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    Weighing in.

    Yesterday was weight-lifting day. It had been a week since I lifted, and I felt it a little but not horribly. I’m up in shoulder press (and my shoulders do feel better; they still pop and jerk when moving through a full range of motion, but they have regained some of their stability). My shins, of course, feel amazing after all the months of pain while running. Leg press: 13/12 @ 55 lb Bench press: 13/12 @15 lb Lat pulldown: 15/10 @ 144 lb Shoulder press: 15/11 @ 5 lb Anterior tibialis: 13 all/12 all @ 10 lb I also weighed in yesterday evening. I haven’t been weighed since last…

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    What in tarnation?

    Why have I suddenly become obsessed with reggaeton? Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, etc. Weird. I’ve got to be scaring coworkers and my roomie if they hear what’s blaring out of my headphones. Then again, I may do that normally… I’ve hacked out a few thousand words over the past couple of days, and while not all of it is published yet, some of it is up on the Ila des Mains series page. My character is morphing on me, becoming less nervous and neurotic in some respects, but I shall endeavor to keep her close to the brand of psychotic she was in the first couple of stories. That, of…

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    Shorter run.

    My run today was only 4.6 km (I was aiming for 5 km) because WO finished his routine about six laps before I would have finished mine, and I felt bad for leaving him there waiting. But I pushed upward and onward today, doing 600 m runs with 200 m recoveries. I don’t need the full 200 m to recover, but it keeps the numbers of laps nice and round. Speaking of the number of laps, running on the 200 m track is definitely not good for my knees. I have never had knee trouble from running, and I’d sure as hell like to not start that now, but it’s…

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    Audiobooks, Iowa, weddings, and meeting the father.

    Friday, 20:40 The trip to Iowa was wonderful. A nice uneventful drive during which I listened to the first seven chapters of Morevi, a novel by Tee Morris and Lisa Lee. It’s not a book I would have thought to look twice at in a bookstore, most likely (just because there are other types of plots higher on my list), but the book is really pretty damn good, as is the reading of it by the author. The book was read in a weekly podcast by the author, and I just downloaded all the chapters and made CDs from them. Driving through Illinois and Iowa was a little boring, but…