the final half and other plans

My 60K "crazy walk" is normally from my place, past Hanam City, and all the way out to Yangpyeong. From home to Hanam is about 25 to 26 km; from Hanam to Yangpyeong is about 35 km depending on where I stop. If I stop literally at Yangpyeong Station, the count is a bit more than 58 km; if I instead hew close to the river and stop about halfway through Galsan Park, at the edge of town, it's 60 km on the nose (and then I have to turn back and walk to the station, so the final count is closer to 62 km). Because of my recent failure to walk the full 60K, I did only the 26K to Paldang Bridge next to Hanam City, then doubled back and walked to the closest bus stop to pick up the 9303 bus back into Seoul—a walk of about 30K total. So to complete the route, I need to start at Hanam and walk to Yangpyeong. I'll try the full 60K walk, all at one time, later this year, probably after the hot weather has begun to fade.

I had thought about taking the subway out this evening to Hanam and doing the walk to Yangpyeong during the night, but I've decided to postpone that until tomorrow to give myself more time to digest and poop out yesterday's prodigious meal. In the meantime, today, I'll be working on video editing: I took a lot of footage of myself as I prepped and cooked the boeuf bourguignon, the idea being to edit and jazz up the footage in several ways so as to practice what I hope are some newfound skills. To that end, I want to make a YouTube Short video with rapid-fire editing, and longer videos featuring things like text on screen, voice overlay, sound effects (I doubt I'll let any of the real, ambient audio be part of the final product for any of the videos I make), and maybe even visual effects. I'm toying with the idea of doing French and English versions of the video; if I do that, I might invite my French family to watch the vids and critique the results. While I still speak French fluently, I've gotten rusty and mistake-prone over the years, and the stroke certainly didn't help with my cognitive abilities: while I haven't lost my French, I've come to sense that I speak the language more slowly now (which may also just be a function of age).

So—video editing tonight and tomorrow during the day, then a walk Monday night, then more editing until I have something to show my boss this coming Thursday, May 15. (I had promised him sample video by "mid-May," so the 15th is almost literally mid-May.)

Later this spring, I'll do another long walk from Yangpyeong to Yeoju—one of my favorite stretches to do even if I did fall once during a nasty, rainy, nighttime walk.