The Tri Lounge from Aug 1, 2009 to Aug 4, 2009 comments

The Tri Lounge Aug 1, 2009 to Aug 4, 2009

Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 12:16 Comment 190680
ironmanny of sd email: @: Currently 91 degrees in Poway. Think I'll go for a little run. Hopefully my shoes don't melt.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 12:14 Comment 190679
ironmanny of sd email: @: Now If IO hired an Asian timer, they'd only be able to count to 20 and a half. :o)
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 12:14 Comment 190678
ironmanny of sd email: @: Al - 26. You forgot E's firehose. :o)
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:32 Comment 190677 Al of email: @: OK - Add the prostetic hand and you have 25. I'm not sure I want to know about the other 5.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:29 Comment 190676 E of email: @: I can count to 30!
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:25 Comment 190675 Al of email: @: But that's better than if Ray's neighbor was the timer. He can only count to 16.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:25 Comment 190674 Al of email: @: Warning: If you can't finish the race in 20 seconds, you won't have a time recorded.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:20 Comment 190673
ironmanny of sd email: @: For $20, I bet you could get E to count "One mississippi, two mississippi, ..." at your next race. :o)
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:20 Comment 190672
ironmanny of sd email: @: IO - sounds like you need to get a more intelligent timing company.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:17 Comment 190671
ironmanny of sd email: @: :oD
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 11:17 Comment 190670
ironmanny of sd email: @: I've got fun things in my shorts.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 10:55 Comment 190669
FFO of . email: @: Jon - Apple computers are OK for fun things, but give me a PC any day if you want to get real work done.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 10:20 Comment 190668
d2p of email: @: Grenade stcikers? http://video.mpora.com/watch/2mFqQ6Me3/
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 10:09 Comment 190667 IO of Seattle email: @: Thanks Lounge! I'm not insane (at least on this occasion)
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:53 Comment 190666
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Mine is distinctive! It's the only one in town WITHOUT a grenade sticker! LOL.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:48 Comment 190665
ray of @ email: @: Bruce, prolly wasn't Rita's Element. Everyone and his brother has one of those out there.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:47 Comment 190664 df of Reno email: @: I get the 4 years and a day situation every year on my profit sharing plan spreadsheet. Pain in the a**. Thanks for the link. I miss Buratino and think he has something to do with this.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:47 Comment 190663
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Aero dude, WHAT-evah! ;-) I only half-expected to hear from you since you were on vacation. Thanks for not egging my car ;-)))
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:47 Comment 190662
ray of @ email: @: xl files are 4 days and a year short of an Apple file. Yer welcome.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:46 Comment 190661 E of email: @: Yes, summary- apples suck. Cept for the Shuffle, that's an e0traordinairy piece of machinery
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:41 Comment 190660
tina of @ email: @: I'm an excel fan, but your post is too long to read. Can I get an executive summary please?
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:41 Comment 190659 Al of email: @: Apparently, there are PC years and Apple years. http://compoundthinking.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/20/excel-date-wierdness/
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:37 Comment 190658 IO of Seattle email: @: Why any data/timing management company would be using Apples in the first place is beyond me.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:35 Comment 190657 IO of Seattle email: @: OK Excel fans...venting...I sent my registration files on 1750 athletes before chelanMan in an Excel file. Critical element is DOB for age-group assignement (like duh!). So By Sunday its clear there is a cluster*uck. For some reason the DOB is changing by 4 years and a day. I do not lose it at the race, but was very intense as its clear results are screwed up. Timing company waits for each racer to notify them of the problem. I am on the phone after a week saying its clear that its a systemic problem, and its their problem to fix. They're saying I sent them a bad file. So I discover that if you send an xls file, or an xlsx file, Apple computers change the DOB becuase of their algorithm. I did not know they were using apples. They don't buy it. But then I discover a save feature which saves and xls as Macintosh.CSV. I figure if there is no problem, why would this feature be needed. They spent this weekend fixing all of the results. So they send me the update results files in xls. I open their file. I open my windows xls copy the DOB and paste it beside their file to check for accuracy. I watch it the paste change the date before my eyes. To test the hypothesus I save my original xls file as mac .csv then copy and paste. It pastes with no change. confirmed. So I call the dude this morning thinking they might want to be aware of the fix and issue. In a world is flat apporach they still claim I sent them a bad file, because this problem had only happened a few times in the past. ARGHHH!!!
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 9:09 Comment 190656 Al of email: @: Hello? Hello?
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 4:05 Comment 190655 Al of email: @: #190639 - Yes. He lets gross stuff bite and sting him. Why? I haven't figured that out, but really don't plan to devote any time to the mystery.
