Stress Test
Annual physical, this year including a stress test and ECG. As if life since June 2008 hasn't been the biggest stress test of all!
Did fine, it reminded me how much I used to love cycling - before travel and time made it impractical. Now the travel has zeroed, and I have a lot more time - so I will be starting again this week.
Interesting conversations over the past few days. Karen and I seem to inhabit that landscape of people who are bright and creative enough to get other people's visions, but also practical enough to put them in motion. Doing this for ourselves feels, somehow, like cheating. When we do it for other people, however, it seems to click better with who we are.
All of that put me in mind of our time in the SCA, back in college. We were happy to be herald and chatelaine, non-nobility, the power behind the throne. Found that carving our own niche in those roles was far more satisfying than ascending the power structure, because the higher you went, the more constrained your actions became.
Since then, we've both spent time at the top of power structures, and found that our view from the bottom wasn't just based on sour grapes, it was correct.
So, off to walk the Georgetown Dam with Karen. The Dam offers views that may not be the prettiest in the US, but pretty by Texas in Winter standards...