Mad Manatees 2015.4 CLOSED (or Poptart/pet pic ticket) (Page 52)

That's great!  No doubt the improvements will continue.

Fingers crossed for ya, good luck!

Yay snow day!

Santa Fe was delayed an hour for an amount of snow that in Denver wouldn't even be measurable.

What is this snow day of which you speak?

Snow - It is a solid form of rain. The reason I moved back to Florida. I may have overcompensated 

I think DS2 will have to  come to NM to see snow. Odd, very odd.

Crazy, but it might be true here too. That storm a few weeks ago dropped ~14" on us, but still have green grass everywhere.

I was given the green light to start weight-bearing as pain allows - woohoo! Still have to wear the big ol' boot for 2 more weeks but then I can graduate to an ankle brace. I'm very unsteady on my feet so I'm opting for one crutch - and I need to wear a heeled shoe on my good foot to compensate for the lift the boot has. There's some "iffy" pain but I think it's my limited range of motion from not walking for 9+ weeks.

I was also given the green light to start stationary biking and swimming - woohoo! I'm a bit apprehensive about biking but I think if I kept things at a super light tension I could do a bit of spinning on the trainer. Looking forward to getting my heart rate up again.

The snow cards made me chuckle.  Your "political crisis day" reminded me of a guy I worked with in Omaha. He once actually said (out loud) that he wished one of the former POTUS would die so we'd get a day off.

PROGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Progress indeed, woohoo!!!! Keep moving forward, even if it is a little bit at a time.

I may be circling back around to an earlier discussion, but I have been working through some social media stuff, both personal and for my church lately and it really struck me that there are a lot of options and ideas on how best to use that stuff.  I use FB, Twitter, Instagram, and I'll include Strava, since it sort of fits. I use each a bit differently, FB for more personal friends and family stuff, Twitter for company, education, news, etc and Strava is just workout sharing. And Instagram is kind of used intermittantly with any/all 3.

So, how is everyone using theirs? I know I've tried Hootsuite and Buffer to pull things together in a collective dashboard, but I haven't quite figured that whole mess out either and I'm not sure I ever will. Is anyone using any tools to make it a bit easier to handle?  And does anyone have anyone in particular that they would suggest following?

I have a twitter account but have never sent a tweet.  I occasionally remember to look at others' twitter accounts.

I do not have, nor have I ever looked at Instagram.  I don't know that there's any particular reason other than I just don't do it.

I use FB mainly because my running group communicates a lot through it.  Before that, although I had an account I could go months and months without even remembering it existed.  Now I look at it all the time, I post on occasion, mainly responding to someone and once in a very great while post something original. I have changed my profile pic a few times though  Most of my family is not on FB either.

I use strava to upload my workouts and check out all the manatees' awesomeness!

I have a LinkdIn account that I never use.

Hmmm, I think I see a pattern 

Facebook - stay up with family and friends and get irritated at all of the political chit (on both sides). I don't post often but am hoping to use it (and IG) to grow Team RWB - Albuquerque

Twitter - don't even check it often

IG - don't post often but love stalking what others are doing

Strava - see and be seen

Don't post enough to try to intigrate them and probably couldn't figure it out if I wanted to

I’m finally able to come up for air for a few minutes.  Last week was a conference and this week calls and calls and calls.

Kirsten and Karen - Happy marking…  Or something like that.

Stacey - ouch! I hope that the jellyfish stings are healing up nicely.  Other than that, how was the race?

Melanie - The Widows won! Woo hoo!

Chris - I’m glad that you had an enjoyable getaway.

Laura - You’re a fishy fish! You are faster than me in already!  I learned to swim when I was about 40 and while I feel confident in the water, fast I am not.

Ben - I hope that PT is less painful this week :-/

Robin - I hope that you had the most of your snow day ;-)

Regarding where is winter?  Two or three years ago we had very very mild weather in December and we paid for every degree of December warmth in February. Meanwhile, I’ve been running in shorts and t-shirts.

Lisa - Congratulations on the beginning of weight bearing! PROGRESS!  With any luck at all, the boot will be history by the new year!  Oh, and stationary bike and swim too!  Nice!  With my shoulder injury, I found that spin bikes were easier to get on/off than a trainer but I ended up using the trainer more because I could schedule it more easily.  Plus I really didn’t want to be in class.

Chris - I use Facebook somewhat reluctantly.  Mostly photos and stuff like my tri club.  I really don’t like group discussion in FB because there is just so much cr*p to wade through.  I also use Instagram, Twitter and Strava.

I just stick with FB. I don't want to move between eighteen hundred specialized sites. I can navigate all the sites just fine, just gets tedious checking so many things.

I am with you. I don't even have Linked In even though i know i should. I opened a Tumblr but don't use it. 

I get why Twitter is great i just hate reading all the @@@@'s and # - i find it hard to read and enjoy so i don't use it. 

Great summary, Janyne.  I'm still not using the computer much so I'm yet again way behind on the Manatee news.  I'm going to be lazy and just say x2 on all the well wishes and congrats. As for winter, I'm in the same boat as Robin, being in the same area.  I was supposed to run 3 mi. yesterday.  Didn't happen.  There was no way I was going to go outside and running 24 laps on the 200 m track at the rec center really didn't appeal.  Luckily, DH didn't get home with the car until 5:30 and the rec center closed at 6 due to the weather.  Whew.  Going to do a bit of a trainer ride today and walk the dogs to get my lazy azz off the couch.  Looks like I may be going back to work next week and I'll admit, I'm not really looking forward to it. On the other hand, I'll hopefully be able to check in here more often since I'll be on the computer most of the day.  That rates a for sure!!

Chris, since I've been off work, I really haven't been on any social media much because of the computer use issues. I'm only on FB for my tri club and RWB these days via my phone.  I'll occasionally look at the "news feed" but only stalk and "like" other people's posts.  I only look at Manatee photos on IG and have a linked-in account but it's totally out of date and I never use it. Strava - just for fun, really.