Aaron's Status

7:19 am

Weather

My plan to take a “brutalism tour” of Boston today and make some art has been dashed by the weather. The roller coaster of forecasted precipitation this week has been nuts, it went from 50% down to 20% and now back up to 75%.

As Mark Twain once said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

Color

My wife sent me this website where you are asked to decide whether a color is “green” or “blue.” It’s meant to demonstrate that everyone perceives color differently, which is true, and of course the names we have applied to different ranges of wavelengths of light is arbitrary.

Still, the final “score” tells you how much you lean in the green or blue direction in your perception and whether you perceive “turquoise” as green or blue. I saw that and I was like “turquoise is not precisely between those colors!” so I had to look at the RGB value for myself.

Sure enough, turquoise is more green than blue, which is how I perceive it. So at least to the extent that perception aligns with our arbitrary categorization, I’m right.

Physical therapy

Yesterday I had my last scheduled PT session. We went through the strength and mobility assessments again and I passed everything, so they cut me loose. My assignment is to continue my stretching, and reduce the frequency of the strength exercises to about three times a week.

I’ll check back in with her in four weeks on how things are going and of course call her up if something gets worse again, but I’m on my own now.

I’m feeling still about 80-90% back to “normal,” and I think climbing twice last week was probably not the best thing to do for recovery, but proved that I can take on more, so now the challenge is moderating it and continuing on the path to wellness.

Podcast prototype

A friend and I decided to do a podcast project together and yesterday we did our first “dry run” recording. The project has no title and we mostly have no idea what we’re doing, which was borne out by the test recording yesterday.

I think we came away having learned a lot and a solid direction to head in, and we’re going to record the same topic again next week and see if we can do better. I’m pretty excited about this collaboration!