I had a great start to this Monday. My stupid alarm clock has this weird feature. If you turn the power off, it stops counting the time like it was an old-school mechanical electric clock. BUT IT’S A DIGITAL ALARM CLOCK. Fortunately, the power was only out for about half-an-hour yesterday so I wasn’t that late, plus my mom was yelling at me wondering what I was doing.

One of our family friends passed away today and I think he was only in his 60’s. I think it was the big CA. R.I.P. Chuck Miyake.

And on the flip side of that, many of my friends are having kids lately. Not only that, but my co-worker’s expecting twins, and an online buddy went in with his wife for their 11-week ultrasound and, at the moment, they’re having triplets.

I’m not quite clear on what I’m doing because today’s workout at the gym was pretty simple but awful. Row 250 meters and then run around the building. The whole thing only takes under two minutes, but it’s one of those things where you end up lying on the ground between rounds. We only did it three times, which was enough for me. Afterwards, I was stumbling around and knocking into things, proving to myself that I worked hard enough. In fact, after the last round my stomach and calves started cramping up which was a little more than I wanted from the workout. Fortunately, I feel OK now.

Let’s hope the rest of the week isn’t as exciting as today.