Daily Success October 18 – Very Good.

Daily Success Yesterday

Success yesterday reached Very Good and only slightly missed Outstanding. More generous scoring could have reached the higher bar if a solid effort at Spanish and the slightest of successes at limiting my whiskey, both realities, were scored generously.

Yesterday included plenty of exercise, with an almost three mile walk as the centerpiece. That was due to a combination of Nabila’s mail and buying lottery tickets. While my mind and spirit liked it, my left knee did not only a couple weeks after the last shot in Elaina’s five shot series. Not good.

On the bright side, much of the walk was a phone call encouraging a reluctant pilgrim to take the first real step of his pilgrimage by simply promising himself that he would do this, committing to a schedule, doing some planning, and beginning his journey with proper preparation in mind, body, spirit, and finances. Yes, the twenty-somethings who live in Europe and hike for recreation can just say “ok, I’m heading out,” but sedentary middle aged—or older—folks who live a great distance away with airline tickets a significant part of the cost must prepare.

Thinking about that conversation with a potential pilgrim, someone with the dream but not the plan, led me to create a blank Microsoft Excel Workbook (Health-data-new.xlsx) with some of the physical things, exercise and health, based on my system and share it on my Google Drive.

A truth: experiencing the Camino is not really HARD, but it’s not a short walk in a park, either. One must prepare and the health aspects of that are important.

There was also real progress on Project Pinecone. Not enough, there is never enough, but progress.

Success Today

Success today was off to a slow start as I slept until after 8. Hopefully this will lift the exhaustion that has plagued me. It led to not attending Cliff’s thing at the Empress as that starts at 9 …

Exercise, Project Pinecone, perhaps a YouTube upload. We shall see.

Success in the Future

Success in the future means preparing for San Martín with Spanish review and physical therapy. It means getting Project Pinecone to the end of October on schedule. It means keeping up with my exercises and stretches so that the energy needed for everything else will be there.

Ah, to be twins! Young twins. Everything on the ambitious agenda might, just might, be possible.