I have today off for president's day. My work gives kind of an eclectic mix of days off for some reason. Today's one of the days, but there's other federal holidays that we don't get off. I think it's largely tied to the fact that we have 28 days/year of vacation time to use. So, I'm sitting here, waiting for UPS to show up with my rice cooker & meat grinder. Then I need to go get some resistance bands - i didn't realize the weight range when I bought the one I bought on Sunday (I knew it was high, but not as high as it was. I need something in 10-20 range for my light set).

My cold's slowly getting better, but not quickly enough.

After a week of not eating that great and not tracking, I'm going to start tracking again, and eating right. My cold-induced eating patterns (and not particularly caring) made my weight go up higher than I want. I'm going to do c25k this afternoon/evening and do p90 weights tonight, even if I don't push either. I went for a walk last night - about an hour, it was good to get out for a bit and get the blood flowing.

I stopped at Barnes & Noble to use the restroom, and ended up getting this cool book about Brooklyn. Each of the different neighborhoods are outlined with a basic outline and history of the neighborhood - like i could see that a movie in 1970 was filmed in my neighborhood and a tv series in the 70's was filmed here, too. One thing that you don't really get about NYC when not living here are the different neighborhoods. In shows like Seinfeld, they'd talk about them, but you don't get the significance of them. Primarily, people that live here know where hoods are, more or less, so it's a way to find out where people live generally speaking. But, each neighborhood is different - different history, different ethnic groups, and so on, so the buildings are different, the shops, and whatnot can all be quite different.

One thing that's also amusing about NYC is the history and relating it to today. Where I live now, in the mid-1800's was 'way out there', earlier than that, there was nothing here. Same goes for upper Manhattan. I've known for awhile that on 42nd street on Manhattan (Where the public library building is today, the one in the beginning of ghost busters), there used to be a reservoir for drinking water. There also used to be a number of natural springs people would use for drinking water. But, there also used to be one a few blocks away from where I live, as well. I guess one of the reasons that brooklyn was included when NYC was incorporated was to get fresh water! When the city was incorporated, and they started getting fresh water here, the reservoir got destroyed, but I guess there's still a wall there that's visible, however. I will have to look for it.