My Google home page has a "quote of the day" feature. Todays:
"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates."
-- Jay Leno
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Yay for Burlington
We had to do some laundry at the laundromat yesterday. The dryer at our place was on the fritz (again) and our landlord is being his typically helpful self in getting it fixed (nine days and counting). But that's another rant.
The point of this post is that I accidentally left a nearly new box of fabric softener sheets at the laundromat when I was done. It's the hugest size we could find, but even so it's only worth about $6. I didn't even realize I had forgotten it until several hours later. We headed back over to the laundromat on the way to the grocery store, as much out of curiosity as anything. I guarantee if we had done something like that in Scarborough, it would have been gone in five minutes, just out of sheer principle. It doesn't matter how much something is worth, the "troubled youth" out there will steal it just because it isn't bolted to the floor, even if all they intend to do is pull the sheets out and scatter them all over the parking lot. However, in Burlington, our box of dryer sheets was sitting right where I left it. I don't think anyone even used any sheets out of it, and it looked like nobody so much as bothered to move it to the side so they could use the table it was on. They probably figured I had left it there to reserve the table, and respected that.
As I'm sure you guessed (by the fact that I'm bothering to talk about it), I was quite impressed.
The point of this post is that I accidentally left a nearly new box of fabric softener sheets at the laundromat when I was done. It's the hugest size we could find, but even so it's only worth about $6. I didn't even realize I had forgotten it until several hours later. We headed back over to the laundromat on the way to the grocery store, as much out of curiosity as anything. I guarantee if we had done something like that in Scarborough, it would have been gone in five minutes, just out of sheer principle. It doesn't matter how much something is worth, the "troubled youth" out there will steal it just because it isn't bolted to the floor, even if all they intend to do is pull the sheets out and scatter them all over the parking lot. However, in Burlington, our box of dryer sheets was sitting right where I left it. I don't think anyone even used any sheets out of it, and it looked like nobody so much as bothered to move it to the side so they could use the table it was on. They probably figured I had left it there to reserve the table, and respected that.
As I'm sure you guessed (by the fact that I'm bothering to talk about it), I was quite impressed.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Why dogs hate their owners
They're called Doggles. Why would anyone do something this silly, you ask? Well, there are two reasons. One is protection from flying debris when he sticks his head out of the window of the truck. The other is UV protection, which will be particularly important in Colorado at 12,000 feet.
I just couldn't resist the urge to blog about the Doggles. Just don't call me a "Doggle blogger." That sounds vaguely unwholesome.
Gym again
I made it over to the gym again this morning. Nothing particularly noteworthy, mostly I just want a record for myself. I moved from the bike up to the elliptical cross-trainer and did some upper body weights. I'm still battling the clock in the morning, and mostly losing. I'm going to get serious about my idea of heading over there in the evening. In fact, I'll plan it right now. Unless something else comes up to prevent me from doing so, I'm going to go back over there tomorrow (Tuesday) after work.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Back to the gym
Well, I managed to make it back to the gym this morning. A week and a half between workouts, clearly that's not going to cut it. Today I did the same time at a higher setting on the bike, plus got back on some of the other machines that I didn't do last time. I remember these machines being a lot easier than they were this morning. It seems I have been away for a while.
I'm going to have to figure out a better schedule for when to work out. I didn't get to the gym this morning until around 9:15, then after working out and showering I got to the office for 10:45, so I have to stay here until 7:15. Norah and I are trying to stick to an "early to bed, early to rise" schedule in preparation for our drive out to Colorado. Saturday evening we realized that we're going to need to start adjusting our sleeping schedules for the trip. We want to try to get up around 3:00 AM each morning while we're traveling so we can get where we're going before the weather turns too hot each day. That also means we're going to need to be getting to bed earlier. We have five weeks to adjust to the early schedule. Currently we're aiming to be in bed by 9:00 PM and up by 5:00 AM. We're not quite there yet, but we are doing better than our standard midnight bedtime during the week and 2:00 AM on weekends. We have to hit the 9:00 bedtime pretty quickly, because then we have to start bringing it back a half hour at a time if we want to hit our target for the trip.
It's going to be pretty difficult to be in bed by 9:00 when I have to work until 7:15. Add time to drive home, eat dinner, walk the dog, etc. and it gets past bedtime really quickly. Obviously I really need to work on the "getting my butt out the door in the morning" phase of the day. I'm thinking I might shift my workouts to the evening after work. That's what I used to do when I was working with the personal trainer, just because it was the only time I could get an appointment with him. It might make more sense to tire myself out with a workout just before going to bed, as opposed to tiring myself out just before going to the office.
I'm going to have to figure out a better schedule for when to work out. I didn't get to the gym this morning until around 9:15, then after working out and showering I got to the office for 10:45, so I have to stay here until 7:15. Norah and I are trying to stick to an "early to bed, early to rise" schedule in preparation for our drive out to Colorado. Saturday evening we realized that we're going to need to start adjusting our sleeping schedules for the trip. We want to try to get up around 3:00 AM each morning while we're traveling so we can get where we're going before the weather turns too hot each day. That also means we're going to need to be getting to bed earlier. We have five weeks to adjust to the early schedule. Currently we're aiming to be in bed by 9:00 PM and up by 5:00 AM. We're not quite there yet, but we are doing better than our standard midnight bedtime during the week and 2:00 AM on weekends. We have to hit the 9:00 bedtime pretty quickly, because then we have to start bringing it back a half hour at a time if we want to hit our target for the trip.
It's going to be pretty difficult to be in bed by 9:00 when I have to work until 7:15. Add time to drive home, eat dinner, walk the dog, etc. and it gets past bedtime really quickly. Obviously I really need to work on the "getting my butt out the door in the morning" phase of the day. I'm thinking I might shift my workouts to the evening after work. That's what I used to do when I was working with the personal trainer, just because it was the only time I could get an appointment with him. It might make more sense to tire myself out with a workout just before going to bed, as opposed to tiring myself out just before going to the office.
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