I felt fine today until I got home and fell asleep for five minutes. Then at the gym my legs felt rubbery and I thought they were going to cramp up a couple of times. I’m probably just watching too much early season football and seeing all the players cramp up thinking it’ll happen to me, but I sure couldn’t row like I usually do. I wonder if it’s the heat, or if I’m just plain tired. I’m guessing it’s a combination of both.

Of course I’m not getting to sleep early, like I ought to, because I haven’t been sleeping all that well lately. I can blame that on the heat as well. If I keep complaining about the heat, my sister will continue to call me a pussy. As she says, “It’s not even in triple digits, you <previously mentioned word>.” You know how it is.

I’m thinking I did almost nothing today, which is pretty good for a holiday weekend. I did finish my course of antibiotics and I was hoping I’d drink a couple of beers, a requirement for a successful Labor Day weekend, but I did not. I did go to the gym and I think one of the coaches is trying to kill me. But other than that I did nothing. I almost went out and bought a hoe because my collection of gas-powered string trimmers isn’t doing it for me, but laziness set in. I think the only accomplishment I can think of is my ability to figure out that the adjective form of “goy” is “goyische”. At least that’s what my failing Asian memory is telling me now. I’m not sure why I’ve picked up some Yiddish when I’m unable to recall the meanings of the words on the New York Times 100 most looked up words list. It certainly didn’t help me on any of the standardized tests I took including the SAT, the GRE, the MCAT, the GMAT, and the US Foreign Service Officer Test. I will admit to being hung over for the GMAT, and VERY hung over for the FSOT. I didn’t figure that either of those tests mattered for my future career endeavors.

So my co-worker who tested positive on the rapid strep test got a different antibiotic than I did. He got cephalexin, which sounds like it comes from reclining octopi, when I got amoxicillin. I looked them up and his is good for pneumonia and mine is good for that and also for gonorrhea. Unless you can get catch nasty diseases through a web browser, I’m not likely to need it for anything beyond possible strep, though.

I did notice that there are a bunch of anecdotal stories of people rupturing their Achilles tendon doing box jumps while being on amoxicillin. I found it on a bunch of Crossfit sites. The general posts were about the dangers of box jumps, especially for old dudes like me, and it made me a bit wary of them for a while. But now I’m wondering why all these Crossfitters are on amoxicillin. I’ve met a bunch of Crossfitters and I’m guessing they’re taking the antibiotics for the thing I’m unlikely to have, not the thing that I’m most likely treating. I think you know what I’m talking about.