Normandie Ridge visit, ‘Iron Man’, sick days
(posted from home)
(This post covers 9 – 14 May, 2009)
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Thursday, 14 May-
Today was another sick day and I faded even faster today. I went back to bed only an hour or so after rising. I read and slept off and on until mid-afternoon and then watched (of all things) ‘Death Wish’ on Turner Classic Movies channel. ‘Death Wish 3’ came on right after but I couldn’t stand any more. But I was starting to feel a little better toward the end of the day.
That evening we watched ‘Survivor’ and we both cheered when Coach was blindsided and voted off. I suppose the world needs blowhards like Coach but I was glad to see him go.
I was hoping to watch some more Corner Gas but Labashi wanted to see the PCN special on judicial candidates for the upcoming primary elections. In the end I was glad we saw that. Just watching these guys talk for awhile is very helpful in making decisions.
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Wednesday, 13 May –
Well, dang it, I apparently overdid the walking. I woke with a sore thoat and felt a cold coming on. I faded mid-morning and went back to bed. I read a couple of chapters of ‘Bonk’ and slept for two hours.
That evening we watched three episodes of ‘Corner Gas’ (Season 2, Disk 3). Something apparently happened to the writing staff for the last few episodes. We’re descending into recurring predictability and lots of laugh-track.
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Tuesday, 12 May –
Today we went in to York to take a tour of the Normandie Ridge retirement community. This is another of the local continuous-care facilities, i.e., it offers independent, assisted, and nursing care, all under one umbrella company. The apartment layout was excellent and we liked the amenities but there are no current openings and they want prospective residents to buy in now to their plan to build more apartments in the next two years. In this economy, that would be a risk. And if you do get in before the two year mark, you’d have to live with construction noise and dirt.
Afterwards we drove downtown and parked near the library, then went looking for lunch. I wanted to go to a new restaurant, ‘Agrodulce’ but couldn’t find it. It turns out to be near the stadium in a building I thought was still under construction.
After walking up and down George Street, we selected ‘Colesseo’, an Italian restaurant. We ordered a simple Margherita pizza and ran into one of the frustrating things about living in this area. The menu said the pizza has fresh basil on it. But it arrived without basil. The server had no idea why but eventually tracked down the fact that they had run out of basil ‘this morning’ (yeah, right—they had only opened about ten minutes before we arrived!). But rather than tell us about it, they just served up the pizza and hoped we wouldn’t notice.
After the horrors of being shorted the fresh basil on my pizza, my nerves were shot but we somehow bravely struggled on with our lives. We walked on to the library and read the papers. I checked out ‘Bonk’ and ‘The Last Lecture’.
Back home I walked the six-mile loop and then we watched ‘Iron Man’ with Robert Downey, Jr. I thought the movie would be completely over the top but it was surprisingly good. I see RottenTomatoes agrees; it gets a 93% on the Toe-ma-TOM-eter.
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Monday, 11 May-
Today I continued sorting through the investment statements from years back. I needed a way to store them so drove the Miata in to Staples to pick up some expanding ‘wallets’ and thoroughly enjoyed the top-down drive. Since the transmission and exhaust changes, the Miata is more fun than ever to drive.
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Sunday, 10 May-
I spent most of today opening and sorting through years of statements from my parents’ investments. Maypo turned a three-foot-long box of statements over to me to organize and I had been putting it off until today.
Late in the day I walked my six-mile loop course. I was surprised to see it go so well. I was accelerating uphill in the last mile and it felt great! My leg seems to have healed to the point where I don’t have to worry about it any more. Hopefully the knot beside my right knee will continue to slowly go down. It’s a bit tender to the touch but otherwise okay.
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Saturday, 9 May-
This morning I caught up the offline version of the blog and then spent a few hours on the web, mostly on my scan of news sites.
Late in the day I walked the four-mile course along the creek. The road-side foliage has grown incredibly since my last walk. And I saw a Baltimore oriole today!!!
