I feel like I don’t have all that much to blog about … work, work out, skydive, repeat. But I guess part of the reason I haven’t blogged is that I’ve been super-busy lately. Good busy, but busy nonetheless. New project at work is making the days busy, and new things in the evenings keep me hopping.
Last week I started two classes – a woodworking class on Wednesday nights, and a yoga class on Thursdays, both through Piedmont Adult School. The woodworking class will likely be the most challenging for my spatially challenged brain. Last week we just went over safety requirements, the basics of each machine, and plans for the project (a small table). On Saturday morning, Sean and I went to the lumber yard to pick out materials, and I suspect without him to help me figure things out I might have bought too much. Hopefully what I have will work, and work well. I’m looking forward to it, though – it’ll be cool to have something I built with my own hands.
The yoga class should be fun, though after the intensity of workouts with Noah (and, lately, on my own) it feels a bit … slow. But it’s not easy, and I’m hoping it’ll help with flexibility. Since daylight savings time started I’ve also been walking one or two afternoons a week with a friend, in addition to my new schedule of 3x/week with Noah (shorter, more intense sessions, so I’m spending the same amount of money).
This past weekend was my friend Laura’s bachelorette weekend here in San Francisco. I dropped in for some of the events, including tunnel time and dinner on Friday night, a tour of Alcatraz on Saturday afternoon, and a nice dinner out on Saturday night.
Yesterday was beautiful out so I decided to shake up my workout by walking around the lake and adding in interval training using various things around the path. So, every 5-7 minutes I’d do pushups on a picnic table or log, box jumps on a small staircase, step-ups on a low wall … etc., etc., etc. It made walking alone a lot more fun, and definitely got my heart rate up to burn some serious calories. In the afternoon I met up with some friends at the climbing gym to do some more rock climbing – although I’m still not very good, I felt a lot more confident and comfortable than the first time I went. Since I’m letting my 24 Hour Fitness membership expire in a week (too grungy and FAR too crowded) I went ahead and joined the climbing gym yesterday. The Oakland location is a few blocks from my office, and the Berkeley location is only about a 10 minute drive from home.
Last weekend Sean and I spent most of the weekend in Lodi, though didn’t get in that many jumps. Sunday’s winds were too high, and on Saturday I wound up helping out an old friend (from my Skydive Snohomish days) who found himself in the local hospital after a rough landing. Fortunately, he’ll be okay after a couple months of rest (compressed vertebrae in his lower back, broken rib, and lots of bruises), but since he was visiting from his current home in Norway and didn’t know anyone locally, I wanted to try to help as much as I could. I kept him company Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday Sean and I got all his gear packed up and brought it, and his rental car, to him at the hospital. Being in the hospital is awful enough – I can’t imagine doing it where I don’t know anyone and am far from family and friends.