iThink: Angie Hart, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
WX at 0600: 37.9 (3.3) DP 26.1 (-3.3) BP 30.06 (1017) E 9 RH 61
Odometer 1: 381.9mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = 157/174
Woke up early hoping to get in a run, and do physical therapy, but I spent too much time on the computer. Oops.
I forgot Angie Hart was the Angie Hart of Frente! That would explain the Australian accent. I still think the understated cover is nicely done because it's not a complete rehash of the original Smiths song. The other one I like is Walleye's "There is A Light," but that's because it successfully bridges two genres I'd think unbridgeable, namely BritPop and hardcore.
At least I got 3.5 up-tempo miles in. Or something that wasn't wogging.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:20 08:20 08:20 08:20 1.00
1.00 17:08 08:48 08:48 08:34 2.00
1.00 26:00 08:52 08:52 08:40 3.00
0.50 30:15 04:15 08:30 08:39 3.50
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
3.5mi on elliptical, 30min, 25 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Madder Rose, "Margaret"
WX at 0600: 44.1 (6.7) 42.1 (5.6) 29.88 (1011) N 14 light drizzle
Odometer 1: 378.4mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = no reading.
425 calories, or so it says.
I didn't feel like running while it was wet outside. It wasn't raining, but I didn't feel like getting very muddy either, so I went to the gym (which is in the process of being renovated) and cranked out about 3 and a half elliptimiles.
Searching through the channels, I also realized why I don't watch TV. What passes for popular entertainment makes my brain melt. This sounds elitist, but I don't care. I find what I see on TV (with some very few exceptions such as The Pacific) intellectually vacant. If I want that, I can break out some Jeremiah Weed and achieve that state in about 30 minutes.
WX at 0600: 44.1 (6.7) 42.1 (5.6) 29.88 (1011) N 14 light drizzle
Odometer 1: 378.4mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = no reading.
425 calories, or so it says.
I didn't feel like running while it was wet outside. It wasn't raining, but I didn't feel like getting very muddy either, so I went to the gym (which is in the process of being renovated) and cranked out about 3 and a half elliptimiles.
Searching through the channels, I also realized why I don't watch TV. What passes for popular entertainment makes my brain melt. This sounds elitist, but I don't care. I find what I see on TV (with some very few exceptions such as The Pacific) intellectually vacant. If I want that, I can break out some Jeremiah Weed and achieve that state in about 30 minutes.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
6.0mi, 51:58, 21 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Dos Gringos, "Going In For Guns"
WX at 1300: 39.0 (3.9) DP 25.0 (-3.9) BP 30.05 (1017) N 16 RH 56
Odometer 1: 374.9mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = 165/178
This is sad when this is my first run since Wednesday...and I don't think it's unusual that I've gone as long in between workouts as I have. Today was faster only because I had no snivel gear on. I was mostly done with some stuff around the house and realized I had a golden opportunity for a workout, so I took it. I need it.
This speaks volumes for low expectations. This indicative by my telling people that I know I can get a 180 on the PT test. That's about all I care about lately for goals.
I also started physical therapy for my right hand and trapezius, so I'm complaining of muscles that are sore because they're getting use and usually get none. Fun.
I have had little true motivation to do homework for graduate school this semester. Some of this is attributable to the fact that these are courses I have to take for degree requirements rather than ones I really want to take, but that's the price of doing business. The latest paper I've written is but an indicator. I have another due in two weeks that will have similar levels of suckitude.
Probably not as much suckitude as the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team, though. They play Virginia next week, which will probably continue the slide in what is turning out to be a really long season.
The fact that Kansas lost to Northern Iowa (a school where one of my good friends from my last combat tour went as an undergraduate!) was only incidental to me. Basketball is something that only dimly factors in my universe, right up there with watching paint dry. It does bother me when I read about college players having children, or debating on whether to stay at school another year rather than entering the early draft for the NBA, or comparing their loss in the NCAA tournament to losing a first son. It was the last part that really grated on me.
