Addendum to completing the Couch-to-5K plan: Starting this week I’m free to do whatever when it comes to running. On Monday I didn’t have a lot of time so instead of running for 30 minutes, I decided to see how quickly I could complete 5K, hoping to come in under 20 minutes. My time was 19:48, so I was pretty pleased by that. I’m also now buying Runner’s World the same way I used to buy CGW way back when. An obsession is born.
Sparky
2762
You can’t just leave this hanging mid-air…we want the sordid details.
Well, I do.
And congratulations on the house, Dean! It looks spiffy.
JonRowe
2763
Written warning at work, shape up in 4 weeks or ship out!
Looking at my options now.
I bought a new truck (Chevy Silverado 2500 HD).
I’m curious since that’s how I got my last job (replaced that guy).
How does this work? What do you do, what did you do wrong and what are they demanding you change?
Griddle
2766
Pics, or it didn’t happen. ;)
Also, got me a smoker…
At least you have a warning. I remember getting let go once with no warning at all, though that’s not what the termination letter claimed. Apparently I got several verbal and written warnings. Must have been when I was on vacation at the time… oh wait, no, their vacation policy included black out days that essentially made it impossible to take any vacation. It sucked at the time but getting canned from there was the best thing that could have happened to me at the time.
I have successfully lost 27 pounds bringing me down from 234 to 207. I credit my 30 min. bike ride to class each day as well as my hour workout every 2 days and a slimmed down actually healthy diet.
noun
2770
Wait - you mean exercise and dietary changes result in losing weight? IMPOSSIBLE.
Seriously, congratulations. I know how that feels great, both physically and mentally.
WarrenM
2771
Wait - you mean exercise and dietary changes result in losing weight? IMPOSSIBLE.
I’ve been on the same sort of program since Nov 2008 and I’ve lost over 60 pounds. It really works! It is, however, not easy so it’ll never sell.
Lorini
2772
Yes, a pediatrician friend of mine and I have discussed trademarking the “Eat Less, Move More” diet. It’s all about the physics!
WarrenM
2773
SkyMall magazine has a kick ass machine in it. It costs $14,000 and promises to get you in shape in 4 minutes a day. Seriously.
tromik
2774
I’m guessing it’s the range of motion machine they always advertise in Popular Mechanics. It looks like a torture device.
WarrenM
2775
That’s the one! My wife and I always get a chuckle out of when we see it in the magazine.
kerzain
2776
I’m having flashbacks of the movie Burn After reading.
A colleague passed away over the weekend. I just found out this morning. I had just seen him at our pre-semester division meeting on Friday. We weren’t close friends or anything, but I liked the guy. He was sarcastic but genuine. Somehow, his death (at 61 of a heart attack, since people often wish to know such details) is really bothering me. Perhaps it’s because I’ve had two close loved ones pass away over the last year or so and never really experienced death before that. My father-in-law also passed away last summer, and he was a good guy. I’m 35, so maybe I’m just reaching that age where it starts to be a regular thing. But I don’t like it; not one bit.
ElGuapo
2778
I guess as you get older those big events change. First everyone gets married, then everyone has kids, then everyone starts having midlife crisises, then everyone starts dying.
My “what happened to you recently” would be that over the last two days, my girlfriend and I more or less broke up. No huge deal happened, no earth shattering event, we just ended up deciding we don’t feel it anymore and since we both want to get remarried and have some kids, it’s about time to call it quits after a year and a half or so.
These things seem to come in cycles for me. I meet a girl, fall in love, have a long term relationship that lasts a long time, eventually we break up, then I go all Tommy-Boy-In-The-Diner-But-Instead-Of-A-Dinner-Roll-Its-A-String-Of-Wild-Sexual-Escapades for a while, then I meet another girl and settle down, etc. I just wish one of these would stick, it’s really getting tiring after a while.
Aaaaaaanywho, no “Sorry man, that sucks”, as I know it sucks. But the question is … why are relationships so damn hard? Because don’t believe the man behind the green curtain . . . they are. For me, at least. They seem easy but something always seems to happen. Hell, this time I even reprioritized and went for the nicest possible person I could find and totally ignored the main motivator I’ve had in the past, good sex and common interests and intellectual stimulation . . . and shit son, it turns out the sex part is pretty important too.
Tora Tora Tora!
Lorini
2779
We’ll see you in the Internet dating thread shortly :)
A banner ad for cornhole.com just appeared on QT3. That is SO awesome.
