Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are blah days. I certainly have some decent bicycle rides and long walks, but there's a lull in the things that I need to get done. I mow the lawn and pick up leaves and wash the garage windows, but other projects don't readily come to mind. And for child abuse or demographics or CSULA there are no current tasks or deadlines. So I spend a fair amount of time on Netflix and documentaries and (sometimes) garbage shows.
The blahs continue. Though I have some decent bicycle rides and workouts and walks, I'm still just blah. I'm going through the motions of my respnsibilities with no enthusiasm. I can blame it on Covid-19 as much as I want. But I have to figure out a way to get rid of the blahs.
I start Sunday with a cold but good mountain bicycle ride to the old yacht club and back home. After getting cleaned up I watch the F1 race from a modified (mickey mouse) track in Bahrain. But some decent action and some mistakes by the leading teams/drivers gives a surprise winner and surprise podium. The rest of the day is just spent with football games. And I list out the things that I want to tackle for the upcoming week.
I'm up early on Monday morning and starting to read the news in advance of gathering a number of algorithms into one place and using one data format. At 6:25 in the morning, while it is still dark, an Amazon truck pulls up and delivers the new office chair that I ordered. Really? That early in the morning? But I'm happy that I didn't miss the delivery in case of porch pirates and I have the chair assembled and ready to go before 7:00. The chair feels good and now I can get rid of the 7-8 year old chair - though its still in good condition except the beaten up armrests. I get the Gaussian mixture model to work with the data content and data format that I was using for the graph convolutional neural network. At 10 in the morning I have a Zoom learning session with the Long Beach Health Department related to trauma and human trafficking. It isn't quite what I expected, but I listen until it ends near noon. Then I get in a heavy session with the weights which goes well except for left tricep pain. After a shower I take the Yamaha YZF-R1 for its weekly ride to keep the battery charged and the lubricants and fluids flowing. When I get home the retired school teacher from across the street calls and comes over for me to help her with her MacBook problems again. We're both wearing masks, maintining a decent distance, and promised each other to wash our hands when we are finished. This time her computer (or she) has managed to mess up her start page and I quickly fix it. And then I finally eat some food. Early in the evening I'm working on the PCA analysis and I can't quite get the results that I expect. So I give up for a while to let it simmer as I watch some television.