Gym, and lunch with Mark

I'm honestly not sure whether this was just one of those things, or whether skipping one workout makes a real difference. (I was at the gym last Thursday, but not since, and I normally go twice a week. adrian_turtle and I walked some while I was in Arlington, but not huge amounts or at high speed.) Or maybe it's just one of those random things: I woke up with a bit of backache, I think from sleeping wrong, which affected some things.

There are a lot of Marks in the world, and in my social circles. This one is my younger brother. He lives in Texas, has basically since graduating from college and getting a job there, and his current employer sent him to New York as part of his latest contract/assignment. We met at a semi-random Puerto Rican lunch-counter called Cabo Rojo selected largely on the basis of geography (the people he's working for this week are on Twelfth Avenue at 26th Street, and there's not much there), and talked fairly idly. Friendly, but not at all deep. Expecting some version of "Who's Adrian?" (because I'd mentioned in response to his first email that I'd be away visiting her until [this past] Tuesday, all I got was a question about which Arlington I'd been in, and some brief discussion of Greyhound vs. both Amtrak and the Chinatown buses. If they send him back in two or three weeks, we might have lunch together again.

( gym numbers, with commentary thereon and on choice of equipment )

Gym, and lunch with Mark

I'm honestly not sure whether this was just one of those things, or whether skipping one workout makes a real difference. (I was at the gym last Thursday, but not since, and I normally go twice a week. adrian_turtle and I walked some while I was in Arlington, but not huge amounts or at high speed.) Or maybe it's just one of those random things: I woke up with a bit of backache, I think from sleeping wrong, which affected some things.

There are a lot of Marks in the world, and in my social circles. This one is my younger brother. He lives in Texas, has basically since graduating from college and getting a job there, and his current employer sent him to New York as part of his latest contract/assignment. We met at a semi-random Puerto Rican lunch-counter called Cabo Rojo selected largely on the basis of geography (the people he's working for this week are on Twelfth Avenue at 26th Street, and there's not much there), and talked fairly idly. Friendly, but not at all deep. Expecting some version of "Who's Adrian?" (because I'd mentioned in response to his first email that I'd be away visiting her until [this past] Tuesday, all I got was a question about which Arlington I'd been in, and some brief discussion of Greyhound vs. both Amtrak and the Chinatown buses. If they send him back in two or three weeks, we might have lunch together again.

( gym numbers, with commentary thereon and on choice of equipment )