For me the nuance I'd add to this is tradeoffs can be ok, but they're done in the open and generally comparable. Not "if you come to Christmas at my parents I'll let you go out with your friends next weekend" but more "I'm training for a marathon which means I'm doing fewer of the communal tasks so I'm going to make sure to give you time for your hobbies when the race is past." In my mind it's healthy to give up some things I want to do, but drawing the line at things that are important to me even if they aren't essential. Running a marathon is a want. Running at all is important. Doing some organized races is important. Doing a specific one is not. But even then if I said I wanted to run a marathon next fall and was asked not to, it should be because of something important to them. Like if the race is a Saturday but her brother is getting married Sunday and she doesn't want me to be useless and exhausted at the wedding? Ok. Doesn't want me to because she wants to hold that weekend in case it's peak leaf color change? Not so good. no quid pro quo
I do Body Pump every Sunday, and sometimes the lunge track has pulsing where you get into a lunge and go halfway up like eight, maybe sixteen times. It's always near the end of the workout, and I find it really hard. I often close my eyes and imagine the finish line of a marathon or 70.3 because to date no matter how tough it is I've always been able to run through the chute to the finish line. I need to work on pushing through the pain cave in the middle of a race and not just the end. I always end up walking a bit when I want to keep running.She said she envisioned herself in a hard hat, wielding a chisel and “going to town, trying to make it a dust pile while I am in there.”
Yeah expansion and warping are concerns. Seems like higher quality wood at least helps that. I've seen comments that people will leave the wood inside for a few weeks since my house temperature and humidity will be different than the lumber store.
Thanks for the encouragement! I've never tried anything quite like this, but I've tried other things I'd never done that worked out well. I figure an average hand built wood door is better than the decades old generic ones I have.
Yeah I need to look into that because my utility is changing rules soon. I think installed before April 1 I'd be grandfathered in on full retail net metering. I'm not sure I'll have the budget for it but I need to work out what options I have. Also I upgraded my electric panel last winter. The old one was trash and would have needed to be replaced. But now I'm in good shape there, too.
I got one bid at $12,700 and another at $16,600. Both highly reviewed on Google. Hard for me to see the additional $4000 from the second. It's a pretty simple roof, not hard to see how a complicated one could be a lot more!
One year to the day in my house. Found a roof leak tonight. It must only leak when it's windy at a specific angle because it was obvious when it happened, and this is hardly the first time it's rained. wasoxygen when I bought it I think you told me home ownership is a fight against water. Seems to be true! I'm fortunate that it seems minor and I'm able to manage the expense.
Thanks I have someone coming by Monday. The question I'm asking myself now is if I take the opportunity to remove my chimney. It currently only exhausts the hot water heater which could probably be modified to exit out the side. Change hot water heater exhaust. Remove chimney. Replace roof?
Looking at some of your pictures I was reminded how real life dwarfs my own pictures. Being there had to be stunning.
Except Metric's show (opening for Noel Gallagher and Garbage) was cancelled tonight because of the smoke!
Unreal performance from Courtney Dauwalter to beat the previous record by over an hour! https://run247.com/running-news/trail/western-states-100-2023-results-report
Heather Jackson is out. Since I followed her from triathlon she was one I was really cheering for.
My old job had a culture like that. It was more important to follow process and procedure than to understand the issue at hand and find the best solution. Great pay and benefits but an uninspiring place to work. My three star review is still the featured review on Indeed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/reddit-ceo-compares-moderators-to-aristocracy-as-blackout-stretches-on/ar-AA1cDOwM I feel like, sure, calling moderators aristocracy might have some validity. But I doubt reddit realizes they're Tsar Nicholas II in this analogy.
I forget how the people making it pitched it especially because I don't watch true crime stuff. I guess I'm picturing it like Making a Murderer which I never watched. Because I was literally the person who tipped them off, they want to talk to me about my experience to help tell the bigger story of what happened. From what they told me it's a lot bigger than just having access to one kind of famous person's email. I expect it to be pretty niche, though Manitowoc, WI was pretty niche, too.
If there's more of a click than most others, I think it's worth pursuing. If it isn't going to work you'll know by the end of her break. That's easy to say as the person I'm interested in lives five minutes away and not eight hours, but her busy life (and to a lesser extent my own busy life) is limiting. If it might work out, it's worth working around.
I'm probably going to do this race again next year, and I'm looking at the Des Moines 70.3 in June as well. I've started admitting out loud that I think I want to do an Ironman. Not next year, but maybe 2024. I've toyed with the idea of doing a destination race, too, maybe for the full IM to get a course that isn't so hilly. It gets really pricy, though. Fly to New York to hike? Ok. Flying to a triathlon is all those costs plus race entry plus getting my bike there. Those are not insignificant costs. But we only live once, right?
What make and model did you get? I find it really hard to find details on heat pumps, especially whether they'll be effective in a climate that can get really cold. It seems like they're being marketed in the southern US but not northern where I am. My furnace and A/C are both up for replacement. Now would be the time.
A storm smashed like ten percent of our system in an hour. Crazy. There are still outages 48 hours later with a chance at another storm this evening.
Management is always right. Telling them they're wrong is a bigger sin than accepting the wrong answer. Even if they later themselves shift to the right answer, previously disagreeing with them remains a black mark.
Glad to see the cat supervising.
Congratulations! Are 30 minute bike commutes common there? I want to work out how to commute by bike more often.
Yeah the market is crazy but should make selling my condo easier. I'm being cautious.
So it's really cute. It was built in 1950 but looks like it's been updated well. Bedrooms are small but the living/dining rooms feel very open for the size. Kitchen is small, too, but opens into the dining area and doesn't feel cramped. Decent unfinished basement. The garage isn't great but not enough of a reason to turn it down. Backyard is large for the price.
We've had an unexpected number of resignations in the past couple months. All are explainable with good opportunities opening up, and I think the number of open positions out there are putting more pressure on us than hybrid or WFH. And they all know if it didn't work out they'd be welcomed back with open arms.
Has to be. I did get the flu shot, but wasn't there talk that the 2021-22 vaccine would be difficult because the previous winter had so few cases due to masking and social distancing for COVID?
I also had this. I took a home covid test and not believing the negative results got a PCR test. Also negative. I was out cold for a full day and still coughing and blowing my nose ten days later. It took probably 15 days from first symptoms to feel mostly normal again.