Tuesday is rest day. I went out for a brisk walk. Rain was hanging in the air but it never started raining for real.

I aim for at least a half-hour, but when I’ve walked fifteen minutes I tend to feel like I’ve barely started and I’m just getting my steam up, so I usually keep going for another while before I turn back towards home.

Monday is strength training day.

I’ve gotten some good recommendations for workout videos, so now I have a whole queue to pick from. That’s working quite well.

My slim but carefully selected set of weights is also working well. If I was at a gym, I might use a wider range, but it’s not a bad thing to be forced to use weights that are slightly too heavy. And I have not yet run into any situations where the 18 lb weights would be too light. My shoulder muscles are puny.

20 km and six hours of walking counts as a workout in my books. I didn’t keep a close eye on my heart rate but I definitely walked fast enough to get hot.

Another late night walk.

Weight training with yet another video. No photo because I forgot.

I was feeling lazy today and didn’t want to go out cycling in this wind, so I went for a walk instead. Several layers of clouds went scudding across the sky and the weather changed all the time. I had clouds, I had sparse but heavy rain drops, and I had brief, bright flashes of sun.

Weight training day. Following a new video today.

I only have a limited set of weights at home. Two sets of dumbbells, one weighing twice as much as the other. One kettlebell.

I still see this as a temporary solution – even if I continue to work from home, I imagine I would start going to Friskis & Svettis again – so I don’t want to buy too many.

It’s not so much the monetary cost, but all that space they take up! I keep moving the weights around, in search for a better place where I can reach them when it’s time without them being in the way the rest of the day.

I had another half-hour session with Raneir. I like him.

His session felt no easier today than it did on Friday. The muscles in my upper body are puny.

Another long and energetic walk. This time I had the foresight to start my walk in daylight, but it was dark by the time I got home.

The plants in the window in my home office corner are outgrowing their space. I bought them for my large window niche at the tretton37 office, where they would have plenty of room. Now they’re squeezed onto a narrow window ledge. And since my home office is in the same room as our bedroom, we pull down the blinds every night, so the plants can’t be allowed to spread outside their narrow space. I’ve already had to move one to a different window because it grew too large. Others will soon need to follow. If not now, then in the spring, when the nights will be lighter and it will no longer be enough to pull down the blinds until they just touch the tops of the plants.

Not that their disappearance here would make much of a difference. I can barely see them behind the huge monitor that takes up much of my field of view.

The home office still feels like a semi-temporary solution. Or 25% temporary perhaps. OK for another year, but not for 10 years. I’d want to make more adjustments if this were to become permanent.

It’s hard to know how long to plan for. The coronavirus situation will resolve itself one way or another – vaccines are on their way, even if not within touching distance yet. But how much time will I be spending in an office after that?