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Sunday Mar 11, 2012 #
9 AM
ARDF 2m race 1:00:03 [2] 3.98 km (15:05 / km) +42m 14:20 / km
2m ARDF set by Dick Arnett. Really fun. Lost to k4bri by about 5 minutes. Had trouble with 2 Ts: 5 and 2. Five just didn't have a strong signal peak, probably because of good placement by Dick. I went by it twice when it was off, not close enough to see it, got drawn off by a probable reflection, and finally got it, offcycle, I think. Two seemed the same way---no obvious strong signal peak when I was close. (It may be that the antennas were too close to the ground---I'm not sure---but both of these totally threw me.)
Also, found a crashed RC plane.
Also, found a crashed RC plane.
ARDF Setting 42:32 [1] 1.9 km (22:25 / km) +26m 20:59 / km
Picked up 3 and 5 and then the crashed RC plane. It had a name and telephone number, so I called the guy and returned it. He lived about 5 miles away, so I met him and gave it back to him. It had been out all winter. When I found it, the electronics bay was exposed, but it was facing the ground, protecting them from direct rain and snow, so although there was some rust, the electronics appeared to be in good shape.
On Saturday, I finally got to do something I've wanted to do for years---I walked across the John A. Roebling Bridge. It's been spanning the Ohio River since 1867. It was a little confusing, because there are some features in the metal work that make me think it has been modernized at least once. For example, most of the metal work is hot riveted, but there are some gussets that might have been added later with threaded fasteners. Watched a big barge with coal pass underneath us in sort of a drifting turn. Some people on the tug waved at us, so we waved back.
Saturday and Sunday were just beautiful days. Wow.
On Saturday, I finally got to do something I've wanted to do for years---I walked across the John A. Roebling Bridge. It's been spanning the Ohio River since 1867. It was a little confusing, because there are some features in the metal work that make me think it has been modernized at least once. For example, most of the metal work is hot riveted, but there are some gussets that might have been added later with threaded fasteners. Watched a big barge with coal pass underneath us in sort of a drifting turn. Some people on the tug waved at us, so we waved back.
Saturday and Sunday were just beautiful days. Wow.
6 PM
Course set-check-pick 49:41 [1] 2.97 km (16:42 / km) +54m 15:19 / km
I did this in shorts. England-Idlewild.
Tuesday Mar 6, 2012 #
9 PM
Cycling 20:00 [2]
ahr:135 max:160
At the gym. Watching election returns. Voted today.
I got Microsoft Project installed on my work computer. I had to wait for a license to open up. But I had probably the most productive day at work I've had in a year. That's partly awesome and partly embarrassing. I'll take the awesome.
I got Microsoft Project installed on my work computer. I had to wait for a license to open up. But I had probably the most productive day at work I've had in a year. That's partly awesome and partly embarrassing. I'll take the awesome.
Stairstepper 15:00 [4]
Heart rate varied from 150 to 160 or so. I couldn't maintain 160, so I dropped down a level and it stabilized at 154 or so. Struggled the last few minutes.
AMT or Elliptical Trainer 8:00 [3]
Easy elliptical. Took it easy, worrying about foot. Was mostly wasting time waiting on more election results to trickle in.
Walking 7:00 [1]
Had to cut the hour a few minutes short. My ride was leaving.
Watched "Under Our Skin", a documentary about Lyme disease (1). The big takeaway for me was---If you know someone with Alzheimers or Parkinsons, get them a Lyme test. So, so scary. But seriously, watch it. Very, very good. If you believe that the cover-up alleged by this documentary is real, then it's doubly scary because there are people who know the truth and deny it anyway. I'm having a lot of trouble believing the argument that chronic, long-term Lyme doesn't exist. There is a pathologist in this with what I'd call a "moderate quack factor"---for example, he does his regular job then does Lyme research in his basement on his own time.. But even this guy I'm totally believing. This is making me seriously question the recent Lyme disease map that has been in the news. One guy in this was from California. One woman was from Florida. Both of these are "Low Risk" according to that new map. But the woman from Florida went to a Lyme clinic in North Carolina---another "Low Risk" zone. I got a bullseye rash from a tick in Rayleigh, NC. Supposedly, there are some papers for NC, Missouri, and maybe Arkansas about some "non-Lyme" tick-borne rash that gives an EM rash (the bullseye rash), but isn't Lyme. It's called Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness or STARI. So if this is different from Lyme, and if NC is "Low Risk" on the Lyme Map, then why is there a Lyme Clinic in North Carolina? My uncle had a dog that had swollen joints and shakiness like Parkinsons where I grew up in Indiana. It had ticks a lot of the time. My uncle put a picnic cloth down in his backyard, and within a minute there were ticks on it. And they didn't crawl. They jumped from a tree thirty feet overhead and glided onto that blanket. We watched them. Again, Indiana is not on the Lyme map. What really makes me mad about this is some of the news stories I read about "there is no long-term chronic Lyme disease" that I believed, I no longer believe---and it was about the specific doctors in this movie. I really need some grounding here. Have you seen the movie? What do you think? Am I overreacting?
Watched "Under Our Skin", a documentary about Lyme disease (1). The big takeaway for me was---If you know someone with Alzheimers or Parkinsons, get them a Lyme test. So, so scary. But seriously, watch it. Very, very good. If you believe that the cover-up alleged by this documentary is real, then it's doubly scary because there are people who know the truth and deny it anyway. I'm having a lot of trouble believing the argument that chronic, long-term Lyme doesn't exist. There is a pathologist in this with what I'd call a "moderate quack factor"---for example, he does his regular job then does Lyme research in his basement on his own time.. But even this guy I'm totally believing. This is making me seriously question the recent Lyme disease map that has been in the news. One guy in this was from California. One woman was from Florida. Both of these are "Low Risk" according to that new map. But the woman from Florida went to a Lyme clinic in North Carolina---another "Low Risk" zone. I got a bullseye rash from a tick in Rayleigh, NC. Supposedly, there are some papers for NC, Missouri, and maybe Arkansas about some "non-Lyme" tick-borne rash that gives an EM rash (the bullseye rash), but isn't Lyme. It's called Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness or STARI. So if this is different from Lyme, and if NC is "Low Risk" on the Lyme Map, then why is there a Lyme Clinic in North Carolina? My uncle had a dog that had swollen joints and shakiness like Parkinsons where I grew up in Indiana. It had ticks a lot of the time. My uncle put a picnic cloth down in his backyard, and within a minute there were ticks on it. And they didn't crawl. They jumped from a tree thirty feet overhead and glided onto that blanket. We watched them. Again, Indiana is not on the Lyme map. What really makes me mad about this is some of the news stories I read about "there is no long-term chronic Lyme disease" that I believed, I no longer believe---and it was about the specific doctors in this movie. I really need some grounding here. Have you seen the movie? What do you think? Am I overreacting?