Red Warrior's Journal: Fiddles don't make violins (random randomness)

Well, I stayed home sick today. The flu shot may NOT have been the culprit. I checked my Outlook web access a couple times today, and it appears that half my team was out sick. I may have just been the canary. Feeling better now, but really cruddy this AM.

This allowed me to spend six hours going through 10 hours of mandatory Army briefings today. :-)

Went to south sound running (highly recommended by a couple of coworkers who are running freaks) and got fitted for a pair of running shoes.
As opposed to going into $Random_store and purchasing $Random_pair. We'll see if it makes running suck any less. The lady manning (womaning?) the store was very knowledgeable (as opposed to the standard shoe store clerk). Had me demonstrate my running stride with a number of different shoes. I was surprised with how quickly I got in, got my questions answered without any "what a moron" looks (I assume they have classes on that. :-) ). One other thing that really surprised me was that they have a 30 day return policy. On shoes. That you run in. :-0 Sometimes brick & mortar is worth it.

Women. They plumb confound me. The end. No particular story. Just sayin'.

For the record, the Super Bowl rocked. I WAS rooting for the Colts, but only because I know a bunch of Bears fans, and I'm like that. :-P But what made it a good game was the the "don't blink or you'll miss it" factor. Talinom and I had been watching something I'd recorded from the military channel, and we switched to the game exactly 18 seconds (game clock time) after the kickoff. Which meant that we missed the first TD. That set the standard for the game. At least the Bear's offense didn't get all tired. :-P

Talinom got a goddamn haircut! I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when he walked in. :-D

The project at work, her schedule has slipped to the right. This is where mutually reinforcing and supporting layers of paranoia really pay off. :-) We are still a week+ ahead of what management thinks our schedule is.

Turned out I don't need as many pre-reqs as I'd expected, and will be starting my MA in a few months.

I've commented on it before, but it still startles me when random people strike up conversations with me in public. (This is a fairly new experience for me, traceable to the exact moment I got rid of the chip on my shoulder, and defaulted to being happy) Happened Sunday at Fred Meyer. Today, it was a little old lady at the bank who wanted to know if I boxed (not an odd question, given I was wearing my gym's sweatshirt, which has an icon of boxing gloves on it.). Wanted to know if I'd ever knocked anyone out, ever been knocked out, etc. She told me about how she used to wrestle with her brothers and beat them, until they hit their teens. And how she took a Tai Chi class ("it's like boxing, but for little old ladies" was her exact quote) one time. I seem to be a favorite of little old ladies for some reason. Young hotties, not so much. :-/

The banana bread was good. I used to have a mixer. I don't know where it is now. As it turns out, you CAN make a blender serve as a makeshift mixer. Not the recommended approach, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Despite all the issues some on the dot have with Christianity and Christians, my experience has been that devout Christians are generally nicer and more pleasant than the population at large. YMMV. (And, no, I still have no plans of entering a church any time real soon now.)

Yeah! I made a big interest-free loan to the feds in 2006! W00T!!! Will definitely pay for the Disney World trip (early August) in full, as well as at least one other trip. AND BAG day, too? Could be. :-D

And stuff.

'nite.

Yup.

[Talinom]

Talinom got a goddamn haircut! I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when he walked in. :-D

And when I say the term flattop [wikipedia.org] they had better damn know what that is. Perhaps I should bring the wiki article print out a few [pathguy.com] (I want the jaw, too) damn [pathguy.com] pictures [pathguy.com] so they can know what I mean.

I seem to be a favorite of little old ladies for some reason. Young hotties, not so much. :-/

At least you don't attract the strange little old ladies. In Germany. And have to use them as a translator. To order food. Becau

Women

[Tet]

Women. They plumb confound me. The end. No particular story. Just sayin'.

Trust me, you're far from alone there...

Yay for interest-free loans!

[Some Woman]

Mine will pay for 3 plane tickets. I hate measuring things in plane tickets.

running store

[stoolpigeon]

finding a good local running store is like finding a good mechanic. i've tried buying shoes a few ways, but you can't beat having access to the knowledge you'll find in those places. if you can pick up a pair of the exact same shoe and size as you had before, you can bypass it, but the shoes change so quickly that it's worth it to go in.

to me the right shoes allow you to get down to the core of the thing. bad shoes never let you get there because they distract you with all the problems they creat

Bars

[Shadow Wrought]

Young hotties, not so much. :-/

Back when I was single I could guarantee that any I time I went into a bar that one of two groups would hit on me: gay men and women in their fifties. Neither one of which I was interested in;-) Now that I'm married, the young hotties are everywhere. Such is life...

Re:

[nizo]

Now that I'm married, the young hotties are everywhere.

Thats because as you age, women who you thought were too old for you are now young and hot :-D Just wait, I bet once you hit sixty those 50 year olds will start looking pretty hot....

Tsk, Tsk

[bettiwettiwoo]

The flu shot may NOT have been the culprit.

You're only saying that. Technolust and I know better.