Day 68: Things could be worse

 

Things could be worse.  That is actually the title of the pattern on this morning's super-sized mug of pre-breakfast coffee!  Looking like your grandmother's Delft China from a distance, when you get close, you see monsters, pirate ships, sea serpents, rogue robots and space ships, etc.

I got a couple of these on a whim, during the pandemic times last year.  Sometimes we just have to remind ourselves that despite what the news is saying, despite the worst things we may see in our lives... we actually have it pretty good.  There are always things to be grateful for.

The blog review project is proceeding apace, and I have hopes that I will actually complete it before the lights go out.  When I started yesterday morning, I was down to 73 pages, which was 1089 individual blogs.  When I shut down and said "enough" as the news came on last night, it had been whittled down to 55 pages, representing 820 blogs yet to be reviewed.  Doing the math, that means I touched 269 blogs and made decisions about them yesterday.

In the process I found my last Olympic Distance triathlon, and copied not just my blogs surrounding it, but also one authored by KALIGIRL, who served as my Sherpa for that race.  Her blog reminded me that she also served in that capacity for my first Sprint distance triathlon... she was in on my whole "career" if you can call it that, as a triathlete.  So I went and copied her Sherpa blog from the first one, too.

You see, doing these things by hand allows for this kind of side look.  But were I not retired, I would not have had the privilege of time to do this.  

I also got the the total eclipse day, August 21, 2017... and I have KALIGIRL to thank again, as she got a better photo of it than I did.  I swiped that one.  When I move my eclipse blog over, I want to include it.  I had only posted it to my Spark page, and had it in my photo gallery.

Didn't she get a great shot?  What I remember most about that day was afterwards, how quickly such a magical moment (and it lasted such a short time) disappeared from the talk.  I mean, really, we'd been reading about the total eclipse of the sun since we were kids in grade school science class.  We heard when we would be in the path and we couldn't imagine being THAT OLD when it finally came here!  But there it was!

Then I found a blog about the hand off from one of my favorite trainers, BJ, to the next trainer, Chelsea.  I actually met Chelsea's husband at the dog run... I know this because I recognized their dog from the Facebook posts!  They have two children now, but back in 2017, when she was my trainer... she was still unmarried.

As we all know, life is a flowing stream, and despite all the "bad" things that happen, a lot of "good" ones happen, too.  

Today's plan:  I'm thinking just a walk, as yesterday was strength training, and I jogged intervals the day before... this should be an easy day.  I also am contemplating some yard work mixed in, to give myself breaks from the blog work, as we finally have a mild enough weather day (it's been hot).

Onward, my friends... let's make good memories today, right where we are, this one and only Friday the 13th of August, 2021 we will ever get!  For, as all of this proves... Life is still good!  Having those adventures before dementia gives us something to look back on with joy!
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