The Labor Day holiday weekend began earlier than I had hoped. I expected to spend most of Friday in Army values classes, but we were released from the class at noon Chow and I got a text before 1 PM that said we could sign out.
So I rode to company headquarters and signed out just after 1 PM. Wow! I was on pass until Monday. So I went back to my room and put the laundry basket in the car and put all my papers in my backpack and thought I would just rest for a few minutes I was so tired.
At 5:15 PM I woke up. At that point the traffic in Baltimore was beyond terrible. This weekend the Indy cars were racing on the streets of Baltimore. Many downtown streets were closed and fenced so traffic on this holiday weekend was even worse than usual. So I went to chow and went for a ride and waited for some of the red lines in Google maps to turn to yellow before I drove home.
By the time I left the traffic it subsided and I made it home in a couple of hours. And I was still tired.
On Saturday I rode 22 miles so I did change my recent habit of the Saturday exercise Sabbath. In the afternoon the boys and I went to Philadelphia to my office. I worked for a couple of hours while they played on computers. Then we went to dinner with one of the visiting scholars from where I work and her daughter who is at Cornell University this year getting a Masters degree in chemical engineering. We went out for Chinese food and as usually happens when the boys are at dinner people who do not know them are surprised at how much they eat. Jacari ordered two entrées and did not have a lot of leftovers. Nigel ordered a large appetizer and entrée again not a lot left over. We did bring all the leftovers home and the boys ate Chinese food for breakfast on Sunday.
On the Thursday before this weekend my wife had an event on campus with pizza. She brought home for leftover pizzas. She and Kiersten each had two slices. The boys ate the other 28 slices. They had 10 each for dinner and three each for breakfast and to others just in between.
On Sunday I tried to catch up on exercise. I rode 36 miles: 29 with my wife in the morning and seven in the afternoon Nigel. I swam a mile at the F&M Pool while Nigel ran and hid a tennis ball into Jacari was off at church event. I tried to run after that and did an extremely slow 2 miles quit.
Now I'm going to go back to Fort Meade and get ready for tomorrow's public affairs test. Long day tomorrow!!!!