Date: Tuesday August 4th, 2009 1:05 Comment 190654 of email:
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 22:50 Comment 190653
Aero of Goleta email: @: Swoosh dude. The caterpillar was a Sphingidae larva. A Sphinx moth. Delta winged buggar near adulthood. Kill you as soon as look at you-extremely vicious. Or is that viscous. Or not. Tomato Hornworm? Sorry we missed you in Mammoth. We were in vacation mode. Kaisa was running my geriatric heinie off on various passes. Saw your distinctive Element parked next to the Hospital on Thursday....
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 22:31 Comment 190652
Aero of Goleta the Good Land email: @: You have no issues. You're attractive, balanced, bright, and hot. Your only downfall? You don't live in the Good Land. You can fix that.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 20:16 Comment 190651
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: I don't drink soda and hardly watch TV, but I have plenty of other issues. :-) I never liked soda, even as a kid. I guess I was weird.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 19:30 Comment 190650
America of @ email: @: Well I keep on thinkin' bout you Sister Golden Hair surprise...
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 18:11 Comment 190649
Sister Act of email: @: Whoopi!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 18:11 Comment 190648
Sister Christian of Night Ranger email: @: Motorin'
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 18:10 Comment 190647
Twisted Sister of Dee Snyder email: @: I want to rock!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 18:05 Comment 190646
Sister Betrill of email: @: convents give me a lift
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 18:02 Comment 190645
Cardinal Ximenez of email: @: E, be careful, because . . . . .Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 17:57 Comment 190644
Maria Von Trappe of email: @: That should have been "doing it". Stupid QWERTY keyboard.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 17:52 Comment 190643
Maria Von Trappe of email: @: Convents = Not soing it for me
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 17:44 Comment 190642
Lab of email: @: Manny's phone is in a jam
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 17:34 Comment 190641
tina of @ email: @: church = not really my style.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 17:34 Comment 190640
tina of @ email: @: I'm in seminary and I don't go to church.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 17:03 Comment 190639 E of email: @: Is it about food or animals that bite and kill?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 16:52 Comment 190638 E of email: @: I'm not a follower but am like 20th generation full on European Roman Catholic family. My grammie would roll in her grave if I said I wasn't so yes, I am. But I don't go to church. Church gets in the way of work.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 16:31 Comment 190637 Al of email: @: http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bite_Me_with_Dr_Mike
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 16:26 Comment 190636 Al of email: @: There's a new show called Bite Me on the Travel Channel that E will prolly like.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 16:17 Comment 190635
vimp of nz email: @: Friggin Hofmang, you're not Catholic, are ya? ;-)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 16:00 Comment 190634
ray of @ email: @: Flat diet coke and commercial free cable--win,win.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:57 Comment 190633
ray of @ email: @: Shake up the diet coke can--it's more efficient to drink it without the carbonation.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:57 Comment 190632
ray of @ email: @: 190627 :-D
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:56 Comment 190631 Al of email: @: Get a DVR so you can record stuff then speed through the commercials. It's more efficient.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:53 Comment 190630 E of email: @: I'm trying to find balance! It goes like this- I have no cable and lots of time. I have not enough good health and drink way too much diet coke...WAY. So I bargain and the balance is cable with moderate watching of only the good stuff and football and then in return balance that with giving up a vice- sodas. Win,win!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:50 Comment 190629 E of email: @: Does it still have the Marvin Gaye ringtone?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:47 Comment 190628
ironmanny of sd email: @: My cell phone is somewhere in or near Knotts Berry Farm in Orange County. It is not in my shorts.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:46 Comment 190627
tina of @ email: @: and just so ya know, IT'S KILLING ME TO AGREE WITH RAY!!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:45 Comment 190626
tina of @ email: @: STOP PUNISHING YOURSELF E!!!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:45 Comment 190625
tina of @ email: @: I agree with Ray. Enjoy both, but limit both. For now, you can get your 'excess' from the prosthetic arm. your welcome.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:39 Comment 190624 Al of email: @: Hubby is fine. Stitches are just irritated, not infected.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:35 Comment 190623
ray of @ email: @: E, Mrs. Ray says you've gone from the prosthetic arm to bargaining with yerself. She wants to know what diet Coke has to do with cable?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:27 Comment 190622
John DeLorean of Detroit email: @: E, Stick with the coke. They have free cable in prison
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:25 Comment 190621
ray of @ email: @: Al, howzurhubby?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:23 Comment 190620
