Ok, I was away from my computer for about 24 hours.... remember the deadline I mentioned in the "Bad Thread"? Only three hours of sleep last night:( ..... but I did make the deadline today. :D
Anyway, I know we don't want to resume the conversation from the "Bad Thread"..... but I do want to respond to a few misplaced nice comments that were lost in the "Bad Thread".....
I think it would be cool if everytime I typed "Bad Thread" there was music..... You know something dramatic and a little creepy..... Dun Dun Duuuuuunnnnnn!:p
Anyway, here goes. I will keep them anti-inflammatory. Please, pleeeeeeaaaaaassse everyone take them that way!:rolleyes:
Somewhere in the "Bad Thread" (Dun Dun Duuuuuunnnnnn) it seems that Connie's femaleness was questioned???? :confused: Allllll Righty then. I followed a link to her club one time and stumbled upon her picture. For those of you who don't know.... trust me.... all woman!;) Besides, Mr. Moose confirmed it for me over beer one day!
Speaking of Mr. Moose..... Tom, you should set up an account for him, separate from yours. Although it might be tough... all of the others in there might want one too. You would never get on the computer yourself then.... everyone else would be using it!
Kirk Nelson.... Ion posted your swim time.... great swim..... you should be very proud of that time.:)
Dorothy, in the "Bad Thread" (Dun Dun Duuuuuunnnnnn) you mentioned being at a band concert. My son's was last night too. (Part of the reason I got so little sleep.) I swear.... they played Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". You haven't lived until you have heard Iron Man played by 50 or so 12 to 14 year olds on french horns, trumpets, trumbones, tubas, .... you get the picture. At least they did have two kids who could keep the beat on bass guitars and one kid who actually could play a full set of drums. But I'm telling you it was a very odd experience.
Connie... you said you look forward to my posts..... Ok..... Tom, please talk with Connie and help her learn to control the "voices" in her head.:confused:
And one other thing Tom..... the birth control comment in the "Bad Thread" (Dun Dun Duuuuuunnnnnn) was classic. Mean spirited and unappropriate (sorry, I figured I should say that) but classic.
Finally, I want to report on my attitude. It's much better than last night. Heck, it's Friday night! I am a bit unhappy because I missed my haphazard swim today. No endorphines I guess. Maybe I'll go for a run on the treadmill. Anyway, I will be outside with my wife and kids a lot this weekend. What more could I want?:D
Oh, and right now the Pirates are leading the Rockies 3-1 in the 6th inning. Life is good!
I am laughing because it is always the silly things that catch you.
Last summer we were running our 50 meter long course meet. I used to run the old daktroniks console, but have never run the Colorado. I am the go to it person, ask Dorothy all your questions, she knows everything she runs the computer, you get it. So when I try to run the timing console, everyone is constantly hitting me with questions, and you know, you have to concentrate on the pool, so I gave up doing it.
Anyway, since I have limited knowledge on the Colorado(I basically can guess which buttons to push if I have to), I do not do the set up on that, I have my "people" do it. We were set up on Friday, running races, and I was checking watch times, against back-up, against pads, just to make sure everything is going right and notice that every single time is consistently 10 seconds off. All lanes across the board. Well you know that is a big red flag something is up. It was the first time we used the system 6, and my Colorado guy was in a panic anyway because it is enough different from the 5 he was having trouble. He played around with settings, and scratched his head, and we just kept doing adjustments on the times. He calls one of our coaches who is a Colorado guroo. This guy gets there, takes one look at the set up, shakes his head, chuckles and says " you have the console plugged into the wrong spot on the starter". My guy felt really, really stupid!
My husband ran the console last night for the first time. It was the longer events, so good time to learn. Today he gets the 25's!
I am getting the whole family into helping. 12 year old daughter who is swimming in the meet will be at the morning to help, along with her 17 year old brother who quit last winter. It will be interesting to see how my son handles this. He has not seen his coach since he quit, and it was very hard for him to come to the decision that he was not putting the time and effort in, and it was time to quit. You know, one of those adult decisions that start hitting you at that age.
I am laughing because it is always the silly things that catch you.
Last summer we were running our 50 meter long course meet. I used to run the old daktroniks console, but have never run the Colorado. I am the go to it person, ask Dorothy all your questions, she knows everything she runs the computer, you get it. So when I try to run the timing console, everyone is constantly hitting me with questions, and you know, you have to concentrate on the pool, so I gave up doing it.
Anyway, since I have limited knowledge on the Colorado(I basically can guess which buttons to push if I have to), I do not do the set up on that, I have my "people" do it. We were set up on Friday, running races, and I was checking watch times, against back-up, against pads, just to make sure everything is going right and notice that every single time is consistently 10 seconds off. All lanes across the board. Well you know that is a big red flag something is up. It was the first time we used the system 6, and my Colorado guy was in a panic anyway because it is enough different from the 5 he was having trouble. He played around with settings, and scratched his head, and we just kept doing adjustments on the times. He calls one of our coaches who is a Colorado guroo. This guy gets there, takes one look at the set up, shakes his head, chuckles and says " you have the console plugged into the wrong spot on the starter". My guy felt really, really stupid!
My husband ran the console last night for the first time. It was the longer events, so good time to learn. Today he gets the 25's!
I am getting the whole family into helping. 12 year old daughter who is swimming in the meet will be at the morning to help, along with her 17 year old brother who quit last winter. It will be interesting to see how my son handles this. He has not seen his coach since he quit, and it was very hard for him to come to the decision that he was not putting the time and effort in, and it was time to quit. You know, one of those adult decisions that start hitting you at that age.
