Well???

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I was running just a little late, even being up when I had wanted to be, more or less.  But I did make it into the pool.  The same guy I told I would not share my lane with tried to do it again.  He is about 4'8" and 100, soaking wet.  I didn't notice last time, but then I was looking up out of the pool at him last time.  This time he tried to get into my lane right as I was getting to it.  What doesn't he understand about "no"?  Not now, not later, not next month, never.  There simply isn't room for me to share a lane, and I'm not comfortable with that anyway.  Even a pretty girl wouldn't be given that allowance, save my wife, and then only when necessary.  He ain't my wife and isn't even on the list.  *grumbles*  NO!

I swam well again.  Music in the pool is simply... incredible.  Now, I was hitting the stride before I became lax for a bit, but my breaks were much longer.  The music keeps me in touch with time, keeps my mind off the work, and just makes the task more pleasant.  Another few weeks, to a month, and I would guess I will begin swimming a hole hour.  I won't be filling it.  It will be more like how it was when I started on the half hour thing, about that full.  But I see it.  How long it will take me to hit even a solid hour long mile swim is anybody's guess.  The last time I did it it took right at three months, if that was on Ritalin.  You know, with swimming, benching, and Ritalin, all together, that really should have killed me.  I'm not doing weights this time.  And I am monitoring my bp and such.  The heart monitor for the pool may end up being a bust though.  On cavedilol, my pulse may not go up, as it would with a non-medicated swimmer.  I may not have levels like that.  One of the things the medicine does is reduce the pulse.  They must really have thought I was going to pop when, the last time I was on it, my pulse was hitting 120.  Hehe  I shouldn't mess with them, as if I knew any more than they, or had any control.

After swimming, I headed to my see my friend.  No movie today, I simply didn't have time.  But he needed to go to the bank and get some printed temporary checks, as he is nearly out.  Then we went through the drive-through.  I am always starving after a swim and I haven't been keeping up on eggs.  We chatted a bit, and I suggested I would be back with a movie for Friday.  I then headed out with what I thought was plenty of time.  A few of these and those for the KoC meeting.  Okay, Walmart had most of what I needed.  Not everything.  I then began trying to track down the two missing items on my list.  Not here, not there, not... finally I gave up, found an alternative group of items (warm diet soda, ice, and cups).  I checked the time.  Ugh!  Almost 19:30, but the social hour was at 18:30, which means... everything I had just bought was useless, save for next time.  And, being this late, I just decided to wrap it up.  On my way out though I stopped to check on a triple-play movie group... the Batman collection.  Not at Walmart, or the one I checked.  But there was one other place that might carry it.  It is probably the only locally owned book, dvd, and cd store, with some rental capacity, still in town.  And, they had it.  Yeah, yeah, I know.  But of the decent things that have come out in movies, Batman has stayed, to my mind, true to form.  A little darker than the original tv series (thankfully, though I loved it back when, I have simply grown up), but pretty much on track with how I thought, and think, the thing should go.

Hmm, I am now not sure if I should plant more cds into the machine, watch at least one of the movies then do some of that, or kill my sleep patterns and simply watch movies.  Hey, those are my choices.  I'm still burning from missing the meeting.  I hate being an idiot, and I won't go in late unless there is truly no other choice or I am very necessary to a particular process within the meeting.  I just think that being late, without letting people know ahead of time, is rather rude.  That may be my mistake?  Oh, and exercise sort of invigorated me as well, and on top of my search and destroy...uhrm...buy mission.  How could I have become so focused that I lost track of time that badly?  I am trying, and doing better.  I guess I just have a lot more work to do.

Later.