Well, I DID have a plan.

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Very little happened today.  I did make chili.  And a fine chili it is.  But my appetite is much smaller than it used to be.  Three quarters of a bowl of that chili sank my whole day, if on top of almost two weeks of doing more including exercising.  I wasn't sure much would really happen today, in any case.  At least when my body was done with the chili, the chili was already done with me.  That's... all I'm saying on that.  I think I will freeze half of the chili, especially with my appetite so depressed.

I have continued reading St. Thomas's book.  Sometimes I do get lost in it.  Trying to stay focused on the arguments and the question, plus my thinking, is a bit of a test.  I think it is the best way, though.  If you just try to read it without betting on specific horses, my guess is that reading it would be akin to eating cardboard, even if you shredded and boiled it first.  So far there have been a few things I disagree with the master regarding, if I do have other masters who seem to hold more to my thoughts.  I do read the question, then contemplate my answer, before reading his or other mens take on things.  St. Augustine seems to be more in line, when I disagree.  And St. Augustine taught St. Thomas, up to the point of St. Thomas' launch into his own career.  So, to be perfectly upright, respectful and adult about it... neener, and :p pftttft, too.

My mother called, to talk, but also to brag about them getting rain and me getting snow.  Pfttft, again.  We will only get, it is suggested (if they are more wrong than right usually) that we will only get an half inch, maybe an inch at the outside, and it will probably be stopping late tonight.  The spooky thing is that tomorrow we might be in for snow-showers with temps well below freezing?  It sounds like someone isn't sure about things or the upper air will be warmer?  If the sky is spitting watery snow, and it is below freezing, I am calling tomorrow off.  Simply put, icy roads are not worth tempting.

I don't know what I can do around here, to at least make up for it a bit.  Perhaps I could look over a list of calisthenics?  I don't have bands, if I am almost sure I could figure out something improvisationally. Of course, often, when I attempt to improvise to save time or money I end up saving neither.  Ah well.  Still, there are probably some things I could do.  I might, actually, still be a bit too limited to do much in the way of calisthenics too.  Dunno, hadn't truly thought about a snow, or ice, day...  Well, at least, after a bit of digging, I did get a bit more lore regarding swimming.  I found a list of ten basics that can be worked up, one per week.  Drill just one per week into the sessions, adding and maintaining the new and old.  Sounds good to me.  I am still looking for a basic plan to extend distance, at speed.  I really want the speed to go up, first, I do believe.  But I am almost betting some coach or solid swimmer out there has my notions in mind, and has worked up a plan.  It's simply a matter of putting in the right words for the browser to find the correct information.  Yes, I do plan on 20-minute miles, by the way.  Three of them is my goal.  No, that isn't even world class.  Some people keep that pace for 15.5 miles, on open water, so... even for me... it might be doable in a pool.  Hush, that's my goal.  If anything might be a problem, aside from health, it might really be age.  *shrug*  I guess I will find out.

It's time to cozy in, read a bit, then to dream about crash landing on some formidable planet where the politicians have gone insane and have to be taken into...  Never mind.  Good night.