contribute in and some other work where I make a lot of progress. At the end of the day I ride home and the motorcycle quits running on me about two minutes from work. But it starts right back up and continues on home. This is the odd behavior that I had a couple years ago. I go walking for 45 minutes after work and then I work on some take-home work before helping Person Ti_Ca qith his homework before a later job interview that he has.
On Thursday morning the motorcycle starts right up and runs flawlessly. I have a productive day at work - probably because I'm not wondering what is wrong with the motorcycle. When it is time to go home I try to start the motorcycle and it won't start at first and throws the error code 19 again. But switching the bike off and back on and it starts right up. Maybe my problems aren't over yet. I go out walking for 45 minutes and grab a shower before driving down to CSULB to pick up Person J_V to go hang out at the Library coffeehouse. I used to come here regularly to read and hang out but I have probably only been here once in the last few years.
Saturday starts with a good ride along the Los Angeles river where I meet up with Derrick and we ride against the wind for half of the ride towards the ocean and with the wind on the way home. Today is a strong headwind down the Los Angeles river but I just put my head down and ride - there's no point in complaining about the wind. Just ride your best and realize it will be somewhat slower. After the ride I get a shower and run some errands and than watch F1 qualifying where my favorite drive gets the pole for the race at the Circuit of the Americas. Afterwards Person Ti_Ca and I run an errand and then I start in to replace the front brake pads on the Yamaha YZF-R1. For some reason, and I remeber this from the last time, the right rotor pair is a pain to get off because the cotter pins are buried deep and the left rotor pair is easy to get off because the cotter pins are easy to get to. (This is not a design feature but just the way they were initially installed at the factory and then how I reinstalled them the last time that I did the brakes.) Person Ti_Ca comes out and helps me with the brakes because he can see I am struggling and he just wants to learn about them. Afterwards I do a bit of cleaning around the house and relax as Person Ti_Ca does homework. Later I help Person Ti_Ca with homework and then I actually work on a presentation for work as Person Ti_Ca goes off to a family function.
I have a good day at work. I help a number of people with some technical problems, offer to coach a co-worker and her co-worker through some issues, and step back and realize the amount of progress I've actually made in the last few weeks (even if I didn't always feel productive or good about myself). But I end up staying late at work helping people. So by the time I get home I'm tired and just cook dinner and watch the football game. No workout today.