"Next to my son dying, this is probably the worst thing that has happened in my life." Uh-huh. There is more to life than sports.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:15 08:15 08:15 08:15 1.00
1.00 17:03 08:48 08:48 08:31 2.00
1.00 25:49 08:46 08:46 08:36 3.00
1.00 34:48 08:59 08:59 08:42 4.00
1.00 43:32 08:44 08:44 08:42 5.00
1.00 51:58 08:26 08:26 08:40 6.00
WX at 1300: 39.0 (3.9) DP 25.0 (-3.9) BP 30.05 (1017) N 16 RH 56
Odometer 1: 374.9mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = 165/178
This is sad when this is my first run since Wednesday...and I don't think it's unusual that I've gone as long in between workouts as I have. Today was faster only because I had no snivel gear on. I was mostly done with some stuff around the house and realized I had a golden opportunity for a workout, so I took it. I need it.
This speaks volumes for low expectations. This indicative by my telling people that I know I can get a 180 on the PT test. That's about all I care about lately for goals.
I also started physical therapy for my right hand and trapezius, so I'm complaining of muscles that are sore because they're getting use and usually get none. Fun.
I have had little true motivation to do homework for graduate school this semester. Some of this is attributable to the fact that these are courses I have to take for degree requirements rather than ones I really want to take, but that's the price of doing business. The latest paper I've written is but an indicator. I have another due in two weeks that will have similar levels of suckitude.
Probably not as much suckitude as the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team, though. They play Virginia next week, which will probably continue the slide in what is turning out to be a really long season.
The fact that Kansas lost to Northern Iowa (a school where one of my good friends from my last combat tour went as an undergraduate!) was only incidental to me. Basketball is something that only dimly factors in my universe, right up there with watching paint dry. It does bother me when I read about college players having children, or debating on whether to stay at school another year rather than entering the early draft for the NBA, or comparing their loss in the NCAA tournament to losing a first son. It was the last part that really grated on me.
"Next to my son dying, this is probably the worst thing that has happened in my life." Uh-huh. There is more to life than sports.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:15 08:15 08:15 08:15 1.00
1.00 17:03 08:48 08:48 08:31 2.00
1.00 25:49 08:46 08:46 08:36 3.00
1.00 34:48 08:59 08:59 08:42 4.00
1.00 43:32 08:44 08:44 08:42 5.00
1.00 51:58 08:26 08:26 08:40 6.00
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
4.1mi, 37:46, 17 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Morrissey, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" (live in Manchester)
WX at 0600: 39.9 (4.4) DP 39.9 (4.4) BP 30.22 (1023) NNW 7 mist RH 100
Odometer 1: 368.9mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 157/174
I stepped outside thinking it was going to be 35 and realized (as I should've) that the temperature is NEVER as low as the forecast says it'll be on the NOAA forecast site.
As a result, today was going to be a slow one. I figured once I was outside, no point in belaboring the fact that I needed to get going, so I ran a moderate pace so that I'd be able to burn the lard that desperately needs to get burned (although I admit that I'm not restricting the caloric intake necessary to really do that).
I also needed to just get out there as I realize it's dangerous to get into a rut of going too long without exercise, even if I realize that this song is forever tainted by my college and ROTC classmate Kevin Carroll attempting to turn this into a marching cadence. No shit.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:07 09:07 09:07 09:07 1.00
1.00 18:32 09:25 09:25 09:16 2.00
1.00 28:04 09:32 09:32 09:21 3.00
1.00 37:02 08:58 08:58 09:15 4.00
0.08 37:46 00:44 09:10 09:15 4.08
WX at 0600: 39.9 (4.4) DP 39.9 (4.4) BP 30.22 (1023) NNW 7 mist RH 100
Odometer 1: 368.9mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 157/174
I stepped outside thinking it was going to be 35 and realized (as I should've) that the temperature is NEVER as low as the forecast says it'll be on the NOAA forecast site.
As a result, today was going to be a slow one. I figured once I was outside, no point in belaboring the fact that I needed to get going, so I ran a moderate pace so that I'd be able to burn the lard that desperately needs to get burned (although I admit that I'm not restricting the caloric intake necessary to really do that).
