Weekly Email

Jun 9, 2008

Sometimes, actually most times, when I turn on this laptop the numbers lock thing is turned on so when I start typing half of the letters are numbers, ok well maybe not half of the letters are numbers but a bunch of them anyway. Can someone tell me why that happens? I would like to make it stop. I remember the first time it happened, it took me quite a while to figure out what the deal was, talk about frustrating..
Anyway.. so how about a little gibberish.. I like to call this stuff I have learned of late..

1. So when your boss comes up and asks if you are ready for your big race and you say, well yes I am thanks for asking, actually Ms. Boss, I am tapering now.. and the lovely Ms. Boss says.. “oh.. tell me more about this tapering” and you go into a big elaborate detail explanation.. what you are really doing is letting your boss know that you are now pretty much available to get caught up on the work you have been managing to avoid for pretty much the last few months.. hence how my taper has somehow now turned into a complete shut down.. damn meetings..

2. You know how when you hear the weatherman / woman say that the weather on the weekend is going to sunny or cloudy or raining or whatever and you always take the report with a grain o salt and its ok to be a little skeptical, that is not the case when you hear the report on bugs up north.. if you hear a report saying that the black flies up north are as big as bears and are relentless and you should take plenty of bug spray with you.. listen to them.. they know of what they speak

3. When you go away with your training buddies for a few days of riding and running and you start to think.. my god these guys are smelly buggers.. odds are.. you are a smelly bugger too.

4. You can watch as much Holmes on Holmes as you like.. but when you don’t actually use some of the information that you have learned, then you have no one to blame but yourself when your 6 or 7 day home renovation project turns into a 4 or 5 week adventure.. oh.. and when your contractor asks if you want the upgrade and you hesitate and he says. .. you are already in with both feet.. you know your original budget is out the window

5. If you drink skim milk for long enough, it actually starts to taste like milk.. instead of the white water that it really is..

6. Although I may have looked a little silly in my new neoprene swim cap, it really did keep my head warm while swimming in the lake at Clyffe House in Huntsville this past weekend as it did so, I didn’t care about looks..it was all about function.. kinda like when I was younger I thought it was more important to look good as I wore my jean jacket in February. ..it is now more important to stay warm as I pile on the layers.. please accept my humble apologies for talking about February in June.. especially when the past week had multiple days in the 30s

7. Speaking of Clyffe House, we are thought of, by the owner, as a courteous and polite group of people that are welcome to go back there anytime.. see you next year..

8. When I am riding my bike, I don’t care that the price of gas is .30+ per liter.. in fact if I had a shower at work I would ride to work.. but I don’t so I am sure they would not want me to be a smelly bugger.. question is, do I care??

9. I learned that I can go away for a weekend and take enough workout clothing to handle just about any type of weather we may run into and still only have two bags (including street clothes) while others.. well.. they take five..

10. You can be friends with a dragonfly. All you have to do is run slow enough for the mosquoties to be able to keep up with you and the dragonflies will hang around you and eat them. .. anyone or anything that hangs around you and tries to eat things that are trying to bite you is a good friend.

11. If you want to catch a good buzz really quickly.. all you have to do is ride your bike for 4 hours in the sun without practicing good nutrition habits, add a ½ hour run in the same heat.. then go straight to the dock by the water.. sit directly in the sun with limited sun block.. don’t eat any food and then have a couple of really cold beer.. presto..

Ok, good night folks..

Jim