ray of @ email: @: Damnit, E, moderation. Limit yer coke intake and cable watching and do both.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:23 Comment 190619 Al of email: @: FFO: JD jr is having surgery on his boy parts. I can't remember the exact reason, but it's not life threatening, but is painful.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 15:22 Comment 190618 Al of email: @: Forced to choose between Coke and cable, I'd go with cable. And I love my Coke.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 14:19 Comment 190617
vimp of nz email: @: Cable it up!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 14:16 Comment 190616 E of email: @: Cable has boobies
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 14:14 Comment 190615
FFO of . email: @: E - To be on the safe side, I believe you should have a lawyer handle these negotiations for you. Please contact me off-line.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 14:09 Comment 190614 E of email: @: Cable- 50 bucks. Diet Coke- easily 200 bucks a month. Cable in moderation (according to Ray)- rest and recovery. Diet Coke- a slow death by chemical that acidifies yer teeth and acts like a sweatner in yer body and keeps you fat and highly sodiumated. Cable- bad. Diet Coke- bad. Which one is worse bad?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 14:07 Comment 190613
vimp of nz email: @: Will said cable have channels involving stuff yer mum said to never do on camera? If no, then keep pounding the coke bro!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 14:03 Comment 190612 E of email: @: How's this fer a horse trade- currently pondering a deal with myself to completely give up diet coke and any other such nonsense in exchange for getting cable back.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 13:52 Comment 190611
LaB of email: @: Manny lost his cell phone on according to his post on Facebook. Is it appropriate to post on FB to tell him to check his shorts? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 13:12 Comment 190610
d2p of email: @: I'm waiting for Darren to do a cameo on MadMen.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 13:08 Comment 190609
LaB of email: @: Rita thinks Jim Stafford had it all wrong in the 70's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lYdD9DdLNY&feature=related
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 13:07 Comment 190608
LaB of email: @: Fred, No thread let on little JD Jr. Al, just wanted to clarify that her medical advice that she was posting was directed at E, not little JD Jr. Oh, and Rita likes touching snakes, but hates touching caterpillars
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 13:04 Comment 190607
LaB of email: @: TIna, is sitcom intermingling when one sitcom's characters appear in another sitcom? (Like when Fred Flintstone meets George Jetson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons_Meet_the_Flintstones )
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:54 Comment 190606
FFO of . email: @: I missed the thread on JD, Jr. What's up?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:40 Comment 190605
tina of @ email: @: lab!!! your sitcom intermingling! lol!!!!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:35 Comment 190604 Al of email: @: I thought Roger was Carlton the doorman in Minneapolis.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:32 Comment 190603
LaB of email: @: I don't think I can bill for this. bummer!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:31 Comment 190602
LaB of email: @: Kinda sad how they put Roger into the witness protection program and moved him to Chicago. At least he still got to be a pilot and lived in the Maina Towers, but he went from always having dates like Farah Fawcet to unsuccessfully trying to hit on Carol, Bob Newhart's secretary. Poor guy
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:26 Comment 190601
LaB of email: @: When I see Gladys Kravitts on Bewitched I think of Squirrel's crazy neighbor
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:18 Comment 190600 E of email: @: I dream of Jeanie was like a sugary rip off of Bewitched. Larry hagman was actually good but the real talent was over at Bewitched
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:12 Comment 190599 Al of email: @: I was trying to figure out why Darren would have a boss like Larry at NASA. Then I realized I was mixing sitcoms.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:10 Comment 190598
LaB of email: @: Being a high priced marketing consultant, I can only admire the great ad slogans that Darrin developed for McMann and Tate http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/ads.htm
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:04 Comment 190597 E of email: @: Larry Tate! That dude had a nose for business! Couldn't actually woo the clients like Dagwood could but man he was hungry and ass kissy
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:03 Comment 190596 E of email: @: Nope, without cable here even the fuzzy ant races are fuzzy
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:02 Comment 190595
LaB of email: @: I was watching a Bewitched rerun and was shocked that see that Larry Tate was two years YOUNGER than me. They could sure slam those Martinis down at lunch though back then.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:01 Comment 190594 E of email: @: I'll havta check inta that. I guess there is prolly more than 1 technique
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:01 Comment 190593
