My poor Charge HR I got from @digitaldiscipline gave up the...

My poor Charge HR I got from @digitaldiscipline gave up the ghost last night – I think actually it suffered from the same fate as my Charge, where the plastic housing on the device had a crack in it and moisture got in and messed with the battery. But I did get two good weeks’ use out of it, which was a nice evaluation period. 

The Charge and the Alta have their pros and cons, and on balance I think I’d prefer to have the Charge for convenience (the little push button on the side is so useful for starting a workout timer), but the Alta’s not intolerable. And it does mean I use the FitBit app’s mapping function, which is more accurate in tracking my mileage, and I get a nice chart of where I’ve been. This is the “Lapin the Lions” route, named by @missbuster after I mentioned I always see bunnies when I run it (and I did this morning). (The lions come in because I run a lap around the Art Institute, which is fronted by two huge lion sculptures.) 

I’ve been running without my hydration pack, because I don’t really need a shitload of hydration on a 5K and I know that I can run with it. I bought an armband for my phone and I reconfigured my keychain so that I can snap my houskey and front-door fob off it and tuck those in a nook of the armband while I run, so the primary function of the pack, to carry my shit, no longer applies. I may still bring the pack to official 5Ks, because you get swag and such, but now I know I can run with just an armband. My shoulders feel a little looser too, which is nice. 

Tracking: since June 15th, I have run 96.6 miles. 

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It’s an elegant little vase, but it opens with a

It’s an elegant little vase, but it opens with a LOT of imprecision, so mine is a little wobbly on bottom. :D

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Well, I didn’t get the condo, through a combin

Well, I didn’t get the condo, through a combination of rejected offer and bank fail (apparently the monthly payment would be like $70 too much) so that’s a shame, but on the other hand yesterday I found myself thinking “Ooh this was a mistake” so we’ll see.

THEN THINGS GOT INTERESTING, because the unit directly below the one I looked at, which is identical except for having an oven that wasn’t made before the Vietnam War, just went on sale for a similar, slightly higher price.

So potentially, given two of them are on the market at once, one might stall out and then they might lower the price and then they might accept my $100-less-a-month-which-works-out-to-$20K-less-total offer.

It’s all very mysterious and exciting. My realtor is probably so fed up with me. :D

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