17 th mai ( Leacock alum s )

 the 'outlook ' here and not at home. Foggy and still 

6:40 AM and awake. Thus. put coffee on.

Using an automatic machine, I boiled water and drip fed the coffee basket. Near the end, I added a cup of bottled water to the reservoir and hit ' on '

Coffee. Strong. way strong. But drinkable and got better as I sipped away.

Visibility. is 40 m. I guess b / c I'm not sure how you do the test 

But slept sound and comfy. I prepped a comforter and second blanket BUT slept wrapped in the comforter b / c we were in the basement next to the gas fireplace 

I'm upstairs now and it's a good temperature here as well 

OK what s w / the boiling water using a drip machine. Well, the first water that the machine produces is getting warm. Then its hot after that 
thus. the really hot water ' blooms ' the coffee grounds, and then the following water is hot too.
I did add some bottled water at the end to get the hotplate warming.

Fog gone and a warmish day.

16 days into V

 Hello Leacock alum s

weather is 😧 coming on Spring warm , damp feeling an steady S wind 🌬️ 

Season finale for JHU mlax bowing out to U Notre Dame

🍪 on fourteen mai

 🍪 damp in the ' boro. slightly uncomfortable but jacket and go. wind is stirring.

yes coffee was good 

we are being visited by the VHA or home services for M

 

🍭 ... the ' boro om mai 13

 🍭 ... when it rains it pours .... as last night. rain was ricocheting off the roof.

dmpish out there w / little wind evidence

errata : yes, even I make mistakes. The story of JHU at Cornell and the hotel situation.
The hotel that was booked originally, couldn't seat the team and support staff for meals.
THEN Milliman moved the 2 bus loads of JHU to the Statler, biggest and classiest hotel in Ithaca and yes, the team changed in the hotel and walked out to the field.
Still a really sharp move.
Plus instead of hustling to the field, the players trailed along after an injured defender as he used his crutches.
Class that

WHEN YOU DAY DOES NOT INCLUDE SPLITTING the ATOM
at the store you buy shoe polish and find 1 / 8 oz painted jig heads for $ 2.43 red tag and the other packages say $ 6.
come home throw together bean vermicelli and left overs for Wednesday chow mein

 

🧙 hi, World ....

 🧙 .....  glad that you could make it ....
                   hello Leacock peeps !

' boro gets sun. air mostly still. Alrighty .... so coffee and typing
let the day unfold

Previously, I mentioned Johns Hopkins travelling to Peter Milliman s former coaching post at Cornell. I found a podcast re: lacrosse and specifically addressing the weekend games which were the round of 16. The storyline is that Cornell [ Ithaca, NY ] is way the hell and gone. Isolated and a nightmare for visiting teams.
E.g. the rumour is the visiting team s dressing rooms are distant from the field. It appears that Milliman pre - thought this difficulty AND chose the hotel across the street from the field. The Bluejays dressed for the game in the hotel and walked over to the field.

follow up : exercise. the every second day routine. Thus approx 3 times per week. Goal, get a good sweat in.
Cardio and strength but a smidgen of flexibility, basically,variety.
Originally, I would have mentioned discipline, vigour and improvement.
In reality. For about three years, the ' workout ' has shortened in length coming down from 45 min to 35 min.
BPM avg is now 111 to 116, c.f. 118 - 121. Bear in mind the target zones do fall in number w / age.
What s left is discipline and a continuation of effort for satisfaction. 
In comparison, some folks think of walking as ' exercise ' not a workout which I like to claim

💃 11 the of mai

💃.... going to the dance 

' boro is mainly sunny w / high cloud cover. sun at 80 % and seems still

the set up
I have a corner computer stand or desk, a three tier affair. The footprint is small and I look out on the street. not a great angle but I still have an 200 + degree sightline. I can watch traffic coming and going on our wide corner [ really a small cul de sac ].

I type and drink coffee of a morning

OK. " going to the dance ". The JHU Bluejays are record holders for the most National Championships [ maybe ]. The have won 44 National titles but some of those were awarded by Press Organisations and not a tournament result. At the time, of course, the only game in town

Well. They're back, w /  a chance 

Downstairs in the house. For approx. a month, the downstairs toilet would randomly begin to fill [ unused ]. I adjusted the water level in the tank, no joy. The test : let the tank fill, turn off the water supply. Wait.
Yepper. Over, approx 40 min the tank emptied.

This AM, decided to do something. water level good. Water condition dingy to jet black at the bottom of the tank. Touching the black goo [ really ] was akin to oil sludge.
And that's what it was. Research on G ... named the ' black stuff ' as deteriorating rubber dissolved in perhaps manganese precipitates.
I removed the flapper w / some effort and headed for the Depot. No one was available to help so I beelined it for Plumbing.
Well, quick visual and lo and behold the black part that I carried from home was sitting there, new and packaged. BUT not a flapper, it is an ' actuator ' [ still it cost $ 12 ]

Flushed out the goo. Slipped [ yes, popped right on ] the ' actuator ' on and done.

Testing is going on, to see if the tank emptied on its own or is it sealing

Definitely, self satisfying

🐦j ' S may 10

 🐦j ' S ...  Hi ! Leacock peeps 

sunny in the  'boro and we have spring - everything, sunny, green and growing

the Kings of Spring, title, was used many years ago, by Inside Lacrosse to announce the beginning of the NCAA Div 1 lacrosse season. Approx 70 teams, playing a mixed schedule of league and non league games.
The ' dance ' is the 16 team field selection [ by committee ], that ends in late May to highlight this knockout tournament for the Div 1 Championship

This season, JHU qualified for the B1G final and lost to Penn State. The Committee opted to rank the JHU Jays as # 8 and bracketed them against Cornell, the Big Red. In the incestuous world of NCCA lacrosse, there are always connections when teams meet.

The JHU mlax, bussed up to Ithaca, NY for Saturday s game vs Cornell.
On the year, both teams were brilliant and peripatetic, w/ four or five losses each.
The game was a lock in, brawl. The final goal in O / T was scored by Hop.
Nine goals and 3 saves, earned the win. What ? 3 saves. JHU s Gelinas stopped 3 shots. Hit posts and high and wides count too as shots.

Congrats to Jays. Making something out of a ' what the heck ' season.

 Connxns. JHU coach, Milliman, left Cornell to be at Homewood. 

At first, I thought ' who will they play next, # 1 Notre D or Jacksonville '
really ....  ??

you got there, that's good enough - how many teams are dying b / c you got the chance

on paper Cornell was favoured w / bigger studs and healthier team overall. But when JHU holds you scoreless for 21 min, the other 39 better be brilliant [ and wasn't ]

let s cheer the moment [ hey, real life lesson for me too !