talking to myself: party on the ice floe…
Array I’m pretty sure if I had run another 1.3 miles it would have been a 1/2 mary PR.I knew I had to run before work today, and I didn’t really want to run on the treadmill. My legs felt fine when I woke up today–there was a little residual soreness in my adductors was all.When I am doing my shorter runs, I just can’t mentally get myself to run as slowly as I should during a warmup, but when I know I’m going long, I get myself in the right place to run a slower pace, and I can usually tell from the first mile how the run is going to go.I would like to have had time to drive to my hilly trail place (Waterfall Glen) to run, but that meant I would have needed to be up even earlier, so I took my chances that I could bang out a 1:45 run on the roads. So I decided to just run out my door, along the same area I ran yesterday, knowing full well that I would get > 3 solid miles of hill running. Even though I was supposed to do a progressive run today ending in tempo, I knew that with the route I was running and given the hard work of the 2 previous days that it would be OK to run more or less a steady pace, given the terrain, and just ensure that I didn’t slow down.As I started, my feet were not too happy to be on asphalt again, but after they surrendered, they were fine. The 1-mile hill, which is the stretch of road between Clarendon Hills Road and Cass Avenue is a killer no matter when you run it (provided you charge it), and it’s especially heinous when it comes 9 miles into a 12 mile run.
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-ne today is quite a special day for me. and calls keep coming in for today’s plan. after that waited for jon as he came from sp. coming up with games to stuff ourselves with plain water, bao, popiah and whatever shit we can get from the leftovers. yew, the hot dog he had all came out. as we left marina, a call came to ben ho. btw, tomorrow’s gonna be a busy day for me. with miecons tutorial in the morning at 9, nss project, singapore philips cup, tagawa training, movie with char maybe, and elsa’s birthday chalet.
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You made the decision to come here, now you can make the decision to go to someone else’s blog and read about how the high levels did this and that today or you can sit your ass down and read why EO has some problems, and my suggested remedies.This is not your typical complaint; Infact, the time it takes to get to level 6 is averaging 100 hours of gameplay (this is a survery I took with about 10 people comparing levels and usage time). In many other games (by games I mean MMORPGs), by 100 hours one would be level 20, at least. On that game, at around level 100 you are a high level (I have a level 56 char on it with approx 1 billion in items.), but the high high levels are over level 500. (GODLY levels!) On EO, which has been up for a couple years, the highest level is 41. It takes me days to level up, anyone who knows me knows I am on ALOT and I’m training 95% of the time– but our reward is 3 stat points. So, despite the fact that I may have put 30 hours into leveling, I get 3 stat points. So, if this system is still in place when PvP maps come out (as it has been hinted at for a v.26 release), that means a level 5 or 6 has an actual chance of killing a level 10 or 11. More stat points per level, perhaps. Another of my suggested remedies is making stat points count more: I understand our system is powered down from regular MMORPG numbers by comparison, so perhaps 1 dmg per point would be good, or 2 dmg per point maybe. I would probably cry, because two level 7s would pwn a level 20 with the current system, etc.
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p/s: Oh, if u r reading this u-uptown-auditor…u r not that funny to begin with!Case #2While I was filling up gas at Petronas, I noticed not-that-bad looking fella behind me filling up gas too. I call u back in 10 minutes.Me: Yeah, ok.His 10 minutes turned out to be forever.ps: Oh, if u feel like writing discouraging comments on Perigi Mencari Timba..don’t bother.Pps: makcik dah jumpa costume Halloween makcik for this year:Bridezilla in Pink.
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-ne i guess it was inevitably going to come to this, but: at work today i realized that punk and communism have both taken the same path. sure, 3 chord no guitar solo willful-lack-of-musicianship hardly even close to necessary for punk, but the real point is that it was inarguably a populist movement.the thing about communism, naturally, is that it doesn’t work, and i guess that really could be said for punk. boon/mike watt say punk is what we make it and that’s cool and everything, but, not to flex my class-warfare muscle too hard but i don’t really see how you can ever argue that getting someone to take you out for a fancy dinner can ever be reconciled as punk. i wouldn’t be surprised if he thinks he’s still fighting the good fight.the first (and lesser) real thing i want to say is that mike watt is the last living punk - read this interview, because it completely blew my mind.