LaB of email: @: Al, re Comment 190577 - Maybe you should give the dominatrix thing a rest for a few days. I mean Ray may have a prescription that could help, but don't discount good old RICE (rest and ice)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:01 Comment 190592 Al of email: @: I got E engrossed in a Dora the Explorer episode soon. Cuz everyone knows that without cable, all you can really get is PBS.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 12:00 Comment 190591 Al of email: @: Maybe aliens from a different planet with a different probing technique?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:59 Comment 190590 E of email: @: I am so trying not to cave on the tv thing. Even Gomer Pyle reruns would be good right now
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:58 Comment 190589 E of email: @: I've been alien probed before. This is not it. Thanks though! :)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:54 Comment 190588 Al of email: @: #190587 is my diagnosis for E, not JD Jr.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:53 Comment 190587 Al of email: @: Alien anal probe. Fo' shizzle.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:44 Comment 190586 E of email: @: Speaking of STFUAR, isn't JD's boy goin in this week fer surgury?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:43 Comment 190585 E of email: @: Copy that; taping my left foot to the pedals as we speak. Czar would prolly say do a workout and a half just to be sure.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:38 Comment 190584
FFO of . email: @: But will Vino actually ride for Alberto?? - - - http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kazakh-coup-to-oust-armstrong-and-bruyneel-from-team-astana
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:33 Comment 190583
FFO of . email: @: E - If I may quote the page Authority on all things athletic: "Just STFU and ride!!" That should do it!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:30 Comment 190582 E of email: @: Page diagnosis and treatment please- tiredness, throbbing neverending headache, dry throat, slight congestion, slight sinus discomfort, general soreness, massive soreness in left sciatic and left bun is mostly painful every step or leg movement. And I aint goin to no doctor cause whatever it is will be gone in a day or so.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 11:25 Comment 190581 E of email: @: Jus woke up again. How is it that you can sleep 4 more hours and the wake up feeling worse than before?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:41 Comment 190580
tina of @ email: @: Boop - Catherine and I chatted on Friday :-)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:41 Comment 190579
tina of @ email: @: not to be confused with Vision World, as I am not an optometrist
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:40 Comment 190578
tina of @ email: @: World Vision took no time in turning me down!! Very nice in doing so, however. :-)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:34 Comment 190577 Al of email: @: Ray: Hubby went to the doc today. I haven't heard from him yet. It was looking a little red, but not really bad.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:14 Comment 190575
ray of @ email: @: The thing I remember about Bill Bell is he had amazing varicose veins from feet to thigh. I was amazed that he was still doing IM--he was like one huge varicosity.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:13 Comment 190574
Smilin Bob of email: @: Ray, that snake your'e talkin about must be takin Enzyte
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:12 Comment 190573
ray of @ email: @: I think Manny has a snake in his shorts. Not sure if it's poisonous or not.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:11 Comment 190572
ray of @ email: @: Might be this one, swoosh: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/images/stories/reptiles/snakes/Heterodon_nasicus_Western_Hognose_Snake/Heterodon_nasicus_Western_hognose_snake_ventral_03_02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D66%26Itemid%3D26&h=280&w=320&sz=81&tbnid=6KQRcheQ54cIwM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhognose%2Bsnake&hl=en&usg=__N4LGB_bPlbAnmz4Ts3nJDmY6-8E=&ei=Bhp3SpXAGoi8NsGfmLEM&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:10 Comment 190571
lab of SJ email: @: Oops a little behind things. Rita and Sissy have had the snake issues. No word about Manny
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:10 Comment 190570
ray of @ email: @: We have a variety of snake out here called a hog nosed snake. It will readily mimic a rattler, flatten it's head so that it looks like a pit viper and it has this perpetual motion movement to make it look longer. If you still go to pick it up, it will play dead.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:02 Comment 190569
Lab of SJ email: @: Bill Bell = Cool! Nuff said
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:00 Comment 190568
lab of SJ email: @: Al, are you worried about what's in your sister's kitchen or what's in Manny's shorts?
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 9:50 Comment 190567
Boop of LA email: @: Oh, and for those who haven't yet heard, they've changed the course for the LA Marathon next year - it's going to be point to point from Dodger Stadium to the ocean. Course will either run down Venice Blvd (bike course for the LA Triathlon) or right through my neighborhood on San Vicente down to Ocean Ave to the SM pier. It's going to be March 21, 2010, and registration opens in Sept. I have school that Fri/Sat but I just might have to run it because of the cool course. It's also 1 week prior to Cali 1/2.
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 9:35 Comment 190566
Boop of LA email: @: I saw Bill Bell yesterday at the Pier to Pier swim. He didn't do the swim this year but was out cheering for everyone. He told me he turns 87 next month and his wife is 85 and they're both going strong. He's such an inspiration and has the best attitude!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 8:36 Comment 190565
tina of @ email: @: LOVING THIS!!!!!!!
