I start Tuesday a bit late but get in a good mountain bicyce ride to the old yacht club and back. During the ride I run into the Phillippino riders that I rode with a few weeks ago but they are going very slow and I don't want to wait for them. So I go at my own pace after our greetings. When I get back home I trim the roses and get cleaned up. I replace the door hardware that I removed from the painted doors and take two more doors apart for painting on the next cooler day.
I start Wednesday at about a normal time and start working on cleaning up the trauma recovery website. I spend almost the entire morning working on state management and it just doesn't want to work. The diagnostic printouts are correct but the state is not changing as it should. Early in the afternoon I get out and lift weights. Since a couple joints and muscles are showing signs of problems, I drop the weights back to the level from two weeks ago and try again. But when I get out to lift weights I decide to work on abdominals, the core, the lower back and biceps - nothing that will bring the little aches and pains into play. And later tune in AFTER the Dodgers have had their 11 run first inning and the rest of the game is just a "let's get it over with" event.
After the light workout day on Wednesday, I wake up on Thursday morning a bit after 4 am and can't really sleep. I must be jet-lagged. Wait - I haven't gone or returned from anywhere. Nonetheless I get out cycling just as the darkness subsides and I see a bright orange sunrise and the reflections of the sunrise off downtown Long Beach buildings as well as off Palos Verdes buildings. It's a mountain bicycle ride out to the old yacht club and I feel very strong. I should have taken the road bicycle out for a long ride, but who knew after the shortened sleep? I yell a "Happy Thursday Ferris" to the pink-haired roller skating lady as I see her just as she's starting her skate and I'm about to make the turn for home. Back at home I grab a cooling shower and then run errands to return books to the library, pick up three more books, and stop in for supplies at CVS and Togos for later today. Back at home, despite the heat, I paint the "stepped portions" of my three panel doors on four doors. Hopefully these four doors will be finished this weekend and I can finish the last two doors the following week.
Friday is a good day. I sleep a bit late but get out walking in the morning fog. I don't do any running because muscles in the hip region and lower back are a bit sore from Wednesday's core workout. After walking for 70 minutes I cool down with a shower and check the news and markets. And then I paint the trim around two more doors. For the last painting effort, everything will be rolled and hopefully I'll get it all done on Monday. We have a good Zoom meeting with te CSULA team and then I watch part of FP1 and most of FP2 for the MotoGP bikes in Aragon. Late in the afternoon I get in a workout with the weights where I reduce the weights for lifts involving he riceps (since my left tricep still hurts) nad keep other weights high. Its a good workout and I cool down with another shower and then check out an invitation to a virtual hackathon involving mapping and social causes. It looks like fun!
I start Saturday a bit late also but get in a good loop ride on the mountain bicycle. Again the morning is foggy and I didn't want to have to clean up the recently cleaned road bicycle from the fog droplets and sand. After the ride I get to the grocery store for supplies and then watch MotoGP qualifying and Moto2 qualifying from Aragon. The rest of the day is fairly slow but I keep stretching out my shoulders and legs and occassionally ice the left tricep.
My heart isn't in a Sunday ride, so I go walking for nearly 80 minutes. I don't really get any running in today, but its'a good walk. I relax for a bit and check on the news and then I start painting doors. I finish two and a half doors when I call it quits to get cleaned up and watch another fun MotoGP race from Aragon. This has been an incredible and surprising year for MotoGP racing. The rest of the day is fairly slow though I keep turning the Dodgers' game on and off and finally go to bed with the Dodgers' leading late in the deciding game of the series.
I'm motivated to make progress on the graph convolutional networks and I work on them for a number of hours in the morning. Before I know it, it is after 11 am so I jump on the motorcycle to buy gasoline and to give the bike a ride to keep the lubricants moving around and the battery charged. When I get home I work the abdominals, core muscles, and lower back again and get a shower to cool off. The Moto3 race is close and exciting though my favorites riders do poorly. I then watch an interesting 2020 movie called "Go Back to China". And then I paint the last two and a half doors. Besides putting the door hardware back on, the major painting is complete. I'm sure I'll have to do some touch-ups, but I'm finished in the month that I said I would finish when I started all of this painting back in October 2019. (That seems forever ago since nobody had even heard of the word Covid at that time.) I get back to the graph convolutional neural networks and I'm ready to start training them.
I start Tuesday with a good 60 kilometer bicycle ride where I feel strong throughout. After the ride I put all of the internal door hardware back on aand take various paint supplies out of the house (in the spare bedroom) and order them back into the garage. There's a decent Moto2 race that I watch from Aragon and then I catch another episode of the Thai television series SOTUS. I can certainly pick out the Thai words that I know in the dialogue, but I don't think I'm getting any new words. And I make a lot of progress on the graph convolutional neural networks though it runs very slowly using the "standard" module for machine learning. Thus just before bed I convert it over to my own design package though I don't quite finish.
