Class tonight was cool. Part classroom info, and then we did a little bit of shooting. Maybe 40 rounds total, but in directed exercises. First sets of five shots at a blank sheet of paper with no target markings. Then shooting at a target that was only a two-inch orange square marked on the paper, no scoring rings around the "bullsye."
I shot the rented .22 mostly, and I was shooting rather accurately, almost all my shots in neat groups (only at 15 feet, but I've still greatly improved). The lady I was partnered with was doing pretty well, but thought she ought to see if she wouldn't be more accurate shooting the gun I was shooting! So she and I traded for the last set of 5 rounds... she was a little more accurate with the .22 than with her revolver, and I got to try her revolver. Though I had two shots of the five where I anticipated and went a bit wild, I put the other three shots nearly on top of each other. In other words, once I get my habits more consistent, I do not think I'll have trouble being accurate with the larger gun. That was fun.
She and I are going to meet at the range Monday evening to do some more practicing. Thus solving my "have to bring another person to rent" situation, and getting both of us more experience with both guns. We'll do some more trading back and forth with the revolver and the rental .22. I was thinking of renting one of the store's revolvers Monday if I got to go anyway, so this will work out just fine. I'm looking forward to it.
Meanwhile, I was thinking on the way back from class about coming back here and reading some web pages I had found earlier today about visualizing the 4th dimension and 4-dimensional figures. And I started getting a headache again... just felt a single throb over my left eye, and backed off the thought line quickly. I know I'm close to it. I can conceptualize the 4th dimension as an "in/out" axis. But interestingly, I can visualize the "in" direction but not yet the "out." I'm still working at thinking it through in the sense of the equivalence of adding the third dimension to two, but I have a feeling it's just going to "click" at some point, and I'll see it. Hopefully without hitting the point of that headache along the way. Will have to take it in stages. Meanwhile I'm going to read through some more of these web pages and see if there are any new descriptions that weren't in the links I had previously. Also ordered the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, and looking forward to having that arrive and getting to read it.
Definitely planning on catching up on some sleep tonight. My eating habits were out-of-kilter today, and I know from experience that I'm susceptible to that when I haven't slept properly. I need to work on at the least, refusing to let myself eat so badly (junk food and overly-large portions at once) if I'm tired.
Outside of the eating issue, I still function well even if I miss a lot of sleep for a night or two, and so I hate to think I can't stay up nights when that is so often my relaxing, creative, or social time. I need those things as much as the sleep, for what they fill in me. So... yeah... just need to put in place a determination that even if I haven't had the proper sleep, I will NOT let that be an excuse to eat like a glutton and feel icky because of it that day.
Also I'm jittery about something I'm supposed to hear back about "within a week," which means by Monday, and it wouldn't be over the weekend, which means that either tomorrow or Monday is the day. So of course as it gets to the last days of the stated period, I worry that I won't hear anything, which obviously isn't good. Waiting about this particular thing is the biggest stress on my mind right now, and I can only really hope that it is resolved in the positive direction. I'll write about what it actually is or was, once I know one way or the other about it.
Of course, I would prefer that I didn't have to go to work tomorrow, but then I have my whole weekend off again. I think Saturday night we might go to a club downtown where our sales reps from a company we buy from are having a fashion show. It's another business they do, and they invited us, and I thought it would be a fun "excuse" to get out. To have somewhere in particular to go. It won't be like going out with the ex-band and having some drinks, but I don't have to have drinks to enjoy the club environment.
I wish I could dance. I hear the beat and I want to move, but I don't know any particular movement to do. Every so often I'll get lost in it and start moving more than just tapping a foot or bouncing a knee. Those times, I have no idea what I'm really doing, or if I look really stupid, but it feels good. Just that submersion into the pulsing of the beat. I am a thinking person, and I don't want to quit thinking permanently, but for short times, it is good to phase into that state of un-mind-ness. I have other ways of getting to that state, some I can seek and find, others that just have to happen if I'm in the right environment. But this is one I enjoy, and I don't know that it's a place I'll get to out this weekend with family members, but when I do get to that place, it's cathartic, it clears me, lets me slough off things that are keeping my mind wound tight. And that is an essential therapy, by whatever means it can be found.
