Judging the Hill

Have been troubled by my inability to correctly gauge the total height of the hill climb. Today I went out and did 4 reps with a recovery loop between each hill rep. The first time I made this climb I arrived at the top half dead, totally incapable of further forward movement until I had fully recovered my breath. Today, I marched up to the top without any problem at all. And did it four times running.
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Dinosaur Memory

Yesterday was another sort of a holiday day. I went out to Kanata to see W.

W was first met toward the end of last year. He operates a company in a tech field and was looking for someone to assist him. I was doing mundane routine volunteer work and I felt ready to make the jump to something more occupationally oriented. My experience in coding and IT goes back almost 40 years. Like some lost dinosaur memory, I knew the early history of the technology he sold, and supported. All of my experience from working with Gargantua seemed to apply. The work appeared to be an ideal fit with my background and skills. The opportunity represented a positive way of easing myself back into the world of paid work.
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