I've had a bit of a dehydration thing going on, which is why I haven't been writing here much. After doing some errands Sunday that involved walking between stores I was feeling a bit off so went and drank lots and laid down a while. (When you live in a desert, you learn to recognize the feeling of dehydration quickly.) I was feeling a bit better by Sunday night.
Yesterday, I was not quite 100% so decided to erg instead of rowing; the difference is that you can work out just as hard on an erg but if you start feeling awful you can stop and get off, which is harder to do in a boat if you're a couple of kilometers from the beach at the time. And also, no bathrooms in rowing shells. That turned out to be a mistake - not the erging, but the working out at all. I was feeling progressively more disengaged on the way into work, which is not a good feeling to have while driving at 75 per. I gave it an hour or so at work and still didn't feel better so I did the drive back home and spent the rest of the day resting and drinking water and Gatorade. In this climate, the latter is as necessary as sunscreen. Given the amount of Gatorade we go through in my house, I ought to look up who makes it and go buy stock. This morning I made the intelligent decision to skip going to the gym and am now feeling all right except for a lingering headache.
While I was resting yesterday I also learned to crochet, more or less, and made one small square in single crochet and one in double. There's no doubt crochet goes faster, and it's much easier to unravel when you'e made a mistake, or rather knitting and crochet are equally easy to unravel but with crochet it's much easier to get the loop on the hook and start up again. With knitting it's too easy to lose one of your loops and then you've slipped a stitch. I think I like knitting better, because it's easier to do on automatic and to read a book while you're doing it, and because I like the texture of the finished piece better, but I can imagine doing crochet for small things like trim or for dishrags. We currently use hand-knitted or crocheted dishrags given to us by Rudder's grandmother. They work well because of the texturing and they make me happy because of the connection. So now when they fall apart if I don't have any more from her I can make my own, and the connection will still count even if the physical piece comes from my hands instead of hers. We're going to be seeing the grandparents as well as the parents next week, so I'll get her to show me how to knit better and then I can even make the same pattern of dishrag she does.