Hi Jay

Woke up late at 4:30? Yikes. Oh wait its you nevermind. Hope you can catch up.

Hang in there Holly. She's learning lessons that will serve for the rest of life.

Lots to catch up but work has been busy. Frankly not sure how humans can survive in those low temps but you all sure amaze me down here. I shall not complain about zero degrees ever again!

ran early today as I have a biz trip with flights this afternoon. Interstesting thing I learned about my "new" self. I'm not an evening runner. Ran 4 last night and it was a labor. Ran 4 this morning and it was smooth as silk. Guess I need to get my runs prior to 1pm.

Have a great day everyone.

My daughter managed to give me her stomach bug....

Skipped yesterday (went to bed as soon as my wife got home from work). Going to take today off running and be ready to go back tomorrow.

I did bring my stuff, I just know I am not recovered enough to run.

Henry, my DW gets senior discounts just by virtue of being with me, even though she hasn't quite hit 60 yet.

Another somewhat carpy day with gray skies, but no wind or drizzle at the time. I actually would prefer something like 20s and snow on the ground -- at least the conditions would match the season! Anyway, I took my neighborhood pavement route for 4 miles at a 10-ish pace. Felt good all the way and may or may not go out for a run tomorrow around the lake.

Hang in there, everybody!

There were some distracting people on the ellipticals in the row in front of me. There was a girl going side to side and up and down way more than normal, and then there was a guy who kept bending over 90° and moving his legs real fast.  It was making me dizzy so I tried to focus on the TV in front of me.

  Thanks for the chuckle!

The Hub is 56 now.  I keep  looking for senior discounts that might be available now.  Although he's totally into saving money, I think this one feels like a low blow. 

Hang in there, Holly.  My only experience is seeing what my parents went through with my brother.  I don't envy you.

t's official - I will survive.  Back to work today.  Thankfully I didn't have the pukes or poops with this, just body aches, fever, and coughing, etc.

So it looks like we'll be trying Prozac for our kitty, Wilson.  Over the past year+ we've been dealing with an over-grooming issue with him, meaning he has groomed certain areas of his body hairless - his entire belly and the insides of the thighs of his back legs and spots on his front legs. I don't believe it's allergies because his diet hasn't changed, and until last October he had actually lessened the licking and had grown back some nice fuzz on his belly.  And then we were gone for 8 days in October, had a different house-sitter, and it intensified all over again.  Poor guy, he's a very nervous cat and is always trying to lick us, too.  He licked himself so much awhile back, he actually licked off half of a nipple - I kid you not.  

Took him to the vet and she said there wasn't much we could do besides trying to get him to wear a sweater until he forgets about licking or trying a small amount of Prozac for awhile.  The sweater won't work, so we're going to try the Prozac, so long as there are no negative side affects.  If there aren't, he'll be on it for probably 5-6 months to try and break the habit.

Looking back, I'm pretty sure he started all of this when we were gone to Africa for 3 weeks.  Poor Wilson.

Internet!

We don't have cable in my area, so we're dependent on DSL for internet access and...you guessed it...we lost our phone service on Sunday, which is huge deal when you work from home.  We didn't get things cleared up until just now (knock on wood). Tribee's traveling for work this week so I was the one stuck at home waiting for the @#$% technician to show up. They kept pushing back the day/window they were supposed to come out and I didn't dare leave until they did. No phone and no internet really limited the work I could do.  You don't realize how dependent you are until it's gone.  First world problems, I know.

On the plus side, the house is really clean now.

ETA: It's 70F here now.  Crazy.

5.0 mile walk-a-mute.
40^o / cloudy .
Getting back into the swing of things adding the additional 0.5 miles

onto yesterday’s more direct route of 4.5 miles to avoid the urbany,

drug-infested alleys along the shorter route and divert

through Daejong Sister City Park and Pavillion instead.  Much nicer.
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Senior discounts

Since a stranger had guessed my age at the time (63) on the nose for the first time in my life not being assumed to be younger than I was, I should have realized it wasn’t going to do any good.but I hung back a ways when I realized the young kid in front of me was going to hold open the heavy, 8'x4' iron-cast bank door for me. It didn’t work. However, I had to admit I kind of appreciated it and now I’ll even speed up to have someone do it.
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The worst was an earlier experience at a grocery check-out during a visit up in GS-land way before his time and while catching up with three other high school classmates who had coincidentally all converged at the checkout together.  None of us looked that old yeet back then so, when I paid the register amount before the tax had been calculated in, everyone thought it really funny that I, still the youngest looking one in the group ever since winning The Least category in our high school beard-growing contest at age 18, was asked if I had a senior discount card.  They still tease me.  Don’t mind it a bit any more though.

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TM - nice try dave but I still won't use 'em.

No phone and no internet really limited the work I could do.  You don't realize how dependent you are until it's gone.  First world problems, I know.

 

On the plus side, the house is really clean now.

 

  But I am totally with you. No internet is a huge inconvenience, both at work and when I am working from home.

Kitty on Prozak - hope it helps

Today was my turn for parent duty to provide the meal for the BB team after school and before they got on the bus to head out for their away game.  I took the afternoon off, bought 5 fresh loaves of Italian bread, ham, turkey, salami, roast beef, ham, and several kinds of sliced cheese, and made giant subs, which I sliced diagonally and wrapped, and served with toppings and condiments separately (they are girls, after all), along with chips, sliced oranges, and cookies.  The coach said to plan to feed 15, but I planned on 20.  The girls were very polite, and all thanked me, a couple saying I had "really stepped up."  I think perhaps some of the parents were guilty of not bringing enough food. These girls can really eat, so I knew better than to leave them hungry. 

DD received 3 days of In-School-Suspension, which means she sits in a room at school separated from the other kids, but is allowed to complete her classwork.  She was not allowed to play in tonight's BB game, and may be kicked off the team.  I will know that tomorrow. I hope not, as being on the basketball team is the most positive thing she has going right now.

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6.2 miles for me today, followed by about 20 minutes of weights and core.