I start Tuesday with a good mountain bicycle ride. My legs feel strong today and I probably should have ridden the road bicycle on a long ride. At home I water the carnations, trim the roses, and drill and glue a piece on the turbocharger test stand. All other pieces will be bolted or screwed, so this one had to get done first so that the glue can dry. After a shower I get to target for supplies, Home Depot for turbocharger test stand pieces, a sub shop to pick up lunch for later, and the grocery store. After a short respite and transferring some laundry, I get to the lbrary to dump one book and pick up two more and then stop at CVS. At home I relax since it has already been a productive day and it is very hot today.
I start Wednesday painting the turbocharger test stand before later assembly. I decide to take stock of what's missing on this website and find some broken statistic pages to work on. I work through the problems and it takes a few hours to find the errors. Before noon I go lift weights with light weights and 25 repetition sets again. I am still sore from Monday's workout (since it was the first liting session inalmost four months) but I do my best. I notice that I have no pain at all in the shoulders. So I just have to work gradually on this. I manage to get the turbocharger into the test stand and just have to do some basic alignment and shipping to run the first test. After a shower I have a slow afternoon but already finish a new Michael Lewis book that I just got from the library yesterday.
I decide to go running on Thursday rather than cycling. I have a good 52 minte run/walk where nothing hurts. After the run I trim the roses and mow the lawn. Later in the morning I run errands including buying new casual shoes. It's been a productive day so I take some time to watch the British Open and later watch the day's mountain stage of the Tour de France.
I sleep a bit late on Friday and trim the roses and water the roses. After I eat a bit of something I get out on the mountain bicycle for a 90 minute ride to the pier and back. Later I'm on the motorcycle (for the first time in a month) to have lunch with Person Ch_C at his new workplace in Irvine. It's a nice workplace of a company that makes medical devices and software to monitor patients. We have a nice lunch and visit and I ride for home when Person Ch_C has to go back to work for a meeting. At home I watch the time trial stage of the Tour de France and continue working on the baseball statistics which I've just scraped from a website to play with.
Saturday and Sunday are slow days with lifting weights and cycling and the British Open golf championship and two brutal stages of the Tour de France.
I start Monday with a 54 minute run/walk and then read the news and check the market. Early in the afternoon I ride the motorcycle down to Seal Beach to meet with a financial advisor and to make some moves into a more defensive position. Afterwards I meet up with a member of the LBHTTF to help him with a website. We spend 3-4 hours at Portfolio coffeeshop working on his site. And I discover an error that I've made (which isn't a big deal because we haven't gone live with the site) but it bugs me. When I go home I watch the recorded episods of Weeds and then try to find my error. This one takes some digging but I find it - now I can sleep well tonight.
I start Tuesday with a good 60 kilometer bicycle ride. Today is going to be hot and when I'm finished with the ride I'm worn out. I work on the website for a while and take a break to watch a flat stage of the Tour de France. Wednesday repeats Tuesday where it is very hot and humid, I get out for a good road bicycle ride, I'm worn out, and I work on the website.
I start Thursday by working on the website and working on a machine learning clustering algorithm At a convenient time I take a break to go lift weights - still light weights and high repetitions. But at least I have no pain in the shoulders. On the way to meet a finanical advisor I stop in to buy cupcakes for the bank/investment place as I typically do. Afterwards I drive down to retro row in Long Beach and sell my punk and rock records to a used record store. I've previously digitized these records with a USB turntable, so I'm not losing the music. I have a fair number semirare rock and punk albums and the store owner gives me $300 for my used records. I was hoping for $100. I get home and watch a brutal mountain stage of the Tour de France including the Col d'Izoard and my favorite - the Col d'Galibier. The racing, the scenerary, and brutality of the stage leave me awestruck. Afterwards I go back to working on the website and reading and taking care of the roses and carnations. After watering the roses and carnations I hook the axial turbocharger model up to the garden hose, weight down the test stand, amd turn on the water. At first the water shoots high into the air from the outlet arms, but then the main shaft starts spinning as desired - once the internal pressure built up. There's certainy a major leak where the garden hose attaches to the inlet fitting and a small leak between the main pipe and an arm, but the spin rate is good considering the leaks. And the distance that the water is thrown, an indication of the outlet to inlet pressure ratio, is very impressive and gives me encouragement that this idea can work.
I have trouble sleeping into Friday morning. Finally I get up before the alarm and go walking to deposit the check for the records and to pick up some supplies at the grocery store. At home I trim and clean the roses and glue up the small leak on the turbocharger arms. The main inlet leak will have to be given some thought. After a cooling shower I start the laundry, work on the mapping portion of the website, and work again on the clustering algorthm. At a convenient time I stop and watch another great mountain stage of the Tour de France with an abandonded ending because a hail storm and mudslide have made the finishing roads impassable.
Friday night is a bit cooler and I sleep well. I get in a good 60 kilometer road bicycle ride on Saturday morning and then watch qualifying for the German Grand Prix. Should I have stayed in Germany or surrounding areas for these last two weeks to attend the race? Possibly. Maybe next year. Near noon I go to the library to return two books and get two more to read. From there I go to my favorite coffeeshop where they have the air conditioning blasting and I work away on the website and on the clustering analysis during the heat of the day.
I start Sunday woth a good 65 kilometer road bicycle ride. I feel strong throughout and look forward to some longer distances. After the ride I wash the bicycle down and trim the roses. After a shower I settle in for the wet/damp German F1 race. It's a wild race with 5 or 6 pitstops per driver (where they would usually use 1 stop in the dry). The polesitter falls to 12th place at the end with the last place driver finishing 2nd. That was a fun race!
I sleep very well into Monday morning since it has been a cooler night and I stuffed my earplugs in (since there was a dog barking from afar that I could just barely hear but didn't want to let bother me). I'm awake at 5:30 before the alarm and I go water the roses and carnations and then clean and re-order some kitchen closet shelves (which I somehow got in my mind on Sunday needed doing). I energize this morning with a combined Mountain Dew and Red Bull and start coding away on stock market predictions, golf statistics, and other things as a diversion from my usual stuff. Near noon I get in a decent workout with the weights, lubricate the motorcycle chain, and put in a "stop" on the turbocharger model. After a shower I drive down to Long Beach to sell all of my old used music CDs. This time I only get about $100 - vinyl being more in vogue these days than CDs. Back at home I do some reading and watch a bit of television. I end up skipping the opening day for the new Long Beach Civic Center which is replacing the old one builts in the early 1970s because it is not earthquake resistant.