I also needed to just get out there as I realize it's dangerous to get into a rut of going too long without exercise, even if I realize that this song is forever tainted by my college and ROTC classmate Kevin Carroll attempting to turn this into a marching cadence. No shit.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:07 09:07 09:07 09:07 1.00
1.00 18:32 09:25 09:25 09:16 2.00
1.00 28:04 09:32 09:32 09:21 3.00
1.00 37:02 08:58 08:58 09:15 4.00
0.08 37:46 00:44 09:10 09:15 4.08
Monday, March 15, 2010
4.1mi, 36:47, 15 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Bruce Springsteen, "The River"
WX at 0600: 43.0 (6.1) DP 42.1 (5.6) BP 30.21 (1023) NNW 10 RH 96
Odometer 1: 364.8mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = no reading
Beware the fuckin' Ides of March.
Daylight savings time is no goddamn fun. I stay up until past midnight and don't even notice it until I have to tell my older daughter to go to sleep because it's past 11pm. Then I have to set my alarm for 6:00am because I gotta have six hours of sleep but I desperately need to work out.
To add insult to injury, my Garmin Forerunner 305 discharged and I need to plug it back in since I left it running when I dropped it into the cradle, which I didn't realize...so no digital mapping of this morning's run...not that this run was anything other than Really Slow, Mostly.
THe iThink is being validated by current events.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
4.08 36:47 36:47 09:01 09:01 4.08
WX at 0600: 43.0 (6.1) DP 42.1 (5.6) BP 30.21 (1023) NNW 10 RH 96
Odometer 1: 364.8mi
Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = no reading
Beware the fuckin' Ides of March.
Daylight savings time is no goddamn fun. I stay up until past midnight and don't even notice it until I have to tell my older daughter to go to sleep because it's past 11pm. Then I have to set my alarm for 6:00am because I gotta have six hours of sleep but I desperately need to work out.
To add insult to injury, my Garmin Forerunner 305 discharged and I need to plug it back in since I left it running when I dropped it into the cradle, which I didn't realize...so no digital mapping of this morning's run...not that this run was anything other than Really Slow, Mostly.
THe iThink is being validated by current events.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
4.08 36:47 36:47 09:01 09:01 4.08
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Something I read while on R&R in 2008
A letter to ... My three children and their father
I read this with some foreboding, but this one really tugged at my heart when I read it, less than halfway through an Afghanistan tour in an R&R that I have few fond memories of.
I realized this column was one of the reasons why, of the English newspapers I read, The Guardian was by far my favorite.
(and NO, I am not thinking about 86ing myself.)
I read this with some foreboding, but this one really tugged at my heart when I read it, less than halfway through an Afghanistan tour in an R&R that I have few fond memories of.
I realized this column was one of the reasons why, of the English newspapers I read, The Guardian was by far my favorite.
(and NO, I am not thinking about 86ing myself.)
Not their finest hour
Listening to Johns Hopkins get eviscerated by Hofstra over WJFK's webcast (on www.espn1300.com) makes me wonder whether Hopkins will be at risk of even making the postseason since they don't have an automatic qualifier.
Of course, if they're playing like this against Hofstra, they're going to get beat badly by Syracuse next weekend.
This is like watching a car cash on CHiPs. It'll be bad, but you can't turn your head away.
Of course, if they're playing like this against Hofstra, they're going to get beat badly by Syracuse next weekend.
This is like watching a car cash on CHiPs. It'll be bad, but you can't turn your head away.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
3.4mi, 28:25, 11 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Bruce Springsteen, "The River"
WX at 0600: 42 (6) DP 42 (6) BP 29.39 (995) WSW 5 RH 100
Odometer 1: 360.7mi
Z3 high/Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 161/175
Today was another day of debating whether I wanted to go out. I need to start going to sleep earlier. I realize this because the first thing I want to do in the morning is go back to sleep because I'm still tired. If I'm making a choice between sleep and exercise, this is a bad sign. I made those choices when writing papers for graduate school and I made those choices as a planner in combat. Knowing what that feels like, it's not a good choice because I need both.
