We both had our sessions with John.
Unlike my Christie sessions, where she'd work specific muscle groups with a specific exercise or machine, and "walk it off" in between, John's approach is to do this with a variety of exercises not so much "x sets of y". Also, we don't walk it off in between, we run it off. He's got me outside jogging or sprinting, squat-hopping ... perhaps he's expecting me to yell "uncle" at some point ? I'm drenched with sweat at the end since he's kept my heart rate up for the entire hour -- not just strength building, but cardio. Whew.
Sandy is having a similar experience. Things that she wasn't able to do with Christie, so wasn't pushed, are being pushed by John. She cannot squat, but John keeps coming back to that. She doesn't want to jog, since she's worried about hurting her neck, but John keeps pushing her there too.
John has the disadvantage (or advantage) of not knowing where we've come from in the past year.
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The mirror is finished and I cleaned up all the tools etc. I wouldn't do it this way again. I would buy the oversized wood, cut it to size, do a dado cut, cut my four pieces and put it together. This doesn't look as good, as clean, but will have to do. The bathroom is finished.
I went for a bike ride, a very hot and windy ride. With the temperature in the mid to high 80's and a west wind that turned with me, I only had a couple of miles where it gave me a boost. Had I gone north, I'd have had a tailwind most of the ride ... maybe.
Sandy wasn't home when I got back and when I checked email, the blurb from the Flagler Seafood shop was in the inbox. When I saw that they were advertising that they'd gotten in Lionfish, I knew where Sandy was. Since we've never had it before, my bet was that she was going to buy it. Yup, that's where she was.
The store said that she was their first customer. They had 20 pounds of fresh local Lionfish which equates to about .30x20=6 pounds of fillets. Sandy took home 3/4 pound.
Lionfish is an invasive, released into the Caribbean by the "aquarium trade" as it's called. In the South Pacific, it has natural enemies ... here none. It's the Brazilian Pepper of the waters, decimating the fish populations. It's not line-caught, it's trapped.
They are pretty -- we've never seen one in the wild -- but with the population explosion, it won't be long -- perhaps our next scuba trip. Their spines are venomous, but the fish is not poisonous. Apparently the venom in the spines loses its impact within a few hours of being caught. At any rate, it's not like the poisonous puffer :).
The email blurb described the meat as somewhat similar to hogfish, which we like. Wiki describes it as similar to grouper. It's a somewhat soft flaky white meat, very very mild -- almost like but shaped differently than, walleye. Call it very expensive crappie !
We were just doing our part to help reduce the population of this invasive species. There is a campaign to catch as many of these as possible, even to the point where divers are licensed to catch them / spear them in the marine parks in the Florida Keys.
The weather today and tomorrow is supposed to be the same as yesterday -- temps in the mid 80's and sunny. They've now changed the forecast for next weekend, showing showers. I hope not. I don't want a wet 400k.
Today I'm going over to see Kirby -- Sharon's husband -- and we'll put the X5 up on his lift and look at that rear suspension. As far as I can tell from using the jack and jack-stand, the noise-over-bumps (eg. speed bumps) at slow speed is due to the rubber in the subframe bushings getting stiffer with age, because there's no visible wear anywhere else. If that's all it is, I can live with that. I know myself though, I might want to replace them to ensure that's all it is :).
Onward ...
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