December 2--Not a giant flamingo
Dec. 2nd, 2017 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zyzylyWhat was in the box? A treadmill. Malida has expressed the desire for a treadmill for months now. During the weeklong online sales, I found one she liked for a good price and ordered it. Since it is such a large item, they offer the opportunity to schedule a time and date for it to be delivered, with a 3-hour window.
It arrived yesterday, and when I opened the box, I realized there was quite a bit of assembly required. I don't like assembling stuff, but I can do it. They had an offer to send someone along to assemble it for an extra $25, but I said, no, I got this.
I got up this morning, had some coffee, dealt with the cats, then went to work. Some of it took two people, so Malida was my overly-helpful assistant. While I followed the assembly manual (18 pages worth), she helped by observing, "I don't think it goes like that," and so on. We eventually got it put together and turned it on, and it worked. She seemed kind of surprised that I possess the ability to assemble a treadmill. Me too.
I tried it out for a bit, and felt a bit out of balance. I prefer walking in the real world, but it will be good when the real world is inhospitable.
The treadmill now occupies the space previously occupied by another piece of exercise equipment. Which is the entry way to our house. We don't use the living room for anything, anyway, so it might as well be a gym.
After the treadmill, I headed downtown with the ultimate goal of seeing a student on her last day of preceptorship. I stopped at a taco place for lunch. Then I went to the local camera shop to look at camera bags.
I had ordered one online, but it was way too big for my needs, and I decided this was something I had to purchase in a real store. I looked around and found one that I liked. The salesperson was very helpful in showing me a bunch of less obvious features, and I bought it. I came home and loaded up my gear, and it is just the right size, and not too heavy.
I had hoped to do some street photography, but got caught in unexpected street traffic downtown, likely due to shoppers, and was in gridlock for about 45 minutes.
Once I escaped, I had just enough time to make it for my student visit. She is a good student, and everything went well. After that I came home and worked on dinner.
I'll go back to the farmers market tomorrow and take the new camera with me. It will be an opportunity to compare the new one with the old one, as I have a million farmers market photos with the Canon. Expect a persimmon picture tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the big moon. I did a dry run yesterday when I was out at the nature preserve, and I think I'll go back there tomorrow for the real thing, as long as it's not cloudy. Persimmons and the moon, if all goes according to plan.
It arrived yesterday, and when I opened the box, I realized there was quite a bit of assembly required. I don't like assembling stuff, but I can do it. They had an offer to send someone along to assemble it for an extra $25, but I said, no, I got this.
I got up this morning, had some coffee, dealt with the cats, then went to work. Some of it took two people, so Malida was my overly-helpful assistant. While I followed the assembly manual (18 pages worth), she helped by observing, "I don't think it goes like that," and so on. We eventually got it put together and turned it on, and it worked. She seemed kind of surprised that I possess the ability to assemble a treadmill. Me too.
I tried it out for a bit, and felt a bit out of balance. I prefer walking in the real world, but it will be good when the real world is inhospitable.
The treadmill now occupies the space previously occupied by another piece of exercise equipment. Which is the entry way to our house. We don't use the living room for anything, anyway, so it might as well be a gym.
After the treadmill, I headed downtown with the ultimate goal of seeing a student on her last day of preceptorship. I stopped at a taco place for lunch. Then I went to the local camera shop to look at camera bags.
I had ordered one online, but it was way too big for my needs, and I decided this was something I had to purchase in a real store. I looked around and found one that I liked. The salesperson was very helpful in showing me a bunch of less obvious features, and I bought it. I came home and loaded up my gear, and it is just the right size, and not too heavy.
I had hoped to do some street photography, but got caught in unexpected street traffic downtown, likely due to shoppers, and was in gridlock for about 45 minutes.
Once I escaped, I had just enough time to make it for my student visit. She is a good student, and everything went well. After that I came home and worked on dinner.
I'll go back to the farmers market tomorrow and take the new camera with me. It will be an opportunity to compare the new one with the old one, as I have a million farmers market photos with the Canon. Expect a persimmon picture tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the big moon. I did a dry run yesterday when I was out at the nature preserve, and I think I'll go back there tomorrow for the real thing, as long as it's not cloudy. Persimmons and the moon, if all goes according to plan.
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Date: 2017-12-03 01:34 pm (UTC)And this moon, even if not quite full, was so beautiful--I noticed it too, last night.
What do you think is flying below the moon, all silhouetted on the sky?
Good luck with the treadmill!
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Date: 2017-12-04 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-12-04 04:25 am (UTC)Plus, I should walk on treadmills enough that, when I need to do a treadmill test for some future medical reason, I can do it reasonably well. :-)