3.9 miles Monday morning to start another month off. Saw a different person doing the exercise stations in the park where I do my pull-ups and chin-ups. Another one trying to beat the heat and get an early start.

Altair - Like most things, I tell people they could do what I do with the proper equipment and practice. It's all in the prep work. Spend the time upfront or you'll be doing it over again. My first few times painting were less than ideal. The more we do, the better we get and the easier it becomes. Just like running.

Another 3.9 miles Tuesday morning. One of the problems with the warmer weather is when I go to the chin up bar, it's hard to get my hands really dry. So around number 8 my hands are damp enough that I have trouble holding on. Trying to wipe my hands on sweaty shorts doesn't work. So I get in as many as I can and move on.

Led - Great numbers for the week and month. Now you just need an event to run in. One of the events I was notified of that were going ahead with their July run sent out the details today. It's a virtual run. Not quite the same as a regular race event. But we have to start somewhere. So the company doing the repaving work in the area did our street today. Strange thing though is they only chipped away the outside of the street along the curb. Nothing in the middle. So there is about an inch and a half layer removed. It looks like they are going to pave over the middle section making it higher so it slopes more to the sides.  Not sure why they are doing it that way.

4.5 miles Wednesday morning. Decided to add a little to my run so veered off to a different way home. The normal 3.9 route felt boring this morning.

Altair - Those old Chevy Nomad wagons were popular in those days. Interesting story.

After a big thunderstorm last night, this morning I made myself do a little speed work. It went reasonably well, considering my minimal motivation.

Art - I remember sweaty hands on the chinup bar. Just doesn't work. Maybe those gloves that weightlifters use?  Carry a couple pieces of chamois?  As for an event, there is one, another virtual 10K race starting this weekend, but I don't think I'll sign up. I've already done 3 virtuals, that were presumably going to be "real" races at the time I signed up for them. Not seeing much point in doing this one. Are you sure the pavers aren't going to do their job in two stages, first the outside lanes, then the middle lanes?

Altair - Boy, that Nomad was a classic, wasn't it?  Great memories of New Orleans. I have a weird and very tenuous connection to John Belushi, having to do with his rented drumset. Well, I bought it, some time after he rented it. You probably didn't even know he was a drummer.

Rich - Wow, sorry about your wife. Sounds like things are under control now, and I'm sure DW will be fine going forward. Weird time to have anything to do with a hospital, for sure.  Nice 5 mile run!

Guess I better chime in.  Sorry, haven't been exercising that much this last month.  Got in 131 miles in May, only ran about half the days with a couple of big gaps in there.  On the bad side of things, all the inactivity seems to have weakened a few muscles and strained left calf.  It seemed to be getting better then I took a few days off and next run seemed to re-strain it.  Been walking mostly this week and last night threw in a 3.1 mile slow jog. The calf felt better near the end, but tightened up a bit later.  Will try and do a little running to try and not fall too far behind the pace bunny.

We had a solar system and batteries installed and I rewired my network and rebuilt a bunch of my servers, not to mention my home system died and had to be replaced.  Fortunately, for me, the SSD disk was still good and transferred to the new system nicely.  I guess the file server new I was about to replace it when it decided to die early.  For those who understand file systems, new file server is using ZFS and I built a 20 TB RAID volume (~30 TB of raw space).  Replaced a multi-disk system (non RAID) with about 7 TB of disk space.

With the Solar system came a new main and sub circuit panels, which allowed me to self-install a 40 amp level 2 car charging port.  Car charge time has gone down from 12 hours to 2 hours.

Altair - I was laid off.  Need to figure out if I should just retire or look for a job for a short time. Mostly working is so I don't have to think about medical coverage.  Initially thought that it would be fairly cheap do just go through the medical exchange, but forgot that I need to include all income and quickly realized that I have  enough income that I would be subsidized this year.  Still, severance pay should cover this year's COBRA coverage (just under $2500/mo for Medical and Dental). Sorry to hear that you haven't been able to keep up your running. I'm a fan of old cars and I'm impressed that you are a good enough artist to be payed for it!  Awesome.

Led - Nice monthly total mileage!  I'm way too familiar with blood thinners and consequently INR tests. Don't know when they'll open up enough to allow racing. Vacation Races is doing a half marathon race this weekend in or just outside Zion National Park.  Starting at 7PM thru 7AM, 50 runners are allowed to start on the hour.  We were thinking of actually doing it, maybe their next one.

Art - Can't wait to see pictures of your car's paint job. Not sure I have the patience to do a good spray.  You've gotten in some nice bike rides.  A few weeks ago, got together with former co-workers and did a 20 mile ride. Of, course it was right after that ride I strained my calf.

Rich - Hope your wife is doing well.  That has to be pretty scary.  Nice splits!

3.9 miles Friday morning. The usual.

Saturday made a rest day. Started looking at the stuff I wanted to do and before I knew it, it was late morning. So changed into working clothes and passed on the run.

Another 3.9 miles Sunday morning. Was thinking of adding a bike ride but went grocery shopping instead.

Ray - That's frustrating getting a strained calf and it not cooperating with your healing process. Hopefully it will heal quickly. Oh yes, the joy of recovering from a system crash. So far, the SSDs seem to be on more robust in that I haven't seen one fail yet. Having said that, I'm sure that will happen this week to someone. I back up my systems to the server automatically twice a day. If a system dies, I can connect to the server and restore everything in about 30 minutes. Only losing a few hours work. That' a lot of storage you have there. Big improvement on the battery recharging time. That must be real nice.

Rich - Nice run. Humidity doesn't seem to care too much about shade. We're just thankful for AC to cool us off. Hopefully she'll come around and at least try making small changes.

3.9 miles Monday morning. Enjoyed the cooler weather as it was in the lower 70s when  ran. Late afternoon I did a 6 mile bike ride just before lunch so got in a little more exercise just because of the weather.

3.6 miles Tuesday morning before having to go out for work. So far, even though they have opened up most businesses, the traffic is still great. Came home during what would have been the rush hour around 5:00 PM and the traffic was what would have been normal for the middle of the day.

Rich - Good to take advantage of the nice weather. Good 7 mile run you did.