Kevin's Watch

Poor Helldog.

My point is that I really don't want to be doing exercise at all! But I signed up to do this "healthy walking challenge" at work -- it's a sort of competition between our US offices, and people who signed up got a free pedometer. We were supposed to start tracking our mileage Monday. Which reminds me, I need to go to that website and record my stuff for the past couple of days.

aliantha wrote: My point is that I really don't want to be doing exercise at all! But I signed up to do this "healthy walking challenge" at work -- it's a sort of competition between our US offices, and people who signed up got a free pedometer. We were supposed to start tracking our mileage Monday. Which reminds me, I need to go to that website and record my stuff for the past couple of days.

I think you are not quite getting the spirit of the challenge. An extra 5 minutes won't kill you. But seriously, divide it 10 and 10 or you could do 10 on the tread, 5 on the stepper and 5 at a low pace on the tread to cool down. It will get easier. I started with 10 minutes and I thought it would kill me. And we've walked together a bunch of times. You are a good walker.

lorin wrote:An extra 5 minutes won't kill you.

You sound awfully sure of that.

lorin wrote:And we've walked together a bunch of times. You are a good walker.

I used to be. Then I got uber-lazy and spent the last year or so sitting on my butt. I keep saying I need to go back to catching the Metro at Foggy Bottom (4 blocks or so away from the office) instead of at Farragut West (maybe a block away) -- but that means leaving the house 10 min. earlier and getting home maybe 10 min. later, and I feel bad about getting home even a smidge later when one of the kids is there, waiting on me for dinner. I know it's ridiculous and a lame excuse, but there you have it.

Creative. Been writing rules to a new Gravin Threndor game between tasks. Stuck a little on how to handle one part, but I'll work it out. What's daunting is the thought of pulling together a system to run the thing.

lorin wrote:

aliantha wrote:Glad everybody's okay, Linna, and yay for the new car! But yeah, I'd see a doc about the neck pain. Just to be on the safe side..

They are right. Especially since it was a car accident. You want to establish there may be an injury. A year from now if you start having problems and put in a claim they will deny it unless there is some history of injury.

Linna, should you decide to heed our advice, check out the Directory to see if there is an advanced proficiency rated DC near you. This is the chiropractic technique I recommend the most, and I wouldn't trust any chiropractor to do it, unless they are advanced proficiency rated.

I recently used the site to find a DC here. Dam-sel accompanied me, and I allowed her in to the treatment area, so she could see how treatment worked. She has yet to choose to be seen, but her fear regarding it seems to be far lessened, and I have high hopes she may yet give it a try. HaShem knows, I truly believe she would benefit from it. SD, too. But I think my work convincing him to go is really cut out for me, especially since he hasn't seen the method in action yet.

aliantha wrote: I used to be. Then I got uber-lazy and spent the last year or so sitting on my butt.

Puleeeese lazy. You wrote like 50 books. That's not lazy.

I allowed her in to the treatment area, so she could see how treatment worked. She has yet to choose to be seen, but her fear regarding it seems to be far lessened, and I have high hopes she may yet give it a try.

Is that the technique with the popping gun thingy? I had that done for a while. Didn't work for me.

lorin wrote:

I allowed her in to the treatment area, so she could see how treatment worked. She has yet to choose to be seen, but her fear regarding it seems to be far lessened, and I have high hopes she may yet give it a try.

Is that the technique with the popping gun thingy? I had that done for a while. Didn't work for me.

*nod*

Sounds like it, although I wouldn't call it a "gun," per se.

Do you know if the DC you saw was advanced proficiency rated by Activator Methods? Most chiropractors are taught how the Activator works in chiropractic schools nowadays, but the schools do not emphasize it. Activator Methods even list DCs who they classify as proficiency rated, but I wouldn't recommend them. The advanced proficiency rating guarantees the DC has the most current and advance training in the method currently available.

lorin wrote:

aliantha wrote: I used to be. Then I got uber-lazy and spent the last year or so sitting on my butt.

Puleeeese lazy. You wrote like 50 books. That's not lazy.