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 7:54 Comment 190564 Al of email: @: But you can lay on the couch, drink Sprite and watch Price Is Right. Oh, wait... Nevermind... ;-)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 7:40 Comment 190563 E of email: @: Fine
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 7:23 Comment 190562 E of email: @: I had my day all planned out but then couldn't get out of bed. My body said no. I feel like my brain is trapped inside a prison carcass. Somebody save me! I hat sick days, ya can't go out and play
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 5:22 Comment 190561
tina of @ email: @: Day one of the Global Poverty conference I am attending is today!!!!!!! I'm geeked :-)
Date: Monday August 3rd, 2009 5:03 Comment 190560 Al of email: @: I was gonna post earlier, but I heard there was a snake in here. I'm not coming back until it's gone.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:45 Comment 190559
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I really think that caterpillar dropped out of the sky from another planet.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:44 Comment 190558
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I am now going to crack open a beer and call it a day!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:42 Comment 190557
swoosh! of starlite email: @: ...and why I was too scared to pick up that caterpillar but picking up that snake up didn't bother me a bit....
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:41 Comment 190556
swoosh! of starlite email: @: explain to me why that caterpillar freaked me out more than a snake ...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:36 Comment 190555
swoosh! of starlite email: @: WITH MY BARE HANDS!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:30 Comment 190554
swoosh! of starlite email: @: thanks E. I just picked it up and carried it over to the woodpile. :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:26 Comment 190553 E of email: @: My guess is that it's a non-poisionous grass or gopher snake: 1) because of its size; 2) because it hasn't bitten you yet; 3) because if it's acting like a rattler with a shaking tail but is not a rattler it is not poisionous because it would not have to act like a poisionous snake if indeed it had venom of its own and could just use said venom instead of going through the motions of rattling a rattleless tail. My guess is that the tail shaking act did its job because something much bigger stopped to think about the rattling motion before it touched or harmed said otherwise defensless snake. Just think what a small mammal would think aboot said fake rattle. YER WELCOME! But a photo may be better for my analysis, jus saying, ya know, before ya touch it again and it bites you and kills you. Prudent.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:22 Comment 190552
swoosh! of starlite email: @: oh yeah, that totally looks like what's in my yard. and they do shake their tails! ok. we're getting moved over to the wood pile to casa las rodents...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:19 Comment 190551 E of email: @: Squirrel's eating your chicken's food?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:14 Comment 190550
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I'd really like to transport it over to where the family of squirrels that are eating all my chicken's food is camped!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:12 Comment 190549
swoosh! of starlite email: @: asking because I just found a 3 foot snake huddling in my yard (right next to my sleeping spot dammit!) and I am pretty certain it's not a rattlesnake; I poked it with a stick and it stuck its tongue out at me, then i took my finger and rubbed it on its back and it shook its tail at me. but it isn't moving at all like a rattler would... but since i don't know what it is I want to be sure it's not poisonous anyway. I could send any snake experts a picture of it .... Sissy?!!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:08 Comment 190548
swoosh! of starlite email: @: so, i have a snake question. will gopher snakes shake their tails to try to intimidate you?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 19:07 Comment 190547
swoosh! of starlite email: @: that does sound incredible!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 18:18 Comment 190546
tina of @ email: @: JC! That sounds so cool!!!!!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 17:03 Comment 190545 JC of SC email: @: I remember when they changed the guided tours on the Inca Tral to Machu Picchu to 4 days from 3. It is about 24 miles. Not sure why, maybe because it was so crowded. Some of the locals run it in the off season, they probably did it without water. Been about 12 years since I was last there. When I read Rita's adventures it reminds me of years of trekking High in the Andes in Peru. searching out ruins on the tops of the local hills (hills ya right) making fish and chips from the local potatos and fish from the streams. Hiking up past former land slides that are unfathonable in size (look up Salcantay on google and look at the slides on each side and the glacial lakes). The air so pristine. So much to see. Thanks for all the memory flashbacks Rita. Colca canyon, Maria Reichand, flying over the Nazca Lines, 3 levels of underground irrigation that runs thru the worlds dryest desert, the highest sand dunes. I shall return
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 16:38 Comment 190544 Al of email: @: I'd ask how swoosh's run was, but we already know - gorgeous. :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 16:36 Comment 190543 Al of email: @: My 10k was painful. Prolly shouldn't have let my personal trainer beat on me the day before. But the weather was good and the course was shady, so it's all good.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 16:30 Comment 190542 E of email: @: How far was yer 10k? Like 13 miles? I dunno though...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 15:46 Comment 190541
tina of @ email: @: In my office drinking dunn bros, chewing bubblegum, and listening to jazz 88. :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 15:22 Comment 190540
Andrew Zimmerman of @TravelChannel email: @BizarreFoods: Caterpillar or Grasshopper? The head has all that fat, now that's good eating...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 15:07 Comment 190539
swoosh! of starlite email: @: ooops.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 15:06 Comment 190538
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Alynn! How was your 10k yesterday?!! :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 15:03 Comment 190537
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Alynn! How was your 10k yesterday?!! :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 14:25 Comment 190536
tina of @ email: @: grasshopper on a stick.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 14:24 Comment 190535
tina of @ email: @: Al apparently was at the MN State Fair with Dan....
