Volume 16 - Day 327/39, 2024 - Friday

Muscle memory is an interesting phenomenon. The ability to perform a motor task without conscious thought after repeated practice. It's a type of procedural memory that involves the brain encoding a movement into long-term memory. My experience with muscle memory peaked when I was doing long distance bicycling. I experience a little when we walk in the mornings, because we take the same route every day. I had another experience with it today. Today was a platelet day, and when I got in the chair, the Phlebotomist handed me the squeezy ball. I started squeezing it, and she said, I haven't even done anything yet, you don't have to squeeze. Muscle memory! So, there you have it. It was a double platelets day, and I really like doing that, most of it is because of all the people I interact with when I am there. We did have a good walk this morning, even though I only did a half-walk because I had an appointment in Austin between 8:30 and 9 o'clock. I made it to the appointment, and then got to the office about 10. I left for We Are Blood about noon, and I was driving down North Lamar next to an autonomous (self driving) car. I am not sure if autonomous automatically means self driving or not, so whatever. I see these self driving cars on an almost daily basis, but there is usually a real person in the car in case of emergency. There was no one in this car. Not in the front, not in the back. Maybe it was delivering pizza. Not sure. Only two estate sales tomorrow, but maybe they will be half way decent. Fingers crossed.