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Comment on Say it ain’t so by poiu

poiu — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:18:17 +0000

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Comment on Shortest day of the year by I don't pay

I don't pay — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:16:54 +0000

Would it were so, but since about New Year’s, it’s been very cold and snowy here too; the most continuous snow cover in a long time. A winter out of my childhood in the Ottawa Valley. We’re all going stir crazy.

Comment on Shortest day of the year by Penny

Penny — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:03:14 +0000

I came over to see how you were doing. You are missed at the other place.

I’ve been indoors for over a month now, and also uncommunicative. Canada can be like that, I think. Good you’re riding.

Comment on Pinpricks by LizardBreath

LizardBreath — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:16:20 +0000

It occurs to me that you may be ordinarily strong and healthy

Um, yeah. I was trying not to be pissily defensive about your apparent assumption that I’m a basket case in the absence of regular weight-lifting. Even when I don’t do much athletic, I’m average to strong for a woman. It’s just that being stronger than ‘average to strong for a woman’ is often convenient.

Comment on Pinpricks by idontpay

idontpay — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:47:44 +0000

You used to row crew, or whatever you say, didn’t you, LB? It occurs to me that you may be ordinarily strong and healthy, but occasionally work to a higher level, and getting the mixer down is something that you can do in that unusually strong state, that most women your size couldn’t do at all.

So that it isn’t that you’re ever weak, exactly, just sometimes stronger in ways you realize are useful.

There will come a day when some lifting or carrying will be beyond me but not beyond someone else. Since I’m not called on that often, it may already be here without my knowing it. But, and this is the careless assumption of strength Megan noticed, I haven’t had that experience yet.

Comment on Pinpricks by LizardBreath

LizardBreath — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:55:02 +0000

Eh, I do that sort of thing off and on, but I have a heck of time sticking to a routine. Work keeps on breaking it up, and then I don’t restart.

Comment on Pinpricks by idontpay

idontpay — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:37:01 +0000

It’s an aerobic thing, and comes with training long enough to have developed new vascularization.

I’m no expert but your sensation of losing everyday useful strength, that you commented on yesterday LB, was affecting to me. I wondered if daily strength exercises, yes pushups, etc. wouldn’t benefit you, if you could stand it.

Comment on Pinpricks by LizardBreath

LizardBreath — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:36:05 +0000

Huh. That’s a totally unfamiliar sensation — I get more out of shape, and then recover to reasonably in shape, fairly often, but I’ve never noticed anything like what you describe.

Comment on The Short Loneliness by idontpay

idontpay — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:47:19 +0000

Thanks. I’ll either eventually land an editing job w/ benefits, or work document review long enough to either take it in-house as an expert or get really good at lining up projects one after the other. And for every day of work I missed at what should have been mid-career, I’ll have to work at least two at the back end. For that, at least, temporary assignments should be possible so long as I’m physically able. I see myself needing to work as hard and often as I can in my late seventies.

Comment on The Short Loneliness by Doug

Doug — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:19:55 +0000

Gah, long-term projects on a freelance basis. Does anything recur in your field?

I did the freelance thing for six years, and what was really good (apart from the weekly reporting gig) was the kind of project that would come back quarterly or annually. They’re hard to get starting out, but they’re the foundation of freelance stability.

One thing I never did but should have was a business plan, as if I were a startup looking for funding, or just to define where I wanted to go.

Good luck!