Late start for me today.  Tammy- that's a shame about the car, but I'm glad he's OK!   Joe- I can't see your picture, either.  I'll try from my phone.

I felt generally OK last night from the 2nd shingles vaccine and had hopes that I would sail through this dose.  It wasn't to be.  Woke up this morning just feeling exhausted-  not sleepy- but just wanting to lie around.  I had decided to take a day off from work (work from home as needed), which was a good thing.   Finally got out the door around 11:30 to try a run and was able to to it-  it just felt harder than usual.  3.8 miles done.   This shingles shot is no joke!

Vinyl records have made a comeback, right?   Nothing was sweeter growing up than getting a new album or "45".

Tammy -   Wow!  So glad David is okay.  Hopefully, the insurance company will be able to find the driver.  If he was driving a company truck, I'd say there's a better chance of getting a settlement.

KSA - I've been trying to convince The Hub to talk to his doc about the shingles vaccine.  When we were first married, he had a couple of episodes of what we were told was shingles on his forehead.  That was bad enough.

All this electronic stuff has my head spinning . . . .

Tet said,

 

Being able to swim in the winter that was impossible in the days before indoor pools still boggles my brain, . . . almost as much as running in the winter too that used to be something I only did in the summer. 

Indoor pools have been around for a while now. The first ones I can find reference to, in modernity, were in London, in 1837.  They had at least 6 of them then.

Just how old are you, anyway? 

BTY, your swimming amazes me.  I love to swim but I'm just not very good at it.  I spend a lot of time hanging on to the edge at the end of each length.  Maybe one of these days I'll figure out the breathing but I'm not there yet.

I don't have very many regrets in life - Life is Too Short - but if I have one, it is that I quit swimming when I was 12 years old and discovered that I wasn't the fastest 12-year-old swimmer on the planet.  It took me 42 years to get back in the pool for fitness and some competition.  If you love to swim, whether you or good or not is beside the point at this stage of our lives.  My best advice to you is to make yourself as "long" in the water as you can...relax...and roll from side to side more than you think you need to.   (That makes the breathing way easier.)  If you currently need to rest at literally every length of the pool, challenge yourself to do 2 lengths without resting, just one time.   Then do it again.   Get used to that, and then build up to 3 and then 4.   Most of our barriers are self-imposed.

Brian

leslie - yes, at least with a trucking company you know there is insurance coverage and good limits. Hopefully they can track it all down and the truck's insurance carrier is easy to work with and doesn't put up a big fight for a couple thousand. 

Tet - we do have the OSP DMV crash report to fill out which is mandatory for accidents involving over 2500 in property damage, so we'll go ahead and fill it out even though we don't know yet if the damage exceeds that amount. We did tell David that when he was not able to get the semi to notice him and pull over, he should have pulled over and called 911 and there's a chance that another motorist that saw it would have also pulled over. 20/20. always easy to say that now but not necessarily something he was thinking of in the moment.

I BEAT THE STORM!

Did an unusual (for me) 11am run and never broke the first rule.

5.25 @ 7:54

Then went and did a few errands; life accomplice said that if I wanted ham I'd have to go get it myself, so I did. She spent 10x on a very small turkey what all of you spent on a large turkey, because hers is organic free range cruelty free certified Diestel and comes with a record of it's life's progress from egg to now (almost). Sigh. I bite my tongue often.

Here's my rant: Vinyl is over-rated. In every blind listening test even self-titled audiophiles cannot tell the difference between a CD and a record better than chance would allow. People who insist there is better quality sound from vinyl (analog) are simply repeating an urban myth. Records are frail and unwieldy. The playback equipment is easily damaged. BUT there is something nostalgic about the ritual of pulling an LP out of it's sleeve and preparing it to play on a turntable, adjusting the needle to the right spot and lowering it, and hearing those first scratchy notes come through. By FAR the most important part of a stereo system is the speakers, you should spend at least half your total budget on the speakers, if not 80%. And decent $50 headphones (not earbuds) will almost always sound better than $1000 speakers. It's physics.

And now CD's are going the way of the 8-track tape. More and more people get their music by downloading it, often just "borrowing" it and never owning a hard copy to have and hold and listen to even when the internet goes down.

Shingles suck, I had them when I was a freshman in college for a couple months. Luckily they have never come back.

Did just enough slow jogging on the treadmill this evening to get the MOVE ring closed on my Apple watch.....  The rain has moved in and the male doggie is anxious (even without lightening and thunder). 

And let me try again with different tools on the image I tried to post earlier: