What I am amazed at in my life is how almost everyone I meet has a wrong opinion about something. It is tiring trying to correct everyone so normally I don't try.

Thanks, Dave! You're just the opposite of my mom - she tries to correct everyone. I love her but am glad she lives 2000 miles away. Tramps, Spareribs has said it before - you really are an excellent writer. Thanks for your post. I suspect we agree on many things. Hey, where's Holly today? Did we drive her away too?

hi everybody. Doug... (thanks for the nice shout out the other day. have been slow in getting back to you).. I saw Tim at the Farmer's Market a couple of weeks ago & he told me about the race. When I was done shopping (that place makes me happy) I headed back to his table to sign up.... except they couldn't take money there. So I had time to think about it. In a lot of ways this would be the perfect race for me. Still, there are a couple of concerns. Long way of saying I'm probably not going to run it, but still have it in the back of my mind that I could sign up just before the race. I also meant to say I ran into Markguy at Gallup park a couple of weeks ago. That was a nice surprise! I thought maybe we could find a way to meet up in Detroit..nothing formal, very low key... at least we could exchange cell phone numbers ahead of time. You did say you'd be there, didn't you? Then we could all ambush Mary & Larry . (TomS, will you be there?) One more thing... wtg on your anticipation run. Since you are sore... please think seriously about whether running Saturday, even just for fun, is a good idea. Do a risk benefit analysis. Maybe you'd be fine, you know better than I do. (er... wasn't that profound. )Just be careful. i'm having my own battle (with myself) right now about what to do & when. more to say but I'm out of time! but had to add "I love reading tramps' and dark horse's serious posts.". me too.

I posted an article from the Anchorage Daily News as a separate thread. Poor Sarah, some of the answers she gave in that interview were just embarrassing (IMO). Tramps I really liked your post. Comparing those political sites to the equivalent of a food fight was right on. Dark Horse, I'm so glad you're posting again! Love the story of the bat and Neptune the wonder cat (oh, and Sgt Comargo, too!!). And also glad to here you and Bucking Bronco collaborated on the project! Bats are something I don't have to worry about here much... Spareribs... it's always about you. We all know that. You crack me up. And good job on the jogging, you poster boy of heart surgery recovery, you! Mary, as much as I hate running in the rain, I'm gonna say go for it unless it's torrential, as others have said. I stood at the top of my porch stairs several weeks ago, looking at the rain, thinking of the 18 miles I had to do... And finally just went for it. The rain wasn't too heavy, and actually stopped as I got to the bottom of the hills. The remaining 15 miles were warm and steamy, so be sure to dress in layers or arrange for a drop off somewhere for stuff you don't need. And don't worry about yesterday. I thought it was funny, too. Karin's taking a rest day? Hmmm, thought it felt odd today. Sort of a "disturbance in the force" feeling. Hope it's restful, as it should be... We had rain all night and it's still raining. I guess that's ok, we were getting pretty dry around here. But I want it to stop this weekend, and then be pretty dry next week. After Saturday afternoon, it can rain or snow all it wants, I don't care! I brought my gym bag to work with me, but have errands to run at lunchtime and the kids have the Homecoming Game tonight with arch rivals (and my alma mater) West Valley Wolfpack (ooooh sounds fierce, no?), then a big bonfire party till midnight. DS1 wants to drive my car... Ha! Fat chance.

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Hey, where's Holly today? Did we drive her away too?

Hey, SOMEBODY has to get some work done around here, and it’s taken me this long to get caught up from yesterday, whilst still keeping up the appearance of working... re: Yesterday’s thread. Many good points all around. Given my considerable number of off topic posts, I’m sure you could have guessed that I think this place would be pretty boring if all we talked about was running ....today I ran blah blah miles at blah blah pace, and my (insert body part here) was giving me trouble again, blah, blah.... I agree that politics and religion are dangerous territory, but I tend to scan over the posts that I don’t agree with, not particularly offended by them, although sometimes I do (sigh). Tim – my heart goes out to those folks at your plant. On a similar note, the new legal secretary in my office who is in the hospital right now, incurring catastrophic medical bills with no insurance, will also find that she has lost her new job, as the attorney has no patience with illness in a new employee. (sigh) DickyG – prolly not much consolation, but you’re WAY faster than me.... Tammy – how did you get those lovely colors in your log? Mine are BORING and I’d love to brighten things up. Dg – if you do run the race, even just as a fun run, be sure to tell us about it. Dark Horse – I often listen to audio books during my LRs, and my current selection is a Lee Child novel, Bad Luck and Trouble. I don’t know if you are familiar with Child (you are probably WAY too literate for this stuff), but somehow I quite picture you as his protagonist, Jack Reacher, even though I know you are probably actually nothing like him (prolly just because he's a really tall, ex-military guy).

I took the day off of work today to brew beer,

Oh, this is just the best line of the day... Do you have to bring a note to work, from PDR? (Please excuse Lou from work today, he had to brew beer...) No run for me today, just the usual 30-minute weights and abs workout. Picture day for DD at school, so we went through several wardrobe changes and elaborate hair-dos before she was satisfied. Jeesh, she’s only SIX and we’re going through this.

Holly, when you go into your options, you can click on your running log preferences, and then types of workouts, one of which will be running. In your running log preferences, you'll see a list of the different types of runs you've created - long, TM, speedwork, tempos, etc. along with the color code next to it. Just click on the color and it'll bring up a palette of various colors and you can pick a new one. I feel bad for your coworker and losing her job. We have also incurred some major medical debt with my DH's recent surgery, plus he had some major dental work done a few wks before that. Fortunately, since DH is his own boss, he can't fire himself for missing so much work, but he can just complain about how he doesn't get paid enough to afford good health insurance, so we had to settle for a low end policy with a huge deductible.

Oh, this is just the best line of the day... Do you have to bring a note to work, from PDR? (Please excuse Lou from work today, he had to brew beer...)

Actually WRFB's co-workers think he is about to get divorced any day now. He keeps telling his boss, " I need the day off to take care of a little brew-ha-ha at home."

Oh, this is just the best line of the day... Do you have to bring a note to work, from PDR? (Please excuse Lou from work today, he had to brew beer...)

Actually WRFB's co-workers think he is about to get divorced any day now. He keeps telling his boss, " I need the day off to take care of a little brew-ha-ha at home."

I fessed up to the the group I'm working with about the beer. This was just before I told my boss I couldn't travel in the next three weeks because of the marathon I'll be running. Not to speak about politics, but maybe I need some training in that area.