Under the weather, moving furniture

(posted from home)
(This post covers 27-29 September, 2008)

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Tuesday, 30 September-

We spent the morning moving bedroom cabinets and their contents back into place. Afterwards I rode the Concours over to Pinchot Park for an hour and a half of walking (from the disc-golf area to the dam and back).
That evening we watched two more episodes of ‘The Wire’.

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Monday, 29 September-

This morning I began the dreaded process of hauling furniture from the basement to our bedroom. We were happy to have been able to store everything in the basement during the carpet replacement but then again it was much easier to take the furniture down the stairs than up.
I had been invited to lunch by JackRabbit so rode the bike up to Mechanicsburg for that. That afternoon I took my four-mile creekside walk to start getting back into that habit. We had hoped to walk quite a bit while traveling but that didn’t work out. Between the long travel distances and the often-buggy conditions we didn’t walk as much as I had hoped and we only used the bikes for a couple of days at Haines and an afternoon in Boulder. I’m behind in my walking.
That evening we watched more ‘The Wire- Season Four’

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Sunday, 28 September-

I was still recovering today. I spent much of the day looking at video clips I had made during the Alaska trip. Managing the clips is a bit tricky. Though the clips themselves are short, they take up a lot of space on the laptop’s hard drive and it’s nearly full so I’m juggling things around to gain space. And the clips simply have sequential names so you can’t tell one from another without playing them. I started building a reference-sheet so I can tell one from another and find the good ones when I want to but it’s a slow process.
But I love having the clips. I don’t know how useful they’ll be to show others but they’re great for instantly transporting me back to the scene in my head. I played a clip from my Florida trip last winter and was instantly taken back to St. George Island in my mind’s eye. I can almost smell the salt-water and feel the warm sun on my skin. The memories are so remarkably vivid.
And I love my little camera. It’s a Sanyo Xacti CG6 I picked up at WalMart for $250. The recording media is memory cards. I use a 2GB card which gives me about an hour and a half of recording. When it fills, I plug the camera into the laptop and transfer the images to hard disk, then erase the card.
Late in the day I picked up videos for the week and that evening we watched two episodes of ‘The Wire- Season Four’. We love this series.

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Saturday, 27 September-

For some reason I was nauseous and a bit dizzy this morning and also have cold symptoms. Perhaps it’s the shock of living in the house instead of the van. You know, like the sailor whose sea-legs cause him to stumble across the dock after returning from the sea. More likely it’s a leftover from imbibing a bit too much on our last night in Maine followed by the long drive home. Our host served kamikaze cocktails and I MAY have had four or five too many that night. I was surprised to feel no after-effects from them the next morning but perhaps they just caught up with me a day later.
Though I felt under the weather I couldn’t nap and in fact just felt worse lying down. I spent the day catching up on the blog and browsing the web.

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