Today was surprisingly faster than I expected. It was also colder, so I suspect that helped.
Today's iThink was almost inevitable. There was no other choice.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:15 08:15 08:15 08:15 1.00
1.00 16:36 08:21 08:21 08:18 2.00
1.00 24:57 08:21 08:21 08:19 3.00
0.41 28:25 03:28 08:27 08:20 3.41
WX at 0600: 42 (6) DP 42 (6) BP 29.39 (995) WSW 5 RH 100
Odometer 1: 360.7mi
Z3 high/Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 161/175
Today was another day of debating whether I wanted to go out. I need to start going to sleep earlier. I realize this because the first thing I want to do in the morning is go back to sleep because I'm still tired. If I'm making a choice between sleep and exercise, this is a bad sign. I made those choices when writing papers for graduate school and I made those choices as a planner in combat. Knowing what that feels like, it's not a good choice because I need both.
Today was surprisingly faster than I expected. It was also colder, so I suspect that helped.
Today's iThink was almost inevitable. There was no other choice.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:15 08:15 08:15 08:15 1.00
1.00 16:36 08:21 08:21 08:18 2.00
1.00 24:57 08:21 08:21 08:19 3.00
0.41 28:25 03:28 08:27 08:20 3.41
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
4.0mi, 34:16, 10 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink:
Edison Shine, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
Loquat, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
The Smiths, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
WX at 0600: 46.0 (7.8) DP 46.0 (7.8) BP 29.5 (998) W 3 mist RH 100
Odometer 1: 359.3mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 152/171
I was listening to the iThink song as I was driving back from class in Lawrence yesterday. I will be glad when this semester is over, as it's coursework I need to do rather than something I want to do.
I felt completely dead and didn't really wake up until I was two miles into running. As a result, today was going to be nothing but wogging on the track...until I woke up and realized I was putting along at about 8:00/mi or so for some parts of it..
I'm still glad I got out there. I'm not sure if I had to make that choice whether I'd have gone out there, no matter how badly I need to run.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:28 08:28 08:28 08:28 1.00
1.00 17:09 08:41 08:41 08:34 2.00
1.00 25:34 08:25 08:25 08:31 3.00
1.04 34:16 08:42 08:22 08:29 4.04
Edison Shine, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
Loquat, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
The Smiths, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
WX at 0600: 46.0 (7.8) DP 46.0 (7.8) BP 29.5 (998) W 3 mist RH 100
Odometer 1: 359.3mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 152/171
I was listening to the iThink song as I was driving back from class in Lawrence yesterday. I will be glad when this semester is over, as it's coursework I need to do rather than something I want to do.
I felt completely dead and didn't really wake up until I was two miles into running. As a result, today was going to be nothing but wogging on the track...until I woke up and realized I was putting along at about 8:00/mi or so for some parts of it..
I'm still glad I got out there. I'm not sure if I had to make that choice whether I'd have gone out there, no matter how badly I need to run.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:28 08:28 08:28 08:28 1.00
1.00 17:09 08:41 08:41 08:34 2.00
1.00 25:34 08:25 08:25 08:31 3.00
1.04 34:16 08:42 08:22 08:29 4.04
Sunday, March 07, 2010
6.0mi, 51:52, 7 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Bruce Springsteen, "The River"
WX at 0900: 39.9 (4.4) DP 35.1 (1.7) BP 30.15 (1020) WNW 10 RH 83
Odometer 1: 355.2mi
Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 160/177
Two beers and four pizza slices last night before I went to sleep and I had best be running, and I was.
I had occasion last night to watch the local theater's production of Footloose (yes, a musical adaptation of the Kevin Bacon movie) and realized it was a story not only about cultural change (or fear thereof), but also reconciliation and coming of age. I'd never seen the movie, but I was talking with one of the actors (one of my coworkers in Iraq four years ago) about how good theater really puts you in the story - and in retrospect, you really don't need spectacular sets to do that - in fact, in some ways, that's not necessarily what you want because it takes you away from the actors themselves.
