semi-random flotsam
That’s not me trying to be clever. I actually just jumped back from movement in the dark, and it was my shadow that had scared me.
Yup. Sometimes I’m that silly.
Heart rate almost back down to normal… ha.
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I just reached Taft Point with 25,100 steps on the Pohono Trail #FitbitAdventure @Fitbit
So this happened for the first time ever yesterday. Hourly activity win!
I can’t guarantee that I’ll ever be able to repeat this, since work schedules do with they will. But it was kind of fun to make it once.
The vent overhead in the office makes an uneven rattle and high pitched metallic grinding/squeak sound.
It makes my teeth ache and my eyes twitch and it’s distracting as all get out at times.
But it’s not something one of my colleagues is doing, so there’s no one to direct irrational misophonic rage at over it.
Which is good, as these things go.
And it’s not incessant sniffling, so that’s a win. For everyone.
I wonder if’n that could get fixed somehow….
#FitbitAdventure @Fitbit
The picture above, courtesy of the good people of Fitbit and shot by Chris Burkard, greatly reminds me of a picture that lives on my walls – not a professional shot in that case, but a fantastic shot of the same valley and one of the few photos on my walls that I didn’t take, since I didn’t own a camera then.
It turns out I like the Yosemite virtual hikes vastly more than the NYC virtual walks/runs. Continue reading “Progress, not perfection”
After months of having no time, space, or inclination to work out, I’m back on the bandwagon, tiring out my WiiFit Mii on a regular basis and letting my Fitbit encourage me to move more.
There’s a couple of newer capabilities in the Fitbit app that I’ve been making use of.
One is the widget that keeps track of whether I’ve taken a minimum number of steps every hour (250). I like this in theory, but in practice it needs some help.
Like, I have it set to track the 14 hours of the day I’m most active (from when I wake up to a couple hours before bed (when I want to be winding down). The reality is, though, that I keep different hours on different days.
I could tweak it day to day, but that’s silly. Unfortunately the app doesn’t let me set variations by day of the week, or better still let me tell it that it’s ok if I don’t move EVERY hour just, I don’t know, 10 out of 14. So I can sleep in, or drive to work, or attend a meeting or whatnot, but still be able to succeed.
While I’m at it, I’d like it it the app would send a notification/reminder each hour (not necessary or desirable to buzz my device or anything) so that when I could get up and move and I should get up and move but I’m deep in the shuffle and losing track of time, I’d know to get up for a few minutes. (Moving throughout the day is good for me but lifting myself out of the crunch is a challenge!)
And then because I do work hard at my job during the day and can’t be just wandering off willy nilly -but I also like my little success awards-it could let me see how many steps I have taken/have left in the current hour. That would be super.
Yeah that was a lot of wishes for something I actually like, in theory.
The other feature I’m trying out for the first time is “Fitbit Adventures.” Basically you select one – I picked one in NYC because it was the shortest one, something I should be able to complete if I hit my daily goal anyway – and as I take X number of steps, Fitbit maps out for me where I would be if I were taking those same steps on a particular course in the City.
There are little treasures (mostly but not exclusively fitness tips) along the way and, on this course, 6 landmarks I can “visit” as I make progress. The one shown above was the third for this course. The next one I’m headed toward is Avenue of the Americas (not exciting for my own reasons) and then 2 in Central Park. (Hey Sis, remember that day?)
Anyway it’s So Far So Fun giving that a try. I might be under enthused about NYC in general but there are also Yosemite treks (hey, hey my friend!). And I’d love to see others in future. To my way of thinking they don’t all need to be running courses… take me on a hike in Kauai, etc! This country alone is FULL of beautiful places and interesting cities, let alone the world, so bring it on!
Twice a week (on paper: holidays, vacation, bad weather and other business travel notwithstanding) I sit in the Wilmington office. It’s a quiet work environment (relative to other offices, not compared to working at home). There are 2 people who sit near me and if the ventilation system didn’t rattle and make that metallic squeak overhead (makes my teeth ache a bit) it would be kind of nice here…No snifflers! No slurpy-crunchers of apples! No chewers of mints or nibblers of sunflower seeds in shells.
My misophonia is not killing me here, and I’m so glad. So. Glad
Oh, but the lights. I am not used to these lights!
You’d think these nice bright lights would be great because low light is that much harder on my aging eyes.
But no, not so much.
Too bright. Too fluorescent. Too much.
All I need is a dimmer. Or prescription reading sunglasses. Or a roof for my cubicle!
At least I remembered my reading glasses, because it’s always a bad eye day in Wilmington.
But there’s no sniffler. Win.
So we’re well into January and I haven’t even posted an obligatory “this year I’m going to blog” blog.
Mostly that’s because there are so many things I want to say lately — uncharacteristically political things, or frustrations with social injustice things, or musings on life and love and loss — but none of that wants to crystallize at present.
Too much to say becomes nothing to say, if I can’t articulate it even for myself.
So I could blog, I suppose, about more traditionally flotsam-y topics: hopes to see the friends I miss, the joys of time spent with my family and impending fun with my nieces (who cannot possibly be growing up this fast); the progress in my much-needed workout program, the trips planned and hoped for this year…
These things will probably come sooner than later. But not today.
Today I’m feeling a little too.. blank inside https://youtu.be/CPeyfTPxfaE
aka gringita 