Wednesday wasn't too bad...
Jul. 22nd, 2010 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukWork was okay. I got lots done and ferretted out some issues. Need to talk with a supplier about their lack of following directions and things should go better. Got done and headed to the gym. I pushed hard on my arm work out and then headed to run. Bleah. The AC is out on that side of the gym and its hot...plus I got a treadmill I don't like as much as the others and it had more bounce to it. I managed to run a 15 min mile...my goal is to get it down to 10 mins or better. I've improved from 20 mins to not quite make a mile but it still slow. I shouldn't be surprised. The best mile I ever ran was in 8th grad and it was 8mins 40sec....I needed 7 mins 50secs to make the presidential fitness program and the running I never could do...so I never got the badge even though I had the record for sit and reach for a few years. But its a goal. My other goal has been to do a pull up without assist. I went to 25lbs of assist last night and couldn't quite make it up. With 55lbs of assist I can do it so I think to day we shall see what I can do since I don't work arms today.
Got done and it was raining. It felt good to walk a bit in the drizzle and then get in the car. I headed to grandma's and had mel pull up next to me at Kolb and Golflinks on his way to kung fu. We chatted while the light was red and then we off to our destinations. Got to knit night and I picked up my stitches on the thumb of my mitt and got a few rows in. I worked for about an hour on it...cause I had to go through the pick up a few times since doing it with needles on was not a good plan. I need to order some addi's in size 2's since they will be short for thumbs etc. Then I started in on weaving. Towards the end of the night I got a bit spacey on weaving so I wondered the store. I bought fiber. I got a really, really pretty purple/blue/fuscia blended merino and a really lovely cloud like batt of silk/merino/angelina* that Vicki had made. It was a bit spendy but hand blended fibers should be. I will have some spinning stuff to work on when I get done with the commission. I'm happy about that. I'm aching to spin but I have a lot of work to do.
Got home and wove for a while and then got into a discussion about aesthetic. We again realize I see things completely differently. I follow patterns in the opposite contrast than mel does and I need to work on making a clean transition between each "play" area of patterns I'm doing. My way of seeing things (and I do mean purely visually) is not what most people will find striking so I need to see it how people see it not how I see it. It was frustrating when it shouldn't have been but I was tired too so that probably added to the feeling. I got to bed on time and that was important. I do have to say that Kurlansky really has a wonderful writing style with the Cod book and the interludes between chapters are all recipes which I think is neat. I hope I can finish the book this weekend but we shall see how time permits.
Today is Thursday, my telecon for the morning was canceled so I have not much to go to today. Which means much writing on a report if I get the progress report from the geeks in the lab. I hope I get that today.
Oh, and for those of you in Tucson who can see the poll I posted yesterday, can you please respond?
*Angelina is a sparkly stuff they put in roving to make it sparkle. See here.
Got done and it was raining. It felt good to walk a bit in the drizzle and then get in the car. I headed to grandma's and had mel pull up next to me at Kolb and Golflinks on his way to kung fu. We chatted while the light was red and then we off to our destinations. Got to knit night and I picked up my stitches on the thumb of my mitt and got a few rows in. I worked for about an hour on it...cause I had to go through the pick up a few times since doing it with needles on was not a good plan. I need to order some addi's in size 2's since they will be short for thumbs etc. Then I started in on weaving. Towards the end of the night I got a bit spacey on weaving so I wondered the store. I bought fiber. I got a really, really pretty purple/blue/fuscia blended merino and a really lovely cloud like batt of silk/merino/angelina* that Vicki had made. It was a bit spendy but hand blended fibers should be. I will have some spinning stuff to work on when I get done with the commission. I'm happy about that. I'm aching to spin but I have a lot of work to do.
Got home and wove for a while and then got into a discussion about aesthetic. We again realize I see things completely differently. I follow patterns in the opposite contrast than mel does and I need to work on making a clean transition between each "play" area of patterns I'm doing. My way of seeing things (and I do mean purely visually) is not what most people will find striking so I need to see it how people see it not how I see it. It was frustrating when it shouldn't have been but I was tired too so that probably added to the feeling. I got to bed on time and that was important. I do have to say that Kurlansky really has a wonderful writing style with the Cod book and the interludes between chapters are all recipes which I think is neat. I hope I can finish the book this weekend but we shall see how time permits.
Today is Thursday, my telecon for the morning was canceled so I have not much to go to today. Which means much writing on a report if I get the progress report from the geeks in the lab. I hope I get that today.
Oh, and for those of you in Tucson who can see the poll I posted yesterday, can you please respond?
*Angelina is a sparkly stuff they put in roving to make it sparkle. See here.
