It is Friday, and I am grateful …
... for and touched by the card the schoolchildren made me.
... that I now have access again to the data from my previous computer, and that it didn’t cost too much.
... that we could get a delivery to an enthusiastic new customer.
... that I could speak to the technician who couldn’t repair our stove: I know he did his best and his diagnosis seems reasonable.
... that I recognised that part of my misery was caused by being cold, and I got to fix it by going home, eating hot soup and sitting by the heater.
Jul 03, 12:31PM PDT | 4 cheers | 2 comments
It is Thursday, and I am grateful …
... that the GC-MS is back in the lab, and should work once I got it assembled. Nothing more to organize for it.
... the great help I got from Logan.
... that my previous laptop is still broken in the same way that it was. For the repair shop’s report I wondered if something else had not gone wrong with it.
... that maybe tomorrow I’ll be able to get some work done on my own PhD project.
... that David smelled the gas leak and did something about it.
... that I could squeeze in some gym time.
... for my evening hot chocolate. I can see this becoming a pleasant habit.
... for a nice lunch in great company.
Jul 02, 01:36PM PDT | 2 cheers | 1 comment
Oh dear. Still overweight, after all these months. Just started getting down my travel weight, then got the flu. No gym for a month, and when I don’t get exercise the discipline peters out like a trickle of water in dry sand.
Getting free lunches the last three days drove home the point. Although I was perfectly free to choose what I wanted to eat, my choices were not good.
So for about the fourth time I’m in the process of losing the few kilograms that will put me in a truly healthy weight range. I can accept that my weight will fluctuate a bit (as it does at the moment) but at the momement it gets toward dangerously unhealthy at the high end, not to mention the unsightful wobbliness that goes with it.
Jul 01, 11:51AM PDT | 0 comments
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