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So I decided to just use the few blocks around my house as a track tonight so I didn't have to think. I forgot that if I wanted to know how far I went (I was running based on time: two sets of 8-minutes of jogging prefaced and separated by 5-minute walks) I needed to count laps. So this is only an approximation of the distance I traveled this muggy evening. The good news is that the 8-minute stretches felt fine as long as I didn't push too hard. And if I did push too hard I could get my breath back pretty quickly by just backing off a little. Pretty sure I never learned that trick when I ran cross country in high school.
What else is going on? Um... Had a couple of cavities filled yesterday which was fortunately painless except for the hour in the chair wearing a dental dam and the attendant minor gum damage which is basically healed now.
I seem to have failed to mention tabling for GAIT at the Sustainability Movie Night last week. It was a lovely evening, the tables were inside, and out in the parking lot were a bunch of electric (and alternative fuel) vehicles, so nobody really came by the table. Which was fine because I was outside too, taking pictures of the people and vehicles. The movie was Who Killed the Electric Car which I'd already seen (mostly dull, but worth watching for any time when Stan Ovshinsky and his then wife Iris are on the screen. There should be a movie just about these two. Stan has 400 patents and invented the nickel-metal hydride battery among many other things. Iris had a doctorate in biochemistry and Stan insists she deserves equal credit for his work (he says she's "too damn modest.") Plus they're adorable.)
I've been trying to anchor my daily activities with a primary goal of fighting entropy. I didn't really have an official primary goal before so I thought it was worth trying it as a yardstick against which to evaluate my various activities for whether they'll have a net positive, neutral, or negative effect on myself and the world. Yes, I'm basically stealing this from Diane Duane. Strangely enough, the act of pinning that goal to the wall seems to be having a positive effect on my productivity. Huh.
What else is going on? Um... Had a couple of cavities filled yesterday which was fortunately painless except for the hour in the chair wearing a dental dam and the attendant minor gum damage which is basically healed now.
I seem to have failed to mention tabling for GAIT at the Sustainability Movie Night last week. It was a lovely evening, the tables were inside, and out in the parking lot were a bunch of electric (and alternative fuel) vehicles, so nobody really came by the table. Which was fine because I was outside too, taking pictures of the people and vehicles. The movie was Who Killed the Electric Car which I'd already seen (mostly dull, but worth watching for any time when Stan Ovshinsky and his then wife Iris are on the screen. There should be a movie just about these two. Stan has 400 patents and invented the nickel-metal hydride battery among many other things. Iris had a doctorate in biochemistry and Stan insists she deserves equal credit for his work (he says she's "too damn modest.") Plus they're adorable.)
I've been trying to anchor my daily activities with a primary goal of fighting entropy. I didn't really have an official primary goal before so I thought it was worth trying it as a yardstick against which to evaluate my various activities for whether they'll have a net positive, neutral, or negative effect on myself and the world. Yes, I'm basically stealing this from Diane Duane. Strangely enough, the act of pinning that goal to the wall seems to be having a positive effect on my productivity. Huh.