I shot the rented .22 mostly, and I was shooting rather accurately, almost all my shots in neat groups (only at 15 feet, but I've still greatly improved). The lady I was partnered with was doing pretty well, but thought she ought to see if she wouldn't be more accurate shooting the gun I was shooting! So she and I traded for the last set of 5 rounds... she was a little more accurate with the .22 than with her revolver, and I got to try her revolver. Though I had two shots of the five where I anticipated and went a bit wild, I put the other three shots nearly on top of each other. In other words, once I get my habits more consistent, I do not think I'll have trouble being accurate with the larger gun. That was fun.
She and I are going to meet at the range Monday evening to do some more practicing. Thus solving my "have to bring another person to rent" situation, and getting both of us more experience with both guns. We'll do some more trading back and forth with the revolver and the rental .22. I was thinking of renting one of the store's revolvers Monday if I got to go anyway, so this will work out just fine. I'm looking forward to it.
Meanwhile, I was thinking on the way back from class about coming back here and reading some web pages I had found earlier today about visualizing the 4th dimension and 4-dimensional figures. And I started getting a headache again... just felt a single throb over my left eye, and backed off the thought line quickly. I know I'm close to it. I can conceptualize the 4th dimension as an "in/out" axis. But interestingly, I can visualize the "in" direction but not yet the "out." I'm still working at thinking it through in the sense of the equivalence of adding the third dimension to two, but I have a feeling it's just going to "click" at some point, and I'll see it. Hopefully without hitting the point of that headache along the way. Will have to take it in stages. Meanwhile I'm going to read through some more of these web pages and see if there are any new descriptions that weren't in the links I had previously. Also ordered the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, and looking forward to having that arrive and getting to read it.
Definitely planning on catching up on some sleep tonight. My eating habits were out-of-kilter today, and I know from experience that I'm susceptible to that when I haven't slept properly. I need to work on at the least, refusing to let myself eat so badly (junk food and overly-large portions at once) if I'm tired.
Outside of the eating issue, I still function well even if I miss a lot of sleep for a night or two, and so I hate to think I can't stay up nights when that is so often my relaxing, creative, or social time. I need those things as much as the sleep, for what they fill in me. So... yeah... just need to put in place a determination that even if I haven't had the proper sleep, I will NOT let that be an excuse to eat like a glutton and feel icky because of it that day.
Also I'm jittery about something I'm supposed to hear back about "within a week," which means by Monday, and it wouldn't be over the weekend, which means that either tomorrow or Monday is the day. So of course as it gets to the last days of the stated period, I worry that I won't hear anything, which obviously isn't good. Waiting about this particular thing is the biggest stress on my mind right now, and I can only really hope that it is resolved in the positive direction. I'll write about what it actually is or was, once I know one way or the other about it.
Of course, I would prefer that I didn't have to go to work tomorrow, but then I have my whole weekend off again. I think Saturday night we might go to a club downtown where our sales reps from a company we buy from are having a fashion show. It's another business they do, and they invited us, and I thought it would be a fun "excuse" to get out. To have somewhere in particular to go. It won't be like going out with the ex-band and having some drinks, but I don't have to have drinks to enjoy the club environment.
I wish I could dance. I hear the beat and I want to move, but I don't know any particular movement to do. Every so often I'll get lost in it and start moving more than just tapping a foot or bouncing a knee. Those times, I have no idea what I'm really doing, or if I look really stupid, but it feels good. Just that submersion into the pulsing of the beat. I am a thinking person, and I don't want to quit thinking permanently, but for short times, it is good to phase into that state of un-mind-ness. I have other ways of getting to that state, some I can seek and find, others that just have to happen if I'm in the right environment. But this is one I enjoy, and I don't know that it's a place I'll get to out this weekend with family members, but when I do get to that place, it's cathartic, it clears me, lets me slough off things that are keeping my mind wound tight. And that is an essential therapy, by whatever means it can be found.