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i'm le tired. well, actually i'm not that tired. i'm overloaded with work today. and it's making me not want to deal with anything at all... i'm really glad i have a week of vacation coming up. so i can be an arrogant know it all at work. we call it KIA whenever i show off how much i know about something. I felt lucky at the time that they pointed out how irritating it was, but today i got a taste firsthand of just how bad it can be to be in the room with someone doing that.... (by the way, it wasn't me this time, ever since i was told i am far more aware and careful about it so i hope i'm not perceived as the know-it-all jerk i could be)... anyway.. where was i going with that? i think it was that later that day i was talking to a colleague about it and why i was feeling too much responsibility/accountability for this endeavor i'm in the middle of and we realized that i like the control and responsibility but this project is just too big for me to account for everything and orchestrate the group to get to the end result we have to get... i need more than 2 days to do it right, and i only have 1... it's frustrating, and i'm not going to feel satisfied by whatever i do end up producing because i know the whole job isn't done... anyway. no good.

since i'm not eating right now

i have an update from the soreness. from sunday. Monday when i got up i was totally renewed and refreshed. a little work took care of that and i could be better, but overall the soreness didn't last as long as i expected. Here's what i attributed it to: I got a good night's sleep and didn't overdo it on Sunday. I also didn't underdo it. and before i went to sleep that night i did some pretty extensive stretching in the face of some pain and was richly rewarded the next morning with surprising flexibility. so that's was awesome. i'm pretty happy about it. today though at work i spent the day having a continuous blast of 55 degree air about the face and neck and i have to say i could have done without it. the moment i left the room i became aware of my ears being hot and feeling a little gross. anyway.. now that i'm home i'm feeling good, but i've got dinner now so i'll have to go. good night.

sore

well-deservedly sore.

Yesterday Brad and Tony and I moved Tony's piano from his house to mine. It was fun. but it was hard work - and i'm sure i didn't have the worst of it. anyway, today i'm pretty stiff and slow. i don't want to move or exert myself or stand really.. but it's ok.. i'm already feelin better. it was amazing how hard i slept, and i think i'll be writing something about that phenomenon on the other site. so check it once in awhile.

anyway, big thanks to Tony and Nicolle, and Brad and Kim (and the kids) who came to celebrate once the work was done. it was good times.

task at hand

I have been trying to figure out a way to get a piano from point "A" to point "my house"... Point "A" is about 20 miles away give or take, and involves 3 steps. point "my house" involves walking from the driveway to the back basement door around the house through the smooshy grass and over the dirty spaces in-between. alternative to the around the house path is up one step and then down 7 around some tight, piano-unfriendly corners. I have considered piano movers especially carefully, and have not come to a conclusion other than that they may be worth the price, i don't have the money for it. so i'd like to come up with a way to do it on-the-cheap. i know most of my readers have pianos.. or have moved pianos. actually i don't know that, but i am very skilled at making assumptions and have again produced a spectacular assumption. Tony and I once moved the piano alone, but were very nearly incapacitated, however we were in a hurry so we didn't really notice. the last time this piano lived in the basement which was around the time we moved in 3 or 4 people carried it around and (though i don't remember being one of them) i think it went quite well (for me and the piano at least) .

I wrote a post

only it's on the other blog. read it.

http://www.zenadvice.com/2007/06/10/sitting-in-a-car/

or whatever.

gurble

it's saturday morning. not my usual posting time. we're about to go and pick up the rental car for going to Bendo. i think the drive will be fun. i hope it's not really stressful. it's kind of a gray day.. we have a bunch of crap to do, which may or may not be really important.. and i remembered today that i have to renew my acupuncture license.. i have the form to send in with my check but i put it in a pile of mail somewhere and i don't know where it went. next year is the big year for NCCAOM renewal.. that's the one that isn't just money. I have to demonstrate that i've taken continuing education, which i have yet to do. but the options are out there, i just don't have much interest in most of them. still, a couple of weekends and 400 bucks should take care of it. i should put them on my schedule. when i cleaned the gutters last weekend i had no real idea that we'd get some rain this week, and i've enjoyed the thought of unobstructed water rushing down my gutters. however, the rain has been mild, or drizzly, so the rain rushing image is just a fantasy. also, i turned down the temp in the hot tub yesterday at some point and i thought it was just perfect last night. speaking of, i need some pH increaser... i'll get that at the store while we're out today.