Friday: No hot water.
Saturday: Very hot water, barely managed not to get burned in the shower. Dojo was excellent fun, even though I was still sore from Thursday and Ben decided to make us do rolls for half of class. Ended up doing some training post-dojo as well, which may have been non-brilliant since it led to being sore and tired for several days. Accidentally didn’t drink any redbull, decided to stick with that. I’d been planning to drop caffeine at some point this winter, this seemed like a good time.
Sunday: I measured the water temperature. 164° F at the kitchen tap.
Skipped gym on Tuesday because I was dreadfully busy, ditto Thursday. I’m still off caffeine, it hasn’t been anywhere near as rough as I’d expected given previous attempts. The only hard part is figuring out what to drink in restaurants, since lemonades and citrus sodas are often adulterated with substances I don’t eat and I’m avoiding all caffeine at the moment (except a little green tea on Saturdays) so dark sodas are out. Currently I’m defaulting to orange juice, which is ok if overly sweet.
I’m making good progress at eating, aside from some issues with browning grass-fed ground beef. No, I haven’t made any progress on programming. Hopefully things will pick up again once the caffeine finishes wearing off and I get my metabolism back. This morning, I was woken up at 4:50 AM by a hailstorm. It made my morning very peaceful and pleasant.
I saw a sign at WholeFoods today saying they were going to stop giving out plastic shopping bags on-or-before Earth Day 2008. According to this page, it’s company-wide. As paper bags give me a headache, guess I’d better start being reliable about throwing extras in my pack.
Iced tea, hot tea, and water are my restaurant defaults. If you bring your own decaf tea, you can just ask for hot water and they’re usually okay with that. Cull prefers a mix of orange juice and carbonated water… it cuts the sweetness some.
Regarding bags, I just ordered a tiny one that’s supposed to be very crushable. I’ll let you know how I like it. (It was $5, so no great loss if I don’t, but I can get more if I do.)
I’ve seen some very compressible ones in small pouches that I’ve considered, but until now they were “oh that’s cute” not “hey, useful!”.