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 14:15 Comment 190534 Al of email: @: Grasshopper. Tastes like chicken. Crunchy chicken.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 12:18 Comment 190533
tina of @ email: @: Ahhh little grasshopper....
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 12:08 Comment 190532 E of email: @: I'm difficult, do me! How's that for some Confucious? :)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 12:07 Comment 190531
tina of @ email: @: Wow. I could totally Confucius a run for his money here...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 12:06 Comment 190530
tina of @ email: @: It's not that rita and I like to do things the difficult way, it's that we like to do the difficult things most people won't even try.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 12:05 Comment 190529
tina of @ email: @: 190527 - just come back from the MN State Fair?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:53 Comment 190528 E of email: @: Course my grandad lost his Nebraska farm in the Great Depression-Dust Bowl so to him burn barrell was pretty mooch the solution ta all his disposal needs, even in urban Sacramento
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:52 Comment 190527
d2p of email: @: caterpillars? little beer batter and a deep fryer!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:48 Comment 190526 E of email: @: Burn barrel. My grandad had a burn barrell in his backyard and the big alien tomato caterpillers would go in the brun barrell with a little diesel added. Problem solved
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:47 Comment 190525
Laura of @ email: @: 'kay..got to go. Lates!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:46 Comment 190524
Laura of @ email: @: Well, if that caterpillar returns, you could filet it and grill it..probably taste like a fuzzy shrimp..
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:44 Comment 190523
Laura of @ email: @: was serious, btw, about the move back north. We have many compelling reasons to make that happen if not at year end, then sometime next year. The future is almost here and it looks rural..;-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:43 Comment 190522
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I have a problem with bugs that look back at you with an attitude! :-O
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:41 Comment 190521
Laura of @ email: @: Swoosh, thanks! I am quite stoked. We also are now harvesting fresh peas and lots of home grown lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and having salad almost every night! But, yer "Attack of the Caterpillar" sounds like something that you'd watch on the Sci-Fi channel...lolo!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:35 Comment 190520
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Congratulations Laura !! Yesterday evening I found a HUGE caterpillar eating the leaves on one of my tomato plants. This thing was the size of my index finger. It scared me; I could see it's teeth! Of course I took a picture of it, then decided it would be a good snack for the chickens. They love potato bugs, but they wouldn't touch this thing! they all gathered around and just stared at it and then started clucking and ran away. I decided it must be an evil alien and thought the only way to destroy it would be to put it in a bucket and drown it. So I did that, except, when it literally started trying to bob its head above the water line and gasp for air, I felt bad, so took it out of the bucket and instead walked into the desert and left it there .... I imagine it's crawled half-way back to my garden by now .... LOL!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:27 Comment 190519
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Ever stop to think .... and forget to start again? ;-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:24 Comment 190518
Laura of @ email: @: For novice gardeners, that is huge!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:20 Comment 190517
Laura of @ email: @: d2p..that beats living in the past! Swoosh, guess what? I was just outside and we have squash growing in the garden!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:09 Comment 190516
d2p of email: @: ever wake up in the morning and think "the future is here!"?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:02 Comment 190515
swoosh! of starlite email: @: for the tshirt !
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:02 Comment 190514
Laura of @ email: @: Time to go outside! lates
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 11:01 Comment 190513
Laura of @ email: @: Guess there is one of those triathlon thingys on NBC now..why on earth would anyone want to do something like that? ;-))
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:58 Comment 190512
Laura of @ email: @: Speaking of Canada, we realized this morning that it's only 480 miles from Aberdeen to the Boundary Waters and Quetico Provincial Park. Heck of another compelling reason to relocate back north...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:56 Comment 190511
Laura of @ email: @: "what's wrong with that picture"? ;-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:53 Comment 190510 E of email: @: I have 2 tvs and no cable
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:52 Comment 190509 E of email: @: I thought vimp did all the sophmoric jokes and mine we're like middle school, maybe like 6th gradish? When the heck did my jokes gradeate?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:49 Comment 190508
Laura of @ email: @: Fun to watch the Worlds, in spite of the fast suit controversy. When my life returns to quiet normalcy, definitely heading back to the lanes.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:46 Comment 190507
Laura of @ email: @: "May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse, jus' saying...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:44 Comment 190506
swoosh! of starlite email: @: time to pick up dog poop !
