You actually got on a jury, Tammy?  Have fun!  The 2 I've been on, I found it interesting.

 

 

not yet. I got a jury summons but whether or not I actually get selected for a jury is unknown.  All I know for sure at this point is that I have to attend a 2 hr orientation on Tuesday morning. Our jury duty is from Tues- Fri, because trials are not held on Mondays. And because I have insider info though, I can see there are MANY trials scheduled for next week - 11 in total and 7 of them do not involve attorneys from our office, so I could get selected. In our county, you call in the night before and see if you juror number is selected to show up the next morning. So, you are kind of "on call" for whole week. There are a couple 3 day trials, a few 2 day trials and several 1 day trials.

That's the way jury selection is here, too.  The thing that I think is stupid is if you show up and aren't available for what they have going that week, then you've fulfilled your obligation for the year.  The complaint here is that we don't have enough butts in the seats to fill juries, yet if I show up for jury duty and it turns out I'm not available for one day of potential day of a jury, I've fulfilled my obligation for the year? Stupid.  And yes, that happened to me a few months ago.

Though I don't know anything about it, and it's probably the first time I've ever posted about something I don't know anything about, letting one loss Alabama (12-1) and Texas (12-1) keep Florida's perfect record out of the national championships (along with Michigan (13-0) and Washington (13-0)) just doesn't make sense no matter what criteria might make the losers be "better" teams than the teams with perfect records.   A perfect record is a perfect record, very had to get and should be rewarded no matter what; otherwise, "goodbye.'.

I guess the issue is that FSU is not the same team they were when amassing most of that record before losing their star quarterback. They also had a much weaker season schedule than Alabama. That said, I'd much rather have seen Michigan play FSU in the first round than Saban-led Alabama! And the Rose Bowl is traditionally the venue where Michigan's dreams go to die...

DAMHIK.

KSA - unfortunately, even though Alabama's a less-than-perfect,  one game "losers," Michigan probably has about as good a chance against them as I would against Frank Shorter or Boston Billy.  Too bad as I'd've really liked to have seen a Michigan-Washington final. .

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 Nice job with so little prep. A reminder of how you can do OK in an HM undertrained at the cost of a bit of extra soreness the next day as opposed to trying to do a full marathon that way. DAMHIK.

Doug - marathons too, . . . except for all the more motivated marathon runners (ed note: everyone except him) who have actual personal or competitive race goals in mind instead of like the unmotivateds just trying to finish and get the benefit of 26.2 miles of good exercise they otherwise would never get if they had to do it on their own. .

ps - happy DAMHIK to you and bio.

pps - have fun on the prostrate.

I guess it's surgery, not just an exam.

Good luck.

ppps - trade you.

Ala enke's post, the current deluge is causing flood warnings and more of the same for the rest of the week but, for me, it allowed me to get to go over to one of the hillside parks for my third from surgery morning circuit in the kind of deluge my Arctic deck shoes have been waiting for, along with rain poncho and rain pants just like out on the deck of a Bering Sea trawler that us walkers get to wear too to stay dry as a bone instead of all wet and hypothermic from running it it days.

ps Jeanne/anneb/Doug - I can't even make it past half time on PST.

ppps - fortunately, even my tired eyes at midnight once kept me out of infamy as a foot note in the court's decision that resulted by catching an "e" in a brief on Alaska's 6 member juries

Tammy - thanks!

Johnny - I probably still can't keep up with you but, depending on what happens on Thursday, would love to walk with you sometime. 1,000 miles is fantastic! Any trails?

ps - walkers are welcome in RA, . . . I think.

. . . I got in 5 miles at Headwaters. 

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Yep, there was walking involved. 

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So I might be pacing my buddy for a portion of Western States in June.  How far is yet to be determine.  The thought makes me sweat a bit . . .

Leslie - if there isn't any walking involved, it's not a trail enough run.

ps - enjoy the pacing.

I'd be afraid any poor showing'd blamed on me.

Good luck.

So I braved the rain. Actually, it had petered down to a light drizzle/thick cloud blanket for my run, and since it was about 50 F with no wind, it turned out to be a rather pleasant experience. Yes, pleasant. Except my toes were wet by the first 1/4 mile.

4 miles with the middle 3.1 at a continuous slow jog. I only had to walk once up a short steep hill, and stop twice to stretch out my lower back, otherwise no walking. It takes some forced effort to run slow enough so that I can go continuously without walking, IYKWIM. Otherwise my instinct is to run faster, but then I need walk breaks because I am out of shape. Tomorrow will be much heavier rain, so glad I got other there today.

Hope everyone's surgeries go well!

Nice to hear Johnny is doing well!

Among other things, I got to experience what it's like to lay on my back, exposed, with my knees up and feet in stirrups while people I don't know are watching and working on me down there.

Welcome to the ladies' world.   Glad everything went well.

Doug- glad you are on the other side of that and that all went well!

Roch, glad your procedure went so well. Hoepfully the recovery is just as smooth.

Enke, we share similar stirrup experiences! Though I just had one egg retrieval (for which I, too, was awake ).

No run for me in yesterday's rain, so I was happy to wake up to temps in the mid 40s and no more rain. I left early enough to do 5+ miles, but sadly, some pressing digestive issues slowed me down. I ended up with 4.1 miles running, not sure how much walking.