Specialization is for Insects

Okay, so it’s been a little while. But I have been exercising!

Two weeks ago I set out a 6 day workout schedule for the next week. That almost worked.
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This past week I lifted weights once and went jogging twice. Not exactly the training volume I was hoping for.
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My Uncle Dave recently posted the following query on Facebook:
“Why was gambling illegal in the United States (except in Nevada) until the 1970s? When I was growing up all forms of gambling were illegal (except in Nevada) and had been for as long anyone then alive could remember. How did that situation come about? I need some guesses and assumptions about that to quote in a blog entry I am writing. Don’t do any research, just answer off the top of your head.”

What an interesting question. Sorry, but the idea that I’m not going to do research before talking about an issue like this is just crazy talk.

Also, I hope writing a blog post about this isn’t somehow stealing my uncle’s thunder. I’m quite sure that his blog post will have a completely different take on this issue.
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I’ve put in 3 workouts since my last fitness update.
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Yesterday at the fire station we watched a one hour show on the Science Channel called “Built from Disaster – Tunnels”. It was mostly about how the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire in 1999 has affected tunnel design. And we couldn’t believe one of the lessons they missed.
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I just did a repeat of my big 55 workout from September 25. I knocked over a minute off my time, finishing in 14:08. Gotta feel good about that. Maybe next time I can bump the weight up.

Of course, while I’m glad to see the improvement, I’ve still got a ways to go before I will be sufficiently impressed with myself.

The big news in Chicago today was that we will not be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. What shocks people so much isn’t that we lost out to Rio, but that we were eliminated in the first round of voting.
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