"So," I hear you asking, "why haven't updated this page since Tuesday?" I might say that it's because Wednesday night was gaming night and Thursday night was SCA meeting night and last night I just didn't get around to it. However, since I just today finally bought a Mother's Day gift for my mom, I suspect the real reason is that I'm simply an evil, evil person.
So on with the spiel.
Tuesday night, I called Ross and reminded him that Sunday was Mother's Day. One would think that I would also do something about that myself, but one would be naïve.
Wednesday night, as I said, was our traditional weekly "get together and lose at Magic" night. Actually, it was a little different this time. After playing one multi-player game (in which I basically did nothing but play lands and ask Adam and David how much damage they were doing to me), we played a little mini tournament. With six players, there wasn't really a good way to do it. We didn't really have enough time to play round robin (each player plays against each other player), so we did some bizarre double elimination bracket format. I wound up on top of the winners bracket, and Mary wound up on top of the losers bracket, so then she and I played against each other and she wound up winning. At that point it was late, it was pouring down rain, and Bob needed a ride home, so off we went. After I got to thinking about it, however, I realized that Mary and I probably should have played again, since we had both lost the same number of duels at that point. (Did you follow all of that? Neither did I, and I was there!) Oh well. When all was said and done, I think it would have taken the same amount of time just to play round robin!
Also on Wednesday night, I failed to get anything for Mom for Mother's Day.
Thursday night was the local SCA meeting. For those of you who don't know, the SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism, a non-profit group that dresses up in medieval clothing to hold tournaments and feasts. If you ever see some people out in the park whacking each other over the head with sticks, it's probably us. (If it isn't, call 911.) Anyway, due to constantly being out of town on business trips, this was the first meeting I had been able to attend since February. That isn't a good thing, considering that I'm the editor of the group's newsletter. Anyway, we're busily planning an event that we'll be holding in September -- coronation. The new "king" and "queen" of the Middle Kingdom will be crowned there, so we're expecting something on the order of a thousand people to be showing up.
Also on Thursday night, I failed to get a Mother's Day gift for Mom.
Friday I spent pretty much the entire workday in the Bureau of Water GIS room moving computers around. They're bringing in an instructor to teach a class in a couple of weeks and they wanted to rearrange everything. This meant shutting down all of the hardware, disconnecting everything, moving it out of the way so that the maintenance people could move the partition walls, desks, and tables, then reconnecting everything and getting it all talking to the network again. Not my idea of fun, and certainly more physical activity than I get in a typical workday. I went home quite beat on Friday night -- which explains in part why I didn't quite get around to posting a new entry here that night!
Oh, and I failed to get anything for Mom. (But you knew that, because at the start of this bit, I said that I finally got it done today. Weren't you paying attention?)
My Life by the Numbers
Wednesday: 238 pounds; 2 miles in 29:35.
Actually, it could have been faster, except that I had stopped briefly to talk to a man who was walking his dog. On the other hand, after that conversation, I walked faster to make up lost time, so perhaps it was an advantage!
Thursday: 237.5 pounds; didn't walk. I didn't get home until after midnight on Wednesday, and it was promising to rain, so I figured there wasn't any point in even pretending that I was going to get up at 6:00 AM to go walking.
Friday: 238 pounds; 2 miles in 29:19.
Today: 238 pounds; didn't walk. Hey, it's the weekend! Besides, I'm sore from Friday. Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
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