Random Thoughts the 13th: Jason Takes RTT

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Today I got a late call to help out at a few houses. Hit the road and had a slow start. After lunch we hit this house and the owner was a 92ish year old lady who got around fairly well. Was a little chatter box also. So I just stood and talked to her while the boss did the job with nobody bothering him.

She asked if I could help her get some stuff off a high shelf she can’t reach. I said sure. Go back to this room and she shows me this decent sized box on a top shelf. Take it down and she says to just place it on the floor.

Turns out it is full of all the letters that her husband wrote to her while he was over seas during WWII. Also showed me some stuff he sent back from Japan and China during that time frame.

She needed to talk with someone today, and you were in the right place.
 
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RunninMan be a fast running man. :)
Age could be a factor. When I was in Navy boot camp, we had to run 2-1/4 miles in 18 minutes as a company. We had guys of all shapes and sizes. IIRC we did it in 16+ minutes.
 
She needed to talk with someone today, and you were in the right place.

I had no problems with it and my boss was happy that I ran interference so he could finish. She had lost her husband but hadn't left the dating scene. She starting talking about all these old friends of her late husband and then would mention shacking up with them. She was getting ready to move near her daughter and that is why she needed some stuff pulled off top shelves she couldn't reach. Not sure what was in the letters, but she said she would never let her kids read them. Must have been letter sex or something.
 
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Congrats to our "too big to fail" bank for their tremendous blunder yesterday.
Checked into our account to see if it's where I was expecting, and it's over $1000 off.

Look at the transactions, and there's a check for $1047. That's not something we would write, so I click on the image, and it's some family in Arizona writing a check from their own account to their county treasurer.

That got a quick phone call.
 
Age could be a factor. When I was in Navy boot camp, we had to run 2-1/4 miles in 18 minutes as a company. We had guys of all shapes and sizes. IIRC we did it in 16+ minutes.

I was commenting from envy since I only broke 20 twice and 19 once for 5K and that was racing not training like our RunninMan's pace. I didn't start running till I was 32 or 33 and couldn't ever quite get under 6-minute miles. Wished I could have done better but with some of the physical handicaps I had to work around it was the best I could do.
 
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@CloneLawman, have you watched "Making a Murderer"? I am currently watching it on Netflix - it sure doesn't paint a pretty picture of the Manitowoc County (Wis.) sheriff's department or county attorney(s). Fascinating stuff, though.......
 
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Kids are awesome! Z has been wanting to read with us a lot since the school book fair. I read her 3 chapters on the way to supper last night and she read a few words for me. Then she wanted more stories before bed.

Now to see her put her vocabulary together and read on her own. I am certain she can read Hop on Pop her own now.
 
Age could be a factor. When I was in Navy boot camp, we had to run 2-1/4 miles in 18 minutes as a company. We had guys of all shapes and sizes. IIRC we did it in 16+ minutes.
I'm definitely getting slower but I'm also not training as much. In high school I would run like 60 miles a week and could do a 10 mile run in an hour flat. I got down to 17:40 for 5k twice in high school but I pretty much have given up hope of running that again.

Fun fact: One of the races I ran that time at was at Jewell and Gilbert was there, which meant Thomas Pollard and Wes Greder were running. I felt so good about my 17:40 and then realized I hadn't seen those two the whole race. They ran somewhere in the 15's.
 
I'm definitely getting slower but I'm also not training as much. In high school I would run like 60 miles a week and could do a 10 mile run in an hour flat. I got down to 17:40 for 5k twice in high school but I pretty much have given up hope of running that again.

Fun fact: One of the races I ran that time at was at Jewell and Gilbert was there, which meant Thomas Pollard and Wes Greder were running. I felt so good about my 17:40 and then realized I hadn't seen those two the whole race. They ran somewhere in the 15's.


I ran one race and thought I was doing ok, then came around a bend and met this guy heading back, it a race to a point and then it backtracked the same streets. The second place guy was a long ways behind him but I couldn't get that image of him looking fresher than me and so far out in front of me.
 
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@CloneLawman, have you watched "Making a Murderer"? I am currently watching it on Netflix - it sure doesn't paint a pretty picture of the Manitowoc County (Wis.) sheriff's department or county attorney(s). Fascinating stuff, though.......
Yes. It is quite fascinating--mostly a bunch of true outrages. As a former prosecutor, I am left wondering about a whole bunch of information that isn't included in the series, but I am easily mad as hell about how the police handled the interrogation on the guy's low-functioning cousin (and by the subsequent refusal of the Sconnie appellate courts so far to shitcan that kid's convictions). I think that a chimpanzee (untrained) could have done a better job of defending that kid than the defense attorney he had.

Are you on Season 2?

Here's a little update, by the way...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michel...even-averys-appellate-win-means/#2b8160b53ac3
 
Thinking of a certain movie next week and seeing the discussion of upgraded theaters:
1. I think Z is hinting she might like to see her 3rd in theater movie. (She's been counting and practicing 1st, 2nd....)
2. The new chairs are great. There is enough space for the kiddo to join and they don't make me wish for stadium seating due to my shortness.
3. I should search and see why/when the USA decided to be lazy and use Theater for both productions on stage and the Cinema.
 
The machine they brought about 2 weeks ago in to replace the old Coke and Pepsi machines has been broken more than functional.
They have finally decided to bring in a new machine. This one was brand new and has had the entire control board replaced among other things. It's still spent more time broken than working. It's been down since last week. last time they worked on it I think it functioned for almost 2 whole days before breaking down again.
 
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