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Hurricane Practice
Jun. 29th, 2021 09:41 amIt's once again been an interesting couple of days. I think this the right timeline, let's see.
Saturday we had some pretty severe storms come through. Fox and I have started using a site called Windy.com that primarily shows wind speed & direction along with lightning strikes, in almost real time. It was designed primarily for people in aviation but obviously weather nerds like it, too. There was a LOT of lightning with this system, to the point that we unplugged and utilized the physical disconnect that removes the radio tower from the house system. Basically the last two catastrophic lightning strikes we took hit the tower, then came into the house and fried our shit that way. We didn't suffer any problems, but a tower at Cherokee Hill did.
Since lightning does whatever it wants, it hit something near the tower, traveled through the earth, then went UP the grounding pins and blew the utility box that way. Because why not. So they got that back online Sunday. Around that time I lost my cell connection to Sprint. Normally when the wifi and internet are out I can still get online with my phone using my data plan, but nope. Not sure what was going on there, but it didn't come back until late yesterday.
Then Sunday and Monday afternoon, the power went out. No clue as to why, though it looked from the outage map that a transfer station down in Florahome was the problem. But one day the lights flickered and went out for about 90 minutes. Yesterday the flickering and surges went on for almost three minutes - as you might imagine that's not good for computers and such. It FINALLY went out and stayed off for again, about 90 minutes. I'm planning my day today around losing power again by three, but we'll see what happens.
So the last few days have been full of WTF-ery.
I did manage to get online long enough to hit the Steam sale and picked up "In Between" and "The Messenger." I need a break from Blasphemous - I'm at the end of my last penance and I'm for some reason stuck on Escribar. I don't remember him being this difficult to beat before. After getting through this, though, I have one more achievement in the game - the three hour speedrun, which I feel reasonable confident about. I also want to finish up Demetrios, which I might do tomorrow evening.
My tendons and calf muscle have felt well enough to get out and run, so I try to get up early and get out before it's too miserable outside. If I'm up at 5:30 that's plenty of time for a cup of coffee, "dropping weight" *ahem*, and getting outside while the sun is just starting to rise. Today I did speed intervals - 6 half-milers at my desired race pace, with short jogs and walks in between to bring my heart rate back down. I was able to sustain race pace, but I noticed a few times I started pushing hard and going well above that speed, and I felt it. I sometimes have trouble moderating my pace, so interval work is something I try to schedule once a week. I need to keep reminding myself that while having a little time cushion is good, I don't have to bust a lung. Moderate your pace, give yourself a little extra time for walk breaks if you need them, and don't get so hung up on a PR that you hurt yourself.
Saturday we had some pretty severe storms come through. Fox and I have started using a site called Windy.com that primarily shows wind speed & direction along with lightning strikes, in almost real time. It was designed primarily for people in aviation but obviously weather nerds like it, too. There was a LOT of lightning with this system, to the point that we unplugged and utilized the physical disconnect that removes the radio tower from the house system. Basically the last two catastrophic lightning strikes we took hit the tower, then came into the house and fried our shit that way. We didn't suffer any problems, but a tower at Cherokee Hill did.
Since lightning does whatever it wants, it hit something near the tower, traveled through the earth, then went UP the grounding pins and blew the utility box that way. Because why not. So they got that back online Sunday. Around that time I lost my cell connection to Sprint. Normally when the wifi and internet are out I can still get online with my phone using my data plan, but nope. Not sure what was going on there, but it didn't come back until late yesterday.
Then Sunday and Monday afternoon, the power went out. No clue as to why, though it looked from the outage map that a transfer station down in Florahome was the problem. But one day the lights flickered and went out for about 90 minutes. Yesterday the flickering and surges went on for almost three minutes - as you might imagine that's not good for computers and such. It FINALLY went out and stayed off for again, about 90 minutes. I'm planning my day today around losing power again by three, but we'll see what happens.
So the last few days have been full of WTF-ery.
I did manage to get online long enough to hit the Steam sale and picked up "In Between" and "The Messenger." I need a break from Blasphemous - I'm at the end of my last penance and I'm for some reason stuck on Escribar. I don't remember him being this difficult to beat before. After getting through this, though, I have one more achievement in the game - the three hour speedrun, which I feel reasonable confident about. I also want to finish up Demetrios, which I might do tomorrow evening.
My tendons and calf muscle have felt well enough to get out and run, so I try to get up early and get out before it's too miserable outside. If I'm up at 5:30 that's plenty of time for a cup of coffee, "dropping weight" *ahem*, and getting outside while the sun is just starting to rise. Today I did speed intervals - 6 half-milers at my desired race pace, with short jogs and walks in between to bring my heart rate back down. I was able to sustain race pace, but I noticed a few times I started pushing hard and going well above that speed, and I felt it. I sometimes have trouble moderating my pace, so interval work is something I try to schedule once a week. I need to keep reminding myself that while having a little time cushion is good, I don't have to bust a lung. Moderate your pace, give yourself a little extra time for walk breaks if you need them, and don't get so hung up on a PR that you hurt yourself.
