I have a semi-productive Tuesday at work. My boss has to go home before noon because she is feeling a fever and I tell her about my 6-10 hour fever last week. I hope that is the worst that she has. When I get home I lift weights despite my entire body still being "hungover" from the last three days of cycling and the long volunteer day. So I relax in the evening as Person Ti_Ca goes off to his statistics class.
Friday is a good day at work and by the end of the day I have this one model and simulation almost completed. Until I have to put the effort down and go to a two hour meeting that consumes the rest of the day. I take my time getting home because it is very hot and because drivers have been driving crazy lately. I get in a good session with the weights, mow the front yard, clean and water the roses, water the impatiens, and then take a shower. After a quick dinned I ride a bicycle over to the First Fridays event and wander around and meet up with Person T_U. Though they have many new bands playing at various spots on the street, I'm quite bored by everything and finally take my leave and go home.
On Sunday I get up to go cycling but there is a thick fog. I hem and haw and try to decide what to do and eventually watch a rain-delayed and then rain-shortened Japanese Grand Prix that ends when an up and coming driver has a bad accident and there are no celebrations on the podium because his condition is very critical. And thw weather conditions in Japan don't help because the medical helicopter cannot fly in the bad weather and the critical condition driver has to be driven to the nearest hospital. I get out and do some grocery shopping and then slap sunscreen on and go cycling on the mountain bicycle. All goes well at the beginning but as I get near the ocean the combination of sweat and sunscreen is burning my eyes. I take off my shades hoping that the wind blowing past will dry the sweat, but it doesn't. So I'm constantly wiping the sweat away from near my eyes and constantly keeping one eye or the other closed to alleviate the burning. Eventually I get home and clean off all of the offending fluids. Throughout the day on Sunday I watch some abseball and football and clean the bathrooms and cook food (vegetables and brown rice in a tomato-based soup) for the upcoming week and try to relax. I'm having bad feelings now about all sorts of different subjects ranging from work to my health to Person Ti_Ca to the future. I don't feel good about any of them right now. What's going on?
I have a decent Tuesday until the afternoon when many people start asking me for too many things and I start to get stressed out. I start making some mistakes and I finally say that I'm not thinking clearly and I need to get out of work (even though it is already past my usual quitting time). When I get home I go for a walk and stop by the grocery store for supplies before being a vegetable in front of "The Blacklist" and then I have a conference call with one of the websites.
I get up on Friday near 6:20 am and get out the door for a road bicycle ride well before 7 am. And Person Ti_Ca has beat me out the door to go hiking! I ride over the Whittier Narrows dam and down the San Gabriel river trail. When I get to the 40 mile cutoff I take it. Let's aim for a longer ride on Sunday. When I get home, feeling strong, I mow the lawn and trim the edges near the street, get cleaned up, and head down to the Long Beach Public Library. I grab 4 books to read (3 non-fiction and 1 fiction), stop at the ATM, and stop at the grocery store on the way back home. At home I pay some bills online and call the drecit card company again to straighten out some charges in the transition between the old credit card (that was fraudulently used) and the new credit card. It turns out that I am trying to give them back some money that they over-refunded me. ANd it takes me talking to three different people to get it straightened out.
I'm out the door before 7 am for a road bicycle ride. I gop the Los Angeles river to get away from the Long Beach marathon. When I cross the Whitter Narrows dam I go further north towards the Santa Fe dam. At an appropriate mileage marker I stop for a quick drink and turn around for home. On the run down the San Gabriel river trail there are no cyclists who pass me or grab onto my wheel. Is everyone else going the opposite direction or am I going at a decent enough pace that nobody can catch me? I get to Del Amo and head for home just under 50 miles of riding. The Russian Grand Prix is a bit boring and the home hero fades to 12th from his 5th place starting position. I also watch the Japanese MotoGP race and Moto3 race sometime throughout the day in between helping Person Ti_Ca with his homework. And I continue poking around places to go live for a few months at a time when I retire.