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6) Have you ever tripped someone? 10) Have you ever thrown up in public? One time in particular…..grade school……right after lunch….I go to the drinking fountain to take a drink…..threw up canned peaches right into the fountain…..didn’t even feel it coming (but hey, at least I got to go home). 11) Name one thing that is always on your mind: Hubby and our life and whether we will ever grow old together. I think it was around 8 pm but I’m too lazy to go look at my birth certificate. 16) Ever made a prank phone call? I like both, but I guess I like summer most because of swimming, fresh cut grass, camping, beaches, the smell of cocunut suncreen, etc. 27) Have you ever slapped someone? don’t think so.28) Have you ever had a cavity? yeah, but now I’m a good girl and get my teeth cleaned regularly and brush twice daily. my kids own a ton, but I never play anymore.31) What was your first pet? 32) Ever had braces? 35) Name 3 teachers from High School â Wendel Wendel Wiley (always wore the old man’s sweater vest with his Pall Malls in the pocket), Mrs. Gilbert (the WEIRDEST teacher ever….wore a huge clock necklace that was stuck at 2:10), Mr. Dawson (the BEST band teacher ever). 3, but I’m going to have to be good with the two I have (I am!). 42) Ever thought you were in love? 46) Have you ever called your teacher mommy? maybe.47) Have you ever been in a castle? Yes and she was sooooo BIG (just kidding I don’t know any Berthas) 50) Ever been to Kentucky? 53) Have you ever called someone Boo? Yes, they’re actually my son’s but I like to listen to them and know ALL the words (and am not ashamed). But at least I can get my kids to have something other than fries. 67) Have you ever eaten paste? 69) Have you ever stripped? 70) Ever broke a bone? Usually pringles, but they can be too salty. 74) Have you ever broken someones heart? 78) Has anyone ever called you fat? I’ll show you if I ever meet you. Not usually, but if I’m in the mood I better have someone there beside me.
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I’m 56, and on September 11th, I’ll turn 57. Except for my knees, I feel pretty much the same as I did in my 30’s, except that I know a lot more now, and for the most part, I enjoy knowing the things I know. I wouldn’t say I’m wise, but I’m certainly wiser than I was in my 30’s.Two things have happened this week, though, that have gotten me thinking about the way Americans view women as we age. This being August and Texas, of course it’s been hot, for example, yesterday the high was 105. On Wednesday night, just before going to bed, I went into my back yard to water my patio flowers. It was a little after 10:00 PM, and Mike had just left for the evening, so I was home alone. Watering the flowers, I felt incredibly hot and sticky, and suddenly decided to have a quick skinny dip in my pool. There’s a high fence around my backyard, so it’s totally private. I swam around, au naturel, for about 5 minutes before locking up the house for the night and going to bed, feeling considerably refreshed and relaxed.The next evening, Katharine was over, and I mentioned my skinny dip to her, thinking she’d appreciate the spontaneity. But her reaction wasn’t what I expected.Ewwwwwwwwwww, she said, Mom! I didn
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Array I’m pretty sure if I had run another 1.3 miles it would have been a 1/2 mary PR.I knew I had to run before work today, and I didn’t really want to run on the treadmill. My legs felt fine when I woke up today–there was a little residual soreness in my adductors was all.When I am doing my shorter runs, I just can’t mentally get myself to run as slowly as I should during a warmup, but when I know I’m going long, I get myself in the right place to run a slower pace, and I can usually tell from the first mile how the run is going to go.I would like to have had time to drive to my hilly trail place (Waterfall Glen) to run, but that meant I would have needed to be up even earlier, so I took my chances that I could bang out a 1:45 run on the roads. So I decided to just run out my door, along the same area I ran yesterday, knowing full well that I would get > 3 solid miles of hill running. Even though I was supposed to do a progressive run today ending in tempo, I knew that with the route I was running and given the hard work of the 2 previous days that it would be OK to run more or less a steady pace, given the terrain, and just ensure that I didn’t slow down.As I started, my feet were not too happy to be on asphalt again, but after they surrendered, they were fine. The 1-mile hill, which is the stretch of road between Clarendon Hills Road and Cass Avenue is a killer no matter when you run it (provided you charge it), and it’s especially heinous when it comes 9 miles into a 12 mile run.
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-ne today is quite a special day for me. and calls keep coming in for today’s plan. after that waited for jon as he came from sp. coming up with games to stuff ourselves with plain water, bao, popiah and whatever shit we can get from the leftovers. yew, the hot dog he had all came out. as we left marina, a call came to ben ho. btw, tomorrow’s gonna be a busy day for me. with miecons tutorial in the morning at 9, nss project, singapore philips cup, tagawa training, movie with char maybe, and elsa’s birthday chalet.
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You made the decision to come here, now you can make the decision to go to someone else’s blog and read about how the high levels did this and that today or you can sit your ass down and read why EO has some problems, and my suggested remedies.This is not your typical complaint; Infact, the time it takes to get to level 6 is averaging 100 hours of gameplay (this is a survery I took with about 10 people comparing levels and usage time). In many other games (by games I mean MMORPGs), by 100 hours one would be level 20, at least. On that game, at around level 100 you are a high level (I have a level 56 char on it with approx 1 billion in items.), but the high high levels are over level 500. (GODLY levels!) On EO, which has been up for a couple years, the highest level is 41. It takes me days to level up, anyone who knows me knows I am on ALOT and I’m training 95% of the time– but our reward is 3 stat points. So, despite the fact that I may have put 30 hours into leveling, I get 3 stat points. So, if this system is still in place when PvP maps come out (as it has been hinted at for a v.26 release), that means a level 5 or 6 has an actual chance of killing a level 10 or 11. More stat points per level, perhaps. Another of my suggested remedies is making stat points count more: I understand our system is powered down from regular MMORPG numbers by comparison, so perhaps 1 dmg per point would be good, or 2 dmg per point maybe. I would probably cry, because two level 7s would pwn a level 20 with the current system, etc.
