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Been a bit busy. I still am sick, still coughing, still have a runny nose, still weak. I went to the gym yesterday to try to regain some semblance of my normal routine. It was a joke. I was so frickin weak. With my illness I have lost some body weight which now has dipped into the 180’s.
Christmas will be here before I know it and once again, it just doesn’t feel like it should to me. First off, it feels like Christmas was just here, I can hardly believe a year has ticked by that quick. Second, living in Florida just hacks a big chunk off the Xmas experience. It’s just impossible to feel much in the holiday spirit when it is 80 degrees outside. It’s something I just have come to accept as the way it is after living here six years. Last night I tried to pump some holiday spirit into my aging body by playing our Transiberian Orchestra Christmas cd’s.
One of the responsibilities Ali and I have picked up this past year is hosting the website and handling the registrations for the Naples Half Marathon. It is a huge race that has close to 1500 entries. We have been maintaining the entry list spreadsheet. Some of the entries are imported via a file I pull from a website, the rest have to be manually entered. It has been A LOT of work. Well yesterday it came to my attention that a bunch of entries that have been entered online from the registration site were not on my spreadsheet. So I had to go through the entire list, comparing names to find which ones were missing, and there were a bunch, at least a hundred. I hacked through it all and finally got everything up to snuff last night. It is the type of job that noone appreciates but is crucial to a race going off cleanly.
Only two days to my birthday. Hate it.
We have really been getting good mileage on the Camry Hybrid. For this tank of gas we are averaging 40 MPG, an awesome number. Now to get these type of mileage numbers you really need to modify your driving style. You find yourself constantly checking the instant mileage gauge trying to maximize it’s number by using the minimum amount of gas pedal necessary to maintain speed. We have been able to go as fast as 40 mph in pure electric mode.
Heroes is off the air till the end of January, I am not happy about it.
I have given the lady that wants to purchase the van until tomorrow to come up with the cash, else I will send back her deposit. I left her the message on Monday with the ultimatum and have not gotten any call backs yet, so in reality I can’t send the money back until she gives me her address. It’s f’in annoying to me how she won’t call me back and instead just pulls me along. When I talked to her last week (when I was full blown sick) I felt too shitty to really rip into her like she deserved. That was the first time she called me back after I left her at least 3 messages over the span of two weeks. If/when she calls me this time I will be sure to let her know just how much annoyance she has been causing me. The plate on the van needs to be renewed if I am going to be keeping it for now, I will have to pick insurance back up on it and I turned away 3 people that could have been possible buyers because of this game she is playing with me. I never would have pictured her as a dead beat but that is apparently what she is. If she is having such a hard time coming up with 2500 bucks, she shouldn’t be buying a 13 year old vehicle. How would she pay repair bills? It’s frustrating.