On Tuesday I'm enthused to get to work and get things started. My simulations have run but I find a problem with them and they have to be re-run. It's okay - we have to get it right. While other things are going on I start doing an ethics and export compliance training over the web for the company. But the web and browser keep crashing and make me re-start the training. So everytime the browser or web crashes I fill out an "incident ticket" with the IT people at the company. If they can be irritating by having online training classes that don't work properly, then I'm going to be irritating and let them know. I've filled out a few "incident tickets" by mid-morning. Later in the early afternoon we get a mass email indicating that the training website is crashing and that we shouldn't try to do our online training until further notice. "Duh, do you think you've got a problem?" Today is a very hot and dry day so I let the afternoon cool before getting in a heavy workout with the weights. This is going to hurt on Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday at work are good days. I've gone back to a task that I had and let sit for a week because I didn't like or understand the results. But now as I sort through the results I see that they are making sense and giving great results. Sometimes it helps to sit on things for a while and let their thoughts simmer away inside your head. Friday after work I have a heavy session with the weights and mow the lawn. And watch the Los Angeles Kings come out "a-stormin" and win game 7 of their playoff series.
On Sunday I ride to the Whittier Narrows dam and meet up with Person P_C. We ride back to the bridge and we turn around and ride back to the dam. And then I ride back towards home. I catch up to a couple of riders and we have a nice conversation and they ask me about my Slovakian national cycling jersey so I have to share with them the story of my grandparents and visiting my homeland and other facts. Eventually I reach my turn-off and I bid them a good ride and I head for home after about 50 or 55 miles. I do a few errands and then relax with MotoGP from France and the Los Angeles Kings conference final playoff game. Person P_C has taken a job p near Palo Alto so I will probably only have one or two more rides with him before he moves on up there. I also keep bouncing around in my head that today's morning blood pressure reading is pretty high, so I need to take steps to reduce my blood pressure specifically realted to my diet. Late in the afternoon I get down on my hands and knees and clean the kitchen floor.
Tuesday and Wednesday are blah at work but I keep trying to move the ball forward. After work I get in a heavy workout with the weights on Tuesday and every joint is sore. And on Wednesday I go out for a long walk and then watch the Kings' ice hockey game. I'm surprised that the neighbors don't come running or the police don't come as I'm yelling very loud as the Kings score goals and even the series.
I don't sleep well on Thursday night into Friday morning. I check the news around the world for a while before I get out for a good mountain bicycle ride to the old yacht club and with some extra miles also. After a shower I drive down to the main Long Beach public library and get more books to read. I also stop off and get some home maintenance supplies and groceries. Person Ti_Ca is just leaving to have lucnh with his sister and to cancel the auto insurance on his old car, so I get out and mow and edge and trim the lawn. When I'm done I have another warm shower and try to catch up on more news throughout the world. In the afternoon I lay down on the couch and read a bit and doze off. When I wake up Person Ti_Ca is getting ready for work. So I pull out some cleaning supplies and go around the entire house and wash the inside of every window. And then I relax after a productive day.
Sunday starts with me riding to the Whittier Narrows dam to meet up with Derrick. Person P_C has moved to Palo Alto (or is moving) for his new job and Derrick is finally done with classes so that he can ride. We have a good ride including ridign with a very fast lady on the second half of the Los Angeles river trail. We run into Terry and we drag him along for a while before I turn and head for home after about 50 miles. I am very tired and hungry, but I get halfway through the F1 race from Monaco before Person Ti_Ca and I have lunch. Today Person Ti_Ca has a pina colada with lunch and pretty much passes out (or takes a nap) the minute we get home. I finish the F1 race and fast forward through the Indianapolis 500 in about an hour. When Person Ti_Ca wakes up we go around and clean the outside of every window. They all look bright and shiny and clear to see out of. Later in the evening Ruby stops by because she has some calls in the nieghborhood and we talk about what's going on in our lives. And eventually I get down for some reading and some sleep.
During this four day weekend I had wanted to tidy up some Perl scripts from work that interface between optimization routines, Monte Carlo routines, and structural dynamics routines. These scripts were in pretty good shape when I last left work on Thursday afternoon, but I was enthused to tighten them up over the long holiday weekend. It hasn't happened. Between cycling and other house maintenance tasks and reading and relaxing I've left work in the lurch. I'll squeeze the work in on Tuesday, but I'm a bit disappointed but not really. It's an interesting little problem to work out, but it can wait for actual work hours. I haven't quite accomplished the thought process and thinking that I wanted to get done on this four day weekend either, but I'll get there shortly.