On Tuesday I'm out the door to go walk/run just after 6am and it is very chilly. I'm glad that I brought my cycling shell. Today I run/walk in the streets/sidewalks/pavement for the first time since before the bicycle accident 13 months ago. All of the running has previously been done on the rubberized track at Liberty Park. Since today is on a hard surface for the first time, I just run/walk for 65 minutes and go get a warm shower. From there I mix up coding the integrated AI process, a fun Moto3 race from Thailand, and a bit of the World Series. Late in the afternoon I go trim and water the roses. A slow day but a productive day.
I'm out the door at 6:47am for the loop ride plus extension on the road bicycle. I had to wait for enough light to be safe to get started. It's a good ride and I enjoy another warming shower. I take care of paperwork and new appointments with a new dentist in Long Beach and then watch a somewhat processional Moto2 race. In the afternoon I just keep working my way through the integrated artificial intellgience software and just when I think I'm finished, I find a little discrepancy to fix or a new feature to add. And late in the day I watch the baseball game.
I give the morning a bit of time to lighten up (prior to this week's loss of daylight saving time) and have a good recovery ride on the mountain bicycle. At home I try to weedwack the rosebeds but these rechargeable batteries seem to last less and less time with every recharge. This is different than a previous set that I had which ran for a long time and fairly suddenly gave up the ghost. I put the batteries on the charger again for an overnight charge to finish the job and consider whether to buy more batteries for this weedwacker or a complete new weedwacker with (hopefully) better batteries. After a nice warm shower I run errands to the pharmacy and grocery store for supplies. At home I clean up this version of the integrated artifial intelligence project and keep adding notes to the source code for a minor form of configuration control. For lunch I have salad and watch a fun MotoGP race from Buriram Thailand. Midway through the race I see blood all over the couch and I see that I'm bleeding on the outside of the right wrist. I clean it up and put a bandage on it and get out the cool water and try to scrub away the blood before it dries up on the light-colored upholstery. In the afternoon I run some test cases on ht eintegrated AI project but I've run out of development/codeing steam for now. And I consider writing up a summary and a more detailed description of the work so that it is ready for any proposals or help that I'm asked to provide. And I waste away a bit of time with Netflix - finally watching "The Imitation Gane" about Alan Turing and the effort to break the German's Enigma code maching.
I'm out the door for a run/walk at 6:10 am. I re-do the 65 minute run/walk from the other day on streets/sidewalks/pavement just to see how my body with respond. So far, so good. In fact, I'm probably taking the running part a bit too slowly, but it's okay. At home I trim the roses and then edge, mow, and trim the lawn. Both the front and backyards look nice now. I pull out the weedwacker with batteries that have been charging overnight and find that they both run strong for aboout two minutes and then have a sudden dropoff in speed (hence cutting ability). I make note of the batteries and vow to never buy this brand again as I shop on Amazon for new batteries. After a nice warm shower I put on warm clothes - waiting for the day to warm up - and decide to fix an inconsistency in the integrated AI process. Some of the AI methods want lists as outputs and some want DataFrames (to be able to handle multi-output systems). Thus I take the plunge and make sure everything is a DataFrame and go through routine by routine to make the code compatible. This isn't hard to do, just tedious as I wish to work on higher level things. But it should make producing results for a multi-output system very easy. A bottle of wine gets opened and this probably doesn't help my coding efforts, but I push on. Later I watch FP2 from Brasil for F1 and then watch some Netflix.
On Saturday, I turn off the alarm and sleep until 8am. I never sleep this late unless I'm sick, but I'm not feeling sick. Nonetheless I take the day off from cycling or running but get in a decent session with the weights. After a shower I flush the tankless water heater while watching the F1 qualifying from Brasil and some unimportant college fotball games.
On Sunday I'm out in the light near 6 am affter we've gone back to Pacific Standard Time. I'm on the road bicycle and feeling okay. Today i Get up to the El Monte dam and turn back for home. Halfway home, though I'm up a full gear, I've run out of brain glucose. The legs and organism do not feel bad, but I can tell my brain has no glucose to operate on. Thus I have t concentrate on being safe and staying in my own lane and staying out of trouble. I guess I didn't eat enough on Friday afternoon and night. I have a nice warming shower and watch the F1 Sprint race. As I'm going back and forth between watching football games and tightening up the integrated artificial intelligence code, I have this brilliant idea to try to find another dataset to use the process on. Just to get more experience and find pitfalls in the process. For the development over the last month, I've used baseball statistics for the past 50 years. For the new effort, I decide to use football statistics for the past 50 years. Thus I set up the statistics scraper and see the modifications I have to make to get it to work.
