Hoopla!
Welcome to 2011. In the grande olde tradition, this Bear slides another Random thread your way. Please treat it well as we motor through the coming year. Have a super year, my friends.
Bear
Hoopla!
Welcome to 2011. In the grande olde tradition, this Bear slides another Random thread your way. Please treat it well as we motor through the coming year. Have a super year, my friends.
Bear
Occupy Cyburbia!
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Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
May all Cyburbians have a happy, healthy, and completely random New Year!
Happy New Year to our east coast Cyburbians (still 30 minutes away from midnight for the midwest).
Happy new year everyone! we have been celebrating by going swimming in a waterhole at the national park down the road from me- so nice!
"Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?" Zoolander
With the Mega Million Lottery jackpot some $ 290 million
would you spent a dollar to buy your own ticket or join an office pool for tuesday's drwing ?
I would.
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Balancing my checkbook this New Year's morn. Just noticed that today is 1-1-11. How nice.
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Yes, JNA, the Mega truly is mega. I will buy a few tickets. I always participate in the office pool......I don't want to be one of a handful that remain if the winning ducat is drawn.
Bear
Occupy Cyburbia!
Celebrated New Year by waking up to gunfire in CA instead of TX. Nothing came down on us so I went back to sleep.
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
I guestimated my federal return and it looks like I will break even or get a couple hundred back. The feds got dodgy with the child tax credit this year...you only get it if your kid is under 17 at year end and guess who turned 17 this yearAh well.
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
I remember that from New Year celebrations in Las Cruces. One time, when I was at a party close to the barrio, at midnight all of us went outside to hear the festivities. After about 30 seconds of the usual gun shots, we heard bursts of automatic weapon fire.Originally posted by ofos
Every January 1st, the nightly news from El Paso would do a story on yet another sleeping baby that was killed by a falling bullet. All the PSAs in the world didn't make a dent in the tradition of midnight bang-bang.
Here in The Buff, it's a few people with leftover illegal fireworks from Independence Day.
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
Where in CA are you at? Stayed at home for the 1st time ever since I was probably 13. the wife, princess and i stayed up watching the karate kid till about 10:30 then some boob tube till midnight. She promptly went to bed at 12:15..so did we
Brotip #2418 - know when it's time to switch from being "the little engine that could" to the "little engine that said, 'f*ck it'"
Indio in the Coachella Valley.
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
I was in Morgan Hill for X-mas.
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Here's to all of you and a good 2011...
"Whatever beer I'm drinking, is better than the one I'm not." DMLW
I just wanted to post on the first page of this thread.
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - 1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
A few years ago I made a goal of completing a triathlon before I turned 35. Well, 35 is quickly approaching and I have yet to complete that goal. There's a sprint triathlon in July that I'm beginning to think about participating in. From what I've read it appears that one can train for a sprint triathlon in about 3 months. So I have some time to train. I figure I can push through the bike ride and the run, my biggest concern is the swim.
I assume the sprint is 750 m swim, 20k bike, and 5k run. If that is the case, if you can get in shape for the run, you can relax on the bike and make it through. The swim is first, so you don't drownA few years ago I made a goal of completing a triathlon before I turned 35. Well, 35 is quickly approaching and I have yet to complete that goal. There's a sprint triathlon in July that I'm beginning to think about participating in. From what I've read it appears that one can train for a sprint triathlon in about 3 months. So I have some time to train. I figure I can push through the bike ride and the run, my biggest concern is the swim.
Good luck! The sense of completion you will feel is great! I would say that if you aren't in shape for any of the three disiplines, 3 months is cutting it close, but if you scheduled on for July or August, I would say 5-7 months is more than enough time to get accustomed to the workouts. But in the end it is really up to you and how well you want to do. If completion = success you will be fine in 3 months
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Here's to hoping that 2011 is as fruitful as 2010 was for the RTDNTOTO!!!!
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams
First post from the new job!
Okay, off to lunch. Gonna' be scarce here for a little bit.
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
w00t! Congrats, Fearless Leader. Post updates as appropriate and able!
15 laps?I assume the sprint is 750 m swim, 20k bike, and 5k run. If that is the case, if you can get in shape for the run, you can relax on the bike and make it through. The swim is first, so you don't drown
Good luck! The sense of completion you will feel is great! I would say that if you aren't in shape for any of the three disiplines, 3 months is cutting it close, but if you scheduled on for July or August, I would say 5-7 months is more than enough time to get accustomed to the workouts. But in the end it is really up to you and how well you want to do. If completion = success you will be fine in 3 monthsOk. That is doable. Maybe. I hope. Better get out the water wings!
My goal is to finish. I'm not concerned with time, just making it over the finish line in one piece!
I did a triathlon once that started with biking (on exercise bikes) first, then the swim, and the run last. A number of competitors overdid the bike and nearly drowned in the pool. Tough transition from bike to swim and anaerobic swimming is not a good thing.
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
I quickly looked for a thread, but could have missed it. There have been so many new threads in the 2 weeks or so that I was on vacation and, thus, as far away from a computer as I could get.
So...
Has anybody eaten at a Cheddar's ? any good ?
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Congrats again on the new job!!
"We do not need any other Tutankhamun's tomb with all its treasures. We need context. We need understanding. We need knowledge of historical events to tie them together. We don't know much. Of course we know a lot, but it is context that's missing, not treasures." - Werner Herzog, in Archaeology, March/April 2011
Congrats Dan on the new gigs.
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So yea, it's raining. Again. Seriously, can someone please shut off the rain already?
Brotip #2418 - know when it's time to switch from being "the little engine that could" to the "little engine that said, 'f*ck it'"
