08-26-2025 Walk

Woke up fairly early, before 6:00, and decided to go on a long early-morning walk around the neighborhood. My right groin was still a little tender, so I kept an easy pace and was particularly careful walking uphill. Listened to podcasts while I was walking and got most of my daily steps in. I had some breakfast when I got home and caught up on blogging as well. Started, again, the process of trying to transfer files to my new MicroSD card for the phone. It's been a frustrating process so far. Eventually, on this day, I gave up with these cards, which just don't work. Will return them for a refund and find more reliable cards. In the morning I trimmed the bushes on the side of the driveway and did a quick trim of the ones bordering the garage door. Got it done before it was too hot. Watched a little bit of Wicked on Amazon Prime. I can see how folks loved it, not sure it's my kind of entertainment. Had some lunch, then in the after I hung up the shade cloth over the second garden bed. It went more quickly than I thought it would, will see how these poles hold up in the wind. I read a fair amount and dozed as well. In the late afternoon, I scootered over to Karl Strauss and met Blair and others for happy hour. Kyle was there, as well as Will, the tech who came in to support LEP tooling after I left (he's leaving HP and seems to have landed a good next gig). James showed up a little later. It was a relaxing little break, I had a Pepsi instead of beer. Got home after that, had a little dinner, then it was a quiet evening.