Ran 10 awesome miles yesterday. There with light snow coming down and about an inch of snow on the trails. I was making the only footprints for most of it until I came across 3 hikers.  One of those runs that reminds you of why you run in the woods.  I had left my phone at home and when I got back it was lit up like a Christmas tree with computer problems at the office.  Quick shower and went in so I could talk nicely yell at my software company.  They screwed thing up with an update and seems several offices across the country were out.  All of our treatment notes, patient billing, etc is through this company, so staff was not happy and neither was my associate doctor. After 2 hours they were back up and running and I stayed around to help out.

Probably a good thing I left my phone at home because it would have ruined my run.

Woke up early today to an ice storm. Schools and several businesses are closed.  Picked up 2 of my employees and I just finished spreading salt around driveway.  Hope sun comes out or I won't open this morning.  So all the crap I dealt with yesterday could have waited until today.

QOTD Yesterday:  BS's in Biology and Chemistry. MS in Anatomy and Physiology, Doctor of Chiropractic and a Post Doctorate in Neurology. The post-doc was a 1 year program but took me 3 years to compete because I was working at the time. I did a three day weekend a month for 38 months plus driving to Philadelphia. Then had to sit a three day board exam.  I paid off my student loans when DD#1 was 17 and starting college. DD#2 is still in school, so I've been paying for colleges for 28 years. 

QOTD Today:  I loved philosophy classes.  Maybe that's why I'm a bullshitter. Least favorite was a sociology class I had in college. It was because professor was an ass and just liked to pick on students. Kind of like Donald Trump teaching a class.

 

 

QOTD Yesterday:  BS's in Biology and Chemistry. MS in Anatomy and Physiology, Doctor of Chiropractic and a Post Doctorate in Neurology. The post-doc was a 1 year program but took me 3 years to compete because I was working at the time. I did a three day weekend a month for 38 months plus driving to Philadelphia. Then had to sit a three day board exam.  I paid off my student loans when DD#1 was 17 and starting college. DD#2 is still in school, so I've been paying for colleges for 28 years. 

 

 

This sounds like what I am heading for. Although part of my plan all along has been to get a good teaching job and get some free education for my kids (some schools let professor's kids attend for free - some not all).

DW  got her morning exercise in this morning already. She had to drag me out of bed by the heals kicking and screaming . Actually it wasn't quite that bad but I did get in a good nights sleep and didn't feel like getting up this morning.  Now she's dragging me off to go shopping .  First will be pictures to update our passports then about 10 stores we have to stop at. Just need a item or two at each. Somewhere along the way we will hit Longhorn Steakhouse for lunch. I'll probably get a big steak and eat about half and save the rest for supper.

Planning on putting in about 5-6 miles tonight or late afternoon. It's getting nice and warm here today.

QOTD: Surprisingly once I was taking actual college courses I kind of liked English and writing courses. Always hated that in school. I think some of the reason I now like it is that I like discussing issues and all the college English classes were online so there was a lot of discussion.  My absolute favorites were anything that dealt with Pathophysiology, basically the study of disease processes.

The one that I hated the most was a communications course. Part of that was because it was online so I had to figure out how to make videos and post them and part was because I could never figure out if the prof was a jerk or just acting like one so the brats in the class wouldn't take advantage of her.

The Same as AT,  got 10.5 beautiful miles in an inch of snow with flurries  coming down on the horseshoe Trail.

 

QOTD  my favorite class was three dimensional art,  sculptures and stuff like that.  I never quite enjoyed the Composition classes.

Muppy - was Hershey all iced in this morning? Schools closed here and now its 40 degrees and melting. Bad morning with accidents all over.

 

Muppy - was Hershey all iced in this morning? Schools closed here and now its 40 degrees and melting. Bad morning with accidents all over.

It was,  The main roads were salted pretty good but a lot of the side roads were icy yet.  I broke out my screw shoes just to run on the rail trail,  I had about a coating of ice.

Recovery run, 3.5 miles finishing with 5 x :300 strides. Overdressed not taking into account how much warmer it was today.

qotd: favorite class is a hard one to pick. I really liked most of my math and philosophy class, my microbiology classes, and strangely enough an English class I had to take when I went back to school for my A.S. in Data Processing, aka computer programming. I had already read about half the books on the syllabus, including one of them in the original German, so it looked like it might be very boring. I spoke with the instructor after the first class and when she heard my background, already having three degrees, two of which indicated I should know how to write papers, she gave me free rein to write my papers based on my interests related to the readings rather than adhere to the specific requirements for the other students that were intended to teach them how to write papers.

 

I had a scholarship for undergrad and still ended up $250,000 for the rest. DD#1 had a 1/2 scholarship at Philadelphia University but changes schools and got nothing when she switched to Shippensburg. DS wasn't too bad for expenses and finished in 3 1/2 years, but DD#2 is in year #5 of a 6 year plan, so she's killing us.  We had 529 plans for the kids . Don't know if you have that or have looked into that. Works great for state school tuition.

250K in Student loans? Ouch.  Guess I'm lucky. When I sold my trucks that paid for my school and living expenses for 16 months with some left over. All other classes were taken piecemeal so I could pay without borrowing. DS spent about 50k on his college with part of that being paid with his savings, the National Guard, him borrowing and us picking up some. He has some student debt and we carry a very small amount from that in our home equiline.  For DD she took courses at the community college so it was cheaper and she worked almost full time and lived at home free while we covered a lot of her expenses.

In retrospect I wish I would have had opened 529 accounts.