Today I started bright and early (at 10 30) and set out to find this supposed magnificent bike trail that so many (just the psychologist at my program) bragged about. I hit it and instantly ran headfirst into thousands (about fifty or so) of dog walkers. Apparently today was "the dog walk" or at least that's all the detail the locals would give me, so I hopped off the trail and joined it 3 minutes further down the way. The trail really was everything they said it would be, at least the 7.7 mile stretch leading to the hospital was impressive anyway. I'll go further tomorrow if my body is up to it, everyone who has exercised knows the perils of starting an exercise program after several months of rest.
This old man passed me on the trail. I was biking along in my lycra shorts and he was wearing regular shorts and a t-shirt, on his mountain bike. He had a camelbak on his back, and he was wearing regular shoes, and he was at least 58 years old, and he passed me. I couldn't keep up with him, at some point he took a breather after an uphill and I picked up the lead ... for about two minutes. Then I had to give it up again. He had calf muscles within his calf muscles. I aspire to one day be as fast or faster than him when I'm his age, certainly a lot thinner (yeah he wasn't skinny either, must have been mostly muscle).
I came home and ate my wholesome breakfast of pizza ---just kidding, special K and soy milk with blueberries. Then, in order to delay having to buy groceries and cook, I set to work replacing the broken screen on my tablet PC. I had planned to use it during rotations and during residency when I bought it (before entering medical school), but then the attending physicians I shadowed kept telling me I needed to have both hands free, and so I would use the tablet as a backup PC, eventually having the LCD unit crack on me during the move to Chicago.
I finally researched and purchased the necessary replacement part, and took it with me to Pittsburgh. Today, I opened up a previously-downloaded youtube video of how to repair a tablet PC of the make and model I own, and all was going well until I realized the person in the video did not show how to remove the screen. Furthermore, the tablet I bought was wacom-enabled, meaning a wacom digitizer (without which the pen wouldn't work) was soldered onto the LCD circuit-board. Stumped, I removed the old screen with the digitizer (obviously I didn't want to just rip the thing off the old screen, there may yet be a way to save it though I do not know how) and then, at the point where I removed the old screen, began a guessing game of biblical proportions. The installation of the new screen and the putting back together of the tablet with all the right screws in the right places, was an epic farce of which songs shall be sung long after I have left this Earth.
I got it to work, but the pen doesn't work. Oh well, I'll plug in a mouse and a keyboard and give it to my parents, they need a new computer anyway.
I went to buy groceries, and ended up buying a shocking amount of "back up" groceries. I define back up groceries as high-calorie high-taste frozen food (mostly pizza) to be eaten either in the advent of surprise guests or the advent of insufficient time to buy and cook food. If it weren't for the emergency food, my grocery bill would have been about $70 lower, but that's a very rough estimate, as I haven't the energy to walk to the receipts drawer and read the receipt.
I set my slow-cook marrakesh chicken on low and I did all the dishes that have been painfully neglected this past move-in week. I think I'll get started on the fish dish now. All in all, not a bad day. Tomorrow will have to start earlier though, 10 30 is just embarrassing.
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