{"id":19634,"date":"2018-03-03T20:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T02:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19634"},"modified":"2019-02-10T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T01:17:00","slug":"a-very-brian-j-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/03\/a-very-brian-j-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Brian J. Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participated in my second Y Not Tri indoor triathlon at the Pat Jones YMCA.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ynottri1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my second year in a row, and my third overall triathlon.  The morning did not get off to an auspicious start.  I have my phone alarm set for five and six am (in case I want to sleep in, I can just shut the alarm off and go on sleeping without fumbling to reset the alarm).  So last night, I turned off the five o&#8217;clock alarm so I could sleep in directly, but I&#8217;d failed to remember that just last week I set the alarms off on Saturdays since I like to sleep in (generally, until seven, which is a far, far cry from what &#8220;sleeping in&#8221; meant in my younger days).  Fortunately, though, I awakened at 6:11 and managed to get to the YMCA plenty early to check in.<\/p>\n<p>While checking in, we were to put our own numbers on our biceps instead of having a volunteer do it for us.  So I looked down, and did my best, and <em>inked my number right side up but backwards<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>So I wrote it again under it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ynottri2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I tried to tell everyone I did the first one like the flag patch on the right sleeves of the military (backwards, but to make it look like the military is charging into the wind).  I&#8217;m not sure anyone bought it.<\/p>\n<p>So I survive the triathlon, and then I jumped into my car and raced westward so I could&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Attend a martial arts class.\n<p>I got to the martial arts school seven minutes before class (that is, 23 minutes after I finished the triathlon), dressed out, and hit the water fountain.  I didn&#8217;t drink a lot of water during the triathlon because I didn&#8217;t want to swallow a lot of air, but then I had about a liter of water in the truck.  Which meant when I put on the heavy <em>gi<\/em>, I started sweating a lot, and I briefly wondered what I was doing.<\/p>\n<p>But I got through the class okay.  I didn&#8217;t make too many tired mistakes while sparring (well, my head would have only been knocked off once or twice).<\/p>\n<p>But I made it through, and more importantly, <em>I impressed my beautiful wife<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, a little logy from the day&#8217;s activities and a short nap, I went out again, where&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I Went to the antique mall and bought a charming little Tiffany lamp that is <em>perfect<\/em> for our mantle.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tiffanylamp.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got home just in time for the dinner hour, but nobody was really hungry since we&#8217;d stopped at a pizza buffet for lunch, so&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I baked some delicious chocolate banana bread.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/chocolatebananabread.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I have a very rigorous banana-eating timeline, which is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Week 1:  I LOVE BANANAS!  I EAT ALL THE BANANAS!<br \/>\nWeek 2: I buy an extra couple bunches of bananas to sate MY DESPERATE NEED FOR BANANAS!<br \/>\nWeek 4: I need to do something with these very ripe bananas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has happened a couple times in a row (well, the <em>row<\/em> is several calendar months).  The last time, we gave the second loaf of banana bread to the teachers at my boy&#8217;s school.  Tomorrow&#8230;who knows?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, basically, the masculinity arithmetic today was basically a wash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I: Participated in my second Y Not Tri indoor triathlon at the Pat Jones YMCA. It&#8217;s my second year in a row, and my third overall triathlon. The morning did not get off to an auspicious start. 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