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Resistance training session felt good today. Still having difficulty going with more than 10lb weights, but will do what my body says I can do. Small class today! Only about 1/2 of the normal number of people. Weekend is now in progress. Will see if I can make any headway this weekend with the apartment clean up/purge. There is going to be a pickup of electronic debris on Monday morning. I can get rid of some of the dead gear that's helping clutter up the place.

Watched an interesting movie tonight--Goodbye Solo. It's about two men who meet by chance and their lives begin to intertwine with each other. One man is a gruff older white man who is on some kind of fatal pilgrimage. The other is a younger black man from Africa who is driving a taxi while he's studying for a job with an airlines. There lives become interleaved and overlapped. There are few clues regarding what happens next with each of them, except for the final piece of the story. It's a well done film by a newer director. An odd coincidence--The actor who plays the older man is from my home town. He is about three years older than me--we probably played against each other in sports. Small world in a smaller universe.

The world is spinning further and further out of control. YouTube videos creating chaos in remote places. Countries threatening to bomb one another. Candidates for the highest U.S. offices playing politics with world events instead of talking about what they are about. Political haze over political maze! Social networks starting to rule the world!

My Internet service went south yesterday. It got restored after a while, but it's disconcerting to see what happens when the web goes down or goes out for a time. The planet doesn't have enough bandwidth when things start to wobble.