Flaring up

I started the weekend with a nice two mile walk on the beach Saturday morning. Getting out of bed relatively early is the difficult part of that activity. Once your feet are out walking by the water’s edge and you are immersed in the sounds and sensations that effort feels well worth it.

Later Saturday I had my yard guy knock down a bunch of low hanging branches on a couple of my oak trees. It was so hot and humid I felt bad for even requesting that he do the task for me although of course I am paying him extra to do so. I thought to myself how if the clock was turned back 10 years I would have been out there struggling to find a way to do the work myself.

I had a few things around the house I worked on during the afternoon. I ran a new 50 foot ethernet cable around the perimeter of the office to connect to my cable modem. Since a surge went through the old cable and the retaining clips were broken on it as well it seemed like a fresh CAT 6 cable made sense. I also did some minor organizing and straightening of the room while I had it sort of pulled apart, an effort that will continue over the upcoming weeks. That room just has a bunch of stuff in it that I really do not need anymore.

My Sunday involved a lot of time behind the wheel of the Tesla driving up to Brooksville Florida and back, a trip that takes between six and seven hours. When I got home I felt like I wanted to get some movement in so I went to the fitness center at my work to get 30 minutes of cross trainer cardio in. It felt good to sweat but when I got home later and cooled down my right leg/knee was not feeling like it enjoyed the activity with pain and stiffness being my reward.

I last minute decided to do a live stream Sunday night, the first one in exactly a month. It was primarily about a new huge wheel that was announced with an equally huge price of $5000. There was a time where I would have felt very excited and motivated to try to buy a wheel like this but that time has come and gone. Still it was fun to talk about it and other things for roughly two hours.

This week I have another MOHS skin cancer procedure done on a spot on my right forehead up by the hair line. I had a similar spot cut out on the left side several years ago. I can’t wait…