The things I do on a whim.

One: I joined my local Curves the other day.

I'd been sort of thinking that I needed to shake up my routine some. I haven't been going to my gym, in large part because it's near work, and I don't have a locker there. So I have to haul my gym bag on the bus with me to work, and then I need to leave work at 4:30 if I want to be done working out by 6:30, which is the latest I can leave if I want the trip home to be less than 90 minutes long.

I'd also noticed, on my way home from work, that there was a Curves opening up near my house.

And then, there was a string on NWR about it and how wonderful it was.

So I called them up. That night, on my way home, i joined.

It works like this: It's a largeish room, with machines and running pads arranged in a circle. You start out by running in place, and every thirty seconds you move to the next station. You're basically constantly in motion, and the machines are all hydraulic. The quicker you push and pull, the more resistance you're working against, so it adapts itself to everyone easily.

The music is upbeat, and a voice tells you to switch stations every thirty seconds, so you don't miss your cues. It's women-only, and I'm gratified that the women who are working out there are shaped more like me than the skinny women at my other gym. I'm enjoying it, so far. The machines don't give me quite the workout that I'm used to, but the aerobic qualities of the working more than make up for it.

Though I'm still thinking i ought to lift real weights one day a week, i'm going to wait till I adjust to the new routine before I try to add anything more. must not overdo.

Two: Hardware purchases.

I'd been needing more hard drive space for a while in my workstation at home. Things finally reached a critical point and last Saturday I snapped and declared that today was the day I would have more drive space.

so I went to my favorite computer store, bought a new drive, and came home and attempted to install it.

I will spare you the gory details and instead mention that my problems fell into two main camps:

1. No room inside the case for another drive.
2. When i managed to get it hooked up, the machine refused to recognize that the drive was there.

Well, after discovering that I, in my boneheadedness, had accidentally disconnected the drive cable from the motherboard (rule one: always make sure your cables are connected. No, check again.), I figured out that Seagate makes a program especially for installing hard drives,and for whatever reason, i needed it. Which I still don't quite get. but after five hours of wrestling with it, I now have 100G total hard drive space in this machine.

The next time I need more space, I'm replacing the bloody machine. I always forget that this one is held together with duct tape and chewing gum.

Cricket came home from the vet today.

I took her in yesterday to be spayed, and she spent the night there and came home today. I combined picking her up with Juniper's annual exam (which he was, as usual, entirely unthrilled with).

The vet said that her uterus was pretty friable, which I believe means "squishily crumbly" and I am slightly alarmed about that adjective being used to describe one of the kitten's internal organs. Evidently it's okay, it just means that her incision is larger than they usually are. She was evidently being her monkey self at the vet, climbing her cage until she was hanging upside down today. she was also licking at her wound, possibly because she was bored, so she was fitted with an elizabethan collar which she needs to wear for the next few days.

She is So Very Not Happy.



She's all pooped out tonight, obviously not herself. She'll respond to her name, but she's not running all over like she usually does, and the collar is bothering her. She's supposed to wear it till Thursday night, and until it comes off, I have to wipe her butt for her after she visits the litterbox.

Oh joy.

The funny thing is that I ended up hanging out talking about computers with the vet. I'd forgotten to take off my badge before I went to the vet, and I was fiddling with it like I usually do, and it caught his eye. so of course he asked me what new computer he should get.

My answer was "anything with lots of RAM." The standard answer.

Winter has finally set in here. 42 and raining is the order for the rest of the season. I'm liking this, it fits with my idea of what is correct right now. It should be raining, it should be cold, and it should be dark.

Because it's this for several months that makes every spring a miracle.

I'm looking forward to it.

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