Cav's Place

After being so relieved that no work had been done the previous few days, so I could sleep, the workers were back on Thursday, and dad also left very early, so I woke up after what had most likely not even been one full hour of sleep, some time passed before I got back to sleep, and after what was probably a little more than another hour the noise made by the workers woke me again and there was no chance to get back to sleep again, so I got up and only got back in bed around 12:15 PM, after dad left again and when I hoped that the workers would take a break. And they probably did, or at least made much less noise for a while, because I could sleep until 2 PM, so I got a total of about three and a half hours and was thinking that it was good that I had given up on the idea of running that day, which I had considered even if it’d have meant not going out again in the evening. But the workers remained until just about 7:30 PM, so my attempt to get in bed at 6 PM didn’t do much good, and I also initially lost something that I wanted to watch during that time, since the recording was corrupted after the first few minutes for some reason. And I wasn’t going to lose the matches as well, and the first one started at 7:30 PM, so I had to get up again just when I would have finally had a chance to sleep.

At least I got in bed a little before 5 AM and actually managed to get a fair bit of sleep. When the workers woke me just before 9:15 AM, I thought that I won’t, and that remained the case when I got back in bed, at 9:30 AM, after peeing, cleaning the litter box yet again, and checking that the recording of the recorded broadcast of that show, which had started a little after I had gone to bed, did save properly, since dad got up then and between him and the workers I was mostly awake for quite a while. But after dad left I did get back to sleep, and while I still woke up a few times, I think that it was mainly because I kept having to pee, the noise made by the workers seeming to get more distant as time passed, and that was particularly notable for the drilling, which eventually seemed to go away entirely. In fact, while I woke up again at 1:40 PM and decided to get up at that point even though the alarm had been set to ring at 2 PM, I then realized that I could have probably kept sleeping after that point if I hadn’t planned to run that day, the main noise that could still be heard being some occasional shouting, everything else seeming to be far enough away to not be a serious issue anymore. But I did plan to run, and I also wanted to shave, so I had the usual stuff, albeit replacing two of the raw almonds with apricot pits, shaved as well, wasted some time on the toilet, which wasn’t that much of a concern after having gone before going to bed in the morning, also had two nicer biscuits, with added honey, as the sweet thing, and left at 4:40 PM, wearing the full running gear and one armband… But without the cap, so I rushed back to grab it after realizing that when I stepped outside the building, so it was a few minutes later when I actually left. Either way, the reported temperature was 31-32°C, holding steady.
The time was 47:18.98, with sector times of 4:16.36, 5:00.56, 5:52 (5:51.09), 4:27.38, 4:57.40, 5:45 (5:44.44), 4:21.72, 4:57 (4:56.84), 5:53 (5:52.28) and 1:50.91, making for lap times of 15:08.01, 15:09.22 and 15:11 (15:10.84). I was only aiming to stay under 49 minutes, but the first sector seemed somewhat promising, and after the second one seemed even better, I wanted to see how much of a buffer I could create on the first lap, and while it wasn’t much, after the first lap I allowed myself a passing thought of staying under 48 minutes after all. But that was going to require pushing all the way, so I did, resulting in particularly good times on sectors two and three of lap two and a lap that made me actually set staying under 48 minutes as the goal after the end of it. And if after sector one of lap three I felt pretty safe from that point of view, after the following sector I realized that I could even get under 47:30 and aimed to do so, doing enough on sector three to be safe at the end of the lap. And at that point I really wasn’t thinking about anything better, mainly wanting to make sure that I’ll get to the end without problems and only really going for it on the last part of the final straight. But that was enough to end up with the year’s best time, the last time I was faster being in December.
Admittedly, the only notable problem was the heat, and it was probably also why there were relatively few people in the park at that hour, so looking for shade was likely the main reason why I weaved and went the long way around or otherwise off the best path, not other people. But it was quite clearly also why I found myself getting really dizzy towards the end of the first lap, to the point that I wondered how was I going to continue, and while it was nothing like that first moment, the fact that I also got briefly lightheaded at one point on sector one of lap two didn’t make me feel any better about my prospects. And, after not having another such moment on sector two of lap two, there was one per sector all the way to the end, the last two, or perhaps mainly the one from sector three of lap three, being more notable, though still nothing like the first one.

