Not bad Grandpa, big in the bedroom, dog day

On Saturday morning I ditched running as my back was still not feeling great when I rolled out of bed.  Instead I started off my early AM at a much slower pace playing some WoW and Hearthstone.  Around 9 I took the party van over to Cindy’s apartment to get the last couple large/heavy items that would be going to my house, her big screen TV and a large potted desert rose.

I had to load these in a way to still allow access to the bed in the back of the van since I was picking up the girls on my way home.   They didn’t seem to mind the 50″ tv that was lined up behind the front seats.

Once we got home I got to work distributing the items to their new spots.  The desert rose went out front in between the two existing potted plants.  The tv went into the guestroom, replacing the diminutive 15 inch LCD set that was there before.  The tv transformation was dramatic.  Cindy’s tv takes up pretty much all available wall space between the open bedroom door and the closet.  Future guests will have quite the AV experience available to them.

I spent a good portion of Saturday afternoon doing a full yard mowing followed by weed whacking.  It was my first time mowing everything with the new sun canopy installed.  As expected extra care was necessary mowing certain spots and other spots could no longer be traversed with the canopy installed.  I’ll exchange another minute or two of weed whacking for being able to mow without the sun beating on my head on the tractor.  I wish I would have done this 10 years ago. After the yard work I was actually warm enough to jump in the pool, giving Sadie her first 2014 splashy splash session.  The water felt quite cold for about 30 seconds but after that I was able to settle in and splash Sadie for 5 or 10 minutes.

When Cindy got home we promptly gave both of the dogs a bath.  They both suffered through the indignity with flying colors.

We spent Saturday evening at home.  It included watching my latest Netflix rental, Bad Grandpa.  To be quite honest I was hesitant to even put this in my queue.  The last Jackass movie was so lame that I was almost not willing to watch anything with Johnny Knoxville’s name all over it.  I was totally prepared for this movie to be horrible and even envisioned myself turning it off mid-flick if it was as bad as I feared it could be. Well I was wrong, very wrong.

Both Cindy and I laughed a ton, it was sort of a mix of Borat with a sprinkle of Jackass.  The little kid in the movie was a great part of the chemistry, despite the age inappropriate things he had to do/say.  The movie was really, really funny, believe it or not I am giving it an A-.

On Sunday morning after dropping off the dogs at Ali’s, Cindy and I took on a bike/swim brick.  The first part of the ride when we were heading north had a very quick pace, topping out at 24mph + for a brief period of time.  Of course I knew this meant we had a big tailwind pushing us along which was going to be in our face on the way back.

For most of the south ride Cindy was in the front being a wind breaker, she likes to put herself in those difficult riding conditions because it offers better training rewards.  I took over for a brief part towards the end of the south ride before we did a final U-turn to head north back towards the water park.  With the wind once again at our backs Cindy took off like a bat out of hell, she likes to see what sort of top speed she can hit during the last segment of this ride.  She said she touched 28 mph at one point.  I couldn’t tell as I was a couple hundred yards behind her at that point.  I only caught up to her right before getting back to the entrance to the park.

We had a decent swimming session.  I logged three 400 yard segments at a mundane 9:15 pace.  Considering this was only my second swimming session of the last 6 months I was ok with it.  Cindy put in 1000 yards.  It was her first time swimming since the Key West tri in December.

After we were done we got right out of there as we had two stops to make on the way home and list of things to accomplish once we got back.  Sunday afternoon seemed to fly by in a blink.  Cindy made a nice dinner followed up with an even better homemade apple pie.  We enjoyed both while finally watching the third part of the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo  series.

It was good but the whole reading subtitle deal really is not my thing and distracts from my overall enjoyment of the film.  As a whole I would give the movie series a B+.

So last week I finished up my second week trying out Gunnar glasses at work.  The first week I had them I wore them basically full time, 8 hours a day at work and my eyes felt like shit.  They were bloodshot, aching and dry at various times, the exact symptoms they are meant to lessen.

Last week I did them more in shifts, wearing them for a period of time and then going without for a bit.  It seemed to work out better, my eyes felt much better than the week before.

I still have not noticed any improvement in the problem that caused me to by Gunnars in the first place, distance focus.  We’ll see what week three brings.