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**crazycanuck** · 05-22-2006, 08:12 PM

<<<<lise>>>>> thanks! I def won't forget to take me medication if it means being off my bike, no swimming or running...! Am feeling a bit better, no numbness but exhausted.

Nanci, how is your friend???

I've always wanted to try diving but never have. There's some great diving up in northern western australia at the ningaloo reef-whale sharks come & mate there..

c

**DrBee** · 05-23-2006, 04:56 AM

Nanci - how's your friend? Any word on when he's coming home?

CC - I had a friend that had thyroid problems. She was always bouncing up and down in weight and feeling good/bad. She eventually had it removed and it doing great!

Other drift... I just ran for the first time in 23 years. Yes, it's true. I didn't run for long and not very fast, but I did it! Now, I'm on my way to training for the triathlon

Wow running uses different muscles. I like my shoes, though!

**snapdragen** · 05-23-2006, 07:31 AM

Today I'm playing hooky. I could not stand the thought of going to work. Gads, will I be able to last another 3-5 years before I retire.....

**Trek420** · 05-23-2006, 07:38 AM

9 years for me, don't know how I'll make it.

I've taken some vacation time off but the plan today instead of nesting/painting the humble adobe is that there's a hike at the OIompali State Historic Park.

I must have passed that park entrance countless times but have never been in as far as I recall unless I was very young. So...local Gay Lesbian Sierrans are having a hike, figured I'd go. The odd thing about this park is it's only accessible from one direction on 101. So all my life I've driven North and thought "someday I'll go in" and then some other time driving south "Nah, I don't have time.

So today I went.

There were two gals there, really nice hike, about 6 miles, nice group o' gals. We saw all kinds of wildlife, wild turkeys and lots of deer. The fawns were out in force. One trotted right up towards us on the path then went uphill and followed nearby but a few yards away before heading to Mom.

We couldn't figure out which of the historic buildings was the one the Gratefull Dead used to hang out in.

**DrBee** · 05-23-2006, 09:49 AM

Have fun on the hike. I envy those of you that are near retirement. At least I am able to work at home once a week. That helps get through the week.

It's freaky how much more work I've been getting done at home compared to at work. And that's with the kids running around and hubby corralling them.

Lunchtime - Later!

**DirtDiva** · 05-23-2006, 12:09 PM

Hey, some of us have 35+ years to go before retirement. I feel like the baby of this board sometimes...

**snapdragen** · 05-23-2006, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by tlkiwi

Hey, some of us have 35+ years to go before retirement. I feel like the baby of this board sometimes...

Well, I did start working at age 3.........

**Trek420** · 05-25-2006, 06:48 AM

fishdr sez "Have fun on the hike. I envy those of you that are near retirement."

Hey, I'm nowhere near close, I think I posted here unless I win the Lotto it'll be 10 years, 5 months, 16 days...who'se counting?

What surprises me is how many of those I work with do not participate in the 401K. Aw c'mon, the company will MATCH 80% of your first 6 %, it's like throwing money away if you don't do it.

And Icewine...several years ago I was on vacation in the Toronto/Niagra Falls area and it looked like wonderful cycling country. Relatively flat, lots of wineries, beautiful roads and quaint towns.....road trip!

**DrBee** · 05-25-2006, 09:25 AM

I'm somewhere in the realm of 25 years from retirement.

Gov't makes you wait 30 years.

I now have all 3 of my references in line and I'm still working on the application.

Told the postdoc about my applying for the job. She took it really well. Whew! Major relief. She said she really understood. THEN she tells me about some major family stress that she had this past weekend and she broke down in tears. Lovely. I felt really lousy for dumping this info on her at such a lousy time for her. But I needed to tell her now before she heard it through the grapevine.

Speaking of grapevine - this icewine sounds really intereseting. I'll have to try to find some. The next time I'm near civilization, I'll have to look.

**Lise** · 05-23-2006, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by fishdr

Other drift... I just ran for the first time in 23 years. Yes, it's true. I didn't run for long and not very fast, but I did it! Now, I'm on my way to training for the triathlon

Wow running uses different muscles. I like my shoes, though!

Running fish doctor! YEA!

L.

**DrBee** · 05-23-2006, 02:56 PM

Thanks Lise!

I don't hurt too bad. I'm going to go again tomorrow morning before work. Eek!

I have decided to apply for the job. I'm telling my boss tomorrow. Then I'll have to tell my boss's boss. That should be a thrill. I tell the postdoc on Thursday. Think good thoughts for me - please

**Nanci** · 05-23-2006, 04:18 PM

Hey fishdr, I am running a marathon (Wickham Park) Sunday with _no_ training. I ran a 5k in November, and did the best in years, then another 5k in December, and totally sucked. So I am doing an experiment to see how my WP results, this year, with no running but losing 30 pounds and having ridden the Brevet series, compare to last year when I trained half-heartedly.

Friend might probably get discharged tomorrow. Sounds ok.

Went to see United 93. I didn't cry, but I easily could have. It was very, very good.

Oh, went to see Hoot with my daughter Friday- I liked it a lot.

Today I steered a rescued baby Great Horned Owl, found standing in the middle of the road for no apparent reason, to appropriate rehab.

I ordered a watch for the marathon, so I could time my splits, because I am too lazy to take one of my dead ones in to get the battery replaced. How pathetic. But it is a pretty green color!

My "real" watch, which is a month old, has an "ecodrive" so it will never, ever need a battery. I am the Queen of Dead Watches. But not anymore.

I have Blue Sport Beans, finally, and have resisted snacking on them in an inappropriate (not on the bike) manner.

The new shipment of three different Performance shorts hasn't arrived yet...

My AC, which froze up yesterday, is getting a tuneup Friday. I hope I don't have to buy a new AC for the house, because how could I do that...OTOH, more energy efficiency wouldn't be a bad thing, if they had some sort of financing I could afford.

And now it's time for leftover chicken alfredo!! With Gruner Veltliner!!

**maillotpois** · 05-23-2006, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by Nanci

And now it's time for leftover chicken alfredo!! With Gruner Veltliner!!

Nanci, you just have really good taste in wine. I can tell that we would get in a lot of trouble if you and I were to meet in person.

**Lise** · 05-23-2006, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by fishdr

Thanks Lise!

I don't hurt too bad. I'm going to go again tomorrow morning before work. Eek!

I have decided to apply for the job. I'm telling my boss tomorrow. Then I'll have to tell my boss's boss. That should be a thrill. I tell the postdoc on Thursday. Think good thoughts for me - please

I'm glad you're going for it.

And the running, too.

**DrBee** · 05-24-2006, 04:35 AM

Good luck with the marathon Nanci! You're braver than I am - or crazier

..... but then again, I don't have the endurance to do the brevet rides like you do! Someday I might...

Glad to hear your friend is recovering well!

I'm with you on the watches. My "underwear" drawer has a nice stash of old watches that need batteries.

I've got to try those sport beans. They look so good, I'm afraid of extra-curricular snacking. I've been trying out the Luna bars as of late. They are pretty good. Easier to eat than clif bars - faster anyway.

I'm telling my boss about the job application within the next 1/2 hour.

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