I am sorry, I will say that again
Friday night, went out with friends to for dinner at Equinox and to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows at Hoyts at Melbourne Central. The film was lots of fun (the first film had a better villain). Avoid Melbourne Central Hoyts, however; we were subjected to 30 minutes of ads: mostly loud and obnoxious ads at that.
During conversation, I mentioned that I was pleased that I had found a way to resume my exercises despite my injured left elbow: I used a much lighter (2.5kg) weight in my left hand. When you are doing hand-held weight repetitions, it is the repetitions you focus on (I am up to 50) not the weights, they are just whatever current ones you have out to use. (The system I am using starts with 25 repetitions at a given level of weights and then works up to 50 before moving on to heavier weights). I am currently using 9kg weights (I was intending to move to 10kg when I got injured). Instead, what I said in conversation was "50kg weight in my right hand". This was straight transposition of the number I focus on (number of repetitions) and the number I don't (the weight of the current-weights-I-have-out-to-use). A silly mistake, but it makes you wonder how often that sort of thing occurs, including things which are used as historical evidence.
When I was a government bureaucrat, I would periodically do "notes for file" of significant conversations. I was too junior for such to matter, but it was a good bureaucratic survival habit to have: the frailities of memory being what they are.
Hadn't been to Equinox before. I find being in business makes you look at things differently. It struck me it was successful at being what it was. The prices were reasonable, the food pretty good with substantial servings, the venue light and airy and it did not matter that the staff was a bit English-challenged, as they were willing, pleasant and the prices reflected what you were getting.
During conversation, I mentioned that I was pleased that I had found a way to resume my exercises despite my injured left elbow: I used a much lighter (2.5kg) weight in my left hand. When you are doing hand-held weight repetitions, it is the repetitions you focus on (I am up to 50) not the weights, they are just whatever current ones you have out to use. (The system I am using starts with 25 repetitions at a given level of weights and then works up to 50 before moving on to heavier weights). I am currently using 9kg weights (I was intending to move to 10kg when I got injured). Instead, what I said in conversation was "50kg weight in my right hand". This was straight transposition of the number I focus on (number of repetitions) and the number I don't (the weight of the current-weights-I-have-out-to-use). A silly mistake, but it makes you wonder how often that sort of thing occurs, including things which are used as historical evidence.
When I was a government bureaucrat, I would periodically do "notes for file" of significant conversations. I was too junior for such to matter, but it was a good bureaucratic survival habit to have: the frailities of memory being what they are.
Hadn't been to Equinox before. I find being in business makes you look at things differently. It struck me it was successful at being what it was. The prices were reasonable, the food pretty good with substantial servings, the venue light and airy and it did not matter that the staff was a bit English-challenged, as they were willing, pleasant and the prices reflected what you were getting.