Saw the Alps again today!
Mar. 5th, 2010 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaToday was not as productive of a work day as yesterday. But then, I suspected that might be the case when I didn't stop working till about midnight last night. By the time I finished my yoga and read for a bit it was 02:00 before I went to sleep.
I still managed to crawl out of bed around 09:00 and crossed the street for breakfast and work. My experiment was still running fine when I checked this morning (though, perhaps, I should check again on my way home this evening), but I was feeling a bit tired, and had forgotten my phone charger, so I returned home, plugged the phone in, and took a ten minute nap.
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clovis_t wanted to do a bit of shopping, and I needed the exercise, having worked yesterday in lieu of getting out for a walk, so I joined him in wandering to some of the local shops (and found where the Friday market is locally) for about an hour and a half. Then I managed a bit of uni work before deciding I was hungry, so I went home and converted the last of Monday's market vegtables into a pot of soup, to which I added the last of the home-made spinach pasta. Yum! (potato, carrot, garlic, brocclini, broad beans, some small black lentils, the spinach pasta, and butter).
Just about the time I finished eating and was thinking of heading back across the street to be useful,clovis_t came home, looked out our window and commented that the Alps were out. So I quickly finished the washing up, and he and I set out on a small adventure. Since he doesn't have rollerblades we took the metro a couple of stops north, and then walked over to the park I found last weekend and walked up the hill. He wonders if it is a man-made hill, since it looks so odd standing up all by itself like that. There isn't any outcrop on it, just some stone paths that have been added to give people enjoying the part a variety of choices of routes to the top.
The view from the top was even better than last time--the full range of the Alps was visible, from well to the east across the north, and well into the west. With the sun setting behind the mountains to the west they were quite pretty--not much detail visible, but beautiful silhouettes. The park is just as lovely as I remembered it, and since there is a small river running through it, I'll have to try visiting it during summer when it is hot and see if it is any better there.
We then walked home (about an hour) and I came back in intending to work. Well, studying another language counts as work, right? No, I was not listing to my Italian CD's. Instead I found a nice on-line Norwegian Language lesson, and spent a happy hour playing with lesson 1, which is pretty much all review for me from the class I took back in 1989-1990. Then I *finally* returned to uni work for a bit. Now I'm going to go home and play a D&D game. Tomorrow I hope to get more work done, so that I can keep March at full time hours in terms of amount of uni work done.
I still managed to crawl out of bed around 09:00 and crossed the street for breakfast and work. My experiment was still running fine when I checked this morning (though, perhaps, I should check again on my way home this evening), but I was feeling a bit tired, and had forgotten my phone charger, so I returned home, plugged the phone in, and took a ten minute nap.
Then
clovis_t wanted to do a bit of shopping, and I needed the exercise, having worked yesterday in lieu of getting out for a walk, so I joined him in wandering to some of the local shops (and found where the Friday market is locally) for about an hour and a half. Then I managed a bit of uni work before deciding I was hungry, so I went home and converted the last of Monday's market vegtables into a pot of soup, to which I added the last of the home-made spinach pasta. Yum! (potato, carrot, garlic, brocclini, broad beans, some small black lentils, the spinach pasta, and butter). Just about the time I finished eating and was thinking of heading back across the street to be useful,
clovis_t came home, looked out our window and commented that the Alps were out. So I quickly finished the washing up, and he and I set out on a small adventure. Since he doesn't have rollerblades we took the metro a couple of stops north, and then walked over to the park I found last weekend and walked up the hill. He wonders if it is a man-made hill, since it looks so odd standing up all by itself like that. There isn't any outcrop on it, just some stone paths that have been added to give people enjoying the part a variety of choices of routes to the top.The view from the top was even better than last time--the full range of the Alps was visible, from well to the east across the north, and well into the west. With the sun setting behind the mountains to the west they were quite pretty--not much detail visible, but beautiful silhouettes. The park is just as lovely as I remembered it, and since there is a small river running through it, I'll have to try visiting it during summer when it is hot and see if it is any better there.
We then walked home (about an hour) and I came back in intending to work. Well, studying another language counts as work, right? No, I was not listing to my Italian CD's. Instead I found a nice on-line Norwegian Language lesson, and spent a happy hour playing with lesson 1, which is pretty much all review for me from the class I took back in 1989-1990. Then I *finally* returned to uni work for a bit. Now I'm going to go home and play a D&D game. Tomorrow I hope to get more work done, so that I can keep March at full time hours in terms of amount of uni work done.
