weekend update

This is absolutely the longest Monday.

I had a nice, productive weekend, starting with a weigh-in of 179. Why can't the decent weigh-ins ever happen on the official day?! I followed that up with a just-over-39 mile bike ride. It was actually more like 2 20-mile rides, since I stopped for breakfast for 30 minutes at the halfway point. According to my HRM, the entire ride was 3 hours and almost 17 minutes (not including stops) and burned nearly 2000 calories. Damn. You'll be happy to know that I resisted the urge to eat 4000 calories in response. When I added up my calories eaten at the end of the day, they were right around 2300.

About 30 seconds before I embarked on the ride, I had gotten a call from work saying that a server was down at one of our locations that doesn't work weekends. Since it also is one of our locations that has frequent power issues, I told them to give it a couple hours since there was no one there anyway, and I'd call them in the afternoon. If it was still down, it was probably hardware and I'd go fix it then. So when I got back from the ride and showered, I called. It was still down, and after some back-and-forth about whether I'd even be able to get into the building after hours, I went in and replaced some hardware. What a lovely way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

Sunday was uneventful, though I did have an uncommonly high energy level. In the morning, I managed to get a bit of a workout being a freak for the amusement of a hundred 5 to 11-year-olds (kid's church--I was co-leader this week). In the evening, I tried to go out for a long walk, but was thwarted by a stalker waspish-looking bug. He started pursuing me about a mile in, and all manner of water bottle-waving and skittering from the ditch to the shoulder would not shake him from his course. At about 1.5 miles, panic set in and I started shooting water at the thing and running. This apparently enraged him, because he followed faster and closer, and managed to sting my leg a little. At this point, all sanity left me, and I did this weird jig in the middle of the outbound lanes of the main subdivision road, frantically trying to brush the evil thing off my leg, shoot it with water, and run away from it at the same time. Only the first part was actually accomplished.

I ran full-out the final 1/4-mile home, crossing the 4-lane boulevard at a panicked diagonal. The 1-2 hour workout I intended was shortened to 28 minutes, and the terror-run didn't do my right knee and hip any favors. I have to say, though, that I am damn lucky that there isn't a whole lot of traffic on that road at 8 pm on Sunday. The state I was in, an 18-wheeler could have been barrelling down on me and all I would have been thinking as it flattened me was "WASP! BEE! OW! STING! EVIL! DROWN!" I don't like bugs. Like, really. Bitey little bastards.

In other news, the meal planning is going well. After the server I fixed Saturday went down again this morning*, my original plan for today got sort of hosed, so I had to eliminate a snack in order to give the new reality the WDSoA. Hopefully, I won't miss it when 3 pm rolls around.

*This was half-expected...it's the same model as this one, and showing the same symptoms. In fact, that's the server I replaced it with, since the latest parts from the vendor seemed to have fixed that one. We had already moved the data to another server by then, though, so it was just a spare. That whole drama's not really the point, though, so whatever.