On Monday I start the day with a 75 minute run/walk, but I'm still out of glucose. Thus, after a shower, I get to the grocery store for supplies and apple pie. I'm craving apple pie and the sugar that it has. It takes most of Monday to scrape the football statistics, inspect them for abnormalities, and get them close to the format the the integrated artificial intelligence program uses. I finally watch the F1 race from Brasil with some good action involved. And the two new weedwacker batteries that are supposed to come on Wednesday, arrive today. So I put them on the charger to try out on Tuesday.
Tuesday starts with a mountain bicycle ride to the old yacht club and back. Today the legs feel stronger than usual. At home I burn through both new batteries on the weeedwacker as I clean up the rose beds and do lots of other trimming around the yard. These batteries, as they should, feel very strong to start but still only last about 8 minutes each driving the weedwacker under heavy use. By late afternoon I get the football statistics cleaned up and formatted and run them through the integrated artificial intelligence process. All of the five AI processes work and produce, at first look, results that make sense and are explainable. I ewant more "seat time" with this AI process and maybe find a third dataset, but it loos very promising.
Wednesday is a planned day off from working the legs. I'm still out of bed at 5:45am to work on tidying up the integrated artificial intelligence process. It takes a couple of hours to make sure formats are compatible but the two datasets run through very well. Later I try to match up one football dataset with another, which I've done easily with the baseball statistics, and this is a bear. It just desn't want to match up. I take a break to lift weights - possibly making progress with the lifting and then I trim the roses. (And I have to admit that when I was getting into position to do tricep push-ups, I lose my balanace and fall against the visitor's bicycle and shelves. I gather myself togther and make sure I'm not light-headed or dizzy before any next lifts. After lifting, maybe because of my fall the visitor's bicycle is touching the front brake pad, so I adjust it so that it is free to spin again.) Back inside the house I've missed the Long Beach Human Trafficking Task Force meeting, but the special speaker didn't seem to draw my interest this month. I work for hours on trying to line up the various football datasets, not in an ad hoc manner, but in an automated manner, and it isn't going well. I'm going to have to resort to writing for loops rather tahn using built-in Python functions which are described all over the place and don't work fr this case (though they worked for the baseball statistics). One can point to a code-writer error, but I've tried many different ways with no luck. I take a break to listen to youtube videos of oldies songs, Thai pop songs, Burmese pop songs, rock en espanol, and other genres of music. And then decide to watch television and solve my problem tomorrow.
I'm out the door at 6:10am for another recovery ride on the mountain bicycle down to the old yacht club and back to hme. An uneventfull ride despite it being 45F and cold when I start. At home I decide to wash some dishes before taking a shower and I'm not getting any hot water (out of the tankless water heater that I flushed a few days ago). The tankless controller is flashing 76F which would be very low and its flashing. I power cycle the controller and now it shows 120F and I get hot water. I put on some "clothes for the public" and ride the bicycle to the post office and grocery store for errands. And when I retun home I put my bedding and other clothes into the washing machine and start laundry. Meanwhile I've changed into my "at home" t-shirt and comfortable shorts (too informal for public use). After reading the news and markets I decide to run my integrated artificial intellgence process through a number of standard datasets that I have. I discover some inaccuracies and I work through them so that this can be a set of standard test runs to make before release of the methodolgy to ohers. I grab lunch near 12:30 with some Netflix playing. And I go back to debugging/standardizing the AI process. I'm not sure of the next steps after the process has been standardized: Publish on Medium, tell various non-profits about it, etc.
