Day Fifty Five: Everyone's In the Same Boat

ah huh

The Strikes are actually starting to wear me down. Everything is. I don't often need a break from work but at the moment I'm no longer interested in anything shipping related. I think tomorrow I might tidy my desk instead - it'll be more fun and engaging I'm sure. I feel like even my wit is being compromised by the impact of the MUNZ strikes. Seriously guys. It's a port, it's going to be shift work. All Lines plan their vessel calls months in advance, and ships don't randomly turn up without prior knowledge (they're kinda slow). Plus it's not really "Outsourcing" if Ports of Auckland has contracted an Auckland based, 100% NZ owned company to hire other Aucklanders to run Wiri Inland. Basically, you have it easy. You don't know how easy. But you're pissing it all away because of... what? You don't like shift work and the truckers aren't your friends? One has to ask why on earth you got into dock work in the first place then.  
Rant over.

I'll be quick. 

Fitness: Gotta love Tuesdays and their 16 - 17 hours of go time. An hour in Aikido and two hours skating today.

Aikido: We did an hour of jo work, the first ten suburi. This was made all the more entertaining as I had just read 30 issues of The Walking Dead, and so every strike I was imagining I was attacking zombies. You have got to get your form right then, no second chances. I need to know these ten moves for my next grading and it was great to have a full hour on them.

Derby: Low energy tonight but I am pretty happy with most things. I'm learning more situational / experience things in some of the drills and pushing myself to not let someone go until the bitter end. I was cautious on the hockey stops tonight as the floor seemed a bit gammy and then later in the evening my wheels came away from the floor sideways when I pushed down too hard. I wonder if I should get a full set of 88s to roll on, or maybe they just need a little more breaking in and a clean...

Diet: I cheaped out on tea, biscuits and a fruit smoothie for breakfast, plus some bits of banana cake. I went to lunch early and made a mammoth sandwich, then drank more tea through out the afternoon. I had two chocolate milk, an apple and another mammoth sandwich around training/dinner time. Then more banana cake when I got home. I'll need to make some more banana cake this weekend. Attempting to get the vegan version of it right, I think I know what it needed to turn out better. Trial and error...

Sleep: So surprising levels of up and go today despite being short changed no the sleep side. It's gone 12.30am just now and I can't be arsed doing anything else. Time to put in my contacts and slather some deep heat on my shoulders. 

Did I mention that for some reason we didn't do any warm up or stretching at Aikido? It's only occurred to me now that's why my shoulders/arms hurt (because my form is poor - and we didn't stretch) - pretty sure I'm going to hurt like a mofo tomorrow... which is a shame because my sports massage is on Thursday! Ah well. Better late than never.