Yep. Putting that bike in the bedroom was my downfall too. My girlfriend does all kinds of crazy areobic and yoga workout videos, but they all seem to be aimed at women. I tend to take my dog for some long ass walks in the summer, so that helps, but it’s just not doable in -40 weather.
Good morning user9510.vs.easily.co.uk! (otherwise known as the fantastic Oh Kee Pa!)
Congrats on the progress Ollie! I don’t do gyms or workouts. I was forced to do the gym thing in college for a part I was playing that required me to build up a little muscle, back when I was doing the acting thing. Every single muscle I beefed up during that little time turned to pure mush the second I stopped working out. That was total bullshit! I had been a little skinny dude all my life and, now, just because I built up my stomach muscles and my pects for a couple months, I look like a fucking pregnant woman. Well, needless to say, that was the end of that. It took me several years of just eating right and getting normal exercise like hiking and biking to get back to looking like a normal skinny dude and I will never ever make the mistake of beefing up any of these muscles again! They are just fine the way they are!
From now on, it’s all about a pleasant hike or a leisurely bike ride… Well, either that or watching doojette do her little yoga thing in the morning. 
And hang in there, Doug! Plaster the place with Phish posters, throw in some frozen pizza topped with extra bacon and blast that 11/26/94 Bowie as loud as you can! And, if all else fails… strippers! 
It kinda sucks how something like divorce can ruin your home. I feel that. But like Doojer said, strippers can cure all!
I’ve never been so down that a good lap dance couldn’t get me back up! er. Good Morning Pa!
I’ve never been so down that a good lap dance couldn’t get me back up! er. Good Morning Pa!
Super Bowl Sunday?!
::Crawls out of winter cave to celebrate the last day of football for the year::
I thought I’d pretend to be into the superbowl later. Thought I’d put on the little TV in my music space and turn the volume off. I’ll eat some spicy chicken and drink some Guinness and ignore the game. It’s either that or sit on the couch by the bigger TV with the volume up while I ignore the game. But considering I won’t really pay attention either way I might as well work on the tunes. What kind of straight American male am I anyway, I know.
Super Bowl over, not a great game, but it was ok… Sucks the peckers won but alas, time for some baseball!
Mornin!
Hope you all have a warmer day then us in the TC area - back in to single digits with wind chills in the -20’s, awesome!
Loves to all!
^ See, when I see TC, I always think of Traverse City. That’s pretty cold wind chill man; shit it’s a balmy 32 here. We’re supposed to get some snow this week! Fingers crossed!
Good morning folks! Hope you go out into the world and do some awesome shit with some awesome people today! Talk to you guys later.
Thank god for coffee.
Morning Pa!
Lots of work and travel this week… so, won’t be on so much… but hope you all have fantastic days!
Morning you doodz! You can’t disc golf in a buffalo herd. I mean a foot of snow. I mean you can but nobody wants to. So you just double up on pizza and coffee.
Stressed. I can’t wait for all of this divorce BS to be over. I am not good with patience and my boss is not really happy with the amount of work I am able to produce right now.
I could really use some summer tour dates right about now… 
Doug, does your health insurance package have a grief counselling option? Divorce stress is always included under grief counselling, and there’s always a chance that one of these folks could just say the right words to help you put this ordeal into better perspective. Most times you just have to go through this crap to get to the other side, but there’s really no telling when and how you will reach that point. It may just be someone just saying the right thing to you at the right moment to get you out of this, so why not give yourself more options to be happy again, know what I mean?
Good Monday morning otherwise. It’s a little after noon here in NJ, and this is the first opportunity I’ve gotten to get up to the Pa today. The phone started ringing at about 10 after 7 this morning and I’ve been dealing with tons of stoopit schtuff ever since. The week was at full speed right out of the starting block.
This weekend wasn’t a lot of fun, well maybe Saturday night was because one of the kids wanted to go bowling again, so Marie and I joined her and her family. But earlier that day, I had to spend 1500 on my car which wasn’t fun, and yesterday I spent half the day removing wallpaper in advance of re-painting our bedroom. We haven’t repainted the room in twenty years, mostly because I didn’t want to remove the wallpaper boarders and re-condition the walls, but I really ran out of excuses.
