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First Burn of the Summer
Took a long walk yesterday to burn some calories from breakfast but they’re not the only thing that got burned…
Lobstah
…so I’m staying away from pots of boiling water, lest someone mistake me for a lobster and toss me in for dinner.
Wicked Bites – Lobstah on a Roll (Boston, MA)
Oh, yeah!
I got seriously cooked!
So, that’s an official start to the summer for me. If I circumambulate the front and back loops of my community, it seems to be about 1½ miles per lap according to the measuring tool on Google Maps. The big loop is approximately a mile and the smaller front loop is approximately a half-mile.
That’s a helpful thing to know. I also looked up the number of calories burned while walking. According to the chart on that site, I burned off one glazed blueberry donut and part of a French Cruller according to their nutrition information. Not much ROI in this transaction.
Of course, I had a handful of unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts for lunch thinking this was relatively harmless. HA! I negated my walk with a handful of peanuts.
Does this mean that peanuts aren’t good for me? Of course not. They’re delicious and nutritious.
Is it any wonder I don’t worry about calorie counting in most instances?
But, Rob, you’re over 50 and you need to think about these things.
Bah, Humbug!
I have a fairly low-risk lifestyle and my blood pressure is still wonderfully within normal parameters. Yes, I’m ridiculously overweight for my height. I have a thyroid disorder, a history of kidney stones, flat feet, tibial tendonitis and van-induced costochondritis that just won’t go away.
If I want to have some donuts for breakfast, it’s not going to kill me. It’s irrelevant. As long as everything remains in moderation, I’m just not going to get bent about the occasional splurge and neither should my lovely wife.
Aloe, Ha!
Does Aloe Really Treat a Sunburn?
Despite the glow-in-the-dark shade of red that I currently enjoy, I wasn’t feeling all that scorched. Sometimes, sunburn can have a nasty sting to it. This was not one of those times.
Just the same, I appreciate that my wife decided to slather me with some aloe lotion. I didn’t even make her place it in the basket.
I’m returning to my usual mode of operations and staying in for a bit of writing. Unfortunately, my brain was a bit cooked for writing yesterday but I found some music for writing to today. You may find it relaxing enough to help you be productive. Take a listen.
Hawaiian Cafe Music
Relaxing Guitar Music
Background music For Study, Work
Isolation Room
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ~Robert A. Heinlein
Well, if Mr. Heinlein is correct and being a writer is a disease, I’ve got it bad. It’s been a chronic condition for me since Junior High School.
I’m naturally an introvert and generally averse to the outdoors. I greatly enjoyed being isolated in my room as much as possible. I still do.
The Sentinels are naturally extroverts, which makes it hard to get into their heads sometimes. Fortunately, we have tropes and copious examples of how extroverts act and think. In fact, we can’t avoid it!
They’re extroverts!
They’re going to tell us whether we want to know or not!
But that’s the nature of fiction. You have to imagine things that haven’t actually happened or even things that couldn’t possibly happen and make them seem to have happened.
I’ve been retooling my existing body of work to get it ready for publication. I felt that it was dragging on a bit, so I wanted to go back and put some work into the pacing. After all, I’ve got to get this one wrapped up so I can get on with the series.
One of the pending conflicts in the series will revolve around the question posed by the video below. As an avid GRRM fan, A Song of Ice and Fire naturally suggests itself as part of the struggle that will be part of the team’s uncertain future.
Human Torch VS Iceman | Who Wins?
The tumultuous events that wrap up The Sentinels: New Blood will leave the team in quite a state. I can hardly wait to finish writing it. There are big changes coming to Empire City and none of them will know what hit them.
Stay safe. Stay inside. Walking for health is best done by moonlight or under heavy cloud cover. I wish you a safe and happy weekend.