Session #51: good upper-body circuit, still can't do a full set of 12 reps on 50# arm curls but it's OK. I did get a good 8 ab crunches in at 90#, and my chest press is stepping up to 90# too. 3.3mi in 41m41s on the 'mill. After a shower, I toured the equipment that I'd ignored until today, to see if I couldn't find a squat machine. And I did. Unfortunately it's plate-loaded, which seems less than ideal to me.
Then I drove up around a couple of old neighborhoods: 13th St, 5th Ave. I saw a few "for rent" signs but nothing specifically "room for rent" (unsurprising). I considered getting breakfast at Flakowitz but it looked packed, so I returned to the Dunkins at Hillsboro and Military for an egg+cheese, and made my way to McD's for a coffee while I used their wifi to peruse Craigslist and call some room rental prospects. One seemed promising, near the corner of Camino Real and Military, which is only 2 major blocks north of teh office.
Let me just say, Craigslist kinda sucks. But it chaps my ass to have to pay for Roommates.com messages, and the 2 situations I found through Roommates.com were sucky in their own special ways, so CL is first-effort. I had one very promising lead, near Camino Real at Military Trail. I finished up at Dunkins around 1:45. Dude said call back after 5, but we had a phone-tag miscommunication and I never reached him live after 5.
From there I doubled back on Hillsboro to A1A, to end up in the Red Reef Park area of Boca around 2:30. Here I figured out some economical parking - $2/hour in the metered lots on the west side of A1A a bit north of Palmetto. On the beach side it's something crazy like $18 to park, which obviously makes no sense unless you're rolling in dough or spending the whole day. So I fed $4 into the meter, and got some sun on my head and sand between my toes, and walked a bit in each direction from the beach access.
No response from any of the other 2? 3? other room-for-rent leads, so I killed some time at Nakava. Around 4 hours, with an old-school run to Wendy's midway. Call it kismet, I ran into one of the old-timers there, who I'll call "Doc". (I thought I recognized him at my gym a few weeks back too... yep, that was him) and when I mentioned I was looking for a room for rent, he looked thoughtful a moment, and said "I might be able to help you out". Turns out he's been thinking of renting out one of his grown kids' rooms.
That would put me on Atlantic Ave in Delray, about the same distance from teh office as my deranged landlord's target of Cypress Creek Rd, but in the opposite direction. And without the crazy, which is of course the truly important part.
Speaking of deranged landlords... suffice it to say that he's about where he was when he got his pathetic ass Baker Act'ed last month, and frankly it would be a godsend if he was out of the way while I get my stuff together and gtfo. So I'm really REALLY hoping the sitch with Doc comes through.