diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day7.md b/content/blog/wk13day7.md index a2a5be9..4fb2dcc 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day7.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day7.md @@ -1,7 +1,89 @@ --- -title: "Week 13, Sunday:" +title: "Week 13, Sunday: Padel!" date: 2024-10-27T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/noraenpure-11.png" alt="Credit: Nora en Pure, YouTube" >}} + +I woke up at 08:30 after a tremendous sleep. I love sleeping in my own bed, the difference between +its comfort is most apparent just after I return from a trip abroad. This morning I have a sportsing +date with Johhny and Mari. A while ago, maybe half a year by now, Johnny mentioned that he's into +[[Padel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padel)], a racket sport of Mexican origin, typically played +in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. + +It feels fitting to play this game precisely today, as I understand it's the second most popular +game in Spain, second only to football. Seeing as I just got back from Spain, I may as well :) I +drive over to _Milandia_ and enter the Padel hall to find a jolly Mari and Johnny already there. I +have never played this game before, but I have played both tennis and squash, so I think I will get +the jist of it 🎾. Mari and I have to go rent a racket, and it becomes apparent that Johnny hasn't +played particularly often with his: the price tag is still on his racket :) + +It's a super fun game! We are only three, so we take turns ganging up on a singleton. The trick +seems to be moderating power. It's very easy to whack the ball against the back wall (it has to +bounce on the court first), or thwack it out of the court, and onto the next team's court. This +happens to us a few times, but we are not alone. We also sometimes welcome a foreign ball onto our +court as well. + +We have the court for one hour and trust me: that's plenty. I am still coughing a bit from the cold +remaining after my long week of travels (NLNOT and ESNOG). My heart rate goes up to 160 at times, +but is usually in the 130s which is tolerable. After the 55min of game time, I seem to have burned +680kCal and my body is super happy. Well, it also hurts like a _mofo_, but it is thankful that I +have put it through its paces. And I am not alone: we set a date for next week Sunday 3rd and the +10th as well. Mari and I debate buying a racket, but we both think we should maybe play a little bit +more first. I make her a deal: I will buy her a racket if we play ten times. She reciprocates and +offers to buy me a racket also. Deal! + +At home, Quinn is gathering a box of stuff from the basement. Next week is Hallowe'en, and we are +practicioners. Remember we bought a few metric tonnes of candy last [[week]({{< ref wk12day4.md >}})]? +Well, we'll be making little baggies for the kids who come to trick-or-treat at our door. Quinn +makes quick work of decorating the front yard with spider webs, our Elza ghoul and a bunch of +stay-out tape. I add copious amounts of spiders to the webbing and overall think it looks wonderful. + +Back inside, I am reminded of a chore I gave myself: tending to my geocache called +[[Schüracherstutz](https://coord.info/GC657NY)], the container of which has gone missing a while +ago. I create a new one and add a logbook to it, and make my way over to the little one. Marina asks +me on the way out to get a bottle of milk in case she needs it for tonight's dinner. I bike over to +GZ and replace the geocache, then to the Coop Pronto to get some milk, and then through a light +afernoon Sun back home where Marina has started making a second helping of _Vol au Vent_. + +Last week, we were supposed to have Jan-Christiaan and Sandra over for dinner and they were very +much looking forward to this _Vol au Vent_. In the end, I ate some in our guest room during +isolation when I was in the full-on [[sick period]({{< ref wk12day6.md >}})]. I couldn't taste a +thing, and as such, had to report that I did not enjoy it. But lucky me! I get a second chance :) + +I prepare for us a soup of butternut pumpkin. This soup has only the pumpkin, one onion and a few +cups of vegetable stock. I will season it with home made croutons and roasted pumpkin seeds with +salt. It'll be great. Marina mean while makes little meatballs and cuts the chicken for the sauce. +She will also be making mocca ice cream with little pieces of Oreo. I'm sure JC and Sandra can +appreciate that, being the proud owners of oreo.nl. + +Our guests arrive at 17:00, on the dot. You can tell we're not the only ones that are _Swissing_! We +catch up over a suitable _apéro_ of Mattei Cap Corsa, a corsican drink which we first enjoyed +at their place a few months ago. Before dinner, I show them the flight simulator and take a little +loop flight from LSMD to LSMD, showing lakes of Greiffensee and Pfaffikersee before turning around +and landing again. It's a quick tour sharing what I've learned so far of the controls and cockpit. + +Dinner is enjoyed. The main course is to die for: I definitely missed out last week, as Marina says +it tastes exactly the same [no, it doesn't]. The _Vol au Vent_ is fantastic. We chat about work, +travel, the vacation to the northern american continent that Sandra and JC made, as well as the city +trips that Marina and I have made over this last Fall. The desert is a mocca ice cream which Marina +has made herself with her trusty rusty ice cream machine: a good investment! + +We agreed not to make it too late today; Sandra and Quinn both have to go to work tomorrow morning +and JC will be traveling to Dublin. So we go easy on the sauce and by 21:00 or so, we say our +goodbyes. Marina and I watch one episode of _Lilyhammer_ (my favorite episode by the way, the one +which takes place in Gjendesheim): Roar gets saved, the brittons take a swim in lake Gjende, and you +can just see Memurubu and [[Besseggen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besseggen)] (which is my +favorite place on Earth) and Jonny thugs his way through Muriburiland + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2239.JPG" caption="Johny, Mari and me after an hour's worth of Padel. That was good fun, let's do it again!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2241.JPG" caption="Quinn has decorated our front yeard, inviting the kids over for a trick-or-treat later this week" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2243.JPG" caption="I'm doing geocaching container maintenance and need to replace my Schuracherstutz one" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2245.JPG" caption="The Vol au Vent is delicious - thank you, Marina!" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/headline/eclipse-sound-syndicate.png b/static/img/headline/eclipse-sound-syndicate.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59a4dea --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/headline/eclipse-sound-syndicate.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:1deb2c6d2784050dc1fc7c979d89341022d7ed54875b129e33b833e3fcf072c2 +size 177463 diff --git a/static/img/headline/missmonique-05.png b/static/img/headline/missmonique-05.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc5685e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/headline/missmonique-05.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:36faeb640f81a77b6c21b910ca337a14e44f91bf50d44393e928fb809496f222 +size 142320 diff --git a/static/img/headline/noraenpure-12.png b/static/img/headline/noraenpure-12.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf2aa3d --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/headline/noraenpure-12.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:4f7e207d446bf30b2b7b19cddf6745abf7ecd2590751a33acfa206e5e7a97982 +size 89990