82 degrees this morning. Walk 55.53 minutes. I keep track of my time basically just to have a record (and perhaps keep myself honest as far as a walking pace). I really don’t consciously try to beat my best time every day. I noted that today is roughly 14 seconds more then yesterday, so I expect I should expect my “normal” time to be in the 55:00 to 58:00 time frame. Wind, weather, what music I may be listening to etc. may account for any major differences. No earthquakes as of yet!
Today marks two months in our new location (not our new house, we were just looking for a house two months ago). We saw our new primary Doctor last week (seemed to be ok) and a dermatologist (we see a PA and she is great). We still need to establish ourselves with other specialists and such items as a barber/hair stylist (although Aliene goes to one she has been going to for, I believe about 30 years. She went to her when we visited OKC while living in Lakeland).
I tried one hair shop and the results were, frankly, horrible, so I’ll try again. Life includes a complex web of relationships, from the place you get gas, to a new doctor, dentist, restaurant, grocery etc. Once I get my teeth implants in, I will need to search for a new dentist, which probably will stress me out more than anything else.
The search for new business relationships is really a major factor in satisfaction with living anyplace. Thus far, we have been reasonably satisfied with our new medical providers, shopping, restaurants etc. Not really any better or any worse, just different, and overall it will just take some trial and error to find the right ones.
This time of year, with the coolish, yet warm early evening breeze reminds me of when I was in 7th/8th/9th/ grade and on nights like this we would go out and climb on the roof of the school. I don’t know why we did it, we didn’t vandalize anything or even really look for anything. We just climbed up on the roof and talked.
I don’t know why that sticks in my mind, but it does. We would climb on the roof and just sit and talk. When i think about it, I was about the age of my granddaughters then. I hope they aren’t doing stuff like that!
I think it sticks in my mind because of the wind. It is one wind I can live with and actually like. It doesn’t happen a large part of the year, I think it is a summer/fall, perhaps early summer/late spring event..
We are now starting to review further “downsizing” and moving options. We still have too much stuff for the house! It is getting easier to consider “weeding” items, but it is still difficult. I know I can weed more books, and will use the “toothbrush test” on items. It is just continuous process. Th difficult items to dispose of are the ones with some emotional meaning or attachment (meaning some things we will never get rid of) and thoughts that it is something “someday’ we will use it.
I am still looking at my morning routine. It is difficult to change even the “piddling” around activities since they are part of the morning routine!
I don’t bicycle until daylight, primarily because of the maze of streets, but also because I’m not completely satisfied with my lighting system (even though there are few vehicles on the streets at that time in the morning.
That’s it for now, Sunday, August 24, 2014.
No comments:
Post a Comment