I hate power outages!!!

Had one yesterday and had to reset my clock.  When I did, I got the AM/PM mixed up -- so I missed my morning run. 

Hey--good morning!  Thanks for starting us Mary--when I first started here, you seemed to be the official starter.

Rob--it's really nice to hear I'm not the only person who does that!

Well, I feel almost normal, today...finally.  I dragged my butt around here all day, yesterday--went home--ate--and went to bed.  Man, that stuff kicked my butt!  Oh--I guess I changed a light bulb in the headlight of my DW's car, too.  I have never been a mechanic.  I can put in gas and I can check the oil--and I used to be able to change a dang headlight, but it took me an hour, last night, to change that stupid thing.  I wish I could blame it on the anestesia hangover, but I really can't.

So...Twocat went to the dogs?  That just doesn't seem right.  Although--it is amazing how some people can get their dogs to those things.  I don't know what I do wrong, but I have never been able to teach my dogs anything.  My golden retriever was the best I ever had.  He could sit--lay down--come (when he wanted to)--and stay (unless he wanted to go someplace else).  It would be fun to watch one of those shows, though so--like Mary--I'm a little jealous.  Oh--and I hope that hamstring heals quickly.  I think these unscheduled days off I've taken has done my Achilles' some good.  I'll give it a try, tonight.

Okay--BRAG ALERT!  If you don't want to see me bragging about my son, again, just go on to the next post, now.

Hopefully this works...

Brondbo, Evans collect NSIC awards

Kristin Brondbo and Ryan Evans

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10/11/2011 2:43:00 PM

NSIC WOMEN'S RELEASE  |  NSIC MEN'S RELEASE

BURNSVILLE, Minn.  – Augustana's Kristin Brondbo and Ryan Evans are the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Athletes of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday.

Brondbo, a sophomore from Steinkjer, Norway, finished seventh at the Briar Cliff Invitational Saturday at the Adams Nature Preserve in McCook Lake, S.D., helping the Viking women to the team title. Brondbo navigated the 5K course in 18:20.79. Augustana finished 12 points better than Morningside.

A junior from Lino Lakes, Minn., Evans also led the Augustana men to the crown at the Briar Cliff Invitational, logging a third-place finish with a time of 24:35.47 (8K). His effort keyed a 27-point outing by the Vikings, who topped Morningside by 46 points.  Evans was also named the athlete of the week on Sept. 27.

The Vikings have competed in three meets so far this season, sweeping the weekly conference awards each time.

Postseason action begins Oct. 22 when the Vikings travel to Moorhead, Minn., for the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship.

1 mile warm up at the water's edge. Completed.  Problem is I had another 4 on tap!  It's an "astronomical" high tide, so even though I thought I had factored that in, I arrived down at the beach too early.  Each foot fall sank about 2" into wet sand, and some was coming back up with me, so...I have a 2-3 hr. delay.  No worries.

Mary, one of my previous dogs, Zoey, had knee surgery - not sure if it was the ACL or something else - but she recovered just fine.

Rob, I thought you'd be programmed to wake up at 3 am even without an alarm clock!

Jlynne, nothing wrong with walk breaks.   And Happy Birthday to baby Leo!

Holly, I would suggest that you should only have one kid --- but I guess it's a little late for that.

Yay Ryan!  So, Mike, did you call your DS in Alaska yet????  Why not???

Hi Nono!  Even with less-than-perfect sand conditions, you're lucky to be able to run on the beach.

Another beautiful fall day here. Planning a RAL.

Hey folks !

Just a quickie. 10.5 miles this morning. Just a nice fall run. It's been a light mist all night. Made the leaves just a little bit slippery.

Brag away Mike.

Holly...I can send you some of those recordings like Jlynne mentioned...but then again...You already get to listen to the live version. Sorry that you have to thru that. Believe it or not, someday they will act like best friends again.

That's all I got. Time to go crack the whip on the construction crew.

TwoCat - please let us know how the dogs do and post some pics! I love dog agility competitions and dock diving. And my Bella would be such a good contender in either of those events, except for the whole 'reactiveness to other dogs" issues she has. but other than that, she loves to have purpose and have tasks. She's easily trained (except for overcoming that whole 'reactiveness to other dogs' issue. . . {sigh}. But the labrador and australian shepard in her really would make for a good competition dog.

Mary, sorry to hear of the possible torn ACL. My Jade had that at age 4. Here's a little description of it for those unfamiliar with this injury in dogs:

"If your dog goes lame in one of his hind legs, he may have torn or ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL. This ligament, which also is called the cranial cruciate ligament in animals, connects the back of the femur (the bone above the knee) with the front of the tibia (the bone below the knee). The ACL is responsible for keeping the tibia in place beneath the femur and stabilizing the knee joint."

it required surgery where they basically opened up the leg and, for lack of a better medical term, used a man-made fiber to recreate the ligament that connects the femur and tibia. The ligament was basically shredded and not holding her leg together like it was supposed to. The best we can guess is she was out running in the forest and probably got her foot in a hole or twisted up somehow and shredded the ligament. The rehab was long. We were told to keep her immobile for 4 months, so we scheduled the surgery for september so she would have the winter to rehab. We knew it would be too hard to keep her down in the summertime. We actually kept her inactive for about 6 months just because as a large breed dog, it was going to take a bit longer for her to heal. She rehabbed real well (even amazed the vet as she said she's seen very few dogs as large as Jade rehab well because usually the owners don't keep them down long enough and their weight makes it harder for them to heal if they are not kept inactive). Arthritis in that leg did set in earlier than what it normally would, so we've had her on a regimen of supplements for the past several years to ease her discomfort. But after about a year she did start running with me again and resumed all of her normal dog activities.

congrats to Ryan, Mike!! That's awesome and thanks for bragging to us!

Mari, I haven't totally decided on a laptop yet. I like all the advice I'm getting though. It's really helping me and I'm learning stuff I never knew. I have the guy from the internet servicer coming out next week to install the receiver and then I'll need to get his recommendation on a router since we'll have one computer in the house and another in my husband's shop. I need to know if I will need to step up from your basic router so that it can communicate with both computers even though they are in separate (but fairly close in proximity) structures. Still learning stuff here!

Should be another nice mild day in southern oregon (after our usual morning fog burns off), so will get in a run at lunchtime today. and then tomorrow is company drinking . . .  bowling!

Holly--I like Jlynne's idea; the power of embarrassment.

 

I'm beginning to think duct tape may be the only answer...

Twocat – what kind of dogs?  Hopefully the travel break will your owies and fix them.

Jlynne – happy painting!

MikeE – brag away!

2 slow and gentle miles this morning, followed by 35 minutes of Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps.  No core work this week, so as not to agitate this sore hip muscle, which seems to be slightly better.

Back to work….