April BP

 

Slightly Dampish

It was a very nice morning for a walk. I nearly had another Wendy's incident on my walk today. I didn't get away clean. There was a slightly dampish feeling down there, just enough to let me know I had better stay vigilant.

I paused for a Stop & Rest on the Kabot Kitchen sign pedestal and I didn't feel that defeated by the resting. The main thing is that I'm out there doing it and on track to reach my nine mile goal. 

Wiped Out on Walk

I don't want to jinx it so I won't say anything about being on pace to reaching my weekly walking distance goal.

I will say that todays' walk completely tired me out. I got back to the house after the mile and a half walk and sat my ass down on the couch for 20 minutes. I have recovered and am feeling back to my normal...which is not great.

I did manage to complete my walk today without stopping on the hill for a rest, like I usually do. I'm trying to get to a place where I can do the hill with no break.

Montana was the winner of the License Plate Game.

Wendy's Walk

Today was not a good walk. It ended up being much shorter than the mile and a half I had planned. For the sake of honesty, I'll call it 3/4 mile.

I got almost to the end of the park when I had a Wendy's Fart. You know, hot and juicy. Susan would refer to this as a Pooper Walk.

The worst part was that I was a good distance away from the house and there was more to come. Pressure was building. I must have looked pretty goofy walking back with my sphincter clenched that hard.  I detoured to the middle of the park and returned to the house in order to make the most of my walk. 

It is odd that the closer you get to the bathroom, the less control you have over yourself.

Anyway, I made it back and my clothes are in the laundry. 

 

Rainy Day Walking

From the start of todays' walk, I didn't feel terribly perky. I was considering taking the one mile route.

I had pretty much made the decision when I got to the hill and saw the homeless guy in his usual spot. Seeing him cemented the decision for me. He was doing what I can only describe as his Kata. He was in the middle of the street, slowly advancing to the far side of the street, doing a bunch of moves that included kicking, punching and me not going that way.

So I got in a mile and came upstairs to write this. Not my most exciting post to date!   

Walking on 4-20

 I have just returned from my morning walk. It’s very surprising to me how my body reacts to different days of walking. Monday’s walk hurt. My hips were sore, my feet were numb…I was not enjoying myself. In fact, during my second walk on the way back to the house, I walked through the middle of the park and took advantage of the occasional bench that popped up on my course.

Today went much better. I didn’t experience the hip pain today and my feet going numb was not as bothersome. But I had to pause on the Division Street Hill and I immediately sat down upon my return to the house to rest. I’m augmenting that rest right now by typing this post. 

Anyway, I got in another mile and a half today.

Oh wow! I just realized that today is 4-20. I guess I have to go out and get high.

Weekly Walking Report

Well, I did not make my goal. I didn't really even come close. I walked 5 1/2 miles last week. That's three and a half short of my nine mile goal.

The main reason I did not make the goal was because of Roadie. I drove two gigs on Wednesday and two more on Friday. There does not appear to be anything to bid on today. I have a Doctor's appointment tomorrow which will keep me from making any other bids in the morning.

I have completed my mile and a half for today. If I'm feeling really frisky, I might go out and do it again this afternoon.   

Roadie Day One

I'm about to head out on my morning walk but I wanted to make note of an activity. 

This morning, I responded to a bid on Roadie. Roadie is an App I signed up for a couple of weeks ago. They offer "gigs" to deliver items for people. Generally, it seems you're picking up something at Home Depot and driving to someone who couldn't fit whatever it was in a car. Or perhaps they ordered it on-line.

I checked the App on my phone at 5:30 this morning. There was one gig offered for $25.00 to deliver something that was large and 95 pounds to a residence in Elk. Elk is roughly 20 miles north of town.

I got up at 6:00 and checked it again. It was still available and had gone up to $32.10. I haven't submitted a bid since I signed up, so I decided to give it a try and see what it was like.

I got myself dressed while I waited for the bid to be accepted. It took about 10 minutes. I was in the truck at 6:40 and headed off to Home Depot. 

When I got there, I presented myself to the Customer Service desk, gave them the name and order number and a guy brought up a toilet for me to deliver.

I loaded up the toilet and hit the road. 

It was a nice drive to Elk and I found the place pretty easily. The only mistake I made was not getting a picture of the item on the customers front porch before he hauled it in. I hope that doesn't come back to haunt me.

I just checked the App and made another bid offer. This one is for $41.62. I've just been accepted so I am off.

1:52PM: The second Roadie gig I did went much smoother and paid better. It brought my hourly rate for the day to $11.60.

The delivery was described in the bid as Large. It turned out to be three push brooms, five rakes and two tamping tools. I had to pick them up at the valley Home Depot and deliver them up north at Mead High School.

After I was done, I went to the North Spokane Costco to gas up and do some shopping. I got us a nice ham for the Easter Sunday along with other stuff we needed.

So I earned $40.00 today and have the rest of the day for whatever I want. I think I want to go on a walk.

Goal Setter

 I have set a goal for myself for this week. I want to walk at least nine miles by Saturday. Here it is Monday, and I’m already up to 2 1/2 miles.

It was chilly this morning when I headed out. About 35 degrees. I left the house at 7:40 and made it back in 35 minutes. I can tell you I can feel like I went on a walk. Walking up the steps at the end of my mile and a half course is by far the most difficult part of my walk.

I find it is best for me when I do my walk first thing in the morning. There is a sense of accomplishment that fuels the rest of my day. 

The winner of the License Plate game was British Columbia. There was also a plate from Montana, which I consider to be the same, if not greater distance. But the tie goes to the foreigner.

Okay, I’m going to rest and then have breakfast and get on with my day.

Ski Day #19

 Today, I went against the advice of my Doctors and went skiing. The mountain is closing for the year on Sunday, so this was my last chance to ski for this season.

I decided not to tell Susan about my plans ahead of time because she would have disapproved. I would have gone Wednesday but she stayed home sick. From a cold that I gave her. Wednesday was a much better day as far as weather goes. But today looked like my best opportunity and I took it. I decided it is better to ask forgiveness than permission.

I got up to the mountain waaaay too early...about 8:40. No real problem. I was going to take my time getting ready. Getting up there that early got me great parking. You can see that it was overcast and I can tell you it was windy.

I got my jumpsuit on along with my boots and was ready to trudge up to the lift. To my surprise in my utter stupidity, I realized I did not bring my glove bag. That meant no heat pads, no inner gloves, no gloves, no headband and no goggles.

What...adumbass!

I was prepared to accept my stupidity and also realized it might be a sign for me to obey my Doctors and just go home. But I had made it all this way. I decided to take a chance.

By take a chance, I do not mean that I was going to tough it out and ski without gloves and head protection. That would not have worked.

I meant that I would go up to the office and see if there was something in the Lost & Found I could borrow for the day.

Taking the chance paid off. I got a nice pair of slightly small gloves and and weird nylon thing that I doubled up and used as a headband. I had some cheapo pair of sunglasses in the truck which was all I needed for eye protection.

My first run was up Chair Five and then over to Three. I skied the Northwest Passage and took the cat track over to Chair One. The snow was wet and it didn't feel like my skis were going to be very slippery but once I got going, it was good skiing. I was happy I was there!

When I got to the top of one, I took the cat track over to Chair Six and Gary's Glory. The wind was blowing straight at me as I traversed the hill to the run. Once I got to Gary's, it was great.

I skied Runs Two and Three on Gary's Glory. 

For Run Number Four, I wanted to try the B-29 but the cat track to the run was blocked off. I skied down the number one face and thought I might cut over to B-29 but never did.

Run Five was back on Gary's Glory and there was a very light mist starting to fall.

When I got back to the top, it was snowing pretty hard but it was very wet. This was my sign that the day was over. On my way back to the Number Two Lodge where I parked, it was snowing on the top of the hill, ice darts in the middle of the hill, and rain at the bottom of the hill.

I stopped at the lodge and returned the gloves and headband to the office. I thanked the girl there for saving my day and tipped her $4.00.

I want to say that it was a good way to end the season. It wasn't a great day, but it'll do. Above is a picture of my truck in the parking lot, third one in from the end. Just right!

I must say that I have it in my head to go up Sunday afternoon if the day is halfway decent.

Today didn't do much for my yearly total per run. However, every extra run is a little more money off the total. I'm at 176 runs for $2.27 per run.