These past weeks...
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You know, I've been sitting here for several minutes thinking back to two weeks ago, and I can only think of a couple things that happened. Maybe that's why it was so easy to skip my post last week? Doesn't matter now I guess.
The last time I mentioned Duolingo, they had essentially ended the German course on me. Daily practice lessons got boring very quickly, so I ended up starting a new course - Danish. It's a much smaller course with only three sections, and in less than two weeks I've almost completed section one - so I could be looking for a new language again in a couple months.
I've finally caught up on reviewing my progress on my goals for the month. Two weeks ago was abysmal, but the other three weeks have been ok. As I thought, the good things are still fairly good, and the bad things are still pretty bad. I almost gave up on some of them, but then realized that those are the ones that need to be there - the ones I need to turn around. I am still keeping up with exercise, including a lot of running. Two Fridays ago I did a 14km run (that's 1/3 of a marathon), and an 8.5km run the week before that. I've also been trying to improve my speed on shorter runs - my goal is 5km in 30 minutes or less, and I'm inching my way closer week by week.
Social stuff has been kinda sparse, aside from getting together with my good friend on Fridays. Things to do or places to go to expand socially is something we were actually talking about recently. In the winter months I have my curling league, but for the most part they are my "curling friends" - I only see them once a week, six months of the year. Which is ok, but it leaves the summer pretty empty. Well, I came across a local running club that meets Tuesday evenings, and I think this week I'm going to go check it out. I'm more than a little nervous about it - I'm not exactly adept at meeting new people, especially in groups. But I'm hopeful it works out.
Work has been abnormally quiet the past week or so, which, if I'm honest, is a bit unnerving. It's been so quiet that I was able to clear almost all of my backlogged items for three plants (which should have taken several weeks to get through). Another plus on the work front is that I'll be able to continue to take virtually every Friday off through the first half of December. Sure, an extended vacation would be nice, but I'll gladly take four-day work weeks in the meantime.
And with that, I'm going to call it a night. I'm intending to make the switch to Wednesdays this week, so I'll be back in a few days for what I expect will be a much shorter post. If I have the brain for it, maybe I can get my monthly review done as well.
So long for now. =]
You know, I've been sitting here for several minutes thinking back to two weeks ago, and I can only think of a couple things that happened. Maybe that's why it was so easy to skip my post last week? Doesn't matter now I guess.
The last time I mentioned Duolingo, they had essentially ended the German course on me. Daily practice lessons got boring very quickly, so I ended up starting a new course - Danish. It's a much smaller course with only three sections, and in less than two weeks I've almost completed section one - so I could be looking for a new language again in a couple months.
I've finally caught up on reviewing my progress on my goals for the month. Two weeks ago was abysmal, but the other three weeks have been ok. As I thought, the good things are still fairly good, and the bad things are still pretty bad. I almost gave up on some of them, but then realized that those are the ones that need to be there - the ones I need to turn around. I am still keeping up with exercise, including a lot of running. Two Fridays ago I did a 14km run (that's 1/3 of a marathon), and an 8.5km run the week before that. I've also been trying to improve my speed on shorter runs - my goal is 5km in 30 minutes or less, and I'm inching my way closer week by week.
Social stuff has been kinda sparse, aside from getting together with my good friend on Fridays. Things to do or places to go to expand socially is something we were actually talking about recently. In the winter months I have my curling league, but for the most part they are my "curling friends" - I only see them once a week, six months of the year. Which is ok, but it leaves the summer pretty empty. Well, I came across a local running club that meets Tuesday evenings, and I think this week I'm going to go check it out. I'm more than a little nervous about it - I'm not exactly adept at meeting new people, especially in groups. But I'm hopeful it works out.
Work has been abnormally quiet the past week or so, which, if I'm honest, is a bit unnerving. It's been so quiet that I was able to clear almost all of my backlogged items for three plants (which should have taken several weeks to get through). Another plus on the work front is that I'll be able to continue to take virtually every Friday off through the first half of December. Sure, an extended vacation would be nice, but I'll gladly take four-day work weeks in the meantime.
And with that, I'm going to call it a night. I'm intending to make the switch to Wednesdays this week, so I'll be back in a few days for what I expect will be a much shorter post. If I have the brain for it, maybe I can get my monthly review done as well.
So long for now. =]
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Date: 2024-07-29 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-31 03:40 am (UTC)Good luck with the running club! That sounds like a fun, low-key way to meet people however adept you are at it.