Monday, non-manic

[ewx]

Work was a little bitty but I made some good progress: a couple of bugs fixed, a couple of others turned out to have been fixed already but just not recorded as such in all the proper places, and we had a productive meeting which established that the potential interaction between my project and another one was going to be rather less doomful than previously suspected. I also got a new module to replace the one that didn't work, which will let me test my software against the latest firmware.

Swimming went better than last week; I lasted longer and I felt less shattered at the end - I was actually up to cycling home which I wasn't before. I paced myself better, and I think I was swimming a bit more efficiently too. Good to catch up with naranek; but a shame that LNR couldn't make it.

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[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm experimenting with cycling and running in the gym (not touching those scary weights things yet), so far I seem to be improving slightly, although I'm getting this terrible pain in my ankle when I try the jogging. Maybe should see professionals about that.

Only dangerous part is the desire it's giving me to cycle around London. I know what I'm like on the roads, I know what London's roads are like, this would be a terrible idea.

Work today consisted of testing, trying to get other people who've been breaking builds to fix them, and starting on a document with which I hope to convince my boss what I'm doing for the next month.

My boss accused me of being a sysadmin but I looked at him and he apologised.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

At Zeus the theory was that if you broke the builds you bought donuts for the rest of the development team.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

...expanding (as it were) on my previous remark about donuts, it occurs to me that that brings us neatly to the opposite end of the spectrum from the fitness stuff l-) I'm swimming because I want to (a) be more fit generally and (b) have a bit more strength in my arms and back (a couple of people have said I'm stronger than I look, but I'm not particularly convinced and I'm certainly physically weaker than I think I'd like to be). Given that my legs are coping fine with the swimming and my arms are rapidly tiring, I'm tempted to believe that I'm currently headed in the right direction, anyway. I cycle to and from work every day anyway, and don't particularly fancy running or jogging; I don't propose to even think about gyms and weights and suchlike until I see how the swimming works out in the longer term.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm using the gym because stationary cycling in a nice air conditioned room seems much more sensible to me than moving around cycling in London air and traffic.

I haven't touched the weights stuff yet, although I might eventually.

Plus, it's ridiculously convenient for me at work, same building, same floor, and gives me access to useful things like showers.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

This is exactly my problem, and a handy if painful solution at my baths is a figure-of-8 shaped float, which goes between your thighs, and means you can swim with your arms only, yet *not sink*. Hurts like hell, but I suspect it does the job. Other good incentive, two pretty friends who swim *slightly* faster than you, but will wait at the end for you if you've nearly kept up with them...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Am still hoping LNR will make it along to satisfy the "pretty friend" requirement l-)