Peregrinations
Apr. 28th, 2018 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tegyriusTired.
Spent Sunday through Wednesday at an emergency management conference. Good networking, good presentation tracks, but I never sleep well in hotels and this was no exception. Traveling west didn't help, either, as my body clock was badly de-synced. I wound up getting up an hour or two early every morning and running laps in the parking lot of a nearby hotel that was still under construction, and thus wholly deserted.
Came back to work on Thursday and logged a 12-hour day facilitating a disaster exercise for 60 undergrads. Garmin showed 22,000 steps when I got home.
Yesterday, the girl and I took her car in for scheduled maintenance and a minor warranty repair (oil level sensor was throwing false warnings). We got a loaner Forester of similar vintage to her car. Nice vehicle, nimbler than hers, with a better (to my kinesthetic sensibilities) transmission, but it wouldn't really add any capability to the current fleet as long as I have my truck. We did some shopping to support various planned adventures, then hit the zoo. Got some good photos of the big cats; her camera's optical zoom is better than the digital on mine, but I think mine has better low-light capabilities.
Still very tired. Blew off running today. Planning to open the windows and do some writing - and waste some time on the new Battletech PC game before storyline spoilers become inescapable.
Spent Sunday through Wednesday at an emergency management conference. Good networking, good presentation tracks, but I never sleep well in hotels and this was no exception. Traveling west didn't help, either, as my body clock was badly de-synced. I wound up getting up an hour or two early every morning and running laps in the parking lot of a nearby hotel that was still under construction, and thus wholly deserted.
Came back to work on Thursday and logged a 12-hour day facilitating a disaster exercise for 60 undergrads. Garmin showed 22,000 steps when I got home.
Yesterday, the girl and I took her car in for scheduled maintenance and a minor warranty repair (oil level sensor was throwing false warnings). We got a loaner Forester of similar vintage to her car. Nice vehicle, nimbler than hers, with a better (to my kinesthetic sensibilities) transmission, but it wouldn't really add any capability to the current fleet as long as I have my truck. We did some shopping to support various planned adventures, then hit the zoo. Got some good photos of the big cats; her camera's optical zoom is better than the digital on mine, but I think mine has better low-light capabilities.
Still very tired. Blew off running today. Planning to open the windows and do some writing - and waste some time on the new Battletech PC game before storyline spoilers become inescapable.