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A Brain Dump
Jan. 17th, 2025 07:22 amPhysical Stuff: I figured out how I hurt my leg, and it wasn't from running. It was eating at me, because it seemed to come out of nowhere, and nothing relieved it, but now that I'm mostly sure I overdid it on some reverse crunches, I feel mentally better. I worried I might have some lingering, never-ending thing, but as of this morning it's improved. When you do reverse crunches and aren't careful, you can stress the hip and knee joints. Fox was talking about some PT stuff and it suddenly occurred to me that it was those stupid crunches.
I skipped yesterday's lifting workout, before I had my little realization, so that needs to be done today. I was considering a short run, but I'm going to see how busy I am and how I feel, which leads me to ...
Weather: We have an 11% chance of ... snow? I'm sorry, what?
We'll need to find a tree or two to fell and chop up, and do it soon. Our firewood stores are starting to run low. I don't know if Fox wants to start on that this afternoon or wait until Saturday, but he's already asked me if I have "anything major planned" for today so I suspect we'll be doing that this afternoon.
The bigger fruit trees will withstand it, but I want to have sheets ready for the younger trees in case it gets too cold. I've also got a couple of these potpourri or scented wax things that are useful here. You can fill the reservoir with water and let them warm it overnight under the sheets and it keeps the trees happy. They also seem to work better than an electric space heater.
Reading: I didn't actually finish a lot of books last year, but I started reading a lot and then just quitting. No shame in DNFing a book, and the idea was to weed out things on my shelves that I don't like and give them away to either Little Free Libraries or donate them to the library book sale. I'm working my way through Gene Wolfe again, and considering reading Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher novels as "brain candy." I also read numerous art books, though I don't log them in my reading journal as such. I'm not sure why I've never done that.
I keep waffling on a trip to Chamblin Book Mine but I believe I'll go soon and pick up some stuff I'm interested in. I think I still have some store credit, and I'd rather do that than spend money at Amazon, or wait around for Bookshop.org. Besides, old books smell better.
Cooking: I need to bake up a loaf of sourdough today. We bought some Publix whole wheat bread for camping and it's so ... lackluster. It's flabby and tastes weird. If I get time I think I'll also boil some eggs for myself. Fox prefers to cook his eggs up fresh but I like hard-boiled eggs. Tonight's taco night so I'll need to put some black beans on to simmer this afternoon. Which also means tomorrow's breakfast is heuvos rancheros.
I skipped yesterday's lifting workout, before I had my little realization, so that needs to be done today. I was considering a short run, but I'm going to see how busy I am and how I feel, which leads me to ...
Weather: We have an 11% chance of ... snow? I'm sorry, what?
We'll need to find a tree or two to fell and chop up, and do it soon. Our firewood stores are starting to run low. I don't know if Fox wants to start on that this afternoon or wait until Saturday, but he's already asked me if I have "anything major planned" for today so I suspect we'll be doing that this afternoon.
The bigger fruit trees will withstand it, but I want to have sheets ready for the younger trees in case it gets too cold. I've also got a couple of these potpourri or scented wax things that are useful here. You can fill the reservoir with water and let them warm it overnight under the sheets and it keeps the trees happy. They also seem to work better than an electric space heater.
Reading: I didn't actually finish a lot of books last year, but I started reading a lot and then just quitting. No shame in DNFing a book, and the idea was to weed out things on my shelves that I don't like and give them away to either Little Free Libraries or donate them to the library book sale. I'm working my way through Gene Wolfe again, and considering reading Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher novels as "brain candy." I also read numerous art books, though I don't log them in my reading journal as such. I'm not sure why I've never done that.
I keep waffling on a trip to Chamblin Book Mine but I believe I'll go soon and pick up some stuff I'm interested in. I think I still have some store credit, and I'd rather do that than spend money at Amazon, or wait around for Bookshop.org. Besides, old books smell better.
Cooking: I need to bake up a loaf of sourdough today. We bought some Publix whole wheat bread for camping and it's so ... lackluster. It's flabby and tastes weird. If I get time I think I'll also boil some eggs for myself. Fox prefers to cook his eggs up fresh but I like hard-boiled eggs. Tonight's taco night so I'll need to put some black beans on to simmer this afternoon. Which also means tomorrow's breakfast is heuvos rancheros.
