I sleep horribly on Friday night into Saturday morning and keep hitting the snooze button when the alarm goes off. FInally I get out the door a bit after 7 am for a mountain bicycle ride to the old yacht club and back to home. The first few miles are difficult and I have a continuous headache. But I persist and end up with a decent ride. But the headache persists throughout the day. Today is a slow day with just a bit of coding but mostly football games and Netflix. It's a lull before life starts back up.
Sunday is a slow day. I'm out the door just after 7 am in 41F weather for a ride to the old yacht club and back to home. I pull out the lawn mower and run it for ten minutes to pick up the leaves under the big tree in the backyard. After a warm shower I do some grocery shopping with all healthy food to support a new year's resolution and then just kinda relax with football for most of the day. I don't really have the motivation to start any of the new projects that might be laying around. In the afternoon, in advance of washing and waxing the car over the next few days, I go polish the headlights.
I have a great night of sleepon Monday night and have a productive Tuesday. I start some coding, get to the ATM, have the car washed, and go to the post office. (How can the IRS have cashed my check back in March and claim that I didn't file a tax return when both the check and tax return were in the same certified mail envelope?) At home I lift weights heavy with the extra rep-out set thrown in and then I wax about 3/4 quarters of the World Rally Car. I run out of steam and will finish the waxing and the gold wheels on Tuesday and/or Wednesday. After a shower I grab lunch and then relax for a bit.
Tuesday starts at 7:05am out the door for a ride to the old yacht club and back to home. I intended a longer ride, but decided against it. Back at home I mow the lawn, grab a nice warming shower, and have brunch while reading the news and the markets. Early in the afternoon I get restless so I get out and finish waxing the World Rally Car (except for the gold wheels which will happen tomorrow). I'm still restless and don't feel like coding right now, so I jump on the motorcycle and take it for a ride to make sure my rear brake pad installation is good, to charge up the new battery, and to keep the lubricants moving around.
I get out on Wednesday for a slightly longer than one hour run/walk. I take extra time to get warmed up by walking today since I had "felt something" in the left calf the last time running. But today I don't feel anything weird and just stay near an hour duration rather than 75 or 80 minutes. After a shower I put my head down and get the map Python script running which converts an offlien map for online use. And fix a few other little innaccuracies. A good productive morning. Near noon I get down on my hands and knees in the garage and wax the gold wheels of the World Rally Car and declare this waxing effort complete. I'm not sure where the rest of Wednesday goes.
I sleep horribly on Wednesday night and see nasty fog when I look outside in the middle of the night - probably no morning bicycle ride. But when I get out of bed at 6:35am the fog has lifted so I'm out the door at 7:05am to ride. But just a few miles down the road the fog hits and the bike paths are wet. Still I get in a good ride and wipe the bicycle down when I get home. After a shower I read the news and markets, download all of the new legislative districts for processing, and start Python scripts to process the new data. As this runs its now about 1pm and I get out in the warm sunshine and spend two hours fixing sprinkler heads and adjusting sprays to hit some spots that have been a bit dry. At one point I look down and see blod dripping onto my left knee and I trace it back to a nasty gash on my left forearm. Where did that come from? But I keep playing in the mud and water (of the sprinklers) until about 3pm when everything is good except two sprikler heads which probably have some major problems and will require some real digging. I get in the second shower of the day to get rid of the mud and blood, put some Neosporin on the cuts, and watch a fun movie called "Sex Drugs and Bicycles". It's not what the title suggests but is an informative documentary about the Netherlands and comparisons with the United States. After dinner I just relax because it's been a long day of cycling and then up and down and back and forth with the sprinklers.
As expected, I have tremendously great sleep heading towards Friday morning. WHen I look out the window I can barely see the houses across the street because it is so foggy. Good thing this was a planned day off from cycling. I continue to work on processing the new 2020 shapefile data for the California Assembly, California Senate, and Californoa Congressional districts. This goes well though it does take time. I've also straightened out some knonw state cookie issues on four websites. And before I know it, it is 2pm. I get out and lift weights heavy again and even get in an extra rep on some of the lifts. After a shower I grab some food re-watch a baseball steroid movie "Screwball". And reading, modifying, and writing pdf documents has been tossed onto my plate and I get this 90% with Python by the time I am ready to give up for the day. It's been a great day of progress after super sleep last night.
I have a very good night of sleep and see that the morning is clear and dry, so I'm out the door in the semi-darkness at 6:45am for a road bicycle ride. I get in a good 65 kilometers and call it quits. After a shower I start a Python demographic script running and then get on the mountain bicycle to drop a letter off at the post office and to stop at CVS. Back at home I keep working through the processes of getting the California senate, assembly, and congressional districts into a format for later use. It's 2pm again and I'm just preparing lunch for the first meal of the day.
I'm out the door at 6:45am for a chilly and decent mountain bicycle ride. Except that the bicycle starts making all sorts of grinding and screeching noises during the ride. So I guess I'll be pull the rear wheel bearings apart on Monday and cleaning them up and lubing them up. They're probably just all gunked up from riding in the wet and sand and mud recently. I pick up leaves from the big tree in the backyard with the lawnmower. There aren't many leaves left on the tree so this should almost conclude the annual leaf cleaning process. And I have a slow day running some of the demographics scripts and watching football.
I'm out of bed at 6:05 am on a planned day off from cycling or running. I work on the demographics intersections and aggregations and statistics. There are some neural network models that are not behaving properly so I start the debugging of those models. And I walk to the grocery store to pick up some supplies including some sugary cinnamon muffins to pump up my blood sugar for today. Before 10 am I take the mountain bicycle outside and start disaaembling the rear. I take a step, such as removing the wheel, and then say I'll finish after I lift weights. And then I remove the rear axle and say I'll finish the effort after lifting weights. This keeps going on step by step until I've removed all of the ball bearings, cleaned up the entire bearing races and axles, re-lubed the balls, re-installed them, and put everything back together. I take the mountain bicycle for a ride up and down the street and I hear no noises and it seems to run smooth. Though if I spin the rear wheel with no load it stops after only a few rotations. But I'll go try a real ride as it is and see what happens. After putting the bicycle and all of the tools away I get in a god, heavy session with the weights. On some lifts I get in extra reps and on some I don't. I hope to get in extra reps for every lift on Friday with an extra rest day in between lifting sessions. After a shower I still have an incredible pup in the muscles which feels good. And I go back to debugging the neural network ill-behavior. I find that some of the statistics passed into the neural network have zero votes cast, so I remove these with a minimum vote threshold and try again.