Day 10

25 mins on the treadmill at 2.5.  I tried reading one of the magazines but quickly figured out that the magazines they have are the kind you flip through - nothing really to read.  So tomorrow I'm going to take my Time - more reading less page turning.

Tomorrow I'm going to ask Jerome about some different things.  I can do 25-30 on the treadmill every day.  I'm pretty sure about that.  But the exercises aren't impressing me.  I'm wondering about some of the other machines around there.  Or weights or something different.  And maybe a every other day kind of after-the-treadmill routine.  Day 1 do these 4 things.  Day 2 do these 4 things.  Day 3 do Day 1's stuff. etc.  I think that would suit me.

Today there was only one other person - I think.  He was a HUGE and I mean HUGE guy in length and width on the treadmill next to me.  He made me feel tiny.  He did not pay one bit of attention to me but as he was between me and the rest of the room, he was kind of my room eclipse.  I don't know if there were other people there or not.  He was there when I got there, going at 2.5 and he was still there when I left - same pace.  Steady Giant Eddy.

Day 10

25 mins on the treadmill at 2.5.  I tried reading one of the magazines but quickly figured out that the magazines they have are the kind you flip through - nothing really to read.  So tomorrow I'm going to take my Time - more reading less page turning.

Tomorrow I'm going to ask Jerome about some different things.  I can do 25-30 on the treadmill every day.  I'm pretty sure about that.  But the exercises aren't impressing me.  I'm wondering about some of the other machines around there.  Or weights or something different.  And maybe a every other day kind of after-the-treadmill routine.  Day 1 do these 4 things.  Day 2 do these 4 things.  Day 3 do Day 1's stuff. etc.  I think that would suit me.

Today there was only one other person - I think.  He was a HUGE and I mean HUGE guy in length and width on the treadmill next to me.  He made me feel tiny.  He did not pay one bit of attention to me but as he was between me and the rest of the room, he was kind of my room eclipse.  I don't know if there were other people there or not.  He was there when I got there, going at 2.5 and he was still there when I left - same pace.  Steady Giant Eddy.

Maybe this year?

From now until the end of October, it will be baseball for me. 

I've followed the Mariners since I moved here in 1992.  I've watched all the games except in the early days when their TV contract sucked and only about half of the games were on TV.  I listened to the others on the radio.  I've been there when they sucked.  In the early 90's the joke was that if you left a pair of Mariners tickets on your dashboard when you came back you'd find your car broken into and the dashboard would now have four Mariners tickets.  Then we got a great manager - Lou Pinella. 

The Lou years rocked.  Everyone was a Mariners fan.  And they didn't suck. 

Then they started sucking again.  The last couple of years have been pitiful.  Our current manager - Mike Hargrove - has all the charisma and personality of a large slug.  The team owners really don't seem to give a shit.  We had a really nice guy for a manager after Lou but they fired him when he didn't produce.  Hargrove has done squat but apparently their firing button is broken, more's the pity.  We're a week away from the season opener and it isn't even sold out.  Pitiful. 

We do have Ichiro at least for now and we had a new broadcaster on the broadcast team who, so far seems interesting and not annoying.  I'm a little bit hopeful that this season won't be horrible.

Today's Spring Training game has been a good one and right now - in the 7th the Mariners are beating Oakland.  But, more importantly, many of the key players are taking the day off and the ones that are left are doing a very nice job. 

I'll watch every game regardless, but it is way more fun when they don't suck.

Maybe this year?

From now until the end of October, it will be baseball for me. 

I've followed the Mariners since I moved here in 1992.  I've watched all the games except in the early days when their TV contract sucked and only about half of the games were on TV.  I listened to the others on the radio.  I've been there when they sucked.  In the early 90's the joke was that if you left a pair of Mariners tickets on your dashboard when you came back you'd find your car broken into and the dashboard would now have four Mariners tickets.  Then we got a great manager - Lou Pinella. 

The Lou years rocked.  Everyone was a Mariners fan.  And they didn't suck. 

Then they started sucking again.  The last couple of years have been pitiful.  Our current manager - Mike Hargrove - has all the charisma and personality of a large slug.  The team owners really don't seem to give a shit.  We had a really nice guy for a manager after Lou but they fired him when he didn't produce.  Hargrove has done squat but apparently their firing button is broken, more's the pity.  We're a week away from the season opener and it isn't even sold out.  Pitiful. 

We do have Ichiro at least for now and we had a new broadcaster on the broadcast team who, so far seems interesting and not annoying.  I'm a little bit hopeful that this season won't be horrible.

Today's Spring Training game has been a good one and right now - in the 7th the Mariners are beating Oakland.  But, more importantly, many of the key players are taking the day off and the ones that are left are doing a very nice job. 

I'll watch every game regardless, but it is way more fun when they don't suck.