Yanti & Salty RidiculoSnarky Almost Intelligent-Charming Manatees PART 4 - Full (Page 20)

this is how my Sunday is going (from my training log):

So, this was quite the interesting ride. It started when I tried to ignore my alarm and sleep in a bit. Gunnar came and whined at me and since he had me up during the night with his gastric distress, I had to get up. Good thing i did. Anyway, got him walked, anit-diarrhealed and got on my way.
About 30 minutes into the ride, my phone started taking pictures. I figured something else in the bento bag moved and activated the phone, so i stopped and adjusted things. then got back on the road.
A bit later the wild life show started. Unfortunately, it started with a big very dead deer on the side of the road. Then a mile or two later, i saw a bunch of chickens in the road plus 3 bigger, yet to be identified birds. As i got closer i realized those big birds were geese. Uh oh. The birds were all across the 2 lane road, so i had to slow down and then stop. The geese started to come after me! I used my bike to block them, all the while I was backing up. When we got back up to the driveway of the house they obviously lived, the chicken and 2 of the geese made a turn for it. The 3d goose, however, wanted me. He was snapping at me and circled around me honking and just being annoyed and nasty. Finally, a car came up the road and stopped b/c of the goose. I thought I could use it to block the goose and make my get away, but i didn't have to b/c for some reason, after a few more lunges and snaps at me, the goose headed for his driveway and i was able to get away. The people in the car and i had a nice laugh. Shortly after clearing the attack geese, 2 bicyclist came by me headed to the geese site. I heard one of the guys say, we need to slow down here and then I think he mentioned something about the geese. I told them they were out and we gave each other knowing looks . This was only my second time on this route, the first time i did not encounter the geese, but it seems the geese are well known to the more frequent cyclists.
I later ran into a flock of wild turkeys, a few great herons and then right before the end of the ride, a flock of vultures who were busy with road kill. Thankfully, they moved off the road just as i got to them as i don't know how i would have gotten thru them.
Back to my phone issue, about 30 minutes before the end of the ride, the phone started taking pictures again. I figured the same thing happened and stop to make the adjustment. Well, that was not the issue. I could not stop the phone and for almost the rest of the ride it was non-stop picture taking. I couldn't even get to the screen i needed to turn the phone off as it kept reverting to the camera. I'm sure there is a way to do a forced quit, but this is a new phone and i have not figured that out yet. Right before the end of the ride, it stopped the picture taking, for which i was really thankful as that snap noise was annoying. When I got back to the car I was able to get the phone turned off.
Back home i tried to make a call and was not able to hear the ring or the person on the other end. I don't know what caused my phone to go nuts, but i suspect that a bit of sweat got into it. When i take it to IMS tomorrow, i think i'll leave the sweat part out of my story - unless specifically asked I keep breaking these stupid blackberry phones; glad i don't have to pay for them!
Anyway, as far as the ride goes, I did not know how i'd feel after yesterday's race and decided to just take things easily since this was to be a 3 hr ride. I was very happy with how i felt and could have easily gone faster (if you subtract the time i spent defending against the geese and dealing with my phone etc., i'd be over 17 mph avg), probably could have done 18 -19 mph. I'm not sure if keeping it easy was the right call or not, but overall I'm happy with the ride and glad i didn't blow it off.
Now, when I got home, I found that Gunnar had another episode of gastric distress. Of course, he couldn't have had it on the tile floor, he had to go in the living room on the hard wood floor. Since he is a big dog, his "distress" was really big and gross. About a half hour after cleaning everything up, I was reading the paper and eating breakfast, when he got up and walked into the living room and then whammo projectile vomiting! I kicked him out of the room while I cleaned up this new huge mess and then I heard some more projectile vomiting. At least this time it was on the tile. I then let him out and he suffered some gastric distress. Gross x 10000000
He then walked into the kitchen and ate the rice w/ chicken broth he refused before.
Sometimes having a big dog is a real pain Think I'll buy some more air freshener today.

Oh, i almost forgot; at about 34 miles I dropped my sunglasses. Turned around to pick them up only to watch 3 cars heading for them; somehow they all missed the glasses. Then just as I was back to them, a 4th car came by; i need to buy new sunglasses

Oh dear, that is quite the Sunday!  Glad the birds didn't get you--geese are scary when they are aggressive!  Sorry to hear about your pup as well.  You may want to hold off feeding him anymore for 24 hours just to give his tummy time to settle down. 

this is how my Sunday is going (from my training log):

