Tuesday starts with a chilly 65 kilometer road bicycle ride. I feel strong, if chilly, throughout. For a lot of these rides I'm more mentally tired than physically tired. After a warming shower I go to Vons for supplies. The minute I walk into the store my favorite cashier comes over the entire store's intercom system with "Good morning Ray". I lookthrough the cashier stands and wave to her and then pick up my supplies. Lupe had been visiting family in Texas for a short time and my visits missed her shifts, so it's been a few weeks since we caught up. I work on "the final" capability that I want to add to the integrated Artifiail Intelligence process. Of course, we never know when "the final" one is really the final one. During the day I watch both the last Moto3 and last Moto2 races of the season from Valencia, Spain and just take care of a couple of small fixes around the house.
On Wednesday I lift weights and then climb up on the ladder again to use the brand new hedge trimmers on the neighbor's bush. I can't believe how much better the new hedge trimmers cut and I vow to sharpen them after every use. ANd now the Internet cable has lots of room before I have to go back up there. Later I watch some Netflix. Today I find that I'm cold throughout the day and I realize that both the fat and muscle that I lost during cancer treatment have changed my resistance to the cold.
I sleep very late on Thursday but still get out for a bicycle ride. At home I work on fixing the only old fence left - the other fences have been completely replaced in the last ten years or so. I keep my vow and sharpen the hedge trimmer blades, get the integrated Artificial Intelligence process finished, and find that I'm still cold all of the time. But I'm keeping my other vow that I've kept forever to not turn on the heat in the house until 1 December each year. One more day to go.
On Friday I get in a good 65 minute run where I try to increase the run/walk ratio. Ruby comes over near 12:30 and we drive to see one of my dentists in Century City to expose the steel teeth implants and put a temporary cap on them (until some real prosthetic teeth can be made). It's a process. I don't remember a thing from the time I'm counting backwards from 100 in Thai until Ruby has almost got me back home about five hours later. Ruby sticks around to make sure I'm still okay and I give her a retirement gift - today is her first official day of retirement!
On Saturday I go for an 80 minute walk only - no running the day after surgery. I don't have any pain, soreness, or bleeding. I end up spending a ton of time scraping websites and putting together the information that Ruby mentioned somebody else was trying to do by hand and not making muh progress. Fortunately I'm able to find websites with the information and scrape the detailed information for almost 600 agencies. By the end of the day the list is ready but I'll map them across Africa tomorrow and let Ruby know.
I start Sunday hitting the snooze button a few times since it is cold, I'm out the door near 7am for a mountain bicycle ride and I take it slowly to make sure I'm not doing any damage to my jaw or the temporary caps. At home I trim the roses and warm up with a shower before finishing up this effort on Africa with a color-coded map showing which countries have how many NGOs operating there. I also get a chance to see MY Detroit Lions on national television as they jump out to a 21-0 lead very early and then hang on to win. Later I finish the Africa effort for now, write a one page writeup, and send it off with a link to the map so that people can interact with it.
Monday and Tuesday are extra slow days though I have bicycle rides of 65 kilometers and 45 kilometers on these days. I'm worn out and even skip shoulder exercises on Tuesday. I spend a fair amount of time just tidying up around the house and tidying up files on my desktop computer. And there are a couple of one hour documentaries on "the running of the bulls" and how they are killed the day they run and another on artficial intelligence. After the baseball and footballl coding, the integrated Artificial Intelligence coding, and the Africa NGO coding I'm not up for coding these few days.