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(posted from home)
(This post covers 9 – 14 May, 2009)
----------------------------------------------------
Thursday, 14 May-
Today was another sick day and I faded even faster today. I went back to bed only an hour or so after rising. I read and slept off and on until mid-afternoon and then watched (of all things) ‘Death Wish’ on Turner Classic Movies channel. ‘Death Wish 3’ came on right after but I couldn’t stand any more. But I was starting to feel a little better toward the end of the day.
That evening we watched ‘Survivor’ and we both cheered when Coach was blindsided and voted off. I suppose the world needs blowhards like Coach but I was glad to see him go.
I was hoping to watch some more Corner Gas but Labashi wanted to see the PCN special on judicial candidates for the upcoming primary elections. In the end I was glad we saw that. Just watching these guys talk for awhile is very helpful in making decisions.
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Wednesday, 13 May –
Well, dang it, I apparently overdid the walking. I woke with a sore thoat and felt a cold coming on. I faded mid-morning and went back to bed. I read a couple of chapters of ‘Bonk’ and slept for two hours.
That evening we watched three episodes of ‘Corner Gas’ (Season 2, Disk 3). Something apparently happened to the writing staff for the last few episodes. We’re descending into recurring predictability and lots of laugh-track.
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Tuesday, 12 May –
Today we went in to York to take a tour of the Normandie Ridge retirement community. This is another of the local continuous-care facilities, i.e., it offers independent, assisted, and nursing care, all under one umbrella company. The apartment layout was excellent and we liked the amenities but there are no current openings and they want prospective residents to buy in now to their plan to build more apartments in the next two years. In this economy, that would be a risk. And if you do get in before the two year mark, you’d have to live with construction noise and dirt.
Afterwards we drove downtown and parked near the library, then went looking for lunch. I wanted to go to a new restaurant, ‘Agrodulce’ but couldn’t find it. It turns out to be near the stadium in a building I thought was still under construction.
After walking up and down George Street, we selected ‘Colesseo’, an Italian restaurant. We ordered a simple Margherita pizza and ran into one of the frustrating things about living in this area. The menu said the pizza has fresh basil on it. But it arrived without basil. The server had no idea why but eventually tracked down the fact that they had run out of basil ‘this morning’ (yeah, right—they had only opened about ten minutes before we arrived!). But rather than tell us about it, they just served up the pizza and hoped we wouldn’t notice.
After the horrors of being shorted the fresh basil on my pizza, my nerves were shot but we somehow bravely struggled on with our lives. We walked on to the library and read the papers. I checked out ‘Bonk’ and ‘The Last Lecture’.
Back home I walked the six-mile loop and then we watched ‘Iron Man’ with Robert Downey, Jr. I thought the movie would be completely over the top but it was surprisingly good. I see RottenTomatoes agrees; it gets a 93% on the Toe-ma-TOM-eter.
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Monday, 11 May-
Today I continued sorting through the investment statements from years back. I needed a way to store them so drove the Miata in to Staples to pick up some expanding ‘wallets’ and thoroughly enjoyed the top-down drive. Since the transmission and exhaust changes, the Miata is more fun than ever to drive.
-------------------------------------------------
Sunday, 10 May-
I spent most of today opening and sorting through years of statements from my parents’ investments. Maypo turned a three-foot-long box of statements over to me to organize and I had been putting it off until today.
Late in the day I walked my six-mile loop course. I was surprised to see it go so well. I was accelerating uphill in the last mile and it felt great! My leg seems to have healed to the point where I don’t have to worry about it any more. Hopefully the knot beside my right knee will continue to slowly go down. It’s a bit tender to the touch but otherwise okay.
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Saturday, 9 May-
This morning I caught up the offline version of the blog and then spent a few hours on the web, mostly on my scan of news sites.
Late in the day I walked the four-mile course along the creek. The road-side foliage has grown incredibly since my last walk. And I saw a Baltimore oriole today!!!
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