TAN #203: TANese New Year - Horsing Around (Page 74)

it was like 82 degrees last night and my run was so miserable.  i love summer (full sun, lots of heat, beach, boats, pools) but i really need it to always be 55 - 60 degrees and overcast for running.  how do i get both of these?

Another solution is to buy your own personal jet and fly to Canada every day for your run.

TW

Edited by tech_geezer 2014-05-22 8:04 AM

The second guy should get arrested for theft because he totally stole that line.

TW

Edited by tech_geezer 2014-05-22 8:18 AM

private jet...why didn't i think of that!

Yeah, the heat is no fun...  It slows me down big time if I'm going by HR.  Running when it's 110 out adds 2-3 minutes per mile over running in 60 degree weather - if not more.

It has gotten so bad that they are going just go ahead with the plan to put Prozac in the water.

Actually, it is mainly the news.  In real life, even people who throw shoes at the TV screen are pretty nice in person.  You encounter an occasional jerk but mostly people are civilized.  I think that you hear the most sensational news from the United States abroad, and well actually you hear it domestically too.  If I listen to the more biased news sources, it is a continuous rant about one thing or another.   That is pretty much all for ratings.  I just put on a filter on my brain and set the gain for about 0.1 and sort out the facts and let the interpretation and spin go off to bother the intended audience.  Even nominally fair reporting is biased by selection. They can't tell all the stories so the selection process inherently prioritizes and biases the news you hear.

That and a glass of Rioja to remind you of Spain will get you through if you should ever come this way again.  On second thought, let's just all move to Barcelona.  I could live there.

TW

We still have better baseball here.

eh, i think some people are just angry people and some are not.  i bet you get that everywhere.  but if i lived in spain i'd never leave.

I'm angry that I don't get angry enough.

i think you are definitely one of the angry folks that gr33n is talking about!

I'm angry at you for dog-shaming in your profile pic.

weekend trip to monterrey/big sur in the works for 4th of july!  oh em gee i hope i can make this happen!!!

I think they are more oblivious to what is going on around them... or rather... caring about it. So many people today are ALL ABOUT THEMSELVES. Who cares if they are blocking the isle in the store? Who cares if they holding up a line of traffic because they decided to keep their head in their phone? Etc. 

They are also way larger @ssholes on the road who think they OWN IT and do NOTHING WRONG. For example, last weekend we were driving in downtown. This truck, didn't want to stay in their lane while going through the light (I'm pretty sure they were unable to follow the lines the went to the right and kept going straight, thus moving into our lane, instead of staying in their lane) and just took over our lane. We had to slam on our brakes so they didn't HIT our car, and we honked so they would realize we were IN the lane. Then they got over, hung their finger out the window to flip us off, and started to try to race us. Let's see... all because we HONKED the car horn so our car wouldn't get creamed. Oh, but they did NOTHING WRONG, so it was time to flip us off? This is a common occurrence here on the roads. No one does anything wrong, can't be responsible for what they do to endanger other people,and they get mad at the people they almost killed. Yep. 

Gosh, I got angry just talking about it. Yep. We are an angry society. Ha!  

Live in Seattle? 

It was 90 degrees here yesterday. I was OK in the heat. It's when it gets to be 100 that I'm suffering, a lot. 

We had to cone our little dog.  She HATED it - petrified her - literally (well, you know what I mean).  She would sort of half stand, half crouch, tail tucked, wide eyed AND NOT MOVE a muscle.  I think I let her stand there for 15 minutes before I had to take it off.

Ended up getting something like an airplane pillow you put around their neck.  They don't fee so "enclosed" but it also blocks them from licking the ears they are not supposed to.

I generally don't get angry - which angers me.

I passed the "carefree" test on FB with flying colors.

BUT, I think people like to complain and rant and get attention.  I think people are generally pretty happy in the US.  They just whinge a lot about nonsense.

Plus the news loves their blood and controversy.  I'm not sure why if it's bad, it's news but if it's anything else?  It's not...  An exaggeration, but it seems to go that way.  The local news doesn't really just talk about newsworthy items in general - just the murder and accidents and corruption mostly.

I just thought of Kiley and realized I miss her phunny sayings and posts...

"Kerfuffle" got me going down memory lane...

I find that posters named "mr2tony" on the internet make ME angry.

It's weird seeing BTers pictures sometimes.  Completely not what I was imagining - same for the 30 or so I met in real life.

Except for mr2tony.  Exactly what I was expecting...  TOOL....