It is cold, i am cold. a strange time of year for this cold, the groundhog was right for once. That is the one sentence i should stay with, but perhaps there is more you would like to know.
I had lunch with a friend and his brother who i guess is also a friend. He, the friend who is not the brother, although he is a brother, was walking with a cane from a second back surgury because the first one failed. Back surgeries are a pathway down and i have those back stretches if anyone out there needs them. I tried to get the friend to try them before the first surgery, but he refused and what else could i do. I offered to walk my dog with him.
We had talked about going to the boat show which i wanted to do, but i also wanted to swim and while the food was good, it was filing and i had two glasses of tea because they did not bring me any water and i was having a caffeine od like the fentenal od of west point cadets in the news and it was only going to get colder and after walking for god knows how long climbing in and out of boats i would have been wired and tired so i bowed out especially since the brother who is also a friend was there as was his son who did not eat with us.
The sound experiment...went mediocre. Suspect it was a combination of equipment problems and sound quality, but i did manage to understand some of it, what i would say should be our song i recognized but with such distortion it lost its value. Despite having just eaten too much (a grilled fish poboy, fries and cup of gumbo; all of which were adequate, none of which were great) i managed to cut a couple of minutes off my total swim time and still finish the full 2k with the 1k of im fast but not setting any records according to my watch and not at all satisfied with the experiment which i need to test with multiple angles and hope that i can make this work.
It was cold getting in and out of the pool, the water was ok and while i worried about all the food i had eaten, knowing i was testing the music made me forget about how cold it was going to be. a group of people doing some lifeguard training had the door open when i got out and the blast of cold air when i was soaked and tired was a shock, but a warm shower and it was forgotten, glad i had the swim out of the way before the sun had set.
I ate too much to have a dinner so i ate an apple and drank water to rehydrate. I bought some groceries and set aside $18 for prepping foods, a big bag of rice, a not quite as big bag of beans, a box of stick matches, a big thing of salt (.86 cents with iodine) and a mexican vitamin infused powdered milk product; probably enough food to keep a person alive for several weeks, properly rationed, and put it all in a pool chemical container that had been empty and clean for a while. It is an embarrasingly silly thing to do; but it was less than 15.00 worth of food and if i had not done it, i probably would not sleep as well and i have a hard time sleeping. And that is my fault and part of what i would like to want from you.
The joke about shovels was sort of funny even with all the subcontext, right/? The apocalypse is not the way i would like it.
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