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lol! Yes, that's right.... :cool:
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Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Whewwwww, glad to hear that I am the only one who looks at hills this way :cool:
Catrin, you should see the hills that Lisa lives around. I live in a fairly hilly area, but, her hills almost killed me :).
Oh my :eek: I doubt that she would even notice that we HAVE hills around here :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
I just kid her about this. The ride to her town from Great Barrington, MA was hilly, but fine. It was the 85 degree unshaded 7 mile climb after eating lunch at Ralphs (the place she talks about all of the time) to get back, that had me a little "upset." And it was a 50 mile ride.
Well, it probably safe to say it's way hillier around here than Indiana! ;) :D
Robin, that 7 mile climb up 203 is indeed pretty tough if it's 85F and sunny. :cool:
Yesterday was the Run of the Charles canoe race for which I organized two relay teams. It's a 24 mile race with 5 legs of 5 miles each and 6 portages. We had a gorgeous day and everyone had fun. Our two teams placed FIRST and SECOND in the women's division! We were the only 2 teams in the division, but that in no way diminishes our achievement. :D Here are the awards we got. I paddled 2 of the legs yesterday, for a total of 11 miles in a heavy boat, so I felt entitled to be tired today and only managed to ride about 16 miles.
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Originally Posted by DebW
You suck!! Get back to work.
:p:p:D
I'm embarrassed. Today I make baked potatoes for our dinner. I've never made baked potatoes before. :o Usually when I make steak, I make sweet potato fries or roasted sweet potato chunks.
I've finally found the perfect amount of meat to buy for mom and me -- 1/2 pound suits us perfectly.
Around here highway overpasses are my hills, I have several shorter routes that I ride in circles so I can get in overpass repeats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I can remember that for about 1/3 of the south west cross country on the underground railroad ride, we always had to ride up hill to get the nights' lodging and then start out going uphill first thing in the morning. I used to sing "here comes the burn, la la la la" to J. Lennon "here comes the sun" for the first four or five miles of each days ride.
On the other hand, on the Southern Tier cross country by the time we had ridden through california, arizona, new mexico we were hill climbing animals by the time we hit the texas hill country. so much so that the rest of the ride through flatlands, although beautiful and rewarding was almost boring.
For me its more of a mental attitude. I am willing to admit that I have never met a hill I couldn't walked, but I am usually determined enough to get up it somehow on the bike, even if I am going so slowly at the top that I fail to unclip and fall over sideways like the old man on the trike in Laugh In.
Um, no. Indianapolis itself is flat, but she doesn't have to go far to be in terrain like mine, where you can't go five miles without at least one >10%'er, and it's easy to find a few 20% grades when you feel like a tough day.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Our hills aren't as tall as yours by a long ways, but don't diss steep. It's like the difference between steady-state training and intervals!
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
If you really want to experience flat in all it's glory, come on over to Central IL, we have an excess of flat along with a complete lack of curves of any kind. :D
More midterms, today and tomorrow. This one is on image production, tomorrow's is on positioning. I did pretty well on last weeks' on radiation protection/damage. Tell you what, nothing gives you creepy feelings like watching hundreds of thousands of Soviets work and give their lives to entomb Chernobyl , and nothing puts the last ten years into perspective like realizing the two atomic bombs we dropped on Japan killed almost 250,000 civilians either immediately or from later stochastic effects.
The world can be a really ugly place, can't it?
I don't mean to be a downer, but sometimes...
George. ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by marni
Yup is right. I've been there, and am going again to Springfield in about 4 weeks. FFFFFFLLLLLLLAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
i always feel so uneasy there, like the earth falls off a cliff if I go too far. Makes me feel like a mouse in the middle of a football field. just slightly ...vulnerable. :(
If rode my bike there I could go maybe a zillion miles per hour! :D
as long as you had the wind at your back...Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Naw, where it's that flat there's ALWAYS a headwind. Doesn't matter which direction you go, you could go in a loop, you will have a headwind.
Plus, you get the optical illusion that it's all uphill. This is bad on a long run ...
You'll be an hour and a half from me... and Springfield actually has some hills compared to Champaign - Urbana where I live. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
BTW I'm just the opposite of you, when I go to places that are really hilly or heavily forested I get claustrophobic big time!! I need to see the horizon.
