Still Sick

I'm still definitely under the weather, and the actual weather isn't cooperating very much.  It was supposed to rain Mon. and Tues., and then mostly clear up.  Instead it barely rained on Tues., and now the rain is supposed to be a drizzle most of the day and then heavier showers from 7-9 pm just when we are out at Budweiser Stage to see the B-52s.  Lovely...  I'm sure that will do wonders for my overall health.  However, I think at this point I just need to be upright to have the rest of the junk drain out of my lungs.  I think my nose is just about finished running, so I am close to getting over this cold or whatever it was.

I forgot to mention the other day that there were a few very frustrating incidents over the weekend.  First, Sat. morning I found out that because of some last-minute scheduling changes, there was no lap swimming at Regent Park, either on Sat. or Sun.  And I guess it is their annual pool clean-up, but Matty Eckler's pool is completely closed all week (and this week as well).  Unfortunately, the times just didn't work for Jimmie Simpon, though I had planned on doing late night laps there on Mon., which I am starting to really value as the lanes are nearly empty, but I just was not up to it.  I might have attempted to go on Tues., but that is the only day they don't have evening hours, and I still wasn't feeling all that well.  So I am short one swimming session with no obvious time to make it up.  Not very happy about that.

Also, on Sunday, I somehow failed to lock my bike up properly at Trinity-St. Paul's.  (They have some of the stupidest bike racks I've ever seen.)  When we came out from the concert, my bike was lying on the ground.  Someone apparently had locked up on the other side, saw the bike fall over and just left it there.  What an asshole!  I think this fall somehow messed up the derailleur, as I was having lots of slippage in the upper gears.  So I dropped it off at a bike shop to have them look it over, and I am hoping to have it back on Thurs.

I did find that, even on the home scale, I have lost another 5 or so pounds, which often happens when I get sick, so now I need to just keep on with the better eating habits.  If it turns out I can finally squeeze into a smaller size of jeans that will also help me stay motivated and not completely backslide...

Off topic, I am really very frustrated at not being able to find these photos from the Georgia O'Keeffe show in 2017.  I clearly went twice (in April, then May) or even three times and would have taken some photos on each visit.  I clearly remember taking photos of her last paintings at Ghost Ranch, but none of these seem to be archived on the 10 or so external hard drives I have lying around!  I spent some time (back in the day) organizing my 2017 and 2018 photos, but they aren't there.  About the only lingering possibility is I left them on my (work) iPhone for a very long time and so the datestamp is off, but this seems unlikely.  This is quite upsetting actually, though I don't think there is anything I can do about it.  I will see if I can track down the catalog from that show and borrow it from the library at least.

 

Edit (9/25): Well, it's not as good as squeezing into a size 34 loose fit pair of jeans.  (I'm still trying to track those down, but they should be somewhere in the house.)  But I am able to fit comfortably in a straight size (that was too tight a month or two ago.)  So real progress, which is about the only thing that can motivate me to stick to a diet.  Progress is much slower than it was pre-Covid, but I am starting to see it.