Thursday, February 01, 2007
I was astonished to come home today and find a realty sign in my neighbors' yard to the north. They only just bought the place a couple months ago, a nice older couple from Missouri who gave every impression that they planned to move in once their son finished fixing it up. I wonder what happened. It can't have been a fix-and-flip; I know what they paid for it (thanks to the brochures the local realtors drop off every month), and it wasn't below market for this neighborhood, so they can't be making any money off the sale.
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I don't normally do New Year's resolutions, because -- well, I don't know why. I just don't. But I made an early resolution in December, in the spirit of getting-in-shape-to-hike-the-canyon, that I would add a third gym class to my routine, on weekends when I didn't go hiking. The idea is to establish good habits, so that when summer rolls around and it's too frakkin' hot for outdoor activities, I won't be sitting on my butt at home.
Well, Fitness Works has already thrown a monkey wrench into the works; they've cancelled my Monday BodyCombat class and now I have to figure out a new schedule. This Monday I drove to the other gym down in Higley for their Combat class later in the evening. The instructors were fine, but apart from being twice as far away it's a very large and noisy room, hard to see the instructor without craning your neck. What's more they blew out the speakers after one too many attempts to "pump up the volume". It was kind of weird, because the speakers weren't totally gone - it was more like aerobics to the muffled tune of the lous party your neighbor down the street is having.
So that leaves me with a Combat class on Thursday, which I could swing if I can get out of work a little early, and do Pump right afterward. The only other option is Sunday morning, but that would mean dropping my RPM class, and I really like the instructor; he's really clear with his instructions going through the routine.
Well, we'll get things sorted out. My schedule's going to be wacky through March anyway.
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I don't normally do New Year's resolutions, because -- well, I don't know why. I just don't. But I made an early resolution in December, in the spirit of getting-in-shape-to-hike-the-canyon, that I would add a third gym class to my routine, on weekends when I didn't go hiking. The idea is to establish good habits, so that when summer rolls around and it's too frakkin' hot for outdoor activities, I won't be sitting on my butt at home.
Well, Fitness Works has already thrown a monkey wrench into the works; they've cancelled my Monday BodyCombat class and now I have to figure out a new schedule. This Monday I drove to the other gym down in Higley for their Combat class later in the evening. The instructors were fine, but apart from being twice as far away it's a very large and noisy room, hard to see the instructor without craning your neck. What's more they blew out the speakers after one too many attempts to "pump up the volume". It was kind of weird, because the speakers weren't totally gone - it was more like aerobics to the muffled tune of the lous party your neighbor down the street is having.
So that leaves me with a Combat class on Thursday, which I could swing if I can get out of work a little early, and do Pump right afterward. The only other option is Sunday morning, but that would mean dropping my RPM class, and I really like the instructor; he's really clear with his instructions going through the routine.
Well, we'll get things sorted out. My schedule's going to be wacky through March anyway.
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