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title: Things I enjoyed LAST week (July 13th-ish)
author: George Mandis <george@mand.is>
date: 2014-07-21
tags: post, post, lists, things I enjoyed
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<p>I forgot to do my weekend installment of <a href="/tag/things-i-enjoyed/">things I enjoy</a> this past weekend. Whoops!</p>
<p>1. Dog walking. My friend asked me to walk his dog for a few days. Every time I do this I start daydreaming about moving somewhere and getting a dog but ultimately decided that maybe walking other people's pets is enough for now.</p>
<p>2. Basketball + Health. I've started playing pickup basketball again with my old hoopin' buddies. The weather's been too perfect not to and it's been tremendous fun, perhaps particularly because nobody's been injured. I stopped playing years ago after sustaining a rash of weird, horrible injuries from basketball: achilles tendinosis, knee pains, cartilage tears, a knocked-out tooth (Plus $800 root canal!) and a torn big toenail that I had to go to the doctor to extract, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques">enhanced interrogation style</a>. I feel healthy, fit and not-broken (too much) for the first time in ages.</p>
<p>3. My friend was (is?) in a music video with Danny Trejo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtv2wjoIHQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtv2wjoIHQ</a>. Probably the last thing I expected to see that morning.</p>
<p>4. Started making some more concrete plans for my future. I'm coming up with a framework that will help me do this, which is something I've always struggled with for varying reasons.</p>
<p>5. General activity: Running long distances, <a title="The Stark Street Viaduct" href="/2014/07/the-stark-street-viaduct/">biking out to new places</a>, lunch with old friends, walks with old friends, playing music and, of course, <a href="/tag/yoga">yoga</a>.</p>
<p>It was a good week.</p>
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