The first thing I noticed as I opened my eyes to the new day was the brilliant light being cast by the moon through the aptly named “halfmoon” window in my master bedroom. Happily, the weather forecast called for a very sunny summer like day today. Once downstairs and tending to my morning ritual, I noticed some heavy fog looming in my back yard, and what a beautiful view it was. I have five spot lights (3 up-lighting and 2 down-lighting) in my backyard landscape highlighting several mature trees. The fog filled beams of light shining up through the trees were an awesome sight (sorry no pics).
Today promised to be a rather short day at the office as we had an off-site team outing planned with several of our engineers. The plan called for golf at Wilson Road at 1PM, which is a nine hole par 3 course. Many of the engineers had either never golfed before, or had only been out once or twice. This proved to be quite a spectacle, and also fun to watch.
I was a little tense since I didn’t get a chance to run at my normal lunch time. It’s not that I forgot. Instead, I had planned to run at 1130AM, right after a meeting I have planned every Wednesday at 11AM. But things just got busy before departing for golf and I didn’t feel it appropriate to take off. This meant I would carry the stress of a looming run with me to the golf course. Not good! And not only did I have the stress of knowing I had to run as soon as we were done golfing, but I also had a 530 date with Mindy, os I knew that I might be pressed for time between golf and our date. Have I told you how much I distain being rushed? We finished our golf outing just before 4PM. I spent little time wrapping up, packing up, and heading home (I live within a ¼ mile of the course). By 410PM I was headed out the door for my daily run. And what a difference it was to run more towards the end of the day, especially after just walking nine holes of golf. Now you have to know there was absolutely no way I would have skipped but I’ll be honest, I wasn’t very motivated. I was hot & sweaty, tired, and my feet ached. Plus, I could feel tension head to toe. After about two miles, however, I began to feel good. I looked forward to getting home and getting a shower. I ran surprisingly fast and was home and in the shower by 440PM. I was out the door for my date by 520PM.
Mindy and I were meeting at Lucky’s on the Patio. They put a really nice patio in this summer, or at least I don’t recall it being there last year and it looks really new. Neither one of us felt like drinking any alcohol. Instead we ordered water and ice tea, and some food. We had a nice time sharing our day and talking about everything under the sun. We confirmed plans for Saturday but still didn’t nail down an exact time or venue. No worries though. It’ll get done.
At home I worked on my Blog and practiced guitar. Speaking of my guitar lessons, my instructor called around 930PM and asked if we could reschedule this weeks session once again. He’s going to see George Clinton Thursday night and doesn’t want to feel rushed through the lesson, nor do I so I graciously agreed to simply push out until next Thursday. That’ll give me an extra week to master three new four finger chords and a new scale he gave me two weeks ago.
Before going to bed I made a couple of phone calls, did some email, and had another chocolate brownie leftover from my birthday. I still have over half left, and they are still so, so good! I went to bed around 11PM.
The first thing I noticed as I opened my eyes to the new day was the brilliant light being cast by the moon through the aptly named “halfmoon” window in my master bedroom. Happily, the weather forecast called for a very sunny summer like day today. Once downstairs and tending to my morning ritual, I noticed some heavy fog looming in my back yard, and what a beautiful view it was. I have five spot lights (3 up-lighting and 2 down-lighting) in my backyard landscape highlighting several mature trees. The fog filled beams of light shining up through the trees were an awesome sight (sorry no pics).
Today promised to be a rather short day at the office as we had an off-site team outing planned with several of our engineers. The plan called for golf at Wilson Road at 1PM, which is a nine hole par 3 course. Many of the engineers had either never golfed before, or had only been out once or twice. This proved to be quite a spectacle, and also fun to watch.
I was a little tense since I didn’t get a chance to run at my normal lunch time. It’s not that I forgot. Instead, I had planned to run at 1130AM, right after a meeting I have planned every Wednesday at 11AM. But things just got busy before departing for golf and I didn’t feel it appropriate to take off. This meant I would carry the stress of a looming run with me to the golf course. Not good! And not only did I have the stress of knowing I had to run as soon as we were done golfing, but I also had a 530 date with Mindy, os I knew that I might be pressed for time between golf and our date. Have I told you how much I distain being rushed? We finished our golf outing just before 4PM. I spent little time wrapping up, packing up, and heading home (I live within a ¼ mile of the course). By 410PM I was headed out the door for my daily run. And what a difference it was to run more towards the end of the day, especially after just walking nine holes of golf. Now you have to know there was absolutely no way I would have skipped but I’ll be honest, I wasn’t very motivated. I was hot & sweaty, tired, and my feet ached. Plus, I could feel tension head to toe. After about two miles, however, I began to feel good. I looked forward to getting home and getting a shower. I ran surprisingly fast and was home and in the shower by 440PM. I was out the door for my date by 520PM.
Mindy and I were meeting at Lucky’s on the Patio. They put a really nice patio in this summer, or at least I don’t recall it being there last year and it looks really new. Neither one of us felt like drinking any alcohol. Instead we ordered water and ice tea, and some food. We had a nice time sharing our day and talking about everything under the sun. We confirmed plans for Saturday but still didn’t nail down an exact time or venue. No worries though. It’ll get done.
At home I worked on my Blog and practiced guitar. Speaking of my guitar lessons, my instructor called around 930PM and asked if we could reschedule this weeks session once again. He’s going to see George Clinton Thursday night and doesn’t want to feel rushed through the lesson, nor do I so I graciously agreed to simply push out until next Thursday. That’ll give me an extra week to master three new four finger chords and a new scale he gave me two weeks ago.
Before going to bed I made a couple of phone calls, did some email, and had another chocolate brownie leftover from my birthday. I still have over half left, and they are still so, so good! I went to bed around 11PM.
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