Fall:
--- Running in nice weather
--- Cycling in nice weather
--- Camping in nice weather
--- Hunting
--- Halloween
--- Thanksgiving
--- Stouts and Porters
--- Stews, Soups and Hearty Meals
--- Seasonal Flavors
Winter:
--- Snowy Winter runs
--- Skiing
--- Christmas
--- New Years Eve
It took about a minute to think of things to look forward too, Jamin. Try harder.
Hardloper wrote:
Can't wait for the vaccine in October
Then hopefully it gets colder and these Mostly Peaceful Protests stop
Do you also want unnecessary police shootings of black people to stop or just the protest of those actions?
1. Fingers crossed: Trump loosing the election or resigning...I'd take either.
2. Would love a SAFE Covid vaccine for the world by the end of the year, but most scientists think that is unlikely at best.
Kvothe wrote:
CIM? Honolulu? Club Nats? - none of these are cancelled just yet
The Boys on Amazon Prime
Dune Film
some fantasy books you probably wouldn't be into
As far as CIM. I got an email from the elite athlete coordinator earlier this week. Let's just say if you were looking forward to running it don't hold your breath.
busy doing nothing wrote:
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Don't ask me who he got the quote from. It sounds like ancient wisdom to me
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/05/06/other-plans/EZstrider wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
Can't wait for the vaccine in October
Then hopefully it gets colder and these Mostly Peaceful Protests stop
Do you also want unnecessary police shootings of black people to stop or just the protest of those actions?
We want both. How hard is this to understand?
Trump getting beaten and then Biden saying "Donald the people have spoken... YA FIRED!"
Going up to Maine soon.
Might go to Ireland and work remote from a seaside cottage or something in October.
Getting my bike set up with panniers etc and going for a short gravel tour, camping.
Might buy a car so I can go places.
Maybe visit friends in CO and FL and work remote.
Eat food with GF.
Learn more about sound design in Ableton and start producing some deep techno cuts.
A landslide victory for Biden with the senate flipping to the Democrats so that quick work can be done to have a green stimulus deal and the restoration of competent scientists to the helm of the CDC, NIH and FDA so that there can be real national leadership on the COVID 19 response instead of leaving it to clueless state governments.
Lots of camping trips with the family and golf with my kids (I live on the gulf coast). My 9 year old is hitting his driver about 150 yards.
My kids have soccer games and cross country races this fall. I might sneak up to Alaska and go fishing for Silvers one long weekend. I have a timeshare up in the mountains in a month that usually involves a week of hiking, biking, fishing and running in the fall colors. Fall is a great time of year. Get out and enjoy it. There's far more to life than running. I've spent more time fishing and hiking this year than years past simply because they cancelled spring soccer and summer track. It was great.
That sounds amazing! What do you do for work that you’re able to work remotely like that?
Swaglord_the_real_one_1_1 wrote:
Trump getting beaten and then Biden saying "Donald the people have spoken... YA FIRED!"
Going up to Maine soon.
Might go to Ireland and work remote from a seaside cottage or something in October.
Getting my bike set up with panniers etc and going for a short gravel tour, camping.
Might buy a car so I can go places.
Maybe visit friends in CO and FL and work remote.
Eat food with GF.
Learn more about sound design in Ableton and start producing some deep techno cuts.
Adventures are better now wrote:
Fall:
--- Running in nice weather
--- Cycling in nice weather
--- Camping in nice weather
--- Hunting
--- Halloween
--- Thanksgiving
--- Stouts and Porters
--- Stews, Soups and Hearty Meals
--- Seasonal Flavors
Winter:
--- Snowy Winter runs
--- Skiing
--- Christmas
--- New Years Eve
It took about a minute to think of things to look forward too, Jamin. Try harder.
Hunting is a horrible pastime. Killing for sport? I’ll pass.
Halloween is fun when you’re ages 4-13 or have kids aged 3-10, not so much otherwise.
Thanksgiving? No thanks. It can be fun when you have extended family who are excited to see each other—lord knows that I don’t.
Stouts and porters are tasty but I am an alcoholic, 4+ years off the booze.
Stews, soups, hearty meals and “seasonal flavors”—who am I, Martha Stewart? Eating food to sustain bodily functions is a whole to-do.
Skiing is awful—throwing yourself down a frozen mountainside with your feet affixed to two narrow rails is just a bad idea; if you’re lucky you’ll wind up freezing cold and if you’re not you’ll wind up in the hospital.
Christmas, like Halloween, is only fun if you’re a child or have a young child through which to enjoy it vicariously. Otherwise, it’s a depressing commercialized sham that would leave Jesus perpetually vomiting in disgust. And of course there is no God.
New Year’s Eve was exciting when I was a young alcoholic, but waking up in a stranger’s house that I’d apparently wandered into uninvited was a rocky way to start the new year. These days it’s iffy if I’ll stay up till midnight.
I do like running though...
Banana Bread wrote:
London 2020 and seeing Bekele run a WR next month
Trump sending the Democrats home devastated in November
Only 2 outcomes are possible: Biden W / Bekele W + WR, Trump Win / Bekele DNF
Choose 1 Banana Bread
New Springsteen album next month with the E Street Band!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=AQyLEz0qy-g&feature=emb_logo
99 bottles of beer wrote:
EZstrider wrote:
Do you also want unnecessary police shootings of black people to stop or just the protest of those actions?
We want both. How hard is this to understand?
