Today I woke sore, which suggests doing lots of squats while wearing a VR headset may have been more taxing than I’d thought. I suppose that indicates VR fitness may be more effective than my[…]
Month: October 2020
Pumpkins and VR
I carved another pumpkin today, to replace the two that had already rotted on our front porch. This time, we got a much bigger pumpkin and kept it indoors so it wouldn’t get too damp,[…]
Walking on a cold day
I walked the girls up to the library again today. Every Wednesday their classes finish at lunchtime, and so with no fixed meetings in the afternoon, and after recovering from a morning of non stop[…]
Testing time
I’ve been on statins for a while for elevated cholesterol, and after I came to the US they had to be represcribed, and then my primary care physician had me tested to see what they’d[…]
Charging into the cold
It’s really, really cold all of a sudden. It was bad enough last week, but now I’m sat under a blanket at my desk, my legs going numb. I’ve got so desperate I’ve ordered a[…]
More on cars
I drove to the climbing wall in our new car, and only managed about forty minutes of climbing. I was feeling weak, a combination of not working out enough in the week, and being tired.[…]
Va va voom
This morning I went to the Hyundai dealership seventy blocks north of where we live, and about six hours later I finally finished the paperwork for a new car. This is the first time in[…]
Short and cold with a long walk
Today I took the girls on a walk to the library again. They were happy because they got to get a bag of books each, and a hot chocolate, and there was zero complaining there[…]
A lesson in the weather
It was cold today, very cold, and so when I walked the girls to school, it was to be serenaded by complaints, which could have been avoided if they’d checked the weather before refusing to[…]
Home cooking
My wife spent the evening at a cookery class, except because of the pandemic she did it over a Zoom call, instead of going to a kitchen down the street. That meant the girls complained[…]