Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-08:
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Friday Mar 7 | ||
| nautilus 55:00 [1] | |
Thursday Mar 6 | ||
| Note | |
| So I'm finishing up with this old lady, maybe 85, and we're talking about politics, Obama vs Hillary, she unfortunately for the latter, and then she has to go and on parting she says, "It's nice to talk to someone with a brain."
I laugh. She continues, "My problem is, all the men in my life were good looking, but no brain." I laugh some more, though it makes me wonder what it would be like to go through life with good looks but no brain. And reminds me of another couple, a month ago, maybe in their 30s, she's average looking but pretty smart, good job, he's very good looking, works as a laborer at a dairy farm. At some point she wants to know if they should be doing anything different. Well, I said, he should be putting money in a retirement account. But, I continued, I suppose because he's such a stud he figures he'll never get old. And he smiled, and she glanced at him and then she really smiled, the kind of look that said, he really is a stud, and he's mine. Even if he may be a little short on the brain side. | ||
| C • good looks but no brain 1 | ||
Wednesday Mar 5 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
Tuesday Mar 4 | ||
| Note | |
| More tales from the tax crypt....
1. A bit of follow-up on one of my weird clients. A week or two ago I had the couple where the average was 18 teeth and a blood alcohol level of .10. I had been told to expect the guy's brother, and he showed up today. Looked quite similar, appeared to have all his teeth, but by all indications he was quite sober. And he had a bit of interesting stuff in his tax return, he moved back here from California in late 2006, lived in his girlfriend's house, she claimed the deductions for that, but he still owns 2 houses in California, the one he used to live in, now occupied at least temporarily by some relatives, and the other a house he cosigned the note with his son, and his son dropped out of sight and so he owns the house (and the mortgage). So he has lots of deductions and is paying almost no tax, though I wonder how he is managing to handle both mortgages. And I tell him about the rules for selling either one so he can minimize any tax due, and he's an ok guy. And just at the end I see a couple papers off to the side and he says I don't need those, but I look anyway, and a couple are statements of IRA accounts which have no bearing on what we're doing, and then there is a third mortgage statement from Countrywide, this one showing 27K in mortgage interest paid. Well, that seemed to have some bearing. Oh, no, he said, even though it had his name on it, someone else was making the payments and claiming the deductions. So, let's see, he's live rent free in one house, he owns two other houses that he pays the mortgage on but others live in rent free, and then there is another house that maybe he owns (at the least his name is on the mortgage) but someone else is making the payments. I would imagine this sort of stuff is a lot more common out in California or other places where there has been a housing bubble, except that there are surely a whole lot of houses where nobody at all is making the payments. Around here we never had the bubble, so the problems, so far, are pretty limited. This guy had also been laid off recently. He waiting to get a new job until he has his operation done. I asked, with some trepidation, what for. A hernia, he said. We moved on. 2. Had one of my favorite couples last night. She's short, a little dumpy looking, early 30's, works as an environmental police officer, and is just full of zip, funny, and I gather not one too be trifled with, having heard stories of her dealings with poachers and renegade snowmobilers and the like. She got married a couple of years ago, nicest fellow you could imagine, good looking, from Nigeria, from a good family I think, black as can be. He's an auto mechanic, foreign cars, I consult with him on my Subaru, though my Subaru has been really trouble free for the 135K miles it's done. We're talking about job expenses he can deduct and he asks about gym expenses, and I say that I do that for people where it seems to be a requirement of the position, like public safety officers, but I wasn't sure about that being the case for machanics. And while I'm checking the IRS regulations just to be sure, I ask him which gym he goes to, and it turns out he goes to a boxing gym in Northampton, and he loves boxing. So for 15 minutes I find out about the world of small-time amateur boxing, and it's one of those times I wish I could just cancel my next appointment and break out a couple beers and just, what's the word, chill? But I do find out some interesting stuff, including that last year he dropped 10 pounds (165 to 155) just to see if it made a difference and he felt really fast in the ring. So boxing is apparently just like orienteering. Always glad to see these two, the hour goes by too quickly. 3. And today I had a women for whom dropping 10 pounds would probably be about a couple of weeks' work. She is huge, though my memory is such that I didn't remember how huge she was until she tells me that she is down 67 pounds from last year, or, more accurately, from before the operation, a gastric bypass. I'm not quite sure of the details, but she's left with a stomach that's no more than an inch in diameter, so she can eat all she wants, but she fills up really fast, and so she doesn't eat that much. I'd guess right now she might check in somewhere between 250 and 300, maybe more, that's after dropping the 67. What's her goal? Real thin, she said with a big smile. She is just loving it. And a sweet lady too, she quit her job as a nurse last year to tend for her ailing dad and then he died two months later. She has enough put away so she doesn't have to go back to work, so she's just going to enjoy life. Good for her. | ||
| C • I am guessing the friendly ... 2 | ||
Monday Mar 3 | ||
| road running 7:00 [2] | |
| Continuing to go downhill. Headed off for a short easy run. Knee seemed a little achy, not bad, but not quite a mile out I got a sharp pain in the calf, same leg. Been there before. Stopped immediately, walked back. Probably will take a week or two to sort that out. Crap.
On the positive side, I think I need to acknowledge how very fine it is to have Kris and Gil and Cristina running the whole Sprint Series operation. And also, how fine it is to have Tom and Eric doing a bunch of coaching for the Team (and others). And also, how fine it is to see some Team members getting better and having something to show for it, like Sandra beating Simone in a race in Spain last month, or Kat winning the British night-O' champs. Progress. It's easy to forget that these things only happen if someone steps up and makes them happen. Now, if I could just get my legs back so I could do a little training, or even a little sprinting. PT appointment next Monday. | ||
Sunday Mar 2 | ||
| nautilus 35:00 [1] | |
| Including 4xG bench press. But not doing any leg stuff, seeing if the knee gets better, but it still isn't right.
Almost caught up at work, and the busiest period is behind me. Might even have time to start reading AP again. | ||