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:43 Comment 190505
swoosh! of starlite email: @: He started talking to me as I passed him and that led to talking about trailrunning, altitude performance, etc. It actually turned into a business conversation. He's an acupuncturist from LA and belongs to a running group there.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:42 Comment 190504
ray of @ email: @: Time to swim.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:41 Comment 190503
ray of @ email: @: I think you and tina are made for each other. ;-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:39 Comment 190502
swoosh! of starlite email: @: well, doing things the easy way doesn't make life very interesting... :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:36 Comment 190501
ray of @ email: @: That doesn't surprise me. I've learned you never do anything the easy way. ;-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:35 Comment 190500
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I got a dude's phone number 1/2 way up Donohue Pass. LOL!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:33 Comment 190499
ray of @ email: @: Illinois is one of your fatter states.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:33 Comment 190498
ray of @ email: @: Well, of course, rita, you're in the Sierras. 5-6 miles is a long way. At the little marsh trail just outside my house, the mulched path is 0.7 mile. People walk up to that, look at the distance and say, "Well, we don't have to walk all of it..."
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:29 Comment 190497
swoosh! of starlite email: @: yeah, I counted I think 23 people the first 20 miles. most of them going the opposite direction thankfully. The perspective is that *most* people backpacking do about 5-6 miles per day.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:27 Comment 190496
ray of @ email: @: It's miter. We're not in friggin' Canada.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:26 Comment 190495
ray of @ email: @: Swoosh, that place is deserted. What did you get, 2 new perspectives?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:25 Comment 190494
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Is it not 'MITRE' ??!!!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:24 Comment 190493
ray of @ email: @: Never flip off a miter saw. They don't have a sense of humor. Seriously...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:23 Comment 190492
swoosh! of starlite email: @: runs like yesterday's are kinda fun just from the perspective you get of everybody else you pass along the way.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:19 Comment 190491 IO of Seattle email: @: I got a rebuilt middle finger from the miter saw mishap. Somebodyelse's bone marrow in hte end. Most feeling has now returned 6 years later
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:19 Comment 190490
ray of @ email: @: Yer killing me...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:19 Comment 190489
ray of @ email: @: Crap, I mixed my metaphors.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:18 Comment 190488
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Ray, dude, I was going to email you some photos from yesterday's run, but decided not to bother - you've seen one mountain running scene, you've seen them all ;-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:17 Comment 190487
ray of @ email: @: Phew, that one was close. Had to really dial down the sophomoric humor switch. Where's E when ya need him?
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:12 Comment 190486
swoosh! of starlite email: @: um yeah, no.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:11 Comment 190485
ray of @ email: @: Must...not...make...Big...Dipper...joke...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:10 Comment 190484
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I slept in until 8am this morning! I camped out in the dirt last night with my dogs, was lulled to sleep by coyotes howling and yapping at the top of their lungs whilst I stared up at the big dipper :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 10:04 Comment 190483
d2p of email: @: speaking of rollercoasters my wife ad youngest are at Cedar Point today. i am not.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:53 Comment 190482
ray of @ email: @: Thumbkin survived unscathed.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:50 Comment 190481
ray of @ email: @: E, LOL! A couple of years ago my then neighbor was building a gazebo. He had a beautiful table saw that was so quiet and so well balanced you almost couldn't tell it was on. While I worked on my bikes in the garage 2 doors down from him on a rainy afternoon, I heard a blood curdling scream. In a moment of unprecedented spaciness, he had removed the blade guard and lightly placed his hand on the moving blade to make sure it was running. He lost most of Mr. Pinky, half of Mr Ringman, the distal phalanx of Mr. Tallman and part of Mr. Pointer.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:45 Comment 190480 E of email: @: Gotta date with my table saw today. Gonna make some D Fir sawdust all over the place Ray. Prolly cut off a digit er two, then become a woodshop teacher tomorrow. Good times!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:43 Comment 190479
ray of @ email: @: Fck Down Undah!!!DRAIN YER SINKS AND TOILET CLOCKWISE!!!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:42 Comment 190478 E of email: @: Rollin with some Dirty Deeds, level 10, for those that care
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:40 Comment 190477 E of email: @: See lotsa music history Down Unda. They are all not just sheep molesters and billibong scalawags (anymore). Ya can weave some good Aussie or Kiwi music inta everything ya post. Today was ACDC fer the Aussi Tri Babe. Tomorrow I'll prolly roll with some Split Enz fer Jen and her dude
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:37 Comment 190476 E of email: @: My life is a roller coast. A roller coaster on the Highway to Hell, don't stop meh...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:35 Comment 190475
Dr. Kelso of TVLand email: @Scrubs.com: Too much HA HA, pretty soon BOO HOO.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:34 Comment 190474
ray of @ email: @: tina, I live moderate and pace my life most of the time leaving room for the occasional splurge or abstinence. If you never pace and moderate, YER LIFE IS A FRIGGIN' ROLLER COASTER 24/7.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:32 Comment 190473
ray of @ email: @: E, I GOTTCHER XS RIGHT HERE!!!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:31 Comment 190472 E of email: @: I didn't get the moderation and pacing gene when I was conceived. I got the erattic and excess gene
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:30 Comment 190471
tina of @ email: @: You can live your life moderately and pace it. I'd rather not. :-D
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:28 Comment 190470
tina of @ email: @: No, it's about splurging occasionally.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:20 Comment 190469
ray of @ email: @: tina, that's like eating everything in site for 24 hours then fasting for a week. IT'S ALL ABOUT MODERATION AND PACING!!!
