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Not a lot to update you on today. That doesn't always have any real bearing on how much I write in a given post, though. Let's see how it goes today!
I think I've gotten a little too used to my "hybrid" walk + Monorail + Light Rail + walk home, cutting my walk time about in half. The thing is, Shobhit has taken to going for walks lately, and he and I went out for a walk on Saturday evening, and he shared that he has been tracking his steps in the "Health" app on his iPhone.
And I figured: I might as well do the same. I had already switched from Sleep Cycle to Health as the app used for my morning alarm. I still prefer the way Sleep Cycle detects when you are stirring and then gently wakes you up between a time range you can set, and unfortunately the Health app does not have this functionality. But, after literally a decade of using Sleep Cycle for free, they now want me to start a paid account in order to get access to all its features, and without warning, it just stopped ringing the alarm when I set it. This was how I overslept by nearly an hour at the beginning of last week. What bullshit!
Anyway, for now at least, paying attention to my daily steps is motivating me to walk more. I had no other plans after work yesterday, so I walked all the way home, for the first time in quite a while. And, guess what? The app says I took 10,001 steps yesterday! I don't know how long it's been since I reached that threshold in a given day, but I can tell you it's been ages. I wish the app would show me each day's totals way back, but all I can find is the past 7 days. My average over that period was 7,160 steps per day. I need to get that average up.
It'll certainly go up while we’re in Australia.
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When I got home, Shobhit had dinner ready: a noodle dish made out of the last bag of refrigerated Asian noodles he got from an Asian grocery store a few weeks ago: we really needed to get it used up before we leave on Sunday.
A while back, I took home a ridiculous number of sample olive oils from work, and have been trying to arrange them so we use up the earlier sell-by dated ones first. Plus, a few of them are flavored: garlic, basil, etc. Shobhit used a hot pepper flavored one for this dish, which didn't make it spicy exactly, but gave it a unique kind of kick I actually quite liked. Normally I would add peanut sauce to a dish like this, but this oil gave it a distinctive flavor that peanut sauce would have eliminated. The noodles otherwise had a bit of chopped onion, broccoli, bell pepper, and something called "soya chunks" (soybean chunks, which expand slightly with whatever sauce they're in). The dish was tasty enough that I'm actively looking forward to having more of it as leftovers for dinner.
Shobhit had a virtual board meeting, so I hung out in the bedroom for a bit. I even read my library e-book of Michel Faber's
Under the Skin, which I'm rather getting into; Laney was going to read it along with me but couldn't get more than about a quarter in because of all the references to the protagonist's breasts. (There's a justified reason for this in the narrative, I would argue, but regardless it probably still lands differently for a woman reader than for me.)
Not long after Shobhit's meeting finished, we rounded out the evening watching two more episodes of
Bad Sisters using my three months free subscription to Apple TV+. We now have one episode left to watch, in which we'll
finally learn how John Paul actually died.
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[posted 12:30 pm]
