Walkies

(Cross-posted to healthy_fen and mdlbear.)

I cleverly left my heart-rate monitor at work along with the T-shirt that didn't need washing because I took hardly any exercise walks this week. But it looked like a nice, cool, cloudy day and I wasn't hurting, so I set out along the Los Gatos Creek trail, with one eye on the weather.

I managed a reasonable pace, and walked about 4 miles in 1:15 or so. I'd forgotten to stretch before starting out, but a couple of stretches in the middle and after seem to have helped. I don't have shin cramps, though I do seem to have ended up with a blister on my right toe.

(Side note: My posts on healthy_fen are almost exclusively for exercise and healthy living. Posts relating to sleep apnea -- I was diagnosed last week -- can be found here under the facehugger tag.)

Facehugger: third night

I slept better last night: didn't wake up until about 3:30, and had fewer problems with the mask. Neck not as stiff, either. I've started using my my timed-release phenylephhrine plus guaifenesen horse pills caplets rather than using Afrin, which suffers strongly from bounce-back. They don't seem to be keeping me awake, so that's good.

Not feeling quite as sleepy in the evening, and was up until 11:30 or so last night, though I still seem to get sleepy after meals. Probably an unrelated effect, then.

Fighting the clutter

It's been a while since I posted about "clutter", and at least as long since I did anything about it. It's been sneaking up on me.

So I spent an hour or two this afternoon cleaning up my side of the bedroom, sorting loose objects into some conveniently-available shoeboxes and generally trying to make room for the computer I hope to install there tomorrow for recording. And while I've been sitting here reading LJ, I've also been doing some long-needed maintenance on some of my web files, and simultaneously ripping the sizeable stack of CDs (mostly Janis Ian, from last year's holiday sale) that's been sitting for months on top of the computer I hope to install in the bedroom.

You see how it all fits together? It's all one big, um,... cluttered web of dependencies.

I'm still looking for one of my two Griffin iMic USB interfaces (the other is sitting on my desk, part of the clutter).