I’m so used to hours upon hours of hard manual labor that I don’t know what to do with all my excess energy. Sure, I work non-stop for 7-10 hours a day, but traveling up and down the stairs, and back and forth down the hallway, digging through boxes, making piles for recycling and trash, and lugging boxes around just doesn’t match what I became used to while working with the NCC; that is, 10 hours of digging three and a half feet down through rocky desert soil, or hauling old fence posts and barbed wire out to a road, or kneeling down in a foot of water to cut cattails out of a stream channel, or any of the other labor-intensive projects we finished.
I just pulled my ankle out of socket leaping down the hallway. Yeowch. I need to look into kickboxing, or some sort of kicky-swingy-concentrative activity. That’s sure to both keep me in the shape I’m in, and provide a constructive outlet for my energy. If I’m not careful, I may decide to leap over a park bench or some other construct. That’d go well.
The carpets get cleaned tomorrow. I must return to hauling breakable junk out of and off of furniture, and temporarily moving the boxes downstairs. Junk, junk, junk. I’m ready to sell it all! Well, most of it anyway…
Since most of my boxes finally arrived from out west (my clothes and another box’s whereabouts are currently unknown by the USPS though they were shipped with tracking numbers), and I was able to snoop through them and find my Netgear USB Print Server (PS121), I finally have my printer wireless again. Sweetness. I tried to connect both my dad’s color inkjet and my black laser to the server with a USB hub but so far have been unable to get the computer to recognize this. I’m sure there’s someway for it to communicate wirelessly with two printers instead of just one!
Took the breaking car into town today. One stop to see my mum, and one stop at the grocery store. Since I’m used to walking around loose footing and rocky soil in the desert, up and down steep slopes, I figure that the 5.7 miles to the grocery store along a flat surface won’t be much different than the exertion I put forth during our tours. Round trip it’ll be 11.4 miles, so I’m sure to keep in shape. Half with no extra weight, half with a bit of extra weight. Don’t go thinking I’m going to be hauling bags and bags of groceries 5.7 miles; I’ll be taking my trek pack to put the groceries in. I figure that as long as I keep the weight 40 pounds or less, I’ll be fine, and it will be a good workout.