Instead, I returned to the little art district again with a
couple that I know. I bought some stuff for someone and had a nice pork loin at
this German restaurant there. (The couple that I know doesn’t eat Chinese
food.)
Attended the birthday party of a 5-year-old, where I again
was the only one without children. It was a “Frozen” party. Kind of amusing to
see the dads walking around with paper cups imprinted with “Princess in
Training.”
The cake was pretty amazing. I do not understand how they
make them look like pictures.
But other than those things and working out, I did nothing
else out of the ordinary.
The darn 10 pounds that crept up on me in Florida hasn’t gone away yet, despite my
stepped-up efforts. I was in there all week but nada.
Sunday has been pretty freaking amazing. I woke up early to
hit the gym so I’d be done by FSU’s 8 a.m. kickoff.
Holy cow, what a game. My Slingbox worked mostly fine, and I
had enough time at halftime to run down and hit the grocery store.
But man, that was scary. The reception was a little blurry
down toward the end; I think the racing of my heart might have created static
interference or something. Wow. I was just not believing what I was seeing.
I’ll miss the next two games since I’ll be on the road, and
that’s not comforting. It’s really hard to follow college football from a
12-hour time difference away.
Packing for this two-week trip is becoming increasingly
complicated. I took the “items to bring” list and Sharpie’d out everything that
I have no access to. And now I’m putting out a call to borrow some things. I
went to this sports store to try to find hiking poles and they cost a lot more
than I thought, but I think I know a couple people from whom I could borrow
them.
I did get lucky and got a pair of hiking boots. I wasn’t
going to sweat them, but the items list went on and on about them, so I asked
someone and as it turns out, his wife wears my size and loaned me what appear
to be brand new LL Bean hiking boots. I am going to verify this tomorrow and if
they are new, I’m not taking them. I don’t want to be the first to mess up
anyone’s boots.
One of the things I’m supposed to bring is seeds, so when I
went to the grocery store at halftime, I grabbed some of those. (I also got my
VAT tax form filled out, so bonus there.)
Really, I have been super busy all day and it’s all been
productive. I woke up early (which means 5:30), was in the gym at 6, in the
shower at 8 and in front of the computer at 8:20. Took a nap, got up and ran
into work to do some personal emails and stuff. Got home, swam some laps and
then hung out in the steam room then decided to hunt for sunblock and bug
repellent.
I’m batting .500 on that one, assuming what I got was
sunblock. I’m not entirely sure, but it does have a “30” on it and a little
cartoon of some kids sitting under a mushroom and staying out of the sun. Somehow,
it seemed like sunblock, so I took a chance.
Nothing doing on the bug repellent, though. I saw some of
those little bracelet things yesterday in the sporting good store and in
retrospect I should have jumped on them. Too late now. I guess I’ll just get
bitten.
The packing isn’t going well. I’m basically bringing
everything that fits. It’s not good. There’s not much there. Even with the
renewed 10 pounds, there’s not a lot that fits.
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