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pshaw_ravenWe're leaving here in a couple of hours, and I still have a catch in my lower back, because of course I fucking do. I have no idea how to make this go away and I'm wary of starting to take ibuprofen or something ahead of the race.
The plan is to hit packet pickup, check into the hotel, go find Blaze Pizza and eat, then head back to the hotel, snack around, and hopefully go lights out around seven. Up at three to head to the start area. Back home by around three-ish tomorrow afternoon. Fox is already anxious about the run, but my anxiety won't normally kick in until the morning of. I'll be antsy until I can go sit near the starting line.
We found a sick pine tree and cut it down for firewood. The sickness seems to go all the way through the tree, as even pieces near the crown had evidence of damage. It took out a smaller pine on the way down, so we cut that one up, too. If it stays out there it just turns into termite food. So we have a nice stockpile again and we'll be needing it this coming week. I'd love to have a fire right now but we're leaving soon so there's no reason. Probably it was splitting logs that aggravated the back muscles and I'm dealing with the fallout.
I'm debating whether to grab the next Gene Wolfe novel in the series or just take my Kindle and read whatever's on it. I finished Lake of the Long Sun last night, and I'm still delighted by Wolfe's writing, as well as discovering everything I seem to have missed the first time I read it. I'm also trying to read Antifragile, which seems to have some good ideas, but Taleb's writing is a little difficult for me to wade through. I feel like I need a reader guide or a notebook or something. I read the first two books in his Incerto so I'm not UNfamiliar with his thought, but this book for whatever reason is proving more impenetrable.
The plan is to hit packet pickup, check into the hotel, go find Blaze Pizza and eat, then head back to the hotel, snack around, and hopefully go lights out around seven. Up at three to head to the start area. Back home by around three-ish tomorrow afternoon. Fox is already anxious about the run, but my anxiety won't normally kick in until the morning of. I'll be antsy until I can go sit near the starting line.
We found a sick pine tree and cut it down for firewood. The sickness seems to go all the way through the tree, as even pieces near the crown had evidence of damage. It took out a smaller pine on the way down, so we cut that one up, too. If it stays out there it just turns into termite food. So we have a nice stockpile again and we'll be needing it this coming week. I'd love to have a fire right now but we're leaving soon so there's no reason. Probably it was splitting logs that aggravated the back muscles and I'm dealing with the fallout.
I'm debating whether to grab the next Gene Wolfe novel in the series or just take my Kindle and read whatever's on it. I finished Lake of the Long Sun last night, and I'm still delighted by Wolfe's writing, as well as discovering everything I seem to have missed the first time I read it. I'm also trying to read Antifragile, which seems to have some good ideas, but Taleb's writing is a little difficult for me to wade through. I feel like I need a reader guide or a notebook or something. I read the first two books in his Incerto so I'm not UNfamiliar with his thought, but this book for whatever reason is proving more impenetrable.