The worst such moment, however, was on the way back, when I felt like I was about to faint and my heart was beating erratically, so I focused on breathing calmly but deeply and took it easy until it passed. Then I ate a lot of the watermelon bought from Penny the previous week, which I had only tasted once before then, so that day was when I confirmed that, despite my initial misgivings, it actually was really good. Either way, I also ate a sweet pastry and drank one of the protein shakes taken after the Dream Trek, changed, and left again at 7:25 PM, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol.
I went to Auchan Titan, picking up some more recyclables on the way and putting all but one in the machine when I got there, the problem being that the found label had fallen off the bottle that I had placed it on and when I tried to just put in the bottle with it loosely wrapped around it, after a few attempts the machine spat the bottle back out but “ate” the label, so I set my mind on recovering that amount, entered the store with that bottle, and actually looked around for a while, trying to decide on something to take that was that cheap. But in the end I left that for another time and just bought the cat food that I had gone there for, then put it in the backpack and walked out, knowing that I wanted to get back earlier that day, so I wasn’t going to follow a “normal” plan, but not knowing where else I wanted to go at that point. But I did want to get some bagels from Penny, so I entered one, with everything, and bought those, adding them in the backpack… And, just before getting to that Penny, my phone gave a low battery warning, so I turned it off for a while, but after about a quarter of an hour I turned it back on, though I obviously didn’t listen to anything anymore. Either way, I also briefly stepped inside a Mega Image, but only for a few seconds, because I saw that it was closing at 11 PM and there were obviously no 90% discounts yet.
I only finally made up my mind after that, deciding to go to the Mega Image that’s across the road from Kaufland Pantelimon. And I wanted to also use the machine from there for the few recyclables picked up on the way, and Mega Image stops the recycling machines at 10 PM, and I also wanted to make really sure that I won’t lose any of the 90% discounts, so instead of going there to put in those recyclables and then dashing to Kaufland and returning, I just went to wash my hands at Kaufland, walking back out even though a great evening discount for green onions was just announced, then grabbed two more recyclables on the way to that Mega Image, managed to put all of them in the machine just before 10 PM… And then wandered around and waited for the 90% discounts to be placed, realizing that I should have gone to Kaufland first when that only started to happen at 10:18 PM… And only bakery products ended up having that discount and remaining available, so I took a few and then just wasted even more time, waiting to see whether anything else would appear and, in particular, whether a high-protein pudding that expired the next day would also be discounted by 90%, since it only had the 50% discount at that point. But the employees who were making the discounts set aside two full baskets of products and when one of them took one and headed to the checkout, I realized that they were going to take those themselves and probably won’t make any other discounts that evening, so I just cashed in the voucher and bought those bakery products. And after walking out I went to a bench, added them in the backpack, and then jogged back.
I was back a little after 10:50 PM, then cleaned the litter box yet again, went to drop what I gathered down the chute, and soon after that I went to wash. After I was done, I redeemed Lords of the Fallen: Game of the Year Edition, the key being sent that day after I had requested it two days earlier on The Community Giveaway on the GOG.com forums. And since GOG.com’s recent move against the censorship enforced by payment processors made me want to buy something from there again, I purchased Seal of Evil for myself before making that request and Darkstone and Master of Orion 1+2 for The Community Giveaway after that, this also being part of my continued attempt to make up for what I played “pirated” back in the day, so after redeeming that game I sent those two to the giveaway’s administrator. And then, after just quickly spreading out the purchases, I stayed in my room until 1 AM, after which I exchanged a few words with dad and cleaned up a little, finally put the purchases in their place, and then used the cheese pie bought from Mega Image and the filling of some other pie made by that friend of my mother’s and brought by dad to fix something that counted as lunch, which I ate between 2:20 AM and 2:35 AM. And I made something similar, using a small flatbread that I already had, regular cheese, olives, and a vegan substitute for a processed meat product, which counted as dinner, which I ate between 4:15 AM and 5:15 AM. And I got in bed at 6:20 AM.

Well, just after 8:10 AM I was back on the computer, but while I didn’t check the time until then, I was awake well before that, since that was when the banging from outside made it clear that I won’t get back to sleep, the workers getting an early start and apparently getting back to doing the work right here, but I actually woke up after dad did, and he had already left by then. So it’d probably be fair to say that I only got one hour of sleep by then. But the banging seemed to stop after a little while, so I gave the remaining plum compot a quick boil and ate some of the plums, after having opened it a month earlier, moving it into a smaller jar at some point since then, but noticing at night that it had likely started to have mold on top and removing what I could out of the traces of white stuff, and at 9:15 AM I got back in bed. But, while not particularly loud, and in fact possibly not loud enough to wake me if I would have managed to get back to sleep when I was so tired, there was still some banging and shouting, and the very fact that I was so tired made it hard to fall asleep again, so just before 10 AM I got back up, finished that kompot, and got back on the computer, trying to get back in bed at 11:05 AM, after putting some moisturizing cream on my cock, since the heat had been making the dermatitis really act up again. And I did manage to get back to sleep pretty quickly at that point, getting some four hours before waking up again, and then actually catching another brief nap before getting up, a few minutes after 4 PM… And soon after that I noticed that the work stopped, so just after 4:40 PM I got back in bed, and while it took me quite some time to fall asleep again, I did get another brief nap before getting up for good, a few minutes after 5:30 PM.