Good theater is a reminder of something from the episode "The Samaritan Snare" from Star Trek: The Next Generation: "There's no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. Open your mind to the past - art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something."
Today was surprisingly faster than I expected, but I didn't run yesterday and today's my first day running without snivel gear - which makes (from what I can tell) a few seconds per mile difference.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:28 08:28 08:28 08:28 1.00
1.00 17:00 08:32 08:32 08:30 2.00
1.00 25:54 08:54 08:54 08:38 3.00
1.00 34:59 09:05 09:05 08:45 4.00
1.00 43:34 08:35 08:35 08:43 5.00
1.00 51:52 08:18 08:18 08:39 6.00
WX at 0900: 39.9 (4.4) DP 35.1 (1.7) BP 30.15 (1020) WNW 10 RH 83
Odometer 1: 355.2mi
Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 160/177
Two beers and four pizza slices last night before I went to sleep and I had best be running, and I was.
I had occasion last night to watch the local theater's production of Footloose (yes, a musical adaptation of the Kevin Bacon movie) and realized it was a story not only about cultural change (or fear thereof), but also reconciliation and coming of age. I'd never seen the movie, but I was talking with one of the actors (one of my coworkers in Iraq four years ago) about how good theater really puts you in the story - and in retrospect, you really don't need spectacular sets to do that - in fact, in some ways, that's not necessarily what you want because it takes you away from the actors themselves.
Good theater is a reminder of something from the episode "The Samaritan Snare" from Star Trek: The Next Generation: "There's no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. Open your mind to the past - art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something."
Today was surprisingly faster than I expected, but I didn't run yesterday and today's my first day running without snivel gear - which makes (from what I can tell) a few seconds per mile difference.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:28 08:28 08:28 08:28 1.00
1.00 17:00 08:32 08:32 08:30 2.00
1.00 25:54 08:54 08:54 08:38 3.00
1.00 34:59 09:05 09:05 08:45 4.00
1.00 43:34 08:35 08:35 08:43 5.00
1.00 51:52 08:18 08:18 08:39 6.00
Friday, March 05, 2010
4.1mi, 35:44, 5 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: Bruce Springsteen, "The River" (live in New York City)
WX at 0600: 32.0 (0.0) DP 19.0 (-7.2) BP 30.2 (1022) ESE 9 WC 24 (-4) RH 58
Odometer 1: 349.2mi
Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 159/174
There's no other song appropriate to the solitude of this morning's run.
I need to start getting more than five hours of sleep a night.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:33 08:33 08:33 08:33 1.00
1.00 17:25 08:52 08:52 08:43 2.00
1.00 26:40 09:15 09:15 08:53 3.00
1.00 35:03 08:23 08:23 08:46 4.00
0.08 35:44 00:41 08:33 08:45 4.08
WX at 0600: 32.0 (0.0) DP 19.0 (-7.2) BP 30.2 (1022) ESE 9 WC 24 (-4) RH 58
Odometer 1: 349.2mi
Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 159/174
There's no other song appropriate to the solitude of this morning's run.
I need to start getting more than five hours of sleep a night.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:33 08:33 08:33 08:33 1.00
1.00 17:25 08:52 08:52 08:43 2.00
1.00 26:40 09:15 09:15 08:53 3.00
1.00 35:03 08:23 08:23 08:46 4.00
0.08 35:44 00:41 08:33 08:45 4.08
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
4.25mi, 38:31, 3 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink:
Bruce Springsteen, "The River"
The Smiths, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
WX at 0600: 21.9 (-5.6) DP 19.9 (-6.7) BP 30.13 (1020) Calm mist RH 91
Odometer 1: 345.1mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 152/170
I ws feeling a little slow this morning and woke up tired (I'm sure the Diet Coke and two Hamm's beers didn't help much last night since I was up every two hours).
I loosened up in the end, though. The negative splits I ran are a good validation of that, so I got what I needed out of this run.
