Enough upper-body exercise
January 7, 2010
About 6:45am this morning:
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| From my photo album; winter |
And a LOT of snow fell after that. Just finished a bunch of shoveling including shaving the snow off the edge of the roof using a long pole with a dealie on the end. Shoulders have had enough. I’m going upstairs to do some cardio but no weightlifting tonight.
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Winter wonderland, eh? Fun, fun! Well, aside from the shoveling, the not being able to get out of the driveway, the idiots who think they’re on a dry road in midsummer….
No, I don’t like snow. What gave it away?
Stay warm, stay safe!
Dana: Every year a whole whack of people (that’s an exact, scientific term—you can lookitup) decide Someone non-existent has repealed the laws of physics. Me, I cooperate with those laws, drive an AWD he-vicle with winter tyres made in Finland. Those Finns know the laws of physics … and what they’re doin’. Rest-o-ya get outta my way.
Funniest one I ever saw was on a drive to Urbana. Jeep Cherokee had slid off the road and partly down an embankment. Driver was spinning the tires while passenger was trying to push the 1500 Kg vehicle back up the hill. Which is to say, if it slid further down the hill, it would do so upon the corpus of the aforementioned passenger. Never found out how it turned out.
Wait, that wasn’t funny… the idiot could have killed himself. Ok, it’s funny. But sad.
But funny.
My former boss in Stratford (a really, really good guy) bought a Wagoneer in the late 80s, figured he was good to go in THE EFFING SNOW BELT of southwestern Ontario. He ditched it twice off icy secondary roads, though he did have the sense to be driving slow, no damage. But no winter tires, so, yeah … FAIL.
The economics of winter tires are as follows:
- for every month you drive them, that’s a month (100% equivalent) you are not driving your summer tires, i.e., IT’S AN ECONOMIC WASH.
- if you save one accident and therefore the deductible, YOU ARE MONEY AHEAD, not to mention the time, hassle, aggravation.
I am not overconfident by running proper tires and AWD in the winter. I just use the equipment I have chose according to Newtonian regulations.
As for the driveway, that’s why G*d invented snow blowers. Ours is longer than yours.
Oh … really nice picture. I was out shooting both Konica and Oly today. Life is good.
Thanks! Pentax Optio W60, hand-held at 1/25 sec.