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Fri, Aug 15, 2008

Rain, Finally

Posted at 8:32 am MDT to Weather

We are having a rainy day for the first time in months. This is good. The radio said we are 5 inches below normal for the year.

Normal precipitation for the Denver area is only 15.81 inches per year, so this is a serious drought.

The high temperature is predicted to be 56 F, which is about 30 degrees lower than it was a couple of days ago. I switched the HVAC from AC to heat to take the edge off the dampness.

They are predicting snow for the high country.

I'm going to take it easy today: no walking on the treadmill. I'll do my PT exercises and maybe some yoga instead. I spent a day and half in the office using Shawn's desk and chair (he was at a customer site) and I think the ergonomic mismatch pulled my bad hip out of line. The hip feels off, and the skin on my left heel went leathery and split again, which seems to be a sign that the circulation is off in that leg.

I'm going to take it a little easy on the computer work, too. I figured out that because of working until midnight on Monday and Tuesday I had already done more than 40 hours of work related stuff by noon yesterday, and I haven't been sleeping well. I really don't need to run myself into a wall and wreck my health again.

One advantage of doing billable work is that the contract puts a limit on the hours of tight Focused work I do each day: I need to relearn to pace myself when I don't have that external limit. Though I was never good at doing that -- probably one reason I've done well as a contractor and consultant.

Paying attention to that bad leg may give me an indicator of when I'm pushing things too much.

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