On Tuesday morning before 3 am I wake up and toss and turn and cannot fall back asleep. I just keep imagining all sorts of things that are wrong with me and I just cannot drop off to sleep. I finally drift off to sleep and hit the snooze button on the phone a few times before I get out of bed. I'm out the door at 6:32 am for a mountain bicycle ride (instead of a typical Tuesday road bicycle ride) since I have slept so poorly. I just go down to the old yacht club and back to home and feal pretty good considering the lack of sleep. After a quick shower I pick up some supplies from the grocery store, start the laundry, and try to fix the offset in the geocoded Las Vegas substance abuse data that I knew existed (and that I sorta figured out during the bicycle ride). The fix works and now the data is clean but I go to work mapping the data for a final confirmation before I send an updated dataset to the requestors. And I include a note paraphrased as "don't ever effing do that again" regarding a data request one day in advance of a meeting.
Since I'm trying to get in two run/walks per week now, Wednesday has become my slow day. The legs get their first day off in ten days and instead I lift weights (with slightly reduced weights since it has been almost two weeks since I lifted). I take some time to read the news and markets and continue to work on a seamless transition to medicare. I spend some time, as an ongoing process, to look through old notes from classes that I took and decide whether I still need them or not. For the most part, it turns out the notes are fairly obsolete since Google searches can replicate everything that I need. And in the near future, I'll have to decide what to do with very old technical textbooks which were invaluable in the past but are quickly also becoming obsolete. Where to donate them or eBay them off? Later in the day I watch some Netflix, work on some interesting geodemographic work, clean the bathrooms floors, watch the ice hockey playoff game, and help a friend out with a resume.
I don't know what happens to Thursday. I get out cycling to the old yacht club and back to home at 6:15 am. From there I check the news and markets, watch some of the US Open in golf, and get intrigued by selecting fantasy baseball players and start building up some code to perform this task (just for fun).
I start Friday with a fifty minute run. When I get home I trim the roses and spray the junipers for spider mites. I guess I just have to spray them once a week or so for a while. After a shower I check the news and markets and later watch FP2 for the MotoGP race from Germany (which I attended three years ago) and FP2 for F1 from Canada. I read an article about scraping individual player statistics for baseball usage in selecting lineups, so I play around with this idea for a while - I've always wondered if there are better ways to pick batting order lineups than what has been used for 100 years. And later I start looking through old notebooks from my university days and tossing them into the recycling bin (if I decide that they are beyond usefulness).
The next few days are a blur of cycling and running and MotoGP qualifying and races and F1 qualifying and races. All of the qualifying sessions and races are fun and intense with the extra heat in Germany and the rain in Canada. I take some time to watch ice hockey playoff games when convenient. I also pick up the Python mapping/demographic work again because I have different ideas and approaches for visually mapping similar districts.
On Tuesday night into Wednesday morning there is thunder and lightning and rain. I enjoy listening to the rain come down. In the morning I shut off the alarm and sleep for an extra hour since it is my one weekly day off from cycling or running. I feel a bit blah to start the day and keep looking at the sky as thunder cracks and spots of rain fall. At mid-morning I get in a good session with the weights where no joints hurt (though this is still the reduced weights from last week). After a quick shower the rain is coming down hard, but I still drive to the ATM and the grocery store for supplies. Unfortunately, now the car will need to be washed. I watch another scorching race from Germany - this time the Moto2 race. And I work through some Python mapping issues and end the day watching the ice hockey playoff game. During the playoff game I keep getting up to stretch out my legs and shoulders and upper back and do some one-legged balancing exercises (seeing that I recently read a report that "correlates" a person's balance with their mental decline).
Late on Wednesday I'm watching Netflix or the ice hockey playoffs and I see blood on the couch. WTF? I see a small wound on my forearm and start putting ice and pressure on it as I try to clean the blood stains off the couch. Three hours later, at the end of the ice hockey game, I see fresh blood on the couch. The wound has opened back up again and its time for more pressure and ice. And more couch cleaning. Am I going to have to call an ambulance for a little would on my forearm that won't stop bleeding?
On Thursday and Friday I go cycling and run/walking in the morning and then just take care of small things around the house including mowing the lawn and trimming the roses. FP2 from Assen (The Cathedral of Speed) for MotoGP and Moto2 are consumed and I dream of being back thee as I was three years ago. And later I catch the ice hockey playoff game.
I'm out the door at 6:10 am on Saturday for a good eighty kilometer bicycle ride. I don't hit any bad spots today and look forward to a longer ride soon. At home I get cleaned up, return two books to the library, and do some grocery shopping. From there I mix in Moto3, Moto2, and MotoGP qualifying with a phone call to my web hosting company to get an SSL certificate straightened out. Later I see that the SSL certificate is straightened out for four out of the five websites. It's probably a typo, but I need to call my hosting company again. Today is a hot day and I take it easy after today's long ride. Later in the day I see that the SSL has been straightened out for all of the sites and I hope I don't have to go through this headache for two years.
I had a really down day on Friday. I got out running and mowing the lawn to get the day started - good! Being healthy and productive. But then some paperwork and the SSL confusion really dragged me down. But after Saturday's long bicycle ride, the fun MotoGP/2/3 qualifying sessions, and getting the SSL certificates straightened out, I feel a lot better.
I'm physically and mentally hungover from Saturday, so I start slowly on the mountain bicycle on Sunday morning. I ride down to the old yacht club and back to home and the legs are tired but I just keep pumping away. I cool down with a shower, work on some Python mapping, watch a fun MotoGP race from Assen, and later watch the last ice hockey playoff game as one team wins the Stanley cup.
Monday is a fairly slow day. I get out for a good fifty minute run/walk where I feel good and nothing huts or threatens to hurt. Maybe a couple more weeks of running twice a week and I can increase to sixty minute durations. After getting cleaned up I read the news and the markets and work on more Python mapping. I'm just meticulously going through and fixing little work arounds that were put in place a while ago and I want them to look nicer. There's a fun Moto3 race from Assen, Netherlands and later in the day I watch the recorded "Citizen Ashe" special about the great tennis player Arthur Ashe.