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After work, I had a great opportunity to drive my car across my district and visit a village near my city. Luckily, it wasn’t a long trip, and in total it took about twenty minutes both ways. But it was really enjoyable, even though the distance was short. Especially for me, since I really love driving. And the weather felt specially made for car rides — it played the main role in the whole experience. During the drive, I even noticed that the car didn’t feel like it was driving. On the contrary, it felt like it was flying above the road, bringing comfortable feelings without any extraneous noises.

In this post, I mentioned that I tried to repeat my bike ride route by walking. So today, I decided to compare my experience while I still don’t forget it. Honestly, my experiment was interesting and a bit stressful, but it showed me that walking is a much more labor-intensive process than bike riding. Of course, I already understood that before, but I didn’t really understand the numbers behind it — how many calories I’d lose, what average heart rates I’d reach, and other interesting parameters about my body.

Well, I want to begin with my work worries. In this post I wrote that I couldn't finish my task successfully and spent so much time on it. So I had some worries about it, and I had some doubts about what my team lead would say. Luckily, everything went great, and during our daily meeting, he just asked some questions that I responded to. In my opinion, those answers satisfied him. Also, he shared some observations that he noticed about that task, and it helped me too. Overall, today I was a lucky guy because I didn't ruin my morning.

I made one mistake because I went for a walk at 29 degrees. In my opinion, I picked the hottest time of the day around lunch. Also, I didn’t take water and didn’t cover my head. At first, when I walked across the forest, everything was okay. I didn’t feel anything unusual. I walked among the trees and enjoyed the shadows. But when I left the forest and walked around the open field under the sun, I felt that something happened to my fingers. My hands became red, and moving my fingers was a bit difficult. And I had a very strong feeling that I needed to drink water. Of course, it was unpleasant and a bit scary. I had never felt anything like that before.

Yesterday I promised to share the challenge results. Unfortunately, the person responsible still hasn’t shared all of them. She only announced who won and sent some messages about how cool everything was. But honestly, I can’t fully agree with her, because during those fifteen days the rules changed multiple times. Some participants even left the challenge, and I think that’s understandable because, in my opinion, it wasn’t honest enough. I just kept sharing my reports because I had already started and didn’t want to leave it halfway. And of course, it didn’t really bring me any extra difficulties. The responsible person promised to share all the results on Monday, so I still hope to look through them and share them here.

The day wasn’t productive at all, and I spent my whole workday without any success. During the day, I got completely stuck on my task, and as a result, I couldn’t figure it out. Honestly, I really tried, but everything kept going wrong, and I just couldn’t do anything. Also, I needed to write a mini report about my task, and that didn’t go well either. Instead of a full report with results, I just described all my steps for nine hours. Of course, I’m not sure about the report, and I’ve no idea what my team lead will say about it on Monday.

Today the day was calm, and I didn’t have any issues like yesterday. So I had a good opportunity to spend this day without worries and comfortably finish my workday. However, the weather didn’t make me happy. Since the morning and during the day, the sky was covered with clouds. But the rain didn’t happen, and that was much more important because I planned to ride my bike after work. Also during the breaks, I cleaned my bike’s chain and lubricated it with special oil.

Everything happened when my uncle arrived at the traffic police office and tried to submit the documents. But the police officers didn’t accept them. Instead, they just declined and said that he needed to make an appointment. Of course, he was ready to make one, but it already wasn’t possible. All the available slots were occupied, and the next available appointment was only tomorrow at 5 PM. However, this arrangement wasn’t satisfactory, and we had only one option left: use the offline queue.

Well, the morning was a bit challenging and unusually rushed because my uncle decided to visit us so early in the morning to complete some important tasks related to his car. Really, his tasks were very important, and I can understand him. So I couldn’t ignore him and got up from bed at approximately 7 AM. But the most challenging thing happened when I tried to print some documents with the printer, and honestly, it was really frustrating for me.

This Monday wasn’t usual for me. While my previous Mondays were workdays, today I had a day off and spent it following my usual weekend routine. The weather was unpredictable, though, and by the evening the rain had already started. Despite that, the temperature felt much more comfortable — around 15 degrees — and the wind wasn’t as chilly as yesterday. By the way, my bike ride happened under the sun, so I had a great opportunity to enjoy what was probably the last sunny day for a while, because the forecast says the rest of the week will be cloudy and a bit rainy.

During the last year, I shared so many posts about my life, trips, and other moments from my life every single day. In my opinion, it’s so crazy and unbelievable that I kept going. But the most important thing is that all of these posts are small and real pieces of my life. Each photo and each word, I tried to make unique and take from my real life. Because that’s what makes sense and makes my blog feel much more alive and unique.

For the last eight days, I’ve been actively participating in this challenge and sharing my reports every day. However, today the responsible person posted the intermediate results, and my name wasn’t on the list. Honestly, it felt like all my efforts during these eight days were in vain, and this unpleasant situation killed some of my motivation for the challenge. Still, I’ll continue participating, and I’ll keep sharing my reports in the coming days. I also want to see what will happen until May 15 and whether my name eventually appears on the list or not.