Up-beat? or beat-Up?

[sorrowmonkey]

It was so nice to actually go to fighter practice last night. I got hit in the knee, and in the cup, and I hit myself in the shin (yay for new longer swords!). Still, none of them were particularly painful, so hurrah. It was painful to realize I hadn't worn my armor in so long that:

1. It was completely dry
2. I forgot what it felt like
3. I noticed everything that needs fixing

It was fairly warm both inside and out, but relatively tolerable. I finally got around to renewing my authorization card (I've been doing this four years now, and I still suck, huh?), enjoying much mockage from the Gwen in the process ("Do you know any marshals?" "No, but maybe there are some in the parking lot."). This set off a trend and I think at least three sets of paperwork were done.

I thought I did fairly well, all things considered. It was very nice to see jeep_squire there, in particular. Forgot my belt, since it was packed with the day-trip stuff for BBM Investiture and I hadn't used it since. I had to remind alpha_duke to eat his dinner, he was busy gabbing and forgot it was on the seat in the truck getting cold.

After I was too tired to fight anymore, i.e. hitting myself in the shin, I chatted for a long while. The kindly alpha_duke showed me a secret way to the Merritt Parkway from our house, which is probably impractical for my use, but there all the same. When I got home I was starved for zohra time, and kept her up talking until nearly 1:00 AM.

I slept in until 7:00 AM (argh), and got lost in New Haven trying a new sneaky way to the train station, but still made my train.

I'm thinking I'm probably not going to go tomorrow. I really wanted too, but I've laid out a schedule for a 58.5 hour work week next week, and that's working around things like getting the family to the airport and fighter practice. Basically, I need to work all day Saturday or all day Sunday, and based on the gestalt of the situation, I think one of those two days should be spent in a puddle.

Comments

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

Hooray for fighting and thx for reminding the man to eat. His 10-12 hour days are racking up some serious sleep debt. Until you called he had forgotten it was Thurs.

Maybe Sat. should be armor/weapon maintainance day for you guys?