So over the next several weekends, I’ll be consumed with renovating this room which will include new moldings, new closet door configurations, and off course the actual painting. I used to love painting as a way to freshen rooms. Now, it seems, it’s just another chore.
Yes they do and I’ve actually been seeing my old therapist that I saw when I was getting sober. It’s been quite helpful. I’m hopeful because there are times when I’m up and know everything’s going to be okay, but then there are times when all the piddly details add up and I get overwhelmed. Still the “downs” are getting less and less down as time passes so I’ll get there. I’m just impatient.
I just keep reminding myself that I’ve been through worse and made it through to the other side.
^Saddened to hear all that, Doug. It really can happen to any of us, I guess. Hell, I’m sure I will be in your shoes at some point, but hopefully not anytime soon. “Till death do you part” is a long fucking time and most humans just can’t maintain a relationsip for that long…especially when your husband is stubborn as a mule, but I digress. Just focus on your future, all the Phish you will see, the friends you’ve yet to meet, and the life you now have NO restrictions to. You can do whatever you want, study abroad, live wherever you want, work wherever you want, see Phish wherever/whenever you want to, travel…the possibilities are endless! I wish you much luck!!
Good morning, okp.
A rare day home today as Makenzie has walking pneumonia 
Her doc said it was “going around”. I’m not feeling so swift myself. Not sure if I’ve caught her illness or if I’m getting chest congestion from walking the dog in the cold and wind every morning. The wind was so strong lastnight, it woke me up…TWICE. Holt just left to go overnight to a 2nd job interview/ 24-hr observation to work at a boys camp/school in Black Mountain, NC. It’s a wilderness-based, year-round school for kids with behavior problems, everything from Autism to ADD. He’d work Thurs-Mon (onsite the entire duration) and be off during the week. I think it will be an awesome job that he’ll really love. I hope he gets it!
Hope you guys are all doing well. So ready for some dates, damn it!! Have a good’n.
Good morning … so far so good! If only I had millions of dollars and powers physical and spiritual invulnerability. But considering I haven’t got those, it’s been a great morning. Really great. Thanks to everyone who made me what I am today, you know who you are. :
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Good luck to your husband Ollie!
Doug, we all have your back, keep that chin up!
Kevin, you mean you never got the decoder ring and 1 million dollars from your Coco Crisp cereal box?
Anyhow, I think we have some room to get colder, I mean wind chill around -30 means we still could get to -50…
Mornin!
Work today followed be more work…
Loves to all!
Yeah, that shit was intense last night. I was up til about 2, and it was gusting like shit out there. They were saying 55 mph gusts or maybe higher, I don’t remember. Really high, though. I was loving that; I went and sat in one of my porch chairs out in the yard and smoked a bowl and a few cigarettes and just enjoyed the wind. Kinda weird sitting out there in the front yard at 2 in the morning in the middle of a wind storm; had anyone passed, they would surely have thought I was nuts.
Hello Pa! Doug, glad to hear shit’s getting better, man. Some things, only time will heal, I suppose. Luckily you’ve got time, and plenty. And Phish, as well!
Ryan, I was thinking about it, and Minnesota is pretty much the perfect environment for cold. Think about it: the mighty wind starts in the Great Plains in ND, where it is also extremely cold, and then it passes over your 12,000 lakes (I know the slogan is 10,000 but from what I’ve read it’s actually about 12,000), and the big wide open flatlands of Minnesota for wind to whip across after it comes off the lakes. The wind picks up speed and moisture, whipping along faster and faster, and then the cold slams into the Twin Cities. Pretty awesome, unless it freezes your pipes or your fuel pump or something like that. Then it’s not so awesome anymore.
Kevin, if I were in RI, you would have a partner for a round of disc golf in a foot of snow. Or really, it would just be: throw disc, it’s lost; throw disc, it’s lost; and on and on until we’re outta discs. Then we’d be kinda fucked (and out a bunch of money too). No, no, that’s not a good plan at all.
Anyway, good morning and good day to all you fine-feathered folks. I’m chock full o’ coffee. It’s 25ËšF and windy out today, so I finally get some reasonably cold temperatures instead of this 50ËšF bullshit. Gonna go do some constructive shit and kick some ass. Gotta go make myself a turkey sammich for lunch before I head out for class. See you people later!
Good morning’ people!
Biscuits and gravy time!
Make it awesome!!