Keepin' on

A relief: I can get through my straddle workout with modifications to just one exercise (not doing cossack squats all the way down, out of deference to Mr. Cranky Left Knee), and it's still effective. It doesn't concern me to let pistols and deep squats go for a couple of weeks if necessary; they always come back quickly anyway, as my strength doesn't atrophy nearly as fast as my flexibility.

I caught up on a lot of email and planning today, both personal and work. This included buying plane tickets to see norwoodbridge in Jamaica in February, an $800 bet on a sustainable future. Some January plans, ditto. I figure it makes sense to behave as if things are and will be fine -- it's like how the only pragmatic thing is to behave as if we have free will, brains and philosophers be damned. Or maybe it's more like Pascal's Wager. At any rate, things on the calendar. There'll probably also be a January trip to Seattle with heisenbug... which makes me wonder when the hell I'll make it out to the Mothership in Q1, and whether I should double up that Seattle trip with a 'ship docking. But this can wait.

In random family updates, my wise old owl-cat Nala went to vet on Friday and she's doing great for her age, at 17.5; but my grandmother at 94 seems to be declining now. Old and marvelous ladies, both of them.