So, this was quite the interesting ride. It started when I tried to ignore my alarm and sleep in a bit. Gunnar came and whined at me and since he had me up during the night with his gastric distress, I had to get up. Good thing i did. Anyway, got him walked, anit-diarrhealed and got on my way.
About 30 minutes into the ride, my phone started taking pictures. I figured something else in the bento bag moved and activated the phone, so i stopped and adjusted things. then got back on the road.
A bit later the wild life show started. Unfortunately, it started with a big very dead deer on the side of the road. Then a mile or two later, i saw a bunch of chickens in the road plus 3 bigger, yet to be identified birds. As i got closer i realized those big birds were geese. Uh oh. The birds were all across the 2 lane road, so i had to slow down and then stop. The geese started to come after me! I used my bike to block them, all the while I was backing up. When we got back up to the driveway of the house they obviously lived, the chicken and 2 of the geese made a turn for it. The 3d goose, however, wanted me. He was snapping at me and circled around me honking and just being annoyed and nasty. Finally, a car came up the road and stopped b/c of the goose. I thought I could use it to block the goose and make my get away, but i didn't have to b/c for some reason, after a few more lunges and snaps at me, the goose headed for his driveway and i was able to get away. The people in the car and i had a nice laugh. Shortly after clearing the attack geese, 2 bicyclist came by me headed to the geese site. I heard one of the guys say, we need to slow down here and then I think he mentioned something about the geese. I told them they were out and we gave each other knowing looks . This was only my second time on this route, the first time i did not encounter the geese, but it seems the geese are well known to the more frequent cyclists.
I later ran into a flock of wild turkeys, a few great herons and then right before the end of the ride, a flock of vultures who were busy with road kill. Thankfully, they moved off the road just as i got to them as i don't know how i would have gotten thru them.
Back to my phone issue, about 30 minutes before the end of the ride, the phone started taking pictures again. I figured the same thing happened and stop to make the adjustment. Well, that was not the issue. I could not stop the phone and for almost the rest of the ride it was non-stop picture taking. I couldn't even get to the screen i needed to turn the phone off as it kept reverting to the camera. I'm sure there is a way to do a forced quit, but this is a new phone and i have not figured that out yet. Right before the end of the ride, it stopped the picture taking, for which i was really thankful as that snap noise was annoying. When I got back to the car I was able to get the phone turned off.
Back home i tried to make a call and was not able to hear the ring or the person on the other end. I don't know what caused my phone to go nuts, but i suspect that a bit of sweat got into it. When i take it to IMS tomorrow, i think i'll leave the sweat part out of my story - unless specifically asked I keep breaking these stupid blackberry phones; glad i don't have to pay for them!
Anyway, as far as the ride goes, I did not know how i'd feel after yesterday's race and decided to just take things easily since this was to be a 3 hr ride. I was very happy with how i felt and could have easily gone faster (if you subtract the time i spent defending against the geese and dealing with my phone etc., i'd be over 17 mph avg), probably could have done 18 -19 mph. I'm not sure if keeping it easy was the right call or not, but overall I'm happy with the ride and glad i didn't blow it off.
Now, when I got home, I found that Gunnar had another episode of gastric distress. Of course, he couldn't have had it on the tile floor, he had to go in the living room on the hard wood floor. Since he is a big dog, his "distress" was really big and gross. About a half hour after cleaning everything up, I was reading the paper and eating breakfast, when he got up and walked into the living room and then whammo projectile vomiting! I kicked him out of the room while I cleaned up this new huge mess and then I heard some more projectile vomiting. At least this time it was on the tile. I then let him out and he suffered some gastric distress. Gross x 10000000
He then walked into the kitchen and ate the rice w/ chicken broth he refused before.
Sometimes having a big dog is a real pain Think I'll buy some more air freshener today.

Oh, i almost forgot; at about 34 miles I dropped my sunglasses. Turned around to pick them up only to watch 3 cars heading for them; somehow they all missed the glasses. Then just as I was back to them, a 4th car came by; i need to buy new sunglasses

They actually found her just 400m downhill from where the other woman was found on Thursday night.  Searchers had already searched the area, but they suspect she was hiding, afraid she was in trouble and wouldn't come out.  S&R questioned the other woman, Judy, again today, and she finally relayed that she hadn't been walking alone for long (she said the same when found, but she wasn't speaking unless spoken to at that time, and was answering 'Yes' to almost every question asked, so they didn't know how reliable her info was.).  Joy was found just sitting in an 'inaccessible' forested area. 

They actually found her just 400m downhill from where the other woman was found on Thursday night.  Searchers had already searched the area, but they suspect she was hiding, afraid she was in trouble and wouldn't come out.  S&R questioned the other woman, Judy, again today, and she finally relayed that she hadn't been walking alone for long (she said the same when found, but she wasn't speaking unless spoken to at that time, and was answering 'Yes' to almost every question asked, so they didn't know how reliable her info was.).  Joy was found just sitting in an 'inaccessible' forested area. 

this is how my Sunday is going (from my training log):

 So, this was quite the interesting ride. It started when I tried to ignore my alarm and sleep in a bit. Gunnar came and whined at me and since he had me up during the night with his gastric distress, I had to get up. Good thing i did. Anyway, got him walked, anit-diarrhealed and got on my way.
Oh, i almost forgot; at about 34 miles I dropped my sunglasses. Turned around to pick them up only to watch 3 cars heading for them; somehow they all missed the glasses. Then just as I was back to them, a 4th car came by; i need to buy new sunglasses

Watching women's water polo.  The China/Australia game was fantastic!  It even had a boob flash!! My youngest thought it was great.

The USA/Italy match is good too.  GO USA!!!

this is how my Sunday is going (from my training log):