In less than two hours I will no longer be the Secretary of colgaffneyis. My replacement was elected without opposition at the annual business meeting earlier today. I am currently winding down my responsibilities. I wrote up the minutes of today’s meeting this evening. I will proofread them tomorrow or Monday and send them off to the new Board for approval or revision.
I wore my pedometer all day today. It has several scales on it, including calories used. Figuring that Playford and similar dances are basicly walking, I recorded the numbers before and after colgaffneyis dance session this evening. The pedometer reports that my walking today expended 665 calories. 99 of those were during dance. Furthermore, though I walked over 2300 steps during dance (not just dancing, but also the general hanging around), I was not active enough for a continuous period for any of those 2300+ to count as aerobic exercise. The pedometer reports that I managed 5543 aerobic steps today over a total of 40 minutes, which must have come from walking the skyway over lunch hour.
Yes, I know: All of these figures about calories and aerobic exercise are rough approximations. However, they are all I have got, and far more than I had before.
We slept in this morning. I try to observe at least the beginning of Saturday as a day of rest.
Unlike a lot of people, I actually worked on Friday. The office was very quiet. Then I took three days off.
One of my fellow members of the OldTools List recently attended a Swordmaking class. There are pictures here. A minute with Google found this list of relevant links.
(The current leadership crisis in colgaffneyis)
See The Shrinking Pool.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 