On Wednesday and Thursday I have productive mornings until the meetings start and people arrive at work. (I typically get to work near 6:15 am and get a lot accomplished before anyone arrives.) In the afternoon of both days I have managers who are asking for more of my time and I tell them that we'll have to talk about this and they will have to talk with the appropriate people. After work on Wednesday I lift weights for a third consectutive day to try and get back into a routine. I have less shoulder pain with each subsequent workout. On Thursday I start to feel sadder and sadder as the work day comes to a close (Why?) and I just go walking after work and stop in at the grocery store for supplies. On Thursday after work and after the walk I put together a good set of PowerPoint charts for the recent testing that we did and am happy with the look and feel of the charts.
The Saturday morning ride is eventfull. It is threatening rain as I start the ride. I start out and talk with the neighbor a bit before continuing on. There is police activity on the Los Angeles river trail which I slow down for but do not get held up by. As I'm a ways out my rear tire goes flat do to a good-sized piece of glass. I change the tube and start back for home since I have no spare tube. It is now raining farily lightly but continuously and I am wet but I am not cold. I continue down to the ocean and then turn back for home. When I get home I wash the bicycle, run some errands (including buying new tubes and CO2 cartridges), and then clean the glass shower door with a razor blade. (It is recommended to scrape the soap scum off the glass shower door with a razor blade occassionally.) I also cook lunch for the entire week and then settle in to watch football playoff games. It is raining lightly but continuously throughout the door and later in the afternoon I see the neighbor coming back from his bicycle ride which must have been wet almost the entire time.
I'm restless on Monday because I didn't cycle much throughout the entire weekend. I get a couple of things wrapped up in the morning and then head to the laboratory for some testing. Fortunately I'm on my feet for the entirety of the test and can burn off some of the restlessness. We finish one half of the test and after a re-configuration we'll try to finish the second half on Tuesday. When I get home I lift weights again with no joint pain and then relax for the evening.
I have decent days at work on Wednesday and Thursday as I clean up some issues and am now getting to the things on my list that I have been delaying starting and putting off for as long as possible. I again wear a tie to work on Thursday and just keep my mouth shut when people start wondering why I've worn a tie twice in one week. It is good to just let people wonder what is going on. On both Wednesday and Thursday after work I have very good sessions with the weights with no joint pain at all. Though on Thursday night my throat feels a bit scratchy as if maybe the colds and lfus that everyone around me has had is taking root. So on Thursday I take extra vitamins and promise to get extra sleep on Friday night into Saturday morning (because I still want to go cycling early on Friday morning before going back up to Cal State Los Angeles).
I sleep well until a point and then the sleep is continuously interrupted by wakeups. I get on the mountain bicycle and do the same ride as on Friday and the legs feel good and strong. After a shower I run some errands, cook lunch for the workweek, and install a light on the back of the mountain bicycle (to replace the standard reflector). Person Ti_Ca and I go see American Sniper and I enjoy it thoroughly. I do not know the ending of the story and I do not know the intermediate actions, so I find it intriguing and enthralling. Afetrwards Person Ti_Ca goes out with his friends and I have some pasta for dinner to get ready for Sunday's bicycle ride.
I have a slow start to Monday. There are still the things left to do on my task list at work that I have been putting for so long because they are not fun tasks. In the afternoon I gain some momentum as people come into my office and ask for help or for some answers and I'm able to help. When I get home I increase the weights to lift and I've probably taken too big of a step. But we'll see how the joints feel in the next day or so. I catch up on finances and Cal State LA tasks, fix my electric razor that has decided to quit working (after about 15 years), and have a Metal Monday listening to old metal songs from Deep Purple, Cream, Aerosmith, and Eric Clapton.