Loving these Jarritos sodas I tried at the market the other day. I got a case of 12, each with a different flavor. Not something I’m going to make a regular habit of getting because it’s a little pricey and there’s a lot of sugar in these things.

I wanted to switch to my outer office, but at 7:00 PM the planes are simply too obnoxious. You can hear them best in that area of the house and three planes in three minutes is a bit much. They should taper off in a few hours, but not stop until around midnight. I wonder how many more years before I finally get used to this. This is the way it is almost everywhere now so why don’t I just get with the times?

Today started off to be just so-so. I wasn't anxious but was slightly on edge as I worry about transitioning onto nights. He's going to partially match my schedule so it won't be as bad. Plus, I do have the gummies, the hydroxyzine, and I know Helen is just a text away so that helps. After taking a gummy I felt better.

I'll get back on with the painting in a few days. That's something I like to do in the middle of the night when there are fewer distractions.

Tom woke up on fire, he told me. I guess guys do that too at times. This week's VZ challenge is going to take me through Vermont, the Canary Islands, and back to a different section of Tasmania. He got the Cadence sensor hooked up to the skier and it's so much fun! You appear to be riding the bike, of course, which I have to switch to. I'm a little overpowered and it takes several seconds to come to a stop but it's so much fun riding my little "toy car" down the street and exploring anywhere in the world I want to go. I say "car" because my hands positioned on the skier's rails are almost similar to if they were positioned on the wheel of a car.

I'm finally about halfway through my 78-mile ride around Lake Tahoe. I do that ride in between challenges.

We've agreed for him to fold the skier up before bed if he crashes before I do so that way if I want to golf on my own or something like that, the skier isn't in the way. I can meditate whether it's there or not. But I can't golf, box, or dance.

Earlier I became very light-headed, hungry, and shaky. Tested my blood sugar about a half hour after eating and it was normal. I'm not sure what that was about. I lost two of the four pounds I gained and I did it without counting calories or doing anything too extreme. I just lowered my quantity by eating less often. I was getting too carried away for a while. This is the first time in ages that I grabbed the reins of my weight when I saw it was getting out of hand and yanked it back down even if it was only a couple of pounds. So my metabolism definitely isn't as dead as it used to be. I'm still a little worried about how I'll feel once I get past the middle of the month but lab time won't be much longer.