Whereas I felt strong on Tuesday's bicycle ride, today I feel tired right from the first pedal stroke. Nonetheless I go to the end of the ocean trail and turn around to come home. Back at home I trim the roses, get cleaned up, and go to a different grocery store than usual since they tend to have lower prices for generic versions of things that I can stock up on. At home I finish the graph convolutional neural network conversion to my design procedures and it runs very quick. Though I don't fully understand how to interpret the results yet. Today I watch a movie in Spanish titled "This is not Berlin" and its kinda fun.
I start Thursday with an 80 minute walk and then proceed to edge, mow, and trim the lawn. From the time I got out of bed, I've been moving for three hours and need a break. So I get cleaned up, specifically stay away from the graph convolutional neural networks, and do a lot of tidying up around the house and watching a movie. Just because its there, I watch the final presidential debate and I'm not impressed.
On Friday I sleep about 30 minutes late and get right to work on the graph convolutional neural networks. I make some good progress debugging and (possibly) start to understand the results. So I expand the design space to let the GCNN pick its own graph structure. Right near 10am I go lift weights and have a good session - protecting the left tricep with lighter weights. And afterwards I ice the left tricep only. After a shower I have the weekly CSULA Zoom meeting and the customer is present and she's happy with the results thus far. I catch FP1 and FP2 for the MotoGP race from Aragon and then start watching a new Netflix series called "The Queen's Gambit" - about an orphaned girl who takes up chess and gets really good. (I'm assuming she gets really good because I've only watched one episode.) Later I make super progress on the graph convolutional neural nework and the GCNN can pick its own graph structure and determine the best weights to use for each graph structure. It's time to start writing this up and generate some pretty pictures. The data that I'm using is primary voting results for a Long Beach city council primary and the GCNN can show which precincts can be expected to vote similarly.
I start Saturday in the darkness of the changing seasons. I'm on the road bicycle and run into third cousin Kyle. We ride for a bit but he he has to turn back and take care of other things. So I proceed on up the San Gabriel river trail and run into some Colombian riders. So I stick with them for a while and move forward to a convenient turn around point. As I'm heading for home along Del Amo, an SUV pulls up along side me and the only thing I hear is the word "Slovakian". So I switch into Slovakinan mode with "Dobry den" (the standard greeting) and "Yaksi mash" (How are you?). The SUV and I have a little conversation back and forth and I communicate that I wear the Slovakian jersey for my grandparents. He wants to talk about Peter Sagan, a world class Slovakian rider, but I just say, "I'm not really a fan of Peter Sagan but he is a great rider". Finally the driver of the SUV asks if I like beer. Well, I don't - I've drank two beers in my entire life and I hated both. So I say, "No, I prefer vodka or wine" and the driver says, "You aren't Slovakian!" We get a good laugh at this and finally in response to a "Have a safe ride" I get in a "djukyi eh" (Thank You). It's been a good and eventfull 65 kilometer ride. At home I get cleaned up and watch an interesting F1 qualifying session from Portugal where they have not raced for many years. I kinda like the constantly undulating track layout. Later in the evening I watch the Dodgers game. It's back and forth but going into the last inning the Dodgers lead by one run. And then the bottom of the 9th inning is a comedy of errors and the Dodgers lose.
I sleep horribly on Saturday night into Sunday morning. I keep waking up with the Dodgers' collapse on my mind. It's not that important - it's just a game after all. It's not like its a race! But I keep waking up with that collapse on my mind. I skip the Sunday morning bicycle ride and make super progress on the graph convolutional neural network and overlaying the connections on a geographic map of the voting districts. I just have to write this up and publish it but its going to be good! Near 10 am I lay out the cycling clothes and helmet and shoes and by the time I'm ready to go, there's a light rain/drizzle. I could easily go out and ride, but I don't. I just keep working on the mapping. I watch the final IncyCar race of the season and decide to hold F1 and MotoGP for Monday. Late in the afternoon I get out for a good core/abdominal/lower back workout and then watch some of the Dodgers' game.
I start Monday with a good ride. There's a tremendous amount of wind and dus that hampers the ride somewhat, but it doesn't seem to bother me and I feel strong throughout the ride. After getting cleaned up I start writing up the graph convolutional neural network effort and then watch another fun MotoGP race from Aragon, Spain. In the afternoon I spend time cleaning the hardwood floors and tidying up from the fire ash/dust that has rained down on Long Beach as a result of wind and fires in Orange County. The F1 race from Portugal is fairly boring but still an attraction.