Yay for heat and exercise!

It has been in the mid 30s here every night. Supposed to warm up this weekend some. We had actual big fat snowflakes in the air a couple days ago, which was pretty. They didn't even make it to the ground.

Brendon is back in Florida. We headed out to the Albany airport at 2:30 AM on Tuesday and there was apparently a deer convention or something. We saw no fewer than 40 deer in the first 10 miles. Groups of 3 and 4 or some individuals. It was wild. I always call out the deer to the driver for caution, but we gave up and just went with assuming there were deer. Fortunately, none of them decided to jump out in front of us. In her many decades up here my sister has hit a deer 3 times. The last one the deer jumped off a snow bank on to the top of her car. She was quite annoyed.

Today I am trying to organize my new kitchen cabinets. During construction all my kitchen stuff has been moved around many times. And now it is everywhere. No rhyme nor reason. Cleaning supplies, toaster, and wine glasses might be in the same cabinet. Pulling everything out and putting it in some kind of logical order is a process.

On my list tomorrow is going to storage and hauling out a couple area rugs. My walls and roof are insulated, but the floor is not and it is chilly, making the furnace work a lot harder than it should.

There are so many things on my list of stuff to do. I need to vacuum, like everything, clean up the basement that our dog Jarah redecorated with the contents of a garbage bag, clean the bathrooms, put up a shelf in the bedroom for my wife, finish staining and putting together a shelf unit for the kitchen, make some bookshelves for my wife's office, rotate the tires on my wife's car, recycle a bunch of cans and cardboard from the garage, put up a ceiling fan in the basement, mow the yard for the last time this year, go through boxes in the garage and throw way stuff, I've got at least three loads of laundry I need to do, and I really should wax the cars for that matter.

Gud, your list makes me tired! Though I did clean the bathroom, washed the dishes, and washed a load of towels. And, per David's post, rode the bike for a bit. And dinner will probably be shepherds pie, which I need to assemble and put in the oven.

and I really should wax the cars for that matter.

No you don't! That's not a priority. And why can't you just drop the car off at the shop to have the tires rotated? That's not that expensive, and it would give you a break.

Just because you can do it yourself, doesn't mean you should. Especially since your wife has never done even a small portion of the necessary housework while remaining brutally critical about your efforts.

Don't worry about waxing the car. Take it in to have somebody else rotate the tires. I bet you can fit that into your budget.

I just got three vaccines, I am not looking forward to tomorrow! But I was glad to be able to add on the Covid and flu ones to my appointment (the other was Hep B).

I did laundry already but I need to figure out what to pack. The weather is anywhere from 45 to 80 apparently? So I guess “layers”.

David I too have been slacking on the running. I’ve been doing other things (walking a lot, dancing, working out with a trainer once or twice a week) but need to get back on the treadmill. It’s just depressing how I was able to run 25 minutes straight at one point and now I’m pretty sure I can’t.

And I encourage everybody to get up and move their body today, in whatever way they prefer.

Just rowed for 25 minutes.

I finally closed my twitter account...speaking of things that there never seemed to be good time to do. I enjoyed it often, and I'll miss some of the interactions(aside from not wanting to be driven away from stuff) but it hasn't been the same for a while anyway. Wish that meant I'd have something great to do with the time, too(The next 2 weeks could be nuts, though)

I’ve literally never waxed a car in my life and I can’t say anything bad has happened as a result.

The plumber came, and was happy to show an interested Me everything he was doing, so I learned a little more about the furnace. Turned out that some of the internal fuses have gotten touchy. He's ordering replacements, but in the meantime, pushing them back in hard seems to have remedied the problem.

At least I know what to try if this happens again.

He also took a couple minutes to try to fix my kitchen cold water faucet that I have repeatedly tried to fix. I kind of felt more gratified than frustrated when he couldn't do it either. (IT WASN'T ME BEING TOO STUPID, IT WAS JUST TOO BROKEN) I may just have to bite the bullet and replace the entire faucet/tap assemblage, which isn't the most expensive thing to contemplate.

It’s just depressing how I was able to run 25 minutes straight at one point and now I’m pretty sure I can’t.

Yeah, after two weeks of not running (a) I felt tired in the legs going up the steps, which I haven't felt for a while; and (b) my lower back hurts.

So, yeah, it's good to be constant with the exercise. Just being regular makes a huge difference.

Just rowed for 25 minutes.

Fuck yeah!