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Feb. 21st, 2019 09:17 pmI think I'm only still about halfway through the Chocobox collection ;; Oh, well. No time limit on reading it.
Yesterday, I was telling my coach about my continued woes with trying to make my skates comfortable (for about the 10,000th time at this point) and how trying to pad out the parts that hurt made things worse than yanking it all out again, and how I measured my feet and discovered that the skates started off way too narrow for me. He finally introduced me to the coach who fits skates, after our lesson. She asked me my shoe size, took my skates, and instantly pronounced that they were too long for me. (I swear I measured my feet! I guess it's just too tricky to do on your own.) The size she came up with was a size and a half smaller. That explains why I've never quite felt like I could lock my foot in place in them without a lot of effort. A size and a half smaller would have been even narrower, though, so. All around a bad fit they are.
She started raving to me about Edeas - she says she sells a lot more of them than Riedells (the other brand she works with) nowadays, and they're so much better than the older brands and everyone is trying to catch up and... well, people really do seem to love or hate Edeas. She happened to have a pair on her in my size, and they certainly felt more comfortable than my skates, so I'm going to try them out. I might need the wider ones, but we'll see. She also fit my skating friend with his skates, and he seems happy with them. I asked to get them in black because I prefer dark colors, so if I like them, we'll match :D
While I was trying to troubleshoot my skates, I did discover a good solution to the problem of cold hands when the rink is on the colder side - I picked up some reusable chemical hand warmers, the smallest ones I could find, and they fit down the back of my gloves, or easily go into my pockets when they're done. Only last around twenty minutes, but that helps a lot. In the past week, I've also had occasion to use them outside the rink twice, and Z is also a little enchanted with them, so I think I'm just going to keep a handful in my bag from now on.
(Speaking of skating: I am so happy that Zhenya did well today! I do feel a bit sad for Liza that she had the rotten luck to get pneumonia in the middle of the season, but there's still the free to go.)
Off the ice, one of the two people I asked to be on my dissertation committee has responded, and said yes :) I need to work more on my proposal, but recently I've been working on making my code run faster. Some of it may be out of my hands, and it still takes forever, but my best one so far is that in testing, I found that a few if statements could cut my runtime by 1/4th. A pretty good improvement!
I have also reaffirmed my love of kitsune udon and inari sushi (made it with brown rice because that was all I had, tasted just fine to me). It's hard to find good inari sushi in restaurants over here, and it's inevitably expensive. Ate the first one and instantly wanted to have ten more. Maybe I will try to find a recipe for the matcha variant I had in Kyoto last summer, if it can be made with regular age tofu.
Yesterday, I was telling my coach about my continued woes with trying to make my skates comfortable (for about the 10,000th time at this point) and how trying to pad out the parts that hurt made things worse than yanking it all out again, and how I measured my feet and discovered that the skates started off way too narrow for me. He finally introduced me to the coach who fits skates, after our lesson. She asked me my shoe size, took my skates, and instantly pronounced that they were too long for me. (I swear I measured my feet! I guess it's just too tricky to do on your own.) The size she came up with was a size and a half smaller. That explains why I've never quite felt like I could lock my foot in place in them without a lot of effort. A size and a half smaller would have been even narrower, though, so. All around a bad fit they are.
She started raving to me about Edeas - she says she sells a lot more of them than Riedells (the other brand she works with) nowadays, and they're so much better than the older brands and everyone is trying to catch up and... well, people really do seem to love or hate Edeas. She happened to have a pair on her in my size, and they certainly felt more comfortable than my skates, so I'm going to try them out. I might need the wider ones, but we'll see. She also fit my skating friend with his skates, and he seems happy with them. I asked to get them in black because I prefer dark colors, so if I like them, we'll match :D
While I was trying to troubleshoot my skates, I did discover a good solution to the problem of cold hands when the rink is on the colder side - I picked up some reusable chemical hand warmers, the smallest ones I could find, and they fit down the back of my gloves, or easily go into my pockets when they're done. Only last around twenty minutes, but that helps a lot. In the past week, I've also had occasion to use them outside the rink twice, and Z is also a little enchanted with them, so I think I'm just going to keep a handful in my bag from now on.
(Speaking of skating: I am so happy that Zhenya did well today! I do feel a bit sad for Liza that she had the rotten luck to get pneumonia in the middle of the season, but there's still the free to go.)
Off the ice, one of the two people I asked to be on my dissertation committee has responded, and said yes :) I need to work more on my proposal, but recently I've been working on making my code run faster. Some of it may be out of my hands, and it still takes forever, but my best one so far is that in testing, I found that a few if statements could cut my runtime by 1/4th. A pretty good improvement!
I have also reaffirmed my love of kitsune udon and inari sushi (made it with brown rice because that was all I had, tasted just fine to me). It's hard to find good inari sushi in restaurants over here, and it's inevitably expensive. Ate the first one and instantly wanted to have ten more. Maybe I will try to find a recipe for the matcha variant I had in Kyoto last summer, if it can be made with regular age tofu.
