It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Thursday, May 5
Boy, it was a nice, routine, day off today…It started with a half-assed Level 1 cleaning at The Shire, as only the only reason vacuuming was done was to clean up some cat puke in the living room…Dishes were washed, too.
The troika at the gym was strong this morning, the first strong troika in a while, what with it still being winter up here and the pools being closed for seasonal cleaning…The big news is ol’ Sparrow contrived his own pre-workout drink today…Recall a while ago we dumped the plant-based pre-workout stuff in order to field test using only the branched-chain amino acid, and that produced satisfactory results…I mean, we’re not lifting to move max weights anymore, we’re lifting to move as much as we can to stay strong and stave off old age as long as possible, so we don’t need the full-tilt stimulation we once did.
But there’s been some beet powder that failed to oust the beet capsules from regular rotation lying around the kitchen and the recently purchased spirulina powder was there, too, and Dr Sparrow opened the laboratory and mixed all three together with good results, good enuff to try again tomorrow.
The big news is the gym wasn’t half as crowded as it was last week – when it was slammed – and the weights were typical Thursday strong…The walk was a triumph…It had rained most of the nite in town and was still threatening rain when ol’ Sparrow headed out but both forecast and instincts said it would hold off and all that fell was the lightest of drizzles, something you hardly even felt.
Today’s route was downtown out to the library then back down River Road to the rodeo grounds, up to the far edge of the parking then back…Thing is, tho, when yours truly got to this point it felt that he’d been walking about the length of time two miles generally take tho the route as reckoned indicated there was still a half-mile to go…So, under modest protest, ol’ Sparrow walked the extra half-mile from the rodeo grounds on the core trail back up towards Main Street and when we got home we checked on that How Far Have I Walked website and the whole thing turned out to be about 2.75 miles.
The problem was the original reckoning of it being only a half-mile to the library; it is actually a bit more than eight-tenths of a mile and when you walk down to the rodeo grounds and up the parking lot and back you are at 1.83 miles and the walk back to the gym makes it ruffly two-and-a-quarter miles…The hard question, of course, is do you call the 2.75-mile walk, which was rather pleasant, the new standard – or maybe even up it to a nice round 3.0 miles – or do use the updated information
The real big news is that all the jets on the back hot spring are back up and running…I am not making that up…Regular readers of this crap know that for a while now the jets on the back half have been down but evidently, they were fixed while the pools were shut down…It was great to have them back, too, with ol’ Sparrow resuming his normal, long-missed place on the far side.
$77.56 for 19 items at the retailer in the next county today, with the number of items being noted to see if we would’ve qualified for the more-or-less-20-item express lane…The problem, as always, was the individual cans of cat food which drives the total number of items up considerably…As it was, we used a regular checker and there wasn’t a line, so it all worked out.
The rather pleasant, typical Thursday day off continued with lunch at the Mexican joint where yours truly is pleased to report the new cook now recognizes me and knows my usual order…He looked at me and said “chorizo” and I pursed my lips and nodded contentedly, tho the order still has to be noted for the oaf working the register.
We’ve had rain and snow the past couple of days, so the lawn was entirely too wet to give the new electric lawn mower its first workout of the season…It should be dry for a while, so one Sunday morning could be a thing and if not, certainly next Thursday…We’re going to shoot for Sunday, tho, because the lawn really needs a mowing…Maybe Thursday, tho, because the dandelions are in bloom and a full week will give them time to work their benefits on the lawn.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1800 Wednesday until 0030 Thursday…6.5 hours for the day and 36.5 hours for the week.
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
It was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
