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Our toilet has been malfunctioning for a couple of days: it rarely flushes properly when we use the handle (maybe 1 time in 10), and is running constantly. (This at least means that we aren't dealing with unpleasant or unsanitary overflows.) We left a note for the super yesterday; he called me about 9:30 this morning. Since I was already at work, I arranged for him to come tomorrow at 9 a.m. I then walked over to my boss, explained the situation, and before I could ask she told me to work at home tomorrow because my "productivity would be higher," presumably compared to, say, showing up at 11 if the plumbing didn't take long. So, I have both emailed myself the files and brought them home on a thumb drive (along with a few relevant photocopies).
When I got my most recent credit card bill, it showed that Delta had refunded the change fee they should never have charged us. Since Mom paid for my tickets, including that added charge, I emailed her to say we had a refund. She asked me to put it in her New York checking account. So I wrote a check for $250 to my mother, turned it over, wrote "For Deposit Only" on the back (that always reminds me of my grandfather, who wrote that on every birthday check he mailed any of us), signed my name, put the account number on it, and filled out a deposit slip. This is a joint account (though I almost never use it; she set it up that way so I could do banking stuff for her), so this isn't actually unreasonable, but it feels a little odd to write a check to someone else, then turn it over and endorse it myself. Even though I suspect I could have signed it "John Wilkes Booth" and nobody would have noticed.
After work, I went to the gym: a shorter workout than often, but varied.
Cardio, 7:09, top heart rate 111 (I ran it at a lower resistance than usual; this was a relatively minimal warmup)
Leg press, 200 pounds, 15; 140 pounds, 2; 200 pounds, 3. I tried the lower weight because 200 hurt my knees some; 140 also hurt, and I went from "might as well do the larger amount" to "stop, this is bad for your joints" fairly quickly in the second set. [200 is low for me, but it's been a bit since I used that machine properly.]
Chest press, 50 pounds, 12, 9
Calf raise, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 17
Rolled out IT band with the foam roller, 5 left, 5 right, 5 left (the left leg is where the more serious problems are)
Crunches, 2 sets of 17
Back arches, 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each foot}
Biceps curl, 20-pound bar, 2 sets of 20
Wrist curl, 25 pounds, 10
Balance ~fly, 50 pounds, 2 sets of {15 with each foot forward}
Cross-body pull, 35 pounds, 15 with the right hand
Balance lateral raise, 5 pounds each hand, 15
[I tried the balance squats, and stopped partway through the first one, because my knee made very clear that this was a bad idea. I may wait a while on these, or may try them some evening when I haven't done the leg press and calf raise.]
Also, I got email this evening saying I won the auction for those hand-knit socks.
When I got my most recent credit card bill, it showed that Delta had refunded the change fee they should never have charged us. Since Mom paid for my tickets, including that added charge, I emailed her to say we had a refund. She asked me to put it in her New York checking account. So I wrote a check for $250 to my mother, turned it over, wrote "For Deposit Only" on the back (that always reminds me of my grandfather, who wrote that on every birthday check he mailed any of us), signed my name, put the account number on it, and filled out a deposit slip. This is a joint account (though I almost never use it; she set it up that way so I could do banking stuff for her), so this isn't actually unreasonable, but it feels a little odd to write a check to someone else, then turn it over and endorse it myself. Even though I suspect I could have signed it "John Wilkes Booth" and nobody would have noticed.
After work, I went to the gym: a shorter workout than often, but varied.
Cardio, 7:09, top heart rate 111 (I ran it at a lower resistance than usual; this was a relatively minimal warmup)
Leg press, 200 pounds, 15; 140 pounds, 2; 200 pounds, 3. I tried the lower weight because 200 hurt my knees some; 140 also hurt, and I went from "might as well do the larger amount" to "stop, this is bad for your joints" fairly quickly in the second set. [200 is low for me, but it's been a bit since I used that machine properly.]
Chest press, 50 pounds, 12, 9
Calf raise, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 17
Rolled out IT band with the foam roller, 5 left, 5 right, 5 left (the left leg is where the more serious problems are)
Crunches, 2 sets of 17
Back arches, 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each foot}
Biceps curl, 20-pound bar, 2 sets of 20
Wrist curl, 25 pounds, 10
Balance ~fly, 50 pounds, 2 sets of {15 with each foot forward}
Cross-body pull, 35 pounds, 15 with the right hand
Balance lateral raise, 5 pounds each hand, 15
[I tried the balance squats, and stopped partway through the first one, because my knee made very clear that this was a bad idea. I may wait a while on these, or may try them some evening when I haven't done the leg press and calf raise.]
Also, I got email this evening saying I won the auction for those hand-knit socks.