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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by TrustGzus, Aug 16, 2018.

  1. Athanasius

    Athanasius Life is not a problem to be solved Staff Member

    I've read his posts on his own forum and I have to think he's being serious, but I do wonder if it's a case of inch deep profundity or something. He's got this great idea, he thinks, or whatever, but has utterly failed to think it through.
     
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  2. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    Got out for the first XC ski yesterday. Skate skiing was probably not the best choice. Feeling it today.
     
  3. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Walk in the woods wife my wife earlier, now waiting for dinner to cook. Today is the nicest day we're supposed to have for a few days, so I'm hoping I can get my next goal pace repeats workout in before it gets cold. It's scheduled for tomorrow but with the temperature in the 30s and 30mph wind gusts forecast I'm not expecting it to actually happen. It's a question of whether to kick it out to Saturday or Sunday - neither day looks great but I don't want to drop it completely. Chances are I'll kick it to Saturday with a view to kicking it out again if I need to.
     
  4. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Today is nasty. I don't think goal pace repeats are happening today. If it warms up a bit I might try and get some more of the metal trim back on my porch ceiling but don't really feel like holding and manhandling six-foot lengths of metal in the icy cold and gusty winds.
     
  5. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Fanciful notions aplenty there it seems.
    Things will iron out as more members join, no doubt.
     
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  6. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Dismal hunting season, yet I came within inches of clobberiing 2 spike bull elk standing butt to butt on the dark road from work. Fiddling with my radio (again).
     
  7. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Got the rest of the trim fitted to my porch. It looks a whole lot better. Now I just need to get the lights sorted out, and a fan to fit over where we like to sit in the summertime. No great urgency - I've got temporary lights in place that will work for now.
     
  8. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Today's workout was a "magic mile" and then goal pace repeats. The magic mile is intended to be a single mile run hard, and I managed to set a new personal best albeit only by a couple of seconds. The goal pace repeats were quite hard but not as hard as previous workouts. Tomorrow I have another round of hill repeats, which are usually pretty easy.

    Now I've got a cold beer to sip in front of the TV.
     
  9. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    End of November and 46F. In the 60s later this week. No snow, no rain. Firewood sits.
    Fire season might be a major issue in 2022. Like it was in 2021, only worse.
     
  10. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Hill repeats today. I went out after the 20mph gusts were supposed to have stopped. Notice "supposed to have" stopped. They stayed away while I did walked to where I usually start, then starting gusting at me. Still, only six hill repeats so it didn't take me too long and the wind didn't have too much chance to play its usual bitingly cold games with me.

    Tomorrow I get to play on the porch again, fitting the lights I'm planning on using for the longer term and taking down the temporary things.

    ETA: Yick.... While I did walked? Not sure what did happened there....
     
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  11. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    You're just a stud.

    I want to be like you when I get old and retire.
     
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  12. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Snow flurries this morning but the porch is covered so I got out to do some more electrical work. And along the way I found out I'd lost two screws that were needed to hold my light fixtures together. Cue another visit to the hardware store paired with another round of "guess the thread count on this screw and try to match it". My thread count gauge said it was 36tpi but the store didn't have anything with that thread count. As a last resort I wondered if it might be a metric thread and sure enough an M4x0.7 matched perfectly. As it turns out a 0.7mm thread pitch works out to 36.286tpi, so my thread count gauge didn't let me down.

    So now I have two outdoor light fittings back more or less where they were originally, but now wired with nice new cable and compliant with code regarding things like back boxes. The point of the exercise, which is also achieved, is that they are both controlled by two switches by the two doors that lead onto the porch. For good measure I've got another heavy duty back box in place, with a temporary light fitting on it, that will host a light/fan combo once my wife and I have decided which fan we want to put there.

    Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer and dry. I hope it is, my scheduled workout is speed repeats. I don't like speed repeats, they are hard. But they are doing me a lot of good, probably more good than the hill repeats.
     
  13. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Fanciful accounts of Jesus prophesying and a fictional little Lazarus climbing a tree. Looks scriptural except for the "if "
    Hard to keep up with this stuff, though I plan to make time.
    The old, tried and tested standards are fading and one wonders what churches are doing these days.
     
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  14. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    I feel you. I hope he meant "Zaccheus" and just got his wee little man was he confused... all those names with "Z", you now?
    Yeah... the "definition" of "prophesy" being tossed around in some circles is bizarre (see, I got another "Z" word in there) is just zany.
    Oh, I've got to stop. I crack myself up.
     
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  15. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Looking at the not very warm weather and not really wanting to go out and do speed repeats in it. At least it's sunny. It's supposed to warm up a bit later on.
     
  16. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Leave alphabet soup on the counter overnight; spells trouble in the morning.
     
  17. Athanasius

    Athanasius Life is not a problem to be solved Staff Member

    What it is is a lack of doctrinal clarity, unfocused 'theoretical' theology, confused words, an inability to accept that one might come across poorly. What it is, is confusion.
     
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  18. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    I got my speed repeats done, although kinda wimped out at the end and did the last one on an easier stretch rather than the regular stretch. Even working with a steady gentle downhill it felt like a slog to maintain the pace for the last one. But I did it, even if it did mean a bit of wimping out. And I feel better for doing it, although whether my legs will work in the morning remains to be seen.
     
  19. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    I think my training program is trying to kill me. Next week I have 12 speed repeats to do. I'm thinking if the weather is amenable I might take to driving to the next town so I can do laps of the park there. I'd rather not deal with driving home in sweaty running gear but at least the park is mostly flat. It gets ever-harder trying to maintain a pace when the first part is about trying to pace myself on a downhill gradient and the second part is trying not to die maintaining the pace when the slope turns upwards. It's not a steep hill by any means but steep enough I'd normally be dropping the speed.
     
  20. Cloudwalker

    Cloudwalker The genuine, original, one and only Cloudwalker Staff Member

    I follow the George Carlin exercise program. No pain, no pain.
     
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