On Friday I start with a 75 minute run/walk. The run/walk goes well, thugh I feel the threat of a little ache or pain which might grow larger so I make a not not to run/walk three times a week yet. At home I trim the roses, bring in a few blooms, and take a warming shower on this chilly morning. I run errands to the ATM, CVS pharmacy, and the library. WHen I return home I put on warm sweats because my house stays very cool untill ater in the afternoon and I'm lost a ton of insulating fat. I tidy up and enhance the integrated artificial intelligence algorithm and think of ways to better describe, both mathematically and graphically, the Gaussian Mixture clusters. And finally I watch FP2 for MotoGP and Moto2 from Malaysia.
On Saturday morning I hit the snooze button a number of times and don't get out of bed until 6:30am. I work on a small little problem to help datasets from different sources or scrapes better alighn and I finally have it working. This dataset alignment issue has puzzled me and held me back this entire week. I get in a good session with the weights at mid-morning and I'm able to increase the repetitions for each exercise. It helps to lift weighs mre than once a week if I really want to regain my lost strength. After a shower I record another lower ound weight - as low as I've been in 42 years. Qualifying for Moto3, Moto2, and MotoGP are close and exciting and I can't wait for the races. During lunch of bean and cheese burritos I watch some college football in the background. But then I go back and re-run the integrated AI program on the various datasets to make sure that I haven't broken anything while fixing others. I take a shot at getting ready to utilize the principal component analysis (PCA) vectors to reduce the problem runtime and also do some lower level scraping to see if the proces can work at lower levels. And finally, again just to lie down and relax, I watch some college football games and a bit of Netflix.
On Sunday I want to ride the road bicycle long, but I'm lazy and it is very windy, so I ride the mountain bicycle dwn to the old yacht club and back t home. I push hard against the wind on two legs of the four leg ride so its a good workout. At home I trim the roses, though there isn't much growth right now. I also do some maintenance on the garage door and have a nice warming shower. I've found another interesting problem to solve with my integrated Artificial Intelligence process and so I'll be spending a week scraping data. (I keep running into limits since the data source website thinks I'm running a bot - which I am.) The Tissot Spring MotoGP race from Malaysia is a lot of fun and exciting. And later, as my Detroit Lions play there game on television I keep resetting IP addresses and proxies to scrape as much as I can without running into limits. But it will still take a while to get all of the data that I want.
On Monday I take the road bicycle out for an extended loop ride along both river trails. As I approach Pacific
Coast Highway, the high tide has the bike path flooded so I have to cross PCH. When I cross I see a group of riders with the Velo Alegro jersey. The
conversation goes:
Ray: Do you know Al Shorts?
Velo Alego: Yes, we know him well.
Ray: He was my neighbor and we would ride together before he moved to Texas.
Velo Alego: Before he moved to Texas.
Ray: His brother Ricky is REALLY fast!
Velo Alego: REALLY fast!
Now there's a pause and I don't know whether to bring it up or not, but I do.
Ray: Was one of your club members involved in a nasty bicycle accident here about a year ago?
One of the riders steps up and says
Velo Alego: That was me.
Ray: And that was me that was involved.
The guy's wife asks, "You're Ray Manning?"
Ray: Yes. That was nasty wasn't it? I guess our left handlebars hit each other.
Velo Alego: Some of my teammates just passed me and I was rushing to catch them.
Ray: Yes, I saw that. You were passing other riders on the wrong side of the path.
Velo Alego: I was avoiding the over-grown bushes on my side of the road.
There's another pause now.
Ray: I'm not assigning blame, but I squeezed as far right as I could.
Velo Alego: I know. But I had to avoid the bushes.
Ray: Man, you were completely out of it in ICU.
The man's wife chimes in here, but...
Velo Alego: Yes, I just wanted to get out of the hospital.
Ray: It got worse for me because after I recovered I had a cancer diagnosis and had cancer surgery.
Velo Alego: Oh my God!
Ray: But we're both okay and moving forward from here.
Velo Alego: Did you know your friend was involved in the crash also?
Ray: The Australian? I just met him and I was dragging him along.
Velo Alego: Hmmmm.
Ray: I didn't hear a thing about him..
After another long pause we just smile at each other and bump fists and get back to our rides which are going in the
opposite direction.
At home, after a good ride, I get in a warm shower, get to the groery store for supplies, do some web scraping where I have to keep changing IP addresses, proxy serves, and sleep (pause) times to get around the bot protection of the website. There's a fairly processional but fun Moto2 race and then I relax with the football game and music.