I think Mother Nature hates us, it was 36 degrees this morning going up to a high of 57!!! It's not like I live in Antarctica or something, it should be lows in the 50's and highs in the 70's by now. :(
Isn't it funny how different we can be?! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Pax
It's pretty interesting! When new students come to campus you can see that vulnerable look in their eyes at first. I'll ask them if it's too spacious for them and they'll nod and comment "it's just too OPEN!". :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Here's what I was doing yesterday, installing two new hives.... :D
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2492/...956854b3_z.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/...643998b8_z.jpg
BSG - That is so neat!!!!
I got an email from one the agencies I applied to... they want to set up an interview! Plus, I am still in the running for the one I hit it off with at the job fair.
I hate this whole process, though.
I sure understand where you are coming from! I think we are in the high 20s tonight and low 50's tomorrow. Yikes, that is just too cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I am saying goodbye to my clients this week. It really sucks. This internship thing just sets you up for feeling like crap about this... leaving people who already have attachment issues.
I went to my 40th HS reunion last night. I didn't actually graduate from this school, but since I don't feel any connection to the small private school in Miami I went to for my last 2 years, I have reconnected with a few people from my childhood here in MA. At 4 PM DH and I decided to stay overnight at the hotel. As we checked in, the girl at the desk (maybe 25 years old) said, "Wow, all of these people checking in for this 40th reunion look so good. What's with you guys?" First I thought, great, they probably all had plastic surgery, but I laughed out loud, as looking great would be typical for this group.
She was right. They did look great, but not in a surgery kind of way. A few of the guys looked bald and a bit paunchy (interestingly, the ones who came alone), but women looked fab.
I had fun, even though it was a smaller group than the last one I went to and I didn't know quite as many people..
Nothing since Sunday :eek:!
Hope everyone is ok. I went for an eye exam and was told my eye pressure was high, so I get to be dilated tomorrow (Mom has glaucoma, and well)
Writing like crazy, and fixing to take another Research trip to Indiana - get to a revolutionary war re-enactment (need to find less expensive hobbies)
I'm havin tons o fun doing personal training :cool: :eek:. Weeeeehar..
Now if i could just get my brain to send the right message to my hands when i'm doing outward-inward arm movements (in a push up stance but moving hands out out out then in in in..)
Time to close up the house again...
While I'm sitting on the front porch, enjoying what's left of the sun - now covered with thin clouds - and listening to some Cajun music blasting through the open windows... i just heard the heater come on (some lint got zapped in the electronic filter.
Was a nice warm day. Too bad it didn't last :(
[QUOTE=BleeckerSt_Girl;572341]Here's what I was doing yesterday, installing two new hives.... :D
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What gorgeous scenery! I'm SO sick of cactus! :(
I remember when we lived in AZ, I would look at a picture of lush green spaces and feel desperately homesick. The Midwest isn't the most scenic place on earth, but I sure like living here. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmama
Dogmama - why is your boy in a donut?
Me too, Pax.
Plus, there were no cacti left in Tempe. Had to drive for miles to see any real desert. Miles and miles of brown, drab concrete, stucco, and strip malls.
From a poem I wrote a few years ago, after a week in northern California in the summer:
"Life's blood clawed from parched earth; each blade of grass proof of a battle won."
I like to visit the American West; I couldn't live there.
That was a few months ago. He had an operation called a gastropexy where they attached the stomach to the intestinal wall. German Shepherds and other larger dogs are prone to bloat & torsion. It's where they eat rapidly, gulping a bunch of air and/or exercise too soon afterwards, get very excited, etc. The food bloats the stomach and the stomach can twist on its axis. It's an emergency situation because internal organs begin to die off quickly & the dog can go into shock & die. Because of Zack's size & structure, he was a really good candidate for bloat.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
So, the doughnut was instead of the usual cone. He was licking his stitches, so he wore a doughnut for a few weeks. Much easier to maneuver around than a cone.
This is my 50th summer here. I'd move in a second, but DH has a thriving business that he loves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
If God really was a woman, she wouldn't make a menopausal, hot flashing woman live here.
Oy.
Glad I moved away before that. Being in an overheated classroom was enough for me when i had flashes. I remember my mom just dripping with sweat in AZ when she started menopause. And being ecstatic when they moved to San Diego shortly after that.
Ah yes, I'm familiar with bloat in doggies. Glad he's OK!
The University of Arizona was actually my top choice for grad school. While I was pleasantly surprised by Tucson, and DBF (who's from Mesa)'s insistence that there was greenery within driving distance, the landscape was such that I wasn't sure that I could take living there for the 4-7 years it would take to finish the degree. At the very least, I figured that I might want to move north and east as soon as I graduated. Moot point now, of course, but it's something I'm going to consider the next time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax