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Railings and handles help in areas most obviously associated with falls (stairs, bathtubs etc). Depending how vulnerable someone is it might be prudent to move to a house that has no stairs. Beyond that it's hard to say, if someone is very unsteady on their feet it might be best for them to use...

Speed repeats today. My suggested workout was 8-minute threshold intervals but I didn't feel like doing that. Truth be told I didn't feel like running at all after working with soundproofing material but decided to go out anyway. The first few minutes are a gentle-ish warmup, then I started...

If a hilly workout does mean overdoing it then you would see better results from a more gentle workout.

No real progress on the house, I met a friend for lunch and overdid it on the coffee so my head was a bit wired this afternoon. I got the ladder moved downstairs, and a spare door that I'll use to cover one of the windows. When I fit the soundproofing material I need to take the blinds down, and...

The last window well to be filled in is within range (just) of the end of the soundproofing roll, so I'll need to find a piece of wood I can cut up to fill the gap. Aside from that I now have an entire roll of material screwed into place. Next up is to cover the front wall. That will come in two...

It depends what you mean by a better workout and seeing results. Hills are probably better for working your CV system but will naturally result in having to work harder to cover less ground more slowly.

I live just a short hop from the state forest so it's easy to see. Usually the trees at the top of the mountain change first. A drive through the dirt roads can be most enjoyable, even when the leaves aren't changing.

More soundproofing. So far I've got three window wells filled in ready to go. The last one can wait because it's past the range of the roll of material I'm working with. It's been tedious getting stuff ready to roll but now I'm mostly there, and hopefully the rest of the process will go more...

More soundproofing yesterday, interspersed with lots of enabling work (mostly moving stuff around so I can get at the walls). I got some space cleared and a chunk of soundproofing rolled out and screwed into place. Then a visit to a friend to break up a piece of furniture. He said it was solid...

Let the parents decide - my last church asked parents to sign a consent form to allow pictures of their kids on the web site. I don't think any parents declined. If anyone indicated an objection to appearing on the web site any pictures with them in it would either be cropped to remove them or...

.... and a little more fun with soundproofing, following a coffee break. My primary workroom is done, bar the small strips across the very top. I didn't feel like doing any more today so called a halt. The rest of the room is done. The bottom of the adjacent room, the room that will eventually...

Fun With Soundproofing, Again. I got my wife to help me fit some soundproofing material because I was working with sections of material 4' wide and 5-8' long. It's tricky to stand on a ladder, holding one edge exactly where I want it, without any other part of the material falling or sagging...

Hope it passes soon.

Long run today which, with the benefit of hindsight, wasn't a good idea the morning after a visit to a brewery. But I got around it, even if I didn't feel particularly strong for much of it.

The media shows you what they want you to see...

I haven't had any covid vaccines. I had it once before it was officially within thousands of miles of me, and I had something that might have been a cold but might have been covid a couple of years ago. I suspect for the majority of people the current strains of covid are going to be trivial.

A lot of the people I know who got vaccinated found they contracted covid within a few days of vaccination. I remember one friend who got vaccinated, shortly afterwards got covid, and commented how he must have let his guard down somewhere. At the time I was treating covid as a non-event, not...

That's the thing, nobody expected Trump to win - the discussion was whether Clinton would win by a huge margin or an embarrassing margin. They got it so badly wrong then. Now it seems we've got Trump who a lot of people hate for varying reasons on one side, and Harris who seems to be the...

Yesterday evening I trimmed the pieces around the backboxes, so now I have cables poking out from neatly cut holes in the soundproofing. Today my wife and I are going out for a meal somewhere. Not sure yet, there are a few brewpubs to choose from. We're going to take a drive though and choose...

Fun With Soundproofing. It turned out an offcut was about 1" longer than a piece I needed, so I fitted it into the appropriate place and trimmed off the surplus inch. Today's job was manhandling a fresh roll of the stuff into position. It needs to be screwed to the wall studs and gradually...