Three books. Well, four, next month. Also, re writing, see "sitting on my butt" above.

I tell ya, this indie author gig sucks up a lot of time. It's like having a part-time job -- and that's just counting the networking-and-promoting part, not the actual writing part.

I feel like some strange growth is spreading across the Watch.

If it doesn't die back naturally, pruning shears may be required.

--A

Busy overnight! I'll have to save some reading for when I get back this afternoon. Some interesting new threads though.

Avatar wrote:I feel like some strange growth is spreading across the Watch.

If it doesn't die back naturally, pruning shears may be required.

--A

I noticed that strange growth myself...

aliantha wrote:

Avatar wrote:I feel like some strange growth is spreading across the Watch.

If it doesn't die back naturally, pruning shears may be required.

--A

I noticed that strange growth myself...

Well if people would just stop fertilizing, it would simply dry up and float away.

I feel bamboozled into reading the Gap Series. Been to SRD's website, the only place I could find the titles in the right order. First one is The Real Story, right? Whilst browsing the Book Depository I found a book called "The Ill Earth War" Never thought of it like that before.

So, I'll have a go. The only Stephen King book I ever read was one my daughter left lying around. Can't remember the title but it was about some creatures that had drunk funny water and grown very big. They roamed around killing people - including two small children - even though it was many years ago I still can't get that image out of my head. I've never read another one since.

Fingers crossed I shall get on with the Gap book Ok and want to get the rest. Now, where on earth can I put another book shelf?

Iolanthe wrote:Fingers crossed I shall get on with the Gap book Ok and want to get the rest. Now, where on earth can I put another book shelf?

I already said this in The Summonsing, but I'll repeat here. I have not read The Gap, but my understanding is The Real Story is not the best in the series, and once you are past that, the series really takes off. Try not to judge the entire series on the first book.

Thanks Menolly. Luckily I was able to get the first two books in one volume so I shan't have to wait for the second!

Menolly wrote:

Linna Heartlistener wrote:I had this minor neck pain for just about two days.

The former chiropractic assistant in me is silently yelling for you to get yourself checked out by a chiropractor anyway. Your auto insurance should cover it.

It's okay, you don't have to bottle that former chiropractic assistant inside you!
She clearly knows stuff!

Yes, it's a good idea, and one I'd thought about but not quite gotten to the point of stepping up and doing anything about.
And thanks for the link to that list.

Admittedly, I'll feel uncomfortable changing my answer to the "were you injured?" question that I recorded.
(But there's a simple, straightforward explanation for that. And I can deal with it.)

I have no idea how Xar managed to put together Pantheon with all its many random events. I am struggling to pull together even a small list of ideas. (Though to be fair, I'm avoiding magical disasters and roving bands of adventurers.)

Is that because of those being used much everywhere? Have you tried reading Lovecraft or something like that for inspiration?

"Your character suddenly found he has some spare tentacles, he has to find a way to hide them, unless he wants some of his allies running away from him"
"Your most devoted follower was dragged into some space with strange geometric forms and promised to return after the blue triangles start blooming"

i have a gall stone 10 mm. julie says that is the width of ten stacked dimes. see a surgeon tomorrow to find out what he wants to do.

other than that...

Geez, you're in the wars a bit lately hey Sarge. I have no medical weaponry to assist your fight but I have it on good authority that this trusty gun of an emoticon can sometimes help...

No stones here, just the usual long-term chronic back pain and RSI, and a side order of downess, but ni-yar, shite happens.

I came here to say that I believe Murphy may have a cousin when it comes to book deliveries. I have 16 pages left in Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed (loving it). It's Friday and I have a full weekend of reading available to me from tomorrow. Yesterday, Tehanu turned up. Today, The Farthest Shore and The Tombs of Atuan arrived. Those familiar with the order of the Earthsea Cycle, will know which one is missing! (I swear this isn't the first time this has happened to me with a series. I think there's a naughty little gremlin in the warehouses of book delivery companies who looks over the order and makes sure the first book is sent last. I admire his/her cheekiness but still, it's the weekend you #@$%#$%!