Our
“winter” Cool season was brief, and we are now into our Hot season. Unbelievable humidity. Heat Index over 100*F. I think it is important to regularly get out
into the heat so the body and mind stays conditioned to it, so today I did a
four-and-a-half kilometer forced march in the noonday sun. I try to do this two or three times a week. I wear shorts, short-sleeved shirt, sport
sandals, a sweatband, broad-brimmed hat, and shades. I return drenched in sweat. I then have some protein, stretch, shower, and
then turn up the a/c.
I
am into week 5 of a re-started weight training program with my set of
dumbbells. The saying goes that this is
that week when one feels “power”, and it is true. I don’t work with weights that are that
heavy, but, using them three times a week with adequate protein and rest, I
feel the results and it feels good.
Walking my 4k neighborhood route today, I felt new spring in my step and
felt like a healthy animal. I am
sleeping very well.
But
I haven’t been writing much, continuing the slump I’ve been in for a long
time. I have drafts of book and movie
reviews that are barely started, as well as drafts of correspondence. I definitely need a new laptop, but I keep
putting off the purchase.
Tuk
said yesterday that at the end of April – after Songkran holiday and then our
annual Immigration Office ordeal for my extension of stay – she would help me
with getting air-conditioning in a second room, our third-floor one. This would make a great study for me. I have the money saved for it, but I need her
to have time to navigate the purchasing of the unit and the supervision of the installation
crew. We need a very powerful a/c unit up
there, because it is the top floor of our flat and has a flat roof directly
above it that soaks up heat from the sun. It is a hot room. (Between you and me, I think Tuk wants me to
have that room as a retreat because she thinks I turn the a/c far too low in
the one room where we have it. I turn it
down while wearing only swim trunks and sitting directly under the a/c unit’s
blower; she sits away from it and wears a fleece jacket!)
Songkran
festival is coming up, mid-April.
Hottest time of the year.
-Zenwind.
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