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It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, December 29
The big news at the gym this morning was that we wore the elbow sleeve for the first time in two or three workouts…Recall Sparrow First Aid (SFA) has more or less eliminated our right elbow pain when we did cable tricep pulldowns, but here’s the deal: we are going to resume bench pressing here soon and the sleeve will be a nice, extra precaution.
Now, this doesn’t mean we are displeased with the pec deck…We’re not…It’s a hell of a chest workout but – and we are trying to be modest here – we are already at the stack, the final plate on the machine…We are not making that up…In fact, we did the stack twelve times today, and we would’ve up the weight if we could…With the bench press, you never run out of weight.
The cat did not like the new yummies we got her…In the mail Thursday was a box of 24 cans of stuff that had cheese in it…We couldn’t recall ordering it, and if we did order it we made a mistake in not getting her usual stuff, but we shrugged and gave her a can this morning.
It was not looked upon with favor…She started in on it before we left for the gym but when we got back she was waiting for us at one corner of the kitchen table…It’s rare for her to meet us when we get back from the gym because she’s been fed and is usually sleeping on my bed, but not this morning…And, to ensure there was absolutely zero misunderstanding on my part, she was meowing like a refugee at a food truck…We looked over to her bowl and her yummies were hardly touched…You hate to see 23 cans of cat food go to waste, but when the cat doesn’t like something you don’t argue, so we tossed the new crap and gave her a can of stuff she’s used to, this time that tuna and shrimp stuff that looks good enuff to put some mayonnaise in and make a sandwich out of.
I think we’re addicted to our new coffee maker…More specifically, addicted to making one cup at a time, with the big news being there are actually two ways to make a single cup of coffee…I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, there is the pod we bought but dig this, the new coffee maker also came with a small, non pod filter that fits in the single-serve brewer: you put some coffee in it, put it in the machine and BOOM you get a single cup of coffee, just like with the pod…We’re so thrilled with both we’ve been alternating using them: this morning for our first cup we used the alternate filter, and for the second cup we used the pod…Both were filled with our preferred Donut Shop knockoff.
Even more big news is we found another filter for the water purifier on the kitchen tap, so we installed it (the old one ran out months ago) and used that for coffee this morning and boy or boy, let me tell you, it’s as if we’d been using yak piss…The taste was noticeably better with filtered water, another Coffee Bonus (CB).
(In other coffee maker news, the price at the retailer’s website has doubled, from the $50 we paid for it before Christmas to a C note now…It remains $120 at the local hardware store.)
More dead slowness at the veterans service office (VSO) today…The elevator is still down and two repair guys came by around 0850 and were gone ten minutes later, the “Out of Order” signs were still up…We happened to run into them heading to the can and one guy said the elevator was up and running and always had been, except for a battery-lowering system (or something like that) that lowers the elevator to the basement in the event of a power outage and that’s been bypassed, so the elevator was functional…He added he’d contact someone in Facilities and gave the impression he wasn’t entirely clear what all the fuss was about.
Evidently he didn’t contact anybody anywhere because Jim – who head manned the project on our end – came by and was frustrated the Out of Order signs were still up because he had been operating under the assumption the repair guys would be here today…Well, since you can hear everything in the new building, we heard this as he was talking to Fran at the front desk, so we wandered and reported our findings from this morning…This didn’t please Jim at all because 1) the goddamned elevator wasn’t fixed, and, 2) the elevator guys hadn’t contacted anyone…He added he was going to leave the signs up, too, because he didn’t like bypassing safety features and, besides, several people have been stuck in the elevator…The signs will remain up until the elevator gets a clean bill of health.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log:
1500 Thursday until 0030 Friday
1730 Friday until 2130 Friday
13.5 hours for the day and a man-sized 46.0 hours for the week, one hell of a total heading the finale, the all-you-can-get Saturday Sleep Session (SSS)…God bless all of you.
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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.
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