#1364, Monday, February 9: Snow opps

Post 1364, Day 40 of 2015
- 1,501 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Complaining about the weather is, at the very best, a waste of time. So is predicting it. However, I think that reporting it is reasonable.

It is lunchtime on Monday as I'm writing this. In Syracuse, it has been snowing non-stop since Friday.

A lot of snow in Syracuse (average annual snowfall, about 10 feet) isn't news. Sometimes, how it effects people is.

For instance, this February, I'm in the bass chair of the Rooters International All-Stars, hosting for the twenty-five-plus-year-old Sunday evening open mic/blues jam. This longest-running jam in CNY was the very first place I met other musicians in the Syracuse area, and as such, has a special place in my heart.

It is usually well-attended.

Last night, though, there were zero non-host musicians to play with the house band. There were a half-dozen people drinking in the bar (yes, they come for the music, but half were regulars, and Rooters Bar is their bar - they're always there). Still, everybody in this band is both an excellent musician and a seasoned professional. So, the show went on.

And it was incredible. Everybody played their asses off for more than two hours without a break. About an hour in, the group of non-regulars started to leave.

But didn't. As we started a song, they stopped to listen by the doorway. Then they moved back in the room and started to dance. Then they started whooping and high-fiving and buying rounds for everybody. And they stayed the night, and kept asking for more.

Man, that's better than a packed house!

One of them offered to hire us ("I'll pay you double, right now, to play for my birthday!"). Unfortunately, literally everybody in the band already had other obligations on that day.

A disastrous night turned into one of my more memorable musical outings, more for the quality of playing by everybody than for the accolades that the session inspired.

Which brings us to this morning, and the cold light of day, when, this rock star had to go to work. Once I leave the house, going to work typically takes five minutes. If I have to clear snow off my car, it can take fifteen.

Not this morning. This morning, due to no plowing on Sunday, my car, which still only took ten minutes to get ready for the drive, was so snowed in, and the parking lot so deep in snow, that it took me more than an hour to get out of the lot. Most of that time was spent rocking back and forth to get out of the parking space I had entered only six hours earlier; then I had to back up the long driveway.

But I did, finally. And now, with a feeling of accomplishment, I feel right with the world. I'm easy.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   202.2 lbs

Previous Weight (2/6):            203.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 1.0 lbs

Diet Comment

A good post-weekend result, especially given the weekend's mostly snowed-in-with-nothing-to-do-but-eat feeding...

Food Log

Breakfast
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), celery, raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast chopped salad: baby kale, baby spinach, chard, cole slaw mix, black beans and balsamic vinaigrette. Quest bar for dessert.

Dinner
Cole slaw, celery with home-made mayonnaise, and a Quest bar.

Snack
Two Quest bars.

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 80+ oz. 

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