Yanti & Salty Mad Manatees PART 3: FULL POD (Page 49)

bcraht - 2012-07-18 6:21 PM If you were rich, and already had all the Tri gear you wanted, what would you spend your money on?   I'll start.  I would audit courses (cause I like to learn, but I HATE taking exams and writing papers) and I would buy books.  And build a library in my house, with a big fluffy chair, and a fireplace, and a ladder that moved so I could reach all my books.

This'll be fun!

1. Vacations

2. A vacation home in Costa Rica big enough to host all my friends and family and Manatees

3. A hobby farm with horses, cattle, and a huge wetland for duck hunting.

4. a Sweetazz RV for my parents so they could go on adventures

5. a couple more dogs (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers, please!)

(OK, that's 5 - but It really hard to pick just one thing! - but if i had to, I'd spend all my $$ on vacations!)

Yeah. Krakauer was a little rough on Anatoli; I thought that even while I was reading his book. I got a little defensive for him. I thought he really did do all he could. Krakauer made him sound like a heartless bastard, and I don't think that fit with what else he had said about him or with his actions once he realized people were lost.

I decided I did want to read The Climb to get the other side; your post reminded me.

Ha! I'm a Sagittarius too!

Okay, I don't want to sound like a total granola head/Oregon girl here, but if I were rich, I would quit my job, but continue to teach/lecture. I would buy some land and a very small, self-sufficient cabin (solar, wind, etc), and then with the rest of the money, start some kind of non-profit for social issues -- I have no idea what social issue, just something -- maybe literacy or Math/Sciences/Engineering -- something for kids related to education -- something to give them more opportunities.

Oh, and I'd love to give a TED Talk on something. Maybe about my non-profit or my cool cabin.

Obviously I'm never going to be rich because I haven't fleshed this out at all!! I never play the lottery, and I don't know if I'll ever have time to write a best selling series that will be turned into Hollywood blockbusters. So, there you go.

If that English executive woman can make millions out of Fifty Shades of Drivel then I am sure we can all get rich.

Wow, I stay off the computer for a few days and the threads go CRAZY! I got caught up though, so I wanna play too!!!

I wouldof course this is after paying off all the debt we have!)

--Buy a nice country place (i.e. something that isn't RIGHT next to a busy road, with a bit of space), have a nice large pond, gardens, both decorative and food providing, and space to house any outdoor-living reptile pets (like my turtles, tortoises and the tegu)

--Build a large multi-purpose sports hall--with space for a hockey ring (it would be dry land, not ice--too much effort there), an obstacle course for me to play on, and a street course for bmx bikes (something my husband used to do, and I always wanted to try.

--I would build a full martial arts dojo--and hire many teachers and learn many disciplines (especially Capoeira, Shotokan Karate, and some WuShu)

--Travel--to Australia, back to Sicily, Europe, Indonesia (OF COURSE!!), and some nifty spots--like the Galapagos Islands, Easter Island, maybe to Madagascar too.

I have said that I would definitely be donating money to my zoo--for every animal area, however, I would give a big chunk just to fully remodel (or maybe bulldoze and build a new) the reptile house, build some outdoor large reptile exhibits  (KOMODO DRAGONS!!!! CROCS!!! and bunches of LARGE TURTLES!!!) 

hmmph....maybe I should not have had so much caffeine today.... I think I will do a bit of a fighting workout tonight....that sounds fun. Okay off to hit the heavy bag!

If it's been a while since you read "Air" you should read it again, then read the Climb right after.  You'll be an Anatoli fan for sure after the Climb.  I agree, JK was super hard on him - it's really interesting to read Anatoli's perspective!

Cool ideas!

One question: whats a tegu?? photo?

taking a break from the rich daydream - just did a lunchtime run - very slow today, but I did the longer circuit which is way more hilly.

Anyway 6.25km in 45mins.  Happy to have done it!  Squad tonight.  I feel I may have found my training mojo!  Thanks for sticking with me!

Interesting .  Sounds like we have quite a few of us who would like some nice land with some critters.  Of course, that is where my library would go, in my house, with a wraparound deck, surrounded by farmland. 

Got a short bike in tonight.  Getting close to my challenge goal! 

Hey Salty, you were talking about doing a race together.  You seem like a music buff.  Here (Linky-poo) is one that has different international music every mile.  Best part?  Start is 2 minutes from my house.  Interested?

ETA: never mind, just noticed you have a race the next weekend.  Maybe next year?

well, since you asked....

This is me with my tegu (an Argentine lizard), Tangaroa; about a year or so ago.

A better close up of his face. They get about 3 feet long, have a HUGE mouth, and are pretty smart. Tango is a total sweetheart (hence the first photo), which is surprising, as he had been neglected, then left outside the zoo on a cold November night! 

Glad you like it, it was my first thought. So, Chris has signed up..............................

Dooooo iiiiiiittttt.

My common sense tells me to put in a really good effort at the sprint. It is the easiest for me logistically and the target for my first sprint was just to finish. On this one, i could push harder and see my progress.

Unfortunately, common sense occasionally desserts me, and as such, the challenge of the later Oly keeps creeping in under the radar. Also i keep hearing chicken noises when i think of doing the Sprint. If i do the Oly however, i am back to aiming just to finish, as i have never yet come close to any of the distances involved whilst training, nevermind doing them back to back.

Oh, so cool! I actually like roaches (when I like them and don't perceive them as vermin, kinda like rats) ... when I was a child I saw this roach so enormous, I just had to have him for a pet and I named him Howard and fed him all kinds of things. He liked soap, for the fat I imagine.

Did you know male roaches have SIX penes? No wonder they proliferate like they do ...

That's funny. I like climbing books too but the more I read them the less I want to climb. I've done two big (okay, semi-big, for here): Kinabalu 13,500ft and Gede 3000m (whatever that is in feet) but I'm done. Kinda like skydiving.

A great one is Touching My Father's Soul, by Jamling Tenzing Norgay (the son of Tenzing Norgay, first co-summiter of Everest along with Sir Edmund Hillary).

bcraht - 2012-07-19 7:21 AM If you were rich, and already had all the Tri gear you wanted, what would you spend your money on?   I'll start.  I would audit courses (cause I like to learn, but I HATE taking exams and writing papers) and I would buy books.  And build a library in my house, with a big fluffy chair, and a fireplace, and a ladder that moved so I could reach all my books.

About the same. (I assume you'd also start a charitable foundation in an area of interest because that's how you roll, and me too). I love exams and papers, though. Tangible effects of learning. I'd really like to get a Ph.D. in neuroscience.

The only part I'm really sorry about when I left the States is that I had about 10,000 books that were way too expensive to ship. I cried when I gave them away. I let my friends pick them over first (and that was very nice because I knew they really wanted them and to read them), and then took the rest to Goodwill. WAAAAAAH