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p/s: Oh, if u r reading this u-uptown-auditor…u r not that funny to begin with!Case #2While I was filling up gas at Petronas, I noticed not-that-bad looking fella behind me filling up gas too. I call u back in 10 minutes.Me: Yeah, ok.His 10 minutes turned out to be forever.ps: Oh, if u feel like writing discouraging comments on Perigi Mencari Timba..don’t bother.Pps: makcik dah jumpa costume Halloween makcik for this year:Bridezilla in Pink.
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-ne i guess it was inevitably going to come to this, but: at work today i realized that punk and communism have both taken the same path. sure, 3 chord no guitar solo willful-lack-of-musicianship hardly even close to necessary for punk, but the real point is that it was inarguably a populist movement.the thing about communism, naturally, is that it doesn’t work, and i guess that really could be said for punk. boon/mike watt say punk is what we make it and that’s cool and everything, but, not to flex my class-warfare muscle too hard but i don’t really see how you can ever argue that getting someone to take you out for a fancy dinner can ever be reconciled as punk. i wouldn’t be surprised if he thinks he’s still fighting the good fight.the first (and lesser) real thing i want to say is that mike watt is the last living punk - read this interview, because it completely blew my mind.
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6) Have you ever tripped someone? 10) Have you ever thrown up in public? One time in particular…..grade school……right after lunch….I go to the drinking fountain to take a drink…..threw up canned peaches right into the fountain…..didn’t even feel it coming (but hey, at least I got to go home). 11) Name one thing that is always on your mind: Hubby and our life and whether we will ever grow old together. I think it was around 8 pm but I’m too lazy to go look at my birth certificate. 16) Ever made a prank phone call? I like both, but I guess I like summer most because of swimming, fresh cut grass, camping, beaches, the smell of cocunut suncreen, etc. 27) Have you ever slapped someone? don’t think so.28) Have you ever had a cavity? yeah, but now I’m a good girl and get my teeth cleaned regularly and brush twice daily. my kids own a ton, but I never play anymore.31) What was your first pet? 32) Ever had braces? 35) Name 3 teachers from High School â Wendel Wendel Wiley (always wore the old man’s sweater vest with his Pall Malls in the pocket), Mrs. Gilbert (the WEIRDEST teacher ever….wore a huge clock necklace that was stuck at 2:10), Mr. Dawson (the BEST band teacher ever). 3, but I’m going to have to be good with the two I have (I am!). 42) Ever thought you were in love? 46) Have you ever called your teacher mommy? maybe.47) Have you ever been in a castle? Yes and she was sooooo BIG (just kidding I don’t know any Berthas) 50) Ever been to Kentucky? 53) Have you ever called someone Boo? Yes, they’re actually my son’s but I like to listen to them and know ALL the words (and am not ashamed). But at least I can get my kids to have something other than fries. 67) Have you ever eaten paste? 69) Have you ever stripped? 70) Ever broke a bone? Usually pringles, but they can be too salty. 74) Have you ever broken someones heart? 78) Has anyone ever called you fat? I’ll show you if I ever meet you. Not usually, but if I’m in the mood I better have someone there beside me.
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I’m 56, and on September 11th, I’ll turn 57. Except for my knees, I feel pretty much the same as I did in my 30’s, except that I know a lot more now, and for the most part, I enjoy knowing the things I know. I wouldn’t say I’m wise, but I’m certainly wiser than I was in my 30’s.Two things have happened this week, though, that have gotten me thinking about the way Americans view women as we age. This being August and Texas, of course it’s been hot, for example, yesterday the high was 105. On Wednesday night, just before going to bed, I went into my back yard to water my patio flowers. It was a little after 10:00 PM, and Mike had just left for the evening, so I was home alone. Watering the flowers, I felt incredibly hot and sticky, and suddenly decided to have a quick skinny dip in my pool. There’s a high fence around my backyard, so it’s totally private. I swam around, au naturel, for about 5 minutes before locking up the house for the night and going to bed, feeling considerably refreshed and relaxed.The next evening, Katharine was over, and I mentioned my skinny dip to her, thinking she’d appreciate the spontaneity. But her reaction wasn’t what I expected.Ewwwwwwwwwww, she said, Mom! I didn
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