Sorry I have not updated for a few days, I have been busy. For example, Saturday:
0720 - Woke ten minutes before the alarm and just lay there enjoying the moment. I am reliably informed by she who must be obeyed that I am a drooling snoring mess when I am asleep, not an attractive sight at all. She on the other hand, looks lovely in the early morning light. Hard to believe that in ten minutes she will be awake and barking orders. The cats are asleep at the end of the bed, a couple of birds are singing on the balcony, and on rough sea day I can hear the waves crashing on the beach. It is at these times that I remind myself that I am a lucky man and that life could be worse in so many ways.
0730- It gets worse in some ways when she who must be obeyed’s phone shatters the morning idyll by blasting out the first few bars of the inappropriately chosen “Linger”. We can’t linger because one of us (i.e. me) has to get out of bed to turn it off; and then it is off to the toilet for a few games of Backgammon on the phone while nature takes its course (which it often doesn’t because I become too absorbed in my latest battle to win a game against a program on a tiny computer). Then shower and a quick muesli and yoghurt before I take she who must be obeyed to work; because her car is still in the Honda garage awaiting insurance inspection.
0930 - Back from wife delivery services and there is time for a quick coffee before I spend half an hour or so on mandated stretching exercises. Get more than usual attention from the cats, probably because I have forgotten to feed them this morning.
1000 - Off to the gym for an hour of torture. I have decided that the bicycling thing at the beginning is pointless other than to warm me up a little, so that is down from 20 to 10 minutes. Even so, going round the weight machines twice takes me the best part of an hour; and I still can’t look at myself in a mirror.
1115 - Home. Shower. Ignore hungry cats
1130 - Got to pick up she who must be obeyed from work, take her for lunch, and then off to Honda where she tries to persuade the insurance man that something black and sinister rose from the road and attacked her radiator. We await the decision, I remain skeptical.
1300 - Call from Bill who needs table moving from one condo to another. Happy to oblige as this enables me to play being a trucker for the first time. Amazingly, everything that is loaded arrives safely. Feel fleetingly more macho.
1400 - On to the windsurfing club and out on a SUP for an hour of paddling. Not sure if this is wise in regards to the back, but it is great to be back out on the water again.
1600 - Back home and do some more stretching and take a shower. Ignore starving cats and check comments on blog. Write witty repostes.
1800 - Off to see my physio for the second time. I am beginning to understand her approach. When she says “no pain, no gain”, you know it is about to hurt. When she says “Sorry Khun Spike”, for no apparent reason, the reason becomes apparent about a second later and you scream. But she is definitely loosening me up, so I will persevere. She who must be obeyed turns up in her re-radiatored car and has a session also. Afterwards we need food and finally arrive home, battered but fed, around 2100.
2130 More stretching
2230 Drop into bed completely knackered. Barely alive cats plead for nourishment. Get up, feed cats (and fish, whose sole avenue of complaint is to die), then sleep soundly, no doubt accompanied by much drool and snoring.
Retirement, nobody said it was going to be easy.
Comments 🔗
2009-02-03| Billy saysyes, yes, very good ,re-radiatored, but who paid for it??
2009-02-04| Spike saysWe await the decision from head office. I remain pessimistic.