1. So week two of no-weight-lifting proceeds apace. I am whiny and sullen about this, but I am being very careful with my hands and arms, not doing lifting, not doing rowing machine, doing lots of stretches. Instead of weights I am doing a variety of bodyweight exercises. Supermans, where one lays on the floor [...]
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1. Tentatively, it looks like the possible new work rules to prevent controllers sleeping on shifts won’t affect me too much. Here’s hoping. 2. The season five opener of Friday Night Lights was just SITTING there on Hulu, so, yeah, I’m going to try watching it without going back and watching the intervening seasons. Maybe [...]
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1. Started a book called The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, about the survivors of the Dustbowl. So far it is extremely compelling and also horrifying. 2. The time of the kids’ swim classes changed with the new term. Mostly because K advanced to the Flying Fish level, and those classes are held later [...]
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1. M appears to be coming down with something. He’s complaining of a sore throat and is lying in my bed looking pale and tragic. He’s got coloring which is most typically described as “Irish” — red red hair, blue blue eyes, and pale pale skin. Whenever he gets sick he always looks pale and [...]
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Yesterday was a perfectly lovely day of really a lot of things going on. 1. We’re trying the Singapore Math curriculum for the kids. After a few lessons it seems to be working out quite well. After the placement tests, we seem to have selected the right level of work for each kid. And the [...]
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