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Fri, Mar 09, 2007

A Day Out of the House

Posted at 10:56 pm MST to Miscellaneous

Today was a nice change of pace. I did billable work this morning, but at noon I went over to the ReleaseTeam office to get caught up on company status and chat with my co-corkers. The 'chat' lasted until 5pm, but we made some progress on a few topics, and I got a chance to see my business partner's new truck.

We also got a cellular modem activated. I don't quite have it working on my Linux laptop yet, but I should get the final pieces in place this weekend. This will be very handy while travelling: I'll have broadband access anywhere there is a Sprint phone signal.

I took the back way home, which goes by Flatirons Mall. It's been months since I went to a mall: I did my Christmas shopping in downtown Boulder and at the big-box shopping center near my home and never made it over to Flatirons.

I bought supper in the food court and then spent a few hours wandering in the mall. I didn't buy much in the mall proper: I got some jewelry cleaned and left a ring at the jewelers for some maintenance, and bought a small jigsaw puzzle. I haven't done a new jigsaw puzzle in a while. (I have made a rule: I have to finish doing my taxes before I can work on the new puzzle. That will give me some more incentive against procrastinating.)

On the way out, I stopped in Borders book store adjacent to the mall... it's always a bad sign when you have to ask for a shopping basket in a book store, but I didn't really spend very much considering I haven't been in a book store since before Christmas (there is a reason I have 'club' cards for both Barnes & Noble and Borders).

The affiliation card came in handy: it gave me 30% off the most expensive book in my order: a work-related reference on using CSS on web-sites that was quite expensive.

I also bought a World Atlas: my previous world atlas is about 25 years old, which is a problem when writing stories involving the Balkans and central Asia.

The rest of my purchases were science fiction (including the new Dresden Files paperback) and manga.

The back way home from the Mall goes by a Safeway, so I stopped and stocked up on some things. It was after 9pm when I got home.

Tomorrow I'm going to have some serious incentive to get my treadmill working again. After months of a very sedentary lifestyle (with brief intervals of snow shoveling) my legs are not happy about walking around the mall and other stores for more than three hours. I'll need to do some walking and yoga to unkink them.

My feet aren't happy about spending that much time walking in shoes, either. I don't usually wear shoes in the house, partly because of the really horrible clay mud and dust that gets tracked in, and I've been wearing moon-boots outdoors for the past few months. My feet have gotten spoiled by the past months of freedom.

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