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:05 Comment 190468
Laura of @ email: @: World swim champs are on NBC right now, f.y.i....
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 9:04 Comment 190467
Laura of @ email: @: #190455: Nothing like a little "contact precautions" to make a shift interesting! :-)
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 6:47 Comment 190466
tina of @ email: @: I know, but now I'll be good for like a year! having a tv binge reminds me of why i chose not to have a tv :-D
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 5:06 Comment 190465
ray of @ email: @: tina, that's what happens when you've been deprived for too long. Swoosh has been without TV so long next time she sits in front of one she won't be moving for a week.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 4:13 Comment 190464
tina of @ email: @: It's 6:13am. I'm watching Roseanne on TV Land. I might need an intervention...
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 3:35 Comment 190463 Al of email: @: I've been thinking about Ally lots, too.
Date: Sunday August 2nd, 2009 0:42 Comment 190462
Jen of NZ email: @: Hum...got nothing really. Just thinking of Ally and smiling at all of Tina's posts and updates. Hugs to all.
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 21:54 Comment 190461
d2p of email: @: Buy More TVs!! 1 for every channel! TVtopia!
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 21:35 Comment 190460
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: I do remember KP!! :-)
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 21:23 Comment 190459
swoosh! of starlite email: @: KILL YOUR TELEVISION KERRI!! :-))
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 21:21 Comment 190458 KP of SD email: @: I thought of you several times today between Palomar and Henshaw to Dudley's. Remember that time we did the big loop up to the base of Palomar, over to Lake Henshaw, then on the Dudley's then back to the start point? I did that today but added Lake Wohlford. Brutally hot. I was alone and kept thinking, damn, I glad Kerri isn't here pushing the pace!
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 21:00 Comment 190457
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: KP, I can't even ride a beachcruiser these days. It's that bad. :-/
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 20:58 Comment 190456
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: I don't have a TV attention span. I get bored and can barely watch one program a week. And that program is now over. :-/
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 20:57 Comment 190455
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: I currently have a swine flu patient. The get-up I get to wear is extremely attractive! :-)
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 20:20 Comment 190454
swoosh! of starlite email: @: OMG Tina, you SO need to sleep in the dirt for a week !! ;-D
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 20:11 Comment 190453
tina of @ email: @: I went on a tv binge today...
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 20:10 Comment 190452
tina of @ email: @: I've been watching tv all day. I'm pretty much 'over' it....
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 19:59 Comment 190451 E of email: @: I usta be a real housewife of atlanta. Not really though
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 19:56 Comment 190450
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Thanks Boop! :-)
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 19:56 Comment 190449
swoosh! of starlite email: @: my dialup is working again !! wooo!
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 19:39 Comment 190448
Boop of LA email: @: Thanks for reporting in Swoosh! Glad you had a good day!
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 18:03 Comment 190447
swoosh! of starlite email: @: what a friggen fantastic day ! I'm home. :-)
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 16:13 Comment 190446
tina of @ email: @: drinking coffee and watching the Real Houswives of Atlanta reunion. yikes.
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 13:33 Comment 190445
Jen of NZ email: @: Drinking coffee, searching for dinner ideas and listening too Lucy spell her name over and over again "L...U...C...Y..L...U...C...Y....L...U...C...Y....."
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 10:35 Comment 190444
d2p of email: @: Go Phelps!
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 9:11 Comment 190443 KP of SD email: @: Shift to Matisyahu ... "Message In A Bottle". Brian?
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 9:09 Comment 190442 KP of SD email: @: Drinking coffee, working, listening to sistas Tegan and Sarah "Walking With A Ghost" before my longish ride to Lake Wohlford. It would be nice if SQRN and Tina were riding along like the old days.
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 5:56 Comment 190441
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: Drinking coffee and about to head to work! Day one of three! :-/
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 5:47 Comment 190440
tina of @ email: @: drinking coffee about to depart to Evolution to get my hair colored!!! (just highlight-y sorta stuff :-)
Date: Saturday August 1st, 2009 5:45 Comment 190439
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: FIRST!!!!!!!! Just what I needed to start off my day! :-)

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