Sunday morning

Tried to jog two miles last night, and phizzled out after one. No energy, possibly related to the fact that I'm on drugs due to last week's head/eye thing. But I wanted to keep going because it would only be my third workout of the week, and the frustration has set in because I'm not getting better, fitness-wise, and in fact seem to be regressing. I know that doing this only 2-3 nights a week has something to do with this, but I'm a member in good standing of the club in that while I like how I feel after I work out, the actual gearing up to work out is a problem.

So I slowed to about 3.5 mph and added an incline, winding up at 4%. Did that for 20 minutes. Doesn't seem like much, but boy am I stiff this morning. Thighs and butt, the two danger zones. Guess I'll throw in some incline walking now and then, for the sake of variety and muscle tone.

In other news, need to fill out a rebate coupon. $6, which isn't trivial. I needed to buy two bottles of wine in order to qualify, but the wine wasn't expensive. Unfortunately, it wasn't very good, either, so I won't be getting it again (Turning Leaf Reserve Cabernet, in case anyone is interested. I found it watery/herbal/weedy).

Earlier in the week, I started to gather all the rebate stuff together--rebate coupon, UPC codes, cash register receipt--only to find that I couldn't find the receipt. This went on long enough that I decided the cause it was lost, so yesterday morning, I tossed the bottles, complete with UPC-coded labels, into the trash.

I shouldn't have done this until after I cleaned my desk.

Coffee grounds get into everything, and they stain a treat.

One of the labels looks nicely aged.

Sunday morning

Tried to jog two miles last night, and phizzled out after one. No energy, possibly related to the fact that I'm on drugs due to last week's head/eye thing. But I wanted to keep going because it would only be my third workout of the week, and the frustration has set in because I'm not getting better, fitness-wise, and in fact seem to be regressing. I know that doing this only 2-3 nights a week has something to do with this, but I'm a member in good standing of the club in that while I like how I feel after I work out, the actual gearing up to work out is a problem.

So I slowed to about 3.5 mph and added an incline, winding up at 4%. Did that for 20 minutes. Doesn't seem like much, but boy am I stiff this morning. Thighs and butt, the two danger zones. Guess I'll throw in some incline walking now and then, for the sake of variety and muscle tone.

In other news, need to fill out a rebate coupon. $6, which isn't trivial. I needed to buy two bottles of wine in order to qualify, but the wine wasn't expensive. Unfortunately, it wasn't very good, either, so I won't be getting it again (Turning Leaf Reserve Cabernet, in case anyone is interested. I found it watery/herbal/weedy).

Earlier in the week, I started to gather all the rebate stuff together--rebate coupon, UPC codes, cash register receipt--only to find that I couldn't find the receipt. This went on long enough that I decided the cause it was lost, so yesterday morning, I tossed the bottles, complete with UPC-coded labels, into the trash.

I shouldn't have done this until after I cleaned my desk.

Coffee grounds get into everything, and they stain a treat.

One of the labels looks nicely aged.

And now for something completely different

Jumping the gun a bit, but oh well.

A few weeks/months ago, there was a discussion on my SFFNet group about editing and the fact that sometimes you need to cut things that you really like, but that for some reason or another--plot change, tone change, POV excision--no longer fit within the whole of the work. Someone asked if I would put a few examples of trimmed scenes on my website. I did post one from ENDGAME, but I also thought I'd search through the files to see if anything from the earlier three books had survived the transfer from the Gateway to the iMac.

Well, something did. It will be posted on my website in the next day or two. It's a partial, and even though 6 years have passed, I still like it. I will post a poll over here, and ask readers to vote. If enough people show an interest, I'll finish the tale and post it on my webpage.

And now for something completely different

Jumping the gun a bit, but oh well.

A few weeks/months ago, there was a discussion on my SFFNet group about editing and the fact that sometimes you need to cut things that you really like, but that for some reason or another--plot change, tone change, POV excision--no longer fit within the whole of the work. Someone asked if I would put a few examples of trimmed scenes on my website. I did post one from ENDGAME, but I also thought I'd search through the files to see if anything from the earlier three books had survived the transfer from the Gateway to the iMac.

Well, something did. It will be posted on my website in the next day or two. It's a partial, and even though 6 years have passed, I still like it. I will post a poll over here, and ask readers to vote. If enough people show an interest, I'll finish the tale and post it on my webpage.