It is not apparent that you want both.
Seems like the priority is wanting the protests of wrongdoing to stop without even mentioning what the protests are about.
Pedant 69 wrote:
Adventures are better now wrote:
Fall:
--- Running in nice weather
--- Cycling in nice weather
--- Camping in nice weather
--- Hunting
--- Halloween
--- Thanksgiving
--- Stouts and Porters
--- Stews, Soups and Hearty Meals
--- Seasonal Flavors
Winter:
--- Snowy Winter runs
--- Skiing
--- Christmas
--- New Years Eve
It took about a minute to think of things to look forward too, Jamin. Try harder.
Hunting is a horrible pastime. Killing for sport? I’ll pass.
Halloween is fun when you’re ages 4-13 or have kids aged 3-10, not so much otherwise.
Thanksgiving? No thanks. It can be fun when you have extended family who are excited to see each other—lord knows that I don’t.
Stouts and porters are tasty but I am an alcoholic, 4+ years off the booze.
Stews, soups, hearty meals and “seasonal flavors”—who am I, Martha Stewart? Eating food to sustain bodily functions is a whole to-do.
Skiing is awful—throwing yourself down a frozen mountainside with your feet affixed to two narrow rails is just a bad idea; if you’re lucky you’ll wind up freezing cold and if you’re not you’ll wind up in the hospital.
Christmas, like Halloween, is only fun if you’re a child or have a young child through which to enjoy it vicariously. Otherwise, it’s a depressing commercialized sham that would leave Jesus perpetually vomiting in disgust. And of course there is no God.
New Year’s Eve was exciting when I was a young alcoholic, but waking up in a stranger’s house that I’d apparently wandered into uninvited was a rocky way to start the new year. These days it’s iffy if I’ll stay up till midnight.
I do like running though...
Pendant 69, maybe you need to expand your horizons a bit. Your replies make you seem like sort of a downer, and can make any potentially fun experience a drag.
1) I hunt not for sport, but for food and a connection with nature. The meat found at a local grocer is typically factory farmed and is therefore harvested in an environmentally damaging and inhumane way, which is why I prefer wild game vs. grocery meat. If you are vegan or vegetarian - fair, I understand your point.
2) Halloween is fun for many reasons, changing of the seasons, the nostalgia, the decorations and festivity of it all. The Mountain Town I live in has a neat festival thats usually pretty fun and ties in the community.
3) I have a family I love, get along with and care about. So, yeah, Thanksgiving is fun. Sorry that is not the case for you. Again, cooking is fun for me.
4) You don't have to be Martha Stewart, as you said to enjoy good food. Cooking is a hobby of mine, making stews and soups isn't appealing food in the summer as it's too warm to enjoy. I eat lighter in the summer for this reason, nice to enjoy foods that fit the weather.
5) Sorry you are bad at skiing. For those of us who are good at it, (or anything other outdoor activity) AT Skiing, downhill skiing (whether frontside, side country, or backcountry) can be a thrilling experience and once again bring you closer to nature.
6) Not religious and not into the superficiality of it, but I do enjoy family and traditional aspects of it. It's also typically a time we visit my wife's family out of country so that's an added bonus.
7) Sorry you struggle with alcohol, but for me that's not a problem. Typically NYE includes camping and having a big fire, good food and somewhere with my family. Under the stars and bundled in a tent.
Glad you enjoy running. It seems like without it most of your life experience have been soured.
jamin finding the love of his life at a Trump rally.
Adventures are better now wrote:
Your replies make you seem like sort of a downer
Congrats, that was the joke.
Adventures are better now wrote:
It took about a minute to think of things to look forward too, Jamin. Try harder.
I do genuinely think you should be thankful that finding enjoyment in life comes easily for you, and not condescending toward those for whom it does not.
Pedant 69 wrote:
Hunting is a horrible pastime. Killing for sport? I’ll pass.
Halloween is fun when you’re ages 4-13 or have kids aged 3-10, not so much otherwise.
Thanksgiving? No thanks. It can be fun when you have extended family who are excited to see each other—lord knows that I don’t.
Stouts and porters are tasty but I am an alcoholic, 4+ years off the booze.
Stews, soups, hearty meals and “seasonal flavors”—who am I, Martha Stewart? Eating food to sustain bodily functions is a whole to-do.
Skiing is awful—throwing yourself down a frozen mountainside with your feet affixed to two narrow rails is just a bad idea; if you’re lucky you’ll wind up freezing cold and if you’re not you’ll wind up in the hospital.
Christmas, like Halloween, is only fun if you’re a child or have a young child through which to enjoy it vicariously. Otherwise, it’s a depressing commercialized sham that would leave Jesus perpetually vomiting in disgust. And of course there is no God.
New Year’s Eve was exciting when I was a young alcoholic, but waking up in a stranger’s house that I’d apparently wandered into uninvited was a rocky way to start the new year. These days it’s iffy if I’ll stay up till midnight.
I do like running though...
Please reach out to a mental health professional if you aren't a troll. There's lots of happiness to be had - you just got to work for it.
The presidential debates are going to be LIT. Certainly more exciting than any major sporting event.
macdaddy 1 wrote:
Please reach out to a mental health professional if you aren't a troll. There's lots of happiness to be had - you just got to work for it.
Agreed with macdaddy1. If not a troll, this is a good idea. Good luck to you and I hope you find happiness, even in the small things.