2018 Winter January 26 Friday

50 degrees this morning, walk 34:26 minutes

Wind this morning.  It seemed a lot colder than 50 degrees when the wind is blowing 23 mph!  Overall, it wasn’t that bad, I have a light exercise jacket that repels the wind.  Actually I  wear it from 0 degrees (and less) to about 68 degrees as an outer garment, with, of course, varying layers underneath.  

Still haven’t gotten a replacement Apple Watch.  I really miss it, although I enjoy wearing some of my other watches.  

I noted the new Apple Watch has “interval training”  (maybe an upgrade for the earlier watches, I’m not sure), which I think will help a lot.  I like having the GPS, the “pace” and the heart beats per minute etc. 

I was thinking this morning that we really haven’t had any “bad” weather as far as ice or snow this weather. 

I had that irrational thought that I shouldn’t think about it, it may cause bad weather to mention how there hasn’t really been any “bad” snow or ice, like I could control the weather!  

I am sure “weather” will be weather regardless of what I say or think, so I think I can safety say it has been a good winter as far as no ice or snow without causing ice and snow!

When I thought about that it reminded me of a story I heard about a “utopia” that existed where everyone was happy etc.  The deep dark secret was that (I may have this incorrect in the actual particulars) all of this happiness depending the a young boy being miserable and in prison or something like that.  I don’t remember all the details, but I’ll have to research it.

I mentioned the recycling cart the other day.  Oddly enough, the “regular” trash cart is green, the “recycling” cart is blue, although it does have a green top.

I thought about this since I am scheming how to maximize the capacity of the recycling cart.  As I mentioned it is only picked up every other week and we are having a hard time with getting all of our recycling into it.

For some odd reason, I enjoy tearing down boxes.  I especially like trying to get as much waste cardboard as possible into a cart without overfilling it.  I’m not sure why I enjoy cutting down cardboard boxes, but I do.

Actually when I was in college I had a part time job that included cutting down boxes to minimize the cost of picking up trash since if they weren’t cut down, they would cost a lot more to dispose of.  

Every time I think about that job, I think about the toilet seat that was clear plastic and had actually money encased in it (probably just $1.00 and $5.00 bills and change, I don’t really recall).  (Absolute truth).  It cost, for the time, some astounding amount, like $200 just for the lid.  I never knew if anyone actually bought one.

That’s it for now, Friday, January 26, 2018.