It's fairly chilly on Monday night into Tuesday morning and I stay in bed an extra thirty minutes. Finally I get out of bed and get on the mountain bicycle for a ride to the old yacht club and back again. It's not the longer ride that I planned, but it works. Afterwards I run a few errands and have a slow day.
The blahs continue on Wednesday as I shut off the alarm and sleep for an extra hour. I've noticed much deeper sleep since I've been taking this latest anti-fungal (both subjectively and according to my FitBit). Maybe its doing soemthing? I code for a while and catch upon paperwork for a non-profit and then have a good session with the weights at late morning. Then I trim the roses and re-check the battery on the Yamaha YZF-R1. It doesn't want to start though it started fine yesterday. Thus it goes back on the trickle charger. And after a short time it starts right up. If I can believe my records, the battery is eight years old, so that explains why it needs a trickle charge if I let it set for 24-48 hours. With the twentieth birthday of the Yamaha YZF-R1 coming up iin February, it really is time for a new motorcycle. I watch "City of Joy" in the afternoon and then have a CSULA Zoom meeting to make charts for Friday's poster session.
Sleep is deep but I have a greater than 1 degree fever when I wake up. I manage to drag myself out of bed at 6:05 am on Thursday. And I'm out the door on the road bicycle at 6:35 am. I get in 65 kilometers but its not my best effort. I still think this strong anti-fungal is doing a number on me. After the ride I pull both bicycles out and clean up the rear clusters with a rag and WD-40. After a shower I run a few errands and then vow today to not do any coding and just relax, rest, be a vegetable, and spend time laying on the couch in case I am coming down with something. I need to be ready to spend most of Friday afternoon at CSULA for all senior design project poster sessions.
It is very foggy on Friday morning so I start the day with about an hour walk - I'm not feeling a real run. On the way back home I buy some cinnamon muffins for breakfast. After a shower, reading the news, and trimming the roses, I ride the motorcycle up to CSULA for a mid-semester poster review. I fianlly get to interact with many students besides my own team and I enjoy the interactions and I enjoy talking with various team members with diverse backgrounds. As is my volunteer attitude, I optimistically try to encourage the students and get them excited about their projects. After commuting back home I grab a simple dinner and skip the First Fridays event near home. The walking and talking and moving posters around at CSULA having taken a lot out of me.
I start Saturday in the dark with a road bicycle ride at 65 kilometers. Thre is the Bayshore Triathlon going on and some of the racers rapidly ride past me and some I ride past. There's a lady riding along who has a problem with her bicycle's front brakes or front wheel, but I cannot help help her because that would disqualify her from the triathlon. I just ride past and point out the problem and wish her good luck for the ride. A guilty response but certainly staying within the rules of a triathlon. After a shower I adjust the chain of the Yamaha YZF-R1 which has seemed to stretched out fairly rapidly despite the low mileage. And then watch Moto3/GP/2 qualifying from Portugal and F1 qualifying from Mexico. I wish I was at either of these events in person. The rest of the day is fairly slow.
After the time change on Saturday night, I start a decent mountain bicycle ride on Sunday morning at 6:15am. It's chilly to start and there aren't many other riders, but the number of riders out picks up a bit as I'm heading home. I do some maintenatance on the old mountain bicycle and trim the roses and, after a shower, start in on the Formula One race from Mexico. I watch the pre-race show this time since the entire European broadcast is available on network television and enjoy the stories and technical discussions before the race starts. I have tingles up and down my spine as I'm hoping soon to be at a Formula One race in person. And the action doesn't disappoint. The day passes quickly as we've moved all of hour clocks back to go back to standard time. And I have a few ideas to work on from CSULA and other projecs, but I don't get to them today.
I start Monday working on implementing object oriented programming methods into a couple of projects. I get stuck on a few esoteric ways to access data, but I keep plugging along and have it conquered by the end of the day. But I certainly take some time near noon to get in a decent session with the weights and then to watch the wildest Moto3 race from Portugal (which ends up deciding the Moto3 World Champion for my favorite Moto3 rider). And then I wind the day down slowly.
I start Tuesday a bit slow on the road bicycle but start feeling better after a few kilometers. I just keep the pedals spinning and end up at 75 kilometers. At the end of the ride I run into Person K_E and we have a nice little discussion that was spurred by him wearing a NASA shirt and I had to stop and tell him my story. After a shower and reading the news, I get down to the main public library in Long Beach to return two books and pick up four new ones. Back at home I watch a fairly processional MotoGP race from Portugal with a lunch of rice and vegetables. Most of the remaining day is spent reading and watching the start of a Netflix documentary about carbon credit scamming.
I'm up a bit late on Wednesday but get in a good seventy minute run/walk. Today I'm not quite feeling it so there was more walking than usual. And I've noticed that my blood pressure has been elevated since I've been taking this last anti-fungal, maybe that has something to do with "not quite feeling it". Fortunately today is the last day of the two week anti-fungal treatment and my blood pressure better return to normal in a couple of days. I also noticed that my sleep score on my FitBit jumped a fair amount while taking this medicine, so we'll see what happens there. After the run I mow the lawn and then wash the lawnmower and edger. The front bush needs trimming but that will have to wait. Later in the day I watch the Moto2 race from Portugal.
Thursday and Friday pass quickly with a good bicycle ride to the old yacht club and back to home and good session with the weights. I get the front bush trimmed and though it looks nice, it was not as deep a trimming as I originally intended. I run some errands and then have a CSULA Zoom meeting as we discuss object oriented programming and how it can benefit our senior design project.
On Saturday I ride north on the Los Angeles river past the Whittier Narrows dam to a convenient turn-around point and back to home. Its clocked at 80 kilometers and I don't feel tired at all. After a shower I watch qualifying for Moto3, MotoGP, and Moto2 and fix a little error that I had in my CSULA discussion. I broadcast out the fix and hope the students pick up the initiative and run with it. It's a very hot and dry day so outside of some garage door maintenance, I stay inside the house which stays cool and later watch the qualifying sprint race for F1 from Brasil. I notice throughout the day that my sinuses are hurting a bit from the dry dusty Santa Anas and the long bicycle ride.
I start SUnday with a mountain bicycle recovery ride tothe old yacht club and back home. I have to get out early since they are putting up signs and closing down the beach area for the Long Beach AIDS Walk which starts at 10am. Back at home I trim the roses and get cleaned up and note that my sinuses still hurt. And will probably not feel great untilthe Santa Anas leave in another day or so. But ice on the area helps. I have a slow day with some football and the F1 race from Brasil and some cleaning up around the house. And take a bit of time to lay out some personal and financial plans for 2022.
I take Monday off from cycling, running, or walking since the legs are tired. I do a short walk to the grocery store for (mostly) healthy supplies and then ride the motorcycle down to my healthcare provider to pick up a prescription. (After a false start when the motorcycle will not start and needs to be put back on the battery tender.) Back at home I have good workout with the weights where I've increased the weights a bit and it feels good even if its a struggle. After a shower I spend some time on the phone with the retired school teacher across the street who has finally decided to call out the phone provider to come and replace her phone router (after various phone technical representatives have said words to the effect of "that doesn't boot as smoothly as it should"). I've downloaded some Python programs related to games and strategies and run them and start to decipher what they are doing. In the early afternoon I watch the final Moto3 race of the season from Valencia. Late in the afternoon I'm talking with the Philippino neighbor across the street and it turns out he has a really tall extension ladder. So I carry it back home and can finish scraping and painting the wood at the back of the house that gets beaten up by the sun.