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At the peak

[Today’s run: 6 miles]

Oh, our run today sounded good on paper but the weather was just awful.  The temp was in the upper 70s but there was fog and 100% humidity.  Fog is kind of nice.  Meter-pegged humidity means that my normal river of perspiration does absolutely no good at all.  The air was so saturated that I had mist sticking to the hairs on my arm.  I was gathering water just by moving through the air.  And on top of that it was gushing out of my pores at a prodigious rate because my fat old body was vainly trying to cool down.

I finished before my brain burst into flames, so that was good.  And sitting in front of a little fan it was actually very pleasant out.  But any kind of motion and… Niagara Falls.

Ok, so that really is not what I was going to write about.

I finally got up on the tower this afternoon and made some progress at getting the FM radio station antenna installed.  Today’s job was just to take down the previously installed 2-meter ham band antenna.  And we got that done!

By the time I got down, I was exhausted.  I just laid down on the grass and did nothing for 5 or 10 minutes.  If it weren’t for the fire ants and other undesirables in the lawn, I would be there still.  My wife came to the rescue with a freeze-pop thing.  It was wonderful.

It was the heat, and the upper body exertion, and mostly that I could not find a comfortable position from which to work, requiring a lot of continuous effort.

But we got the thing down safely and got myself down safely.  Now we have to get our radio station antenna up there on the tippy top.  This would be a handy time to have a 70+ ft. extending bucket truck!  But no, we do this the old fashioned way:  I climb the tower and then I climb the pole that sticks out of the top of the tower and attach another 12 foot pole to that pole.  Going to be fun.

I need to recuperate a bit, and then I’ll be at it. Maybe as soon as tomorrow if the weather is good.