I left Tokyo just after midnight on Wednesday 9 July. I arrive in Los Angeles at 6:25 pm on Tuesday 8 July. I then get home, sleep, and go to work and get out for a great bicycle rid on the mountain bicycle. There is a strong wind that encourages me to fight against it for a great workout. And then I relax at home on this 9 July day that has lasted for 40 hours or so because of crossing the international dateline.
At work I have a decent day and then "get the heck out of Dodge" when I can take work no longer. The tankless water heater has been having trouble lately and only producing warm water, so I call the manufacturer up and they are going to send me a new computer board to install. Until Tuesday night, it will be lukewarm showers at best if not cold showers. After the phone call I go for a 40 minute run/walk and then attend to the roses. I have a slow evening as I have the sniffles. I go travel to weird countries with not the most sanitary conditions and I only get sick when I return home?
On Sunday I start out the road bicycle ride strong and jsut keep going anf going until I get to 55 miles. THe last 7 or 8 miles on the way home I'm well over 20 mph and catching and dropping other riders. Where did the extra speed at the end of a long ride come from. When I go to do laundry the washing machine won't work and I notice that the "door lock" light doesn't come on. This is similar to a problem that I had (under warranty) when I first bought the machine and now I'm sure I'll have to pay for the repair. Thus after watching a wild MotoGP race where riders change tires after the sighting lap and start from pit lane, I go to the local coin laundry place to do my laundry. When I get back home I watch some of the world cup game and fall asleep during it - noting that there was no point in having goalies because nobody has a shot on goal. And finally I watch the Moto3 race where my favorite crashes out at the third corner of the race.
Tuesday is a good day at work as I move forward with the models and simulations. I leave work a bit early to go for an annual eye checkup. I can read the 20/15 line this time. And I finally break down and tell the eye doctor that I will have him make me some reading glasses for late at night or in low light conditions. I've been using cheap store-bought reading glasses in difficult reading conditions for a couple of years now and it's time for a real pair. But I only need them when my eyes are tired, the lighting conditions are low, or when the print is smaller than 4 point font. When I get home I go for a 40 minute run/walk where I feel stronger than last week's run/walk and I do much more running than walking. After a shower I start tearing the tankless water heater board out that has gone bad to replace it with the new one that came in the mail. Though the tankless water heater is 7 years old, the company sent me a new board "as a courtesy" for free. There are many connectors and screws to be undone on the old board and done up on the new board, but after only one screw sticks badly the new board is in place and operating. Though I note that the old board never had an altitude correction chip which the new one has. I wonder what affect that has near sea level?
I have a decent Thursday at work and then drive home. I don't like driving in traffic. When I get home I mow the lawn but the edger won't start. I keep cranking and cranking it and using gasoline and other combustibles directlyinto the carburetor, but it won't start. This behavior happened earlier in the year but the edger eventually started. Today it isn't going to go. After a shower I have dinner and relax and then I'm restless, so I go outside and trim two bushes. The neighbor is out so we have a discussion about the world until it is time to go inside and get ready for sleep.
I'm hungover from Friday's ride, so I meet up with Terry and Kin and we ride down to the pier and back and add a few extra miles in at the end. I run a few errands, watch qualifying for the German Grand Prix, and prepare two window sills by scraping and filling and priming them. I'm tired and hungover from Friday's ride through most of the day so I take it easy.
On Monday I make some progress at work and explain models and simulations to people. I also realize that I need to finish the convergence study as the asymptotic results are still changing. I'm tired all day today, so when I get home I work in the yard, clean the roses, water the lawn, and then work on a baseball manuscript for publication.