Jesus freaking Christ. I just called the Alaska Club to try to get them to give me a pricing structure for their gyms, because their website doesn’t say *anything* about pricing. I asked for this. I called up, I asked what the membership fees were. I got: we have pools at some gyms, we have free weights, of course, saunas, massage, yoga classes, what kind of exercise do you do? Oh, we have cycling classes, personal trainers, blah blah blah. I repeated: what are the membership fees. I got: Do…
less ideal
I woke up at 10 to 6 today because I couldn’t breathe, and instead of getting up I went back to bed, which was just a mistake. I got up after a while and showered, but ended up going back to bed again because I just didn’t feel very good, so I didn’t get to work until 9 and I’ve been working my little fingers to the bone since then. Sufficiently so that my pinky is hurting. I think I need to get offline as soon as work is over,…
wedding photos!
Wedding photos! This batch was taken by Dave Forbes. There’s no index yet, so you’ll just have to click through and admire or not, as you see fit. But this is a great photo of Deirdre. :)
dad’s writeup
This is Dad’s writeup of Deirdre’s wedding. Since I haven’t gotten anything written yet, I thought I’d just post what he had to say. :) “I” in this posting (after this paragraph, anyway) refers to my father. :) As one of our friends said, it was the nicest Hindu-Moslem-Buddhist-Jewish ceremony she had ever been to. Gavin and Deirdre asked Praveen, an East Indian friend of Gavin’s, to conduct the marriage ceremony. Somehow he captured most of the major religions and everyone was delighted with the ceremony. It was a very…
working towards ideals
Once more, I didn’t wake up weighing 145 pounds, but I *did* get up at 6:07 and stagger my way to the gym. I didn’t do anything intense, but instead did a relatively low-key whole-body workout, based in the logic that I’m really in phenomenally bad shape and that I’m not at all eager to injure myself again, so I thought I would give myself three or four weeks of lower-key general strengthening exercises, especially for the back area. Which brings me to the incredibly irritating fact that this gym…