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Just Some Random Stuff
Dec. 13th, 2022 03:43 pm1. I've read a few excerpts from a book I'm probably going to wind up buying, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. As you may well know, 28 men wound up stranded in Antarctica for something like 20 months until they were finally rescued. Among the many awful things they endured was using packed snow as toilet paper. Another was wind madness. See, winds in Antarctica can reach 100+ mph and be absolutely unrelenting.
I have never endured anything like a fraction of that but wind madness is entirely real. Back in my LiveJournal days, I wrote a post complaining about winds that were battering Louisiana - not a hurricane, just this constant high wind one summer. It finally got so that I didn't want to go outside for any reason because this devilish wind was ready to smack you around, whistle in your ears, blow dust into your eyes, it was awful. A friend who lived in Los Angeles commented that the Santa Annas there sometimes got so bad that the crime rate would shoot up because people just totally lost their shit with the wind.
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Huzzah, notebooks! Leuchtturm1917 released a set of new colors just last week - fox red, light grey, mint green, and forest green. I was down to my last two blanks - the horror! So I ordered all four of the new colors. I don't often like every new color they come out with, but this set just looks so good together!
3. Went out for a short run today and it went well. I had a few minor pains warming up, but I felt good. Got home and did some yoga to stretch out - I also need to get back to doing a strength routine. I didn't do badly in the strength department on this last run. Yeah, my shoulders got tired, but my back and core muscles seemed more than up to the task. I need to work on ankle strength and stability, and probably more upper body strength.
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I have never endured anything like a fraction of that but wind madness is entirely real. Back in my LiveJournal days, I wrote a post complaining about winds that were battering Louisiana - not a hurricane, just this constant high wind one summer. It finally got so that I didn't want to go outside for any reason because this devilish wind was ready to smack you around, whistle in your ears, blow dust into your eyes, it was awful. A friend who lived in Los Angeles commented that the Santa Annas there sometimes got so bad that the crime rate would shoot up because people just totally lost their shit with the wind.
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Huzzah, notebooks! Leuchtturm1917 released a set of new colors just last week - fox red, light grey, mint green, and forest green. I was down to my last two blanks - the horror! So I ordered all four of the new colors. I don't often like every new color they come out with, but this set just looks so good together!
3. Went out for a short run today and it went well. I had a few minor pains warming up, but I felt good. Got home and did some yoga to stretch out - I also need to get back to doing a strength routine. I didn't do badly in the strength department on this last run. Yeah, my shoulders got tired, but my back and core muscles seemed more than up to the task. I need to work on ankle strength and stability, and probably more upper body strength.
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