It was a busy weekend. Fun, but busy. Isn’t that my typical refrain? In a nutshell: ate at Tokyo Bowl and finished my radio (it worked the first time I turned it on!) on Friday, did a 20 mile bike/3 mile run brick, went to the International Festival and bought a bonsai, and saw the Astros actually win a game on Saturday, and shot photos at a 5K then went bowling and to Outback for Debbie’s birthday yesterday.
The longer recap: Saturday’s bike/run brick with Buzz, Amy, Jess, Leah, and Darren went well. I averaged about 16.5 mph on the bike and 11:00 miles on the run. It’s getting hotter out there, which makes running significantly worse for me, not to mention I hadn’t run since the Charlotte Half Marathon. We already had tickets to the Astros game that night, so Jose and I made a day of it by heading downtown early and checking out the International Festival. It was hot, but fun. We basically ate our way through the festival, which also gave us time to check out the art and see the Kung Fu Spectacular. Yesterday’s 5K was at Bear Creek Park, a lovely location for running and taking pictures, but I must admit that I might not have so readily agreed to take pictures had I realized how far away the park was. It took me an hour to get there, and since the race started at 7, I had to leave home at 5:30. I need a weekend where I don’t have to get up earlier than I do during the week!
I’m already waiting impatiently for Saturday. This weekend I have nothing on the schedule. N-o-t-h-i-n-g.
Work has been slow lately, what with the reading, reading, and more reading. My group lead got my hopes up a week ago when he said that I’d probably be able to work a sim in the next few weeks. Then we looked at the sim schedule and realized that there are only two generic rendezvous sims in the entire month of May. Since the trainee ahead of me is getting close to certification, he gets to work them both. The good news is that if he does well, he needs only three more sims and he’ll be out of the training flow and I’ll get in the game. The bad news is that if two rendezvous sims per month is all that’s going to get scheduled, my certification is going to be slooooow in coming.
I’m impatient. I’m antsy. I’m getting slightly bored. So finding out that I probably won’t get my first rendezvous sim until after 117 flies was a big downer.
Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays…