Quick update on a busy week

Since my last major blog post (not counting the 4am rant about coding) I’ve

• had a long team work-out in bay, doing 8 intervals of 1/4 mile at high speed.
• spent a day in our new office – it’s kind of tiny and the chair isn’t very comfortable, so I haven’t been back since, but I’ll probably start going now that Vicki is back at work full time because we can eat lunch together at RIT
• did a “short” paddle of 6 miles alone on the river. Man, I remember when 6 miles was a major workout. It seems like it was only a year ago, mostly because it was.
• Did a long paddle of 10 miles with Mike and Paul D on the Bay. I tried to ride wash most of the way, and I was still wiped at the end.
• Went to the LUGOR picnic and talked to a guy about his project to use NNTP over mesh networks to make an extremely distributed discussion network.
• Took my citizenship interview and test, and passed. My swearing in ceremony is in two weeks. Doesn’t give me much time to get that Canadian flag tatoo.
• Drove up to Oshawa to pick up my dad’s old table saw and drill press – he’s moving into a smaller house, and had no room for it, so I said I’d take it. Don’t know what I’ll do with it, but I’d love to get better at wood shop type stuff.
• Arrived late for the team work out so only did one interval. I wasn’t properly warmed up at that point, and it didn’t go well.
• Did the equivalent workout the next day, doing 5 sets of 1000 metre (0.62 mile) at around 7mph.
• Found out that a friend of Dan’s who was at the team work out is giving away a racing kayak, a West Side Boat Shop Thunderbolt, because it was set up for a 250 pound paddler and he couldn’t get it adjusted for himself. This boat is longer, narrower and lighter than my existing boat and a lot faster and tippier. I’m looking forward to trying it out, but I doubt I’ll be able to race it this year.
• Make slow progress on the contract job I’m working on. Yes, I’m late getting it done, but I think it’s going to go faster now that I’ve stage 1 done.