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cattitude and I had dinner with roadnotes and baldanders. It was a good chance to talk with both of them--I'd not seen Baldanders in a while--with the excuse of turning over our spare housekeys.
Wednesday and Thursday were both quite slow at work, so I left an hour early Thursday to meet Lise, to provide moral support and company. We dealt with some errands she'd needed to do, but mostly I wanted to get her out of the house for a little while during the day, and to talk. Or, mostly, to listen. That involved wandering around bits of Brooklyn, and a transit connection I'd never made, from the E at 23rd-Ely to the G; the last time I'd used the 23rd-Ely station, you had to go to Queens Plaza for the G.
Today my office was closed altogether. I headed out when Cattitude did, and got in a reasonable workout in the morning, which works better for me than afternoon or evening. I finished early enough that the Thai places on Ninth Avenue near my gym weren't open yet, so I went down to my usual place in Chinatown. I had another nice meal, and chatted with strangers about this and that, including education and travel, in the course of which I again defended the honor of Parisians, and wrote down a recommendation for a Spanish restaurant in the West Village. I also shared my scallion pancake with the people I was chatting with, since I'd ordered it after eating duck, vegetables, and rice, knowing I wouldn't be able to finish it, but wanting it as a sort of dessert.
Thence, I went up to Union Square for the Greenmarket. It's near the end of berry season, but somehow that translated into $3 or 5 for $10 on half-pints of raspberries and blackberries, so I got five after figuring out that even if I threw one away we were ahead. I got some interesting grapes, but the nice man didn't pronounce the varietal name clearly enough for me to note and remember it. I bought scallops, and chatted with the neighbor who was running the fish stall, as she had when that boat had a space in our neighborhood greenmarket. She double-bagged the scallops with ice so they'd get home in good condtion. I also have a small seedless watermelon, four cucumbers, a loaf of challah, and a bit over a pound of onions. It wound up being both heavy and somewhat ungainly to bring home, but it's tasty. (So far I've had grapes and raspberries; the scallops, bread, and a cucumber or two will become dinner in a little while.
Gym numbers, for the record:
Cardio, 14 minutes, top heart rate 138
Chest press, 70 pounds, 12, 6; 65 pounds, 2
Leg press, 230 pounds, 6; 180 pounds, 12, 10. I alternated deep and shallower presses at the lower weight, after the more usual 230 pounds was clearly too much. (My left knee had bothered me on the way to the train.)
Balance ~fly, 55 pounds, 2 sets of {15 with each leg forward}
Calf raise, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Crunches, 3 sets of 30
Back arches, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 5 sets of {3 on each leg}
Balance lateral raise, 5 pounds each hand, 15; 2.5 each, 15
Squats on balance dome, with 9-pound balance bar, 13
Biceps curls, 12.5 pounds each hand, 20; 10 pounds each hand, 20
Wrist curls, 35-pound bar, 13, stopped because my right thumb started to hurt; different style, 2.5-pound dumbbells in each hand, 2 sets of 15
Stretches
cattitude and I had dinner with roadnotes and baldanders. It was a good chance to talk with both of them--I'd not seen Baldanders in a while--with the excuse of turning over our spare housekeys.Wednesday and Thursday were both quite slow at work, so I left an hour early Thursday to meet Lise, to provide moral support and company. We dealt with some errands she'd needed to do, but mostly I wanted to get her out of the house for a little while during the day, and to talk. Or, mostly, to listen. That involved wandering around bits of Brooklyn, and a transit connection I'd never made, from the E at 23rd-Ely to the G; the last time I'd used the 23rd-Ely station, you had to go to Queens Plaza for the G.
Today my office was closed altogether. I headed out when Cattitude did, and got in a reasonable workout in the morning, which works better for me than afternoon or evening. I finished early enough that the Thai places on Ninth Avenue near my gym weren't open yet, so I went down to my usual place in Chinatown. I had another nice meal, and chatted with strangers about this and that, including education and travel, in the course of which I again defended the honor of Parisians, and wrote down a recommendation for a Spanish restaurant in the West Village. I also shared my scallion pancake with the people I was chatting with, since I'd ordered it after eating duck, vegetables, and rice, knowing I wouldn't be able to finish it, but wanting it as a sort of dessert.
Thence, I went up to Union Square for the Greenmarket. It's near the end of berry season, but somehow that translated into $3 or 5 for $10 on half-pints of raspberries and blackberries, so I got five after figuring out that even if I threw one away we were ahead. I got some interesting grapes, but the nice man didn't pronounce the varietal name clearly enough for me to note and remember it. I bought scallops, and chatted with the neighbor who was running the fish stall, as she had when that boat had a space in our neighborhood greenmarket. She double-bagged the scallops with ice so they'd get home in good condtion. I also have a small seedless watermelon, four cucumbers, a loaf of challah, and a bit over a pound of onions. It wound up being both heavy and somewhat ungainly to bring home, but it's tasty. (So far I've had grapes and raspberries; the scallops, bread, and a cucumber or two will become dinner in a little while.
Gym numbers, for the record:
Cardio, 14 minutes, top heart rate 138
Chest press, 70 pounds, 12, 6; 65 pounds, 2
Leg press, 230 pounds, 6; 180 pounds, 12, 10. I alternated deep and shallower presses at the lower weight, after the more usual 230 pounds was clearly too much. (My left knee had bothered me on the way to the train.)
Balance ~fly, 55 pounds, 2 sets of {15 with each leg forward}
Calf raise, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Crunches, 3 sets of 30
Back arches, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 5 sets of {3 on each leg}
Balance lateral raise, 5 pounds each hand, 15; 2.5 each, 15
Squats on balance dome, with 9-pound balance bar, 13
Biceps curls, 12.5 pounds each hand, 20; 10 pounds each hand, 20
Wrist curls, 35-pound bar, 13, stopped because my right thumb started to hurt; different style, 2.5-pound dumbbells in each hand, 2 sets of 15
Stretches
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