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arthur_p_dent) wrote2024-10-03 12:34 am
arthur_p_dent) wrote2024-10-03 12:34 am
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This past week...
Late again (I crashed in front of the tv and now it's after midnight). Not sure what it is, but I'm not finding Wednesdays any better for doing computer stuff than Sundays were. There are some other things where I'm feeling a little off lately too, but I'll get to that in a minute.
First off, my trip last weekend. It was a very busy few days, but also a really good time. Thursday was a travel day - train to Toronto, lunch at a favourite restaurant on the waterfront, and plane into Montreal. Friday was the PGA tournament. Got there before the gates opened, and didn't leave until they were starting to shut things down. Walked the entire course and saw lots of great golf (it's ridiculous just how good the pros are compared to us normal folk). Saturday was the trip back home, train all the way. But we had layover in Toronto, so we got some cheap tickets to the Blue Jays game and watched to first few innings - not a bad way to kill a couple hours.
Overall the trip was great, but I do have a couple take-aways from it as well. First, I really appreciate the fact that my friend took the reigns and organized everything. That part is usually such a big headache for me, especially when there are a lot of different things involved. But the other thing is, traveling with someone else always reinforces with me just how much I enjoy traveling on my own as well. I find it's easier for me to feel relaxed when it's just me. When there are other people I often feel responsible for managing everything the whole time, which can get stressful. And now that I think about it, it's been a couple years since I did a solo vacation - I'm thinking it's about time I do something about that.
So like I said at the start, I've been a bit off recently. Because I was away, my normal weekend routine was thrown off, and I'm still picking away at things that should have been done days ago. I haven't made the transition back to exercising indoors yet (too dark to run in the morning, no motivation to do it after work) so I'm feeling sluggish during the week. I'm still recording things for my goals, but it's been weeks since I tallied anything so I have no clue how I've been doing. Definitely things that I want to get turned around before I slip further out of my routine - the longer it persists, the harder it will be.
Coming up, I'm going to have the house to myself this weekend. I don't have any plans per se, but there are a couple things I'd like to get done while I have the time. The trick will be to balance getting things accomplished with taking some time to chill.
And with that, I think I should call it a night (morning?) and go back to sleep - only a few hours until the alarm starts squawking at me to get up, and I absolutely need more rest before then. So long for now. =]
First off, my trip last weekend. It was a very busy few days, but also a really good time. Thursday was a travel day - train to Toronto, lunch at a favourite restaurant on the waterfront, and plane into Montreal. Friday was the PGA tournament. Got there before the gates opened, and didn't leave until they were starting to shut things down. Walked the entire course and saw lots of great golf (it's ridiculous just how good the pros are compared to us normal folk). Saturday was the trip back home, train all the way. But we had layover in Toronto, so we got some cheap tickets to the Blue Jays game and watched to first few innings - not a bad way to kill a couple hours.
Overall the trip was great, but I do have a couple take-aways from it as well. First, I really appreciate the fact that my friend took the reigns and organized everything. That part is usually such a big headache for me, especially when there are a lot of different things involved. But the other thing is, traveling with someone else always reinforces with me just how much I enjoy traveling on my own as well. I find it's easier for me to feel relaxed when it's just me. When there are other people I often feel responsible for managing everything the whole time, which can get stressful. And now that I think about it, it's been a couple years since I did a solo vacation - I'm thinking it's about time I do something about that.
So like I said at the start, I've been a bit off recently. Because I was away, my normal weekend routine was thrown off, and I'm still picking away at things that should have been done days ago. I haven't made the transition back to exercising indoors yet (too dark to run in the morning, no motivation to do it after work) so I'm feeling sluggish during the week. I'm still recording things for my goals, but it's been weeks since I tallied anything so I have no clue how I've been doing. Definitely things that I want to get turned around before I slip further out of my routine - the longer it persists, the harder it will be.
Coming up, I'm going to have the house to myself this weekend. I don't have any plans per se, but there are a couple things I'd like to get done while I have the time. The trick will be to balance getting things accomplished with taking some time to chill.
And with that, I think I should call it a night (morning?) and go back to sleep - only a few hours until the alarm starts squawking at me to get up, and I absolutely need more rest before then. So long for now. =]