Pool, Play, Proud

So I could only lie there for so long before I got bored. I said to myself, “Just go swim. It’s all play for you,anyway.”

I went to the Y, got a lane in an all but empty pool and went about the swim.  But first, I weighed myself just as I do every day. I weighed in at 203. H-U-G-E Deal. I’ve been consistent in this weight range 203-205 for the last few days.

The swim distance was a toss-up. I just started and I settled at 2500 meters.  The post-workout weigh in at 200.8 lbs was consistent with the normal fluid loss I usually have of around 1.5-2lbs.

Proud. I’ve been doing Weight Watchers with a focused intensity.  I want the benefit to my musculoskeletal system that losing extra weight brings. I hope to get off hypertension and cholesterol lowering medications. I’m getting results. When I walked along the pool deck to my lane, I did not feel fat.

Yes. Yes. Yes!

Lethargy. Lassitude. Lazy.

I’m lying in the sack, halfway to a pity party. I have ice on my sore sboulder.

I get my government money on Wednesday. I think I will support more artists on Patreon. 

And I will get a haircut.

My Weight Watchers weekly weigh-in is tomorrow. I’m predicting I’ve lost a couple more pounds.

That’s it. I’m done for now.

My day really began about 11. That is when I woke up to stay. My sleep pattern is somewhat askew. But I’m retired and don’t have to be anywhere. 

I did not go to Father Kauffmann’s Requiem Mass. I went to a Mass for the repose of his soul Tuesday. I figured the Mass today would be crowded and long. My back would not like the long sitting down.

I went to Tom Leonard’s and bought some fruit. I like fruit.  Strawberries, pineapple, peaches.

I visited my friend Scott. I think he has an autism spectrum disorder.  He is a really beautiful person. I noticed he takes notes copiously recording a vast number of things. Baseball scores, for example.

Dinner was trout and a cole slaw that had tortilla strips and pumpkin seeds, pepitas, in it.

After dinner, I went swimming 2500 meters, 67 minutes.  The real value today was getting the swim in rather than sit around in my “Comfy Chair” after dinner.

Life is pretty good.

I remember that as the title of a song by Leonard Cohen, I think, recorded by Judy Collins. However, today I saw this creature perched on the wires in front of my stepmother’s house. I could not resist the chance to take the picture,

Hopefully it will enlarge for you. I think it’s an Eastern towhee.

This little gem was in my cloud. Thought I would share it. It was taken last Spring at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden here in Richmond.

No comment necessary.

Nothing messes my head up like an afternoon of TV. The commercials for everything from SUV’s to jewelry to beer get me wondering how I can be so happy when I have no desire to purchase any of this schlock.

Weird 

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Hopefully this link will take you to Last Post. It is my tribute to the brave men of the Australian And New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), who fought in the ill-fated campaign on the Gallipoli Peninsula in The Great War (World War I).