Tensions in the house are only mildly abated. There's a reason why "The River" stuck in my head first thing this morning.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:04 09:04 09:04 09:04 1.00
1.00 18:23 09:19 09:19 09:11 2.00
1.00 27:44 09:21 09:21 09:15 3.00
1.00 36:22 08:38 08:38 09:05 4.00
0.25 38:31 02:09 08:36 09:04 4.25
Bruce Springsteen, "The River"
The Smiths, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
WX at 0600: 21.9 (-5.6) DP 19.9 (-6.7) BP 30.13 (1020) Calm mist RH 91
Odometer 1: 345.1mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 152/170
I ws feeling a little slow this morning and woke up tired (I'm sure the Diet Coke and two Hamm's beers didn't help much last night since I was up every two hours).
I loosened up in the end, though. The negative splits I ran are a good validation of that, so I got what I needed out of this run.
Tensions in the house are only mildly abated. There's a reason why "The River" stuck in my head first thing this morning.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:04 09:04 09:04 09:04 1.00
1.00 18:23 09:19 09:19 09:11 2.00
1.00 27:44 09:21 09:21 09:15 3.00
1.00 36:22 08:38 08:38 09:05 4.00
0.25 38:31 02:09 08:36 09:04 4.25
Monday, March 01, 2010
3.13mi, 27:58, 1 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
iThink: The Smiths, "I Know It's Over"
WX at 0600: 24.1 (-4.4) DP 19.0 (-7.2) BP 30.2 (1022) N 7 WC 15 (-9) RH 80
Odometer 1: 340.9mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 154/172
Household6 and the girls (the old names of Sledgehammer and Princess don't really fit anymore) brought home a puppy last week out of the blue. I certainly had no idea that we were going to get a puppy and it's my observation that you need to socialize major decisions like that before you make them. Yes, I was resentful.
We gave up the dog to my older daughter's elementary school teacher. They are resentful now. I could not in good conscience take on a pet when I had no time to take care of it, and I was frankly unwilling to change my schedule. I have to wake up early to run, and I can't help that the dog woke up when I woke up, and I could not concentrate on graduate school work with a puppy that needs attention. Competing priorities was the single greatest reason why I never got a pet. I made an honest assessment about my ability to take care of one, and judged no. I was up front. I would not say no to a pet, but I also said I wanted no part in training or taking care of a pet that I didn't think the girls were going to take care of - even if it was Household6's dog. External observers may point out that my refusal to support might seem spiteful.
So...there is much resentment and anger in the house, and while this is not necessarily a proximate cause for what may come in the future, there's a reason why this particular Smiths song stuck this morning.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:42 08:42 08:42 08:42 1.00
1.00 17:48 09:06 09:06 08:54 2.00
1.00 26:56 09:08 09:08 08:59 3.00
0.13 27:58 01:02 07:57 08:56 3.13
WX at 0600: 24.1 (-4.4) DP 19.0 (-7.2) BP 30.2 (1022) N 7 WC 15 (-9) RH 80
Odometer 1: 340.9mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 154/172
Household6 and the girls (the old names of Sledgehammer and Princess don't really fit anymore) brought home a puppy last week out of the blue. I certainly had no idea that we were going to get a puppy and it's my observation that you need to socialize major decisions like that before you make them. Yes, I was resentful.
We gave up the dog to my older daughter's elementary school teacher. They are resentful now. I could not in good conscience take on a pet when I had no time to take care of it, and I was frankly unwilling to change my schedule. I have to wake up early to run, and I can't help that the dog woke up when I woke up, and I could not concentrate on graduate school work with a puppy that needs attention. Competing priorities was the single greatest reason why I never got a pet. I made an honest assessment about my ability to take care of one, and judged no. I was up front. I would not say no to a pet, but I also said I wanted no part in training or taking care of a pet that I didn't think the girls were going to take care of - even if it was Household6's dog. External observers may point out that my refusal to support might seem spiteful.
So...there is much resentment and anger in the house, and while this is not necessarily a proximate cause for what may come in the future, there's a reason why this particular Smiths song stuck this morning.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:42 08:42 08:42 08:42 1.00
1.00 17:48 09:06 09:06 08:54 2.00
1.00 26:56 09:08 09:08 08:59 3.00
0.13 27:58 01:02 07:57 08:56 3.13
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