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A reasonable Saturday...
Dec. 16th, 2006 08:47 pmAmong the recommendations received from the flight surgeon during my physical was to step up my physical exercise to 30 minutes per day, which is the most ambitious program yet suggested to me. (It certainly beats the one I got some time ago upon leaving the hospital in Durango.) Yesterday, I managed to bicycle for about 30 minutes, but in a completely disorganized fashion, around the neighborhood.
Today, I set out on an unplanned, but reasonably certain trek that turned out to be 7.5 miles long and took me nearly 50 minutes of pedaling to cover.
It felt pretty good.
After lunch, Natalie came by and we shared a meal. I set up the Coby DVD player and did the keystrokes to turn it into a region-free device. (Since then, I've come to find that many of the DVDs I have don't have English subtitles, which is not necessarily a bummer for me, but does limit their usefulness as sources of entertainment for both me and Galina.)
Natalie showed me what kind of machine she wants to build to replace the one she currently has, and how her dream machine compares to something ready-made for high-end gaming from Alienware. All I can say is "Wow!" Then again, I'm no hardware maven, and don't need all of that horsepower under my keyboard.
Natalie and Galina took off to do shopping, while I went to visit Barnes & Noble, or at least that was the initial plan. The traffic around the Baybrook Mall was unbelievable, and to put myself out of the terminal stages of waiting for twenty streams of traffic to merge into two, I turned down the I-45 feeder road, toward NASA Rd. 1 and League City. As I made the turn, I recalled there was a McDonald's at the I-45 exit for League City, where I could return the copy of The Sentinel that I had rented from a different Redbox using the promo code COINSTAR.
The Sentinel was pretty good, and even managed to avoid the utterly predictable plot device of (minor spoiler follows) having the least suspicious main character turn out to be the bad guy. Michael Douglas looked pretty good - too good, according to Galina, who made him out to be a male Joan Rivers in the plastic surgery department (though I think that honor goes to a news hound named Zindler, but he's merely a local phenomenon); I digress...
While at the Redbox today, I used the promo code PAPERBOY to rent another free DVD: Take the Lead. It was okay, but utterly predictable in all plot elements; the only suspense consisted in learning what elements were to be included in the plot. Galina didn't like it much at all.
Alarms are to be set before going to sleep today, as I'm scheduled to provide support in the Moscow Support Room tomorrow morning starting at 7 am, and cannot be late.
Cheers...
Today, I set out on an unplanned, but reasonably certain trek that turned out to be 7.5 miles long and took me nearly 50 minutes of pedaling to cover.
It felt pretty good.
After lunch, Natalie came by and we shared a meal. I set up the Coby DVD player and did the keystrokes to turn it into a region-free device. (Since then, I've come to find that many of the DVDs I have don't have English subtitles, which is not necessarily a bummer for me, but does limit their usefulness as sources of entertainment for both me and Galina.)
Natalie showed me what kind of machine she wants to build to replace the one she currently has, and how her dream machine compares to something ready-made for high-end gaming from Alienware. All I can say is "Wow!" Then again, I'm no hardware maven, and don't need all of that horsepower under my keyboard.
Natalie and Galina took off to do shopping, while I went to visit Barnes & Noble, or at least that was the initial plan. The traffic around the Baybrook Mall was unbelievable, and to put myself out of the terminal stages of waiting for twenty streams of traffic to merge into two, I turned down the I-45 feeder road, toward NASA Rd. 1 and League City. As I made the turn, I recalled there was a McDonald's at the I-45 exit for League City, where I could return the copy of The Sentinel that I had rented from a different Redbox using the promo code COINSTAR.
The Sentinel was pretty good, and even managed to avoid the utterly predictable plot device of (minor spoiler follows) having the least suspicious main character turn out to be the bad guy. Michael Douglas looked pretty good - too good, according to Galina, who made him out to be a male Joan Rivers in the plastic surgery department (though I think that honor goes to a news hound named Zindler, but he's merely a local phenomenon); I digress...
While at the Redbox today, I used the promo code PAPERBOY to rent another free DVD: Take the Lead. It was okay, but utterly predictable in all plot elements; the only suspense consisted in learning what elements were to be included in the plot. Galina didn't like it much at all.
Alarms are to be set before going to sleep today, as I'm scheduled to provide support in the Moscow Support Room tomorrow morning starting at 7 am, and cannot be late.
Cheers...
