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Shakedown cruise

(Cross-posted to healthy_fen)

So that's what it needed! Went back to Sports Basement this morning and got a pair of Superfeet green arch supports. (I had a pair, but could only find one this morning, and in any case it was cut down to size 10. I'm an 11 these days. 7pm found it! In the trash, of course; I've been trying to clean the bedroom, too.)

Since I didn't quite trust the arch supports not to start hurting, I came back home, put on the heart-rate monitor, and set out to go around the Rose Garden. No weights, but I kept up the arm-pumping. My heart rate was in the low 120's when I got to the Rose Garden about 17 minutes into the walk. By the time I'd gone around once I'd gotten it up to the mid-to-high 120's. Went around twice more; rate between 125-135. Slowed down to roughly my old pace about 25 minutes minutes after reaching the Rose Garden. Took a couple of pictures, and came home.

The fact that one can walk all around the Rose Garden on grass undoubtedly helped, but so did the shoes (good stiff instep) and arch supports. My shins do not hurt, though they seemed to be getting close to it a couple of times.

The handy chart in the heart-rate monitor's instruction booklet lists "moderate" exercise for my age (60) as 112-128 bpm, so it looks as though I'm actually right about where I should be. I'll be getting at least one more pair of arch supports, for the hiking boots.

The rest of the day

After lunch (which consisted of half-a-dozen potstickers and half a block of tofu to use up the rest of the dipping sauce) I went out for a drive with the flower_cat. On the way home we stopped at Bed, Bath and Beyond to buy a new quilt for our bed. Most of what they had was appallingly expensive, but they had a nice black, king-sized comforter on sale for $55. Less a 20%-off coupon. Win.

After that we stopped at Cosentino's -- the Cat's favorite upscale grocery store -- to get ingredients for dinner. Which chaoswolf cooked! It was delicious -- a tomato, mozzerella, and basil salad (which the Wolf ate!), and an odd but tasty concoction of kielbasa, hot and mild Italian sausage, potatoes, sweet onion, and garlic baked in a big package of crimped Aluminum foil. So basically steamed. Yummy.

Found my missing arch support, so I won't have to buy another pair. Found it in the trash, where I had tossed it along with a couple of genuinely dead insoles from other shoes.

Got my lab results back from Kaiser -- or at least, on the web. Their website sucks. The results weren't all that great. LDL low (35, should be >40), triglicerides high (292, should be <199; still, a third of what they were 6 months ago, so the new statin is working). The disturbing one was creatine kinase: 437, should be <200. Could mean heart problems, though there are other possible explanations. The shoulder problems? We'll see; I'll probably hear from my doctor next week.

Made a little progress on clutter in the bedroom, mainly triage on footgear. Tossed some shoes that were clearly dead, and packed a bag of old-but-useable pairs for Goodwill. Swapped quilts.

Some more progress on re-organizing the fileserver; things are pretty much all in the right places now, except for moving a couple of CVS modules around. CVS, unfortunately, doesn't handle this kind of thing very well, which is why I'm looking at replacing it with git or svk. Anyway, things are ready for tomorrow morning's backup snapshot. Which will be archived, seeing as it's the first Sunday in the month.