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Friday Stuff

This week turned out to be fairly short.  We had off for the MLK holiday on Monday, followed by what turned out to be a half-day on Tuesday.  Work closed down at noon on Tuesday, and was closed all day Wednesday.  Returned to the office on Thursday and worked at Riverview today.  Not a very eventful day, but it did seem to move quickly.

Returned home and did the gym.  Today's workout was conditioning partner intervals.  We had a choice of what we wanted to do (I paired up with my Dream Team™ partner John The Gimp) and we chose the rower, alternating between each interval.  The distances we had to do were 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 meters, and then repeat the distances in descending order: 500, 400, 300, 200, and 100 meters.  Had a great workout.

Spoke to Rich the other day about the food for the party next weekend.  He hinted about making Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes.  They look good but they contain liquor (and neither Al nor I drink).  I'm not sure if I going to make them (I tend to think I'll do regular chocolate cupcakes with a creamy center and orange-colored icing - you know, for the Broncos) and keep it simple.

Joined Spotify and am listening to the new Pearl Jam album now.  Spotify seems kind of cool.  The new Pearl Jam is just okay though.

Not sure what the weather will bring this weekend.

We need to get the porch TV mounted on the wall, but it's being mounted on a sheetrock wall which is covering the masonry wall (it used to be the exterior of the building at one time).  We tried it ourselves and couldn't make the holes needed.  I'm hoping my neighbor Laura is at the gym tomorrow so I can get the carpenter's phone number and have him come over to get it done.

That's about it for this week's wrap up.

Ciao...a più tardi!

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