redbird | a busy day (Reply)

quility called yesterday morning, to ask if I wanted to come in to her office and do a bit of data entry, for money. I accepted. (They give me a flat rate for miscellaneous temp stuff, meaning that the data entry pays enough for me to be willing.) I headed downtown after lunch (cheese sandwiches and the rest of the previous night's cucumber salad), and was there for about three hours, typing stuff, asking occasional questions--we decided the database could cope without accents on Slovene and Canadian names and Brazilian addresses.

Then I went up to the gym, and did a quick workout Cardio, 12 minutes, top heart rate 154
Expressline, 12 reps on everything
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 2 sets of 16
Hip/back lift with physio ball, 2 sets of 16
Calf machine, 40 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Stretches

Quick because I had plans to meet

roadnotes for dinner.

eleanor,

cattitude, and

volund also joined us, and much good Japanese food and conversation were shared. Something in that workout made my knees unhappy; may have to go back to roll-my-own workouts (more fun anyway) and skip the leg press for a while.

From there, all of us except Cattitude went on to Rose's turn, where I hung out, listened, talked to people a bit, and sang along enough that my throat was unhappy by the time I got home. (I'd started with a bit of cough/cold, so this is unsurprising.)

On the way home, I was playing Bubblet on the A platform at West 4th when someone came along and asked if I had games on my Palm. She'd lost all her games. I had only Bubblet--not the solitaire she asked after--but happily beamed that to her, and took a minute to show her how it worked. In the midst of this, she called out to a friend "I'm begging on the subway station", which was fine with me because beaming Palm apps costs me nothing (this one is shareware, but will run even if not registered).

Last thing before bed, I logged on long enough to send one email: I'd forgotten until I was at 's office that it was the 16th, hence my brother's birthday, and while he probably won't have seen it last night, I at least wanted to send a happy birthday on the right day.