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Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Saturday was busy as my co-worker was sick so I told her to go home. But that meant that I was by myself for five hours! I'm back at work Today early as I'd thought I'd have some time to play on the web. But as usual I've got tons of work emails to sift through, and my mailbox was full of stuff. I'll try and ignore that and focus on my blogging! Darcy gave me The Dilbert Principle to read. Very appropriate material. I had yesterday off so I did my full workout and may have set a record for the total amount of weight lifted (62,000 pounds). This sounds like an enormous number but bear in mind that it doesn't take a lot of lifting to make up a few thousand pounds. However, I did set a personal record yesterday of doing 141 chin ups at the park. It took me an hour with breaks but I surprised myself. I do at least 100 reps once a week. Ideally I'd like to purchase a chin up bar for home. But the Sports Authority store doesn't carry bars that don't require screws. There is one model that I saw on the Web though. I don't work out as much as I did five years ago. Only lift weights twice a week (Wednesday and the weekend) and I don't do much aerobic exercise. Anyway after working out I watched Buster Keaton's The General. A brilliant silent motion picture! I think that Keaton is under rated as most people are more familiar with Charlie Chaplin in the silent movie era. On Saturday we watched The Odd Couple. Going to amazon.com I just realized that they made a sequel in 1998! We'll have to rent it.
Darcy attended the BCLA annual lunch last week and sadly, or happily, neither of us were elected. She was going for Vice-President and I was going for Historian. Our Toronto/ALA trip is in one short month and our Spokane trip is in two months. So this will break up the monotony a bit. We've taken no vacation time since Christmas. I'm planning on putting my 2000 travel journal online shortly. I finally transcribed it into a word file and is quite lengthy (thirty pages at 10 point font). But considering my trip lasted nine weeks I really didn't write down much. I think that I'll post my journal in segments to cut down on the length. So it could be like a 19th century serial. Tomorrow Darcy and I are going out with a friend/co-worker (Anne) and her husband. Anne is a fellow Canadian and she is moving to Cape Breton Island. She was a good friend to both of us and she will be missed. On the weekend Darcy bought two more DVDs so her collection has quickly grown to three. But they are classic movies so we'll enjoy watching them (Lawrence of Arabia and one with Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons??). One day I'll buy the Clint Eastwood man with no name trilogy. The Matrix Reloaded opened this weekend to good reviews but ostensibly not having the visual impact of the first. I wonder why Terminator 3 is not getting much press. Maybe that's good as too much movie hype can bring down a film once it's released.
Well, time to go I guess. Be seeing you...
posted by Michael at 11:48 AM
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