bad and good results from practicing tennis

Monday: 90 minutes of hitting practice with the pro
Tuesday: a bunch of leaf-raking (but still probably less than 1/3 the output of the one small maple tree!), and other stuff done in yard
Wednesday: shooting pains in right wrist. uh-oh.
Thursday: no pains in wrist, but wrist still says "let me rest!"
So that's the bad news. The good news: as an exercise for today that would not stress my wrist at all, today I went stairwell-climbing at work. It's about 15 floors from basement to roof. It was noticably less effortful than usual. Still got my heart rate up and my breathing heavy, but I didn't hate it as much. Yay for fun exercise making my heart stronger!

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The Hobbit

Feeling that Sophia should know what the heck we are talking about when we mention hobbits, I read the first few dozen pages of The Hobbit to Sophia. To get her interested, I told her that it takes place in the same world as Harry Potter, just, at least a thousand years earlier. (Could be true, right? A lot can change in that amount of time. I mean, if there's the Ministry of Magic and the World Quidditch Cup in modern Britian, then post-Roman Britian could've been crawling with orcs and elves.)

Before the dwarves finished discussing business at Bilbo's place, though, Sophia got bored and made me stop. I went on to re-read the rest of the book-- probably haven't read the whole thing in 30 years-- and realized that parts of the book are pretty boring. I had forgotten the boring parts.

Again I am bugged by the fact that 99% of Tolkien's characters are male. Most of the male characters do not seem to be bothered by the lack of females. You would think that they might wish for wives or girlfriends. Male dwarves think more about gold and treasure than about females. Male hobbits think more about food than about females.

So, which is it, are the human-like creatures of Middle Earth all autistic or all gay?

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