Sephy’s Platzish

Sunday, 28th October

A look at the sunset towards the west.

Yet another late walk into the night; however, the weather wasn’t too bad for walking, just needing to wear the regular covering.

Total distance - 5879 steps, 4.70km

Monday, 29th October

Smoke from a housefire off in the distance. It was a planned burn by one of the local fire departments.

Again, I went walking after 5pm, and as I was walking through the park, I got a call from my mom who said that she was seeing smoke. As it turned out, I wound up seeing the same fire, which caused the smoke above.

Total distance - 6352 steps, 5.08km

Tuesday, 30th October 2007

Pardon the blurriness, but it is hard to take a handheld timelapse of a train passing slightly after dark.

Yet another day, yet another after-dark walk. The biggest problem with walking after dark is that you start to lose visibility, even with a light on. It’s not so bad on the road, but back in the forest, it can be a bit disorienting and confusing.

Total distance - 5434 steps, 4.34km

Wednesday, 31st October

With all the leaves cleared out, you can see the path that doubles as one of the holes for the disc golf course.

I actually did one and a quarter walks as I had the opportunity to do some walking after I was done with my appointments at the mental health clinic. I wound up walking a good distance before I got picked up for the ride home (and no, my ride didn’t get lost in finding me, I explained where I was ) - that was, according to the distance measuring tool on Google maps, just over 1km. The regular walk was a slightly more mundane event, with the only interesting event being meeting up with our mailman while he was out walking, followed by hearing some guy shooting something in a field not too far from the road.

Total distance (excluding first walk) - 5962 steps, 4.76km

Thursday, 1st November

See all that grass? Say goodbye to it…

Using a bit of forethought, I decided to go ahead and walk a bit earlier - around 4 pm, instead of the slightly later walks I’d been taking. I then realized that because daylight saving was ending, the sun, as low as it was at 5, would be that low at 4 come this weekend. More reason to actually get out and walk during the day again…

Total distance - 6239 steps, 4.99km

Friday, 2nd November

Bye-bye grass

I went walking earlier so that I wouldn’t have to worry about getting the walk in after driving. I also decided to head up towards the parking lot to see how the winter preparations were going along in the park. As I got over the hill that led down towards to the direct route to the parking lot, I noticed that all the grass was level. I then see this monstrous lawnmower come through the opening from the parking lot. Clearly the preparations involve clearing all the grass

Total distance - 6316 steps, 5.05km

Saturday, 3rd November

This is the scene I arrive at almost every day when I get to the bottom of a hill on the “main” route for my walking, the only difference being that the grass is gone.

On the last day of daylight saving, I decided to do one last after 5:30 pm walk. It was really chilly, and about halfway through the walk, I started to see the breath in my light. Considering that it is getting towards winter, I’m thinking that walks around noon will begin to be the norm…

Total distance - 5110 steps, 4.08km

In other news, I went for my first appointments at the mental health clinic on Wednesday. It was a good experience, with me not nervous at all. I don’t know if that had something to do with the person from the billing department being dressed up as a “cereal killer” or not, but I think it helped. I then sat down, read for a bit and was called in for my therapist appointment. That lasted for an hour, and we have the first few appointments set up already, going into December. I then saw the doctor, and we discussed my medication and I got signed up for an assistance program so that I can get some possibly free medicine directly from the manufacturer

As far as how I’ve been doing with other things like time management, I’m doing fairly well with that, along with starting to do something where I go through my blogs for commenting and mark off that I commented on a simple legal pad, marked out with 10 squares for each of the blogs that I comment on. My goal for every day is to mark off all 10, and on Friday, I marked them all off, and started to mark across the line again

This week, I’m going to set a bit of a vanity goal for myself - actually watch a movie; I haven’t done it in ages, and I’ve got a few that are just sitting there calling out for me to watch them…I have to do it Also, with the driving, I want to work on some of the things that you’ll likely only do in a driving test - such as a y-turn and possibly parallel parking. However, I know that it’s going to be slightly more difficult as it’s dark now around 5:30 pm.