I really enjoyed The Rook by Daniel O’Malley. A fun mix of espionage and supernatural with a good sense of humour 📚
Day 19: Breakfast indulgence: scrambled eggs, bacon, avocado, and cheese 📷
Day 18: No longer random puzzle pieces 📷
Day 17: Hold 📷
Unwanted house guests
Day 15: Prairie clouds 📷
Day 12: Tranquility 📷
Day 11: Maroon sign of spring 📷
Day 10: For several years, we’ve participated in a fundraiser for Pancreatic Cancer Canada that sells pots of purple pansies 📷
Day 9: Magnolia blooms are imminent 📷
Although surprisingly little actually happens with the plot in Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, the characters and world building are great. Along with fascinating questions about what it means to be human and how to value tradition📚
Day 8: Toronto Union Station 📷
First outdoor ride on the new bike. Great to be out of the basement, though I swallow fewer midges on Zwift 🚴♂️
Day 7: We appreciate and enjoy our provincial parks 📷
Day 6: Cloud silhouette 📷
Day 5: Earth 📷
Day 4: LRT tunnelling at _Thorn_cliffe Park (bit of a cheat on the prompt) 📷
Day 3: One of my experimental setups in grad school was a tinfoil room with a hive of bees 📷
Day 2: The oldest photo in my library is of my grandfather in his navy uniform from 1945 📷
Day 1: Ran up a lot of switchbacks to get to the top of Signal Hill in Newfoundland 📷
The Toronto Half Marathon was great! So nice to be out for a proper group event again. And I had a wonderful race crew for cheers and end of race snacks
Tomorrow’s race will be fun! I haven’t been in a proper event for awhile 🏃♂️
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 2) by Tamsyn Muir is really imaginative and well written. I found it rather confusing though. Lots of characters and plot points to track📚
Severance is fantastic. An intriguing premise, with great acting, and careful attention to detail in every episode. Well worth watching
COVID and Readiness to Train 🦠🏃♂️🚴♂️🏊♂️
With two school-age kids, this seemed inevitable:
All things considered, my symptoms aren’t too bad, which I’m grateful for. Nonetheless, I’ve mostly been in bed for a couple of days to properly recover.
Since I’ve been monitoring my Readiness To Train (RTT) score, I was curious to see how COVID would appear in the metrics.
Thursday morning was the first indication that something was wrong. I completed what felt like a reasonably strong swim workout, only to suddenly feel really drained of energy while walking home from the pool.
After dragging myself home, we found out my son’s friend had tested positive. So, both he and I took a rapid test that confirmed we were infected.
Thursday night was peak symptoms for me, producing an abysmal RTT.
All morning in bed on Friday helped a lot and then a much better sleep last night layered improvement on top.
Today’s RTT seems rather optimistic to me though. My planned intensity included a two hour bike ride and 20k run. Those are not happening! Today’s planned intensity will be watching the season finale of Severance in my pyjamas.
My experience with RTT is that it typically reinforces how I actually feel with, perhaps, the occasional early warning. Basically a second opinion that reinforces my intuition. But when we disagree, like now, I’m definitely following how I feel.