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Until September or January or something. Oh well. I did pick up the medicine, I did get my sword worked on. I was up early. Ah well. I guess I get to do it again Monday, but with fewer tasks. I am thinking, however, that had government offices been open I might easily have had to drop something from my list. I ended up having two hours to kill, but if I had also stopped at the various offices for taxes and turned in my application I would have been really late for my last visit. Possibly... probably.
Nothing fancy anywhere. I did stop, for the first time, at Red Robin. I had always thought that was 'just another burger joint'. Nope. They have excellent burgers. I also had a heiffe weisen, a local brew, on tap. My doctor wants me to cut down so I only had one (of course, it was the 24 ounce one). All good.
Something I am noticing, however, is that when I spend that much time out and about, driving, in the sun, and such, I do go through periods where I get woozy. While I was killing time I went into Lowe's. I don't know if it was the heat, all the walking (I did a good deal of that today), or... what. I am not sure that it is heart related, it might just be that I am still out of shape. Then again, when it is hitting 90 plus and you are out in it all day, perhaps that is perfectly normal? I have been so abnormal for so long, I simply don't know what is or isn't supposed to happen.
Tomorrow is a day off. Then Sunday I will probably be taking my friend shooting again. Nothing fancy, but a day out is a day out. Monday I will be going back to SLC after stopping in Logan to pay taxes, or check on one and pay another anyway. I am ready for tomorrow, and a day off. Oh, if I make it back in time, I will be stopping into my Church Monday. Or I will do that Tuesday. I've got to keep that on my mind and get to it as soon as possible. I should do that first, but the police don't pull you over for that, yet. So, yeah, auto taxes and SLC first.
Good night.
Heat and Woozy go together like peas and carrots. When the air is dry and the sweat is not pouring off but rather evaporating as rapidly as your body is producing it, it is easy to miss the fact that you're depleting your water reserves.
ReplyDeleteKeep drinking water even if you don't feel thirsty. Any woozy might mean you've been neglecting to. As long as I've been in AZ I've come to recognize some of the early symptoms that don't equate to "thirst", but they're easy to miss or attribute to other things. Fatigue, body aches, headache, particularly in the front upper sinuses, a sense of being stretched or squeezed (wrung out) are all related to electrolyte depletion, which goes hand in hand with heavy sweating.
That was the deal then. As soon as I chugged back a larger Gatroade, I seemed to come around. Since it was city driving, for the most part, I went without a/c. That stop and go traffic, along with a/c... I don't know if it still is but it used to be hard on vehicles. Besides, the a/c at times seemed too much, oddly.
ReplyDeleteI usually have Gatorade available. A couple containers for those longer drives. Even that isn't enough, I think I should use the regular water, along with it, too. Neither alone quite does the job completely.