Yep. The swimmers I know that swim there regularly have nicknamed him "Bitey". He seems to hang out near the opening of the park and hasn't ventured in yet. Normally, the route you swim at AP goes out there, but I'm kind of freaked (as are a few of the regulars I know out there), so my plan is to swim ONLY along the buoy line and honestly, I may not do a ton of night swimming. I'm on a team this year doing 45-minute shifts, so my night shifts may involve me standing in ankle-deep water for 45 minutes while I just nope along. We'll see how nerve-wracking it is on Saturday in the daylight.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jan 30, 2018 11:04:34 GMT -5
What are you training for? Date? END-WET, June 16th.
Training plan for the week? Swim Thursday and Saturday/Sunday (24-hour relay in SF).
Any issues or vents? I've been SUPER busy with work lately (hooray!) and it's just killing my free time. I need to figure out a work-swim balance that works and doesn't leave me working like a madman at all hours of the night.
Also, a little terrifying to swim in Aquatic Park right now. They've had four sea-lion attacks in the last month and so I'm just swimming the buoy line instead of going out to the opening like usual. It's going to be a boring 24-hour relay with just swimming that close to shore.
Highlights or AW's from the past week? I got nothing.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jan 29, 2018 16:25:24 GMT -5
I have my 24-hour relay this weekend and I'm obsessing over how to pack less stuff for something that will, essentially, require the whole of my swimming wardrobe, plus about half my camping gear. LOL
I mean, posting on their own twitter or Facebook isn’t controlling the narrative. Everyone gets to control the content on their personal accounts. There’s no way for D’s to control those statements. Is that what people in this thread are meaning when they say controlling the narrative? Every D that I follow has made a statement today saying that R’s are responsible.
ETA: I’m not trying to be combative with you. I just am wondering what people would have dems do differently at this point.
I was surprised that one of my leans-liberal friends was posting that she was angry at the democrats for this. At least for her, the message is not getting through. She's in Sacramento, I'm not sure who her rep is.
My stupid blue dog rep (Kurt Schrader) sent out some bullshit yesterday that he was really angry at the lack of leadership, but he carefully didn't call out which team's leadership. It read like he was trying to have either side read into it that he was blaming the other party. I know I'm in a purple district, but I am so fed up with his fake bipartisanship. I mean, I know it's important to reach across the aisle but he does it on things that make no fucking sense, just so he can say he's mavericky or whatnot. Bleh.
Merkely has been excellent as per usual. Wyden is quieter, but that's also his style.
Is she in Sacramento proper or one of the bedroom communities? Because while Sacramento proper (6th district) is decidedly blue, many of the surrounding districts are not. I'm stuck in 4 with Doug "Toolbag" LaMalfa (whose election signs all have a cowboy hat on them, if that gives you an idea of his leanings.). I hate him with a passion, but because my district is solid red, I get a LOT of political advertising and messaging that leans right, so I can see this. It's hard to feel hopeful when everyone around you is still drinking the Kool Aid.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jan 18, 2018 11:12:41 GMT -5
Sacramento's out - which is unfortunate for my career (I'm a realtor) but really, fortunate for the city. We do not have the infrastructure to support the mass transit needs of a company like Amazon. Traffic would become an absolute bay-area-level nightmare and it's already bad.
I've seen listings with similar warnings in my area occasionally. What confuses me is DO NOT DISTURB OCCUPANT. I mean, if this person is squatting, damaging the bank's chances of a sale, why would they care if they are disturbed? I would think they would want them bothered all the times in hopes of chasing them out, unless they are trying to limit their liability in case someone gets shot knocking on the door or whatever.
This is plausible. It's also possible that the person living there is a tenant from before it was foreclosed. Sometimes banks will continue to allow a tenant to live in the property until it is sold (because money), and it's not at all uncommon for someone selling a rental to request a DND for the tenant.
I haaaate fueling in Oregon. If it's the middle of the night, you have to drive around until you find an open station. If the station's busy, you wait and wait and wait for the attendant and I'm sitting there behind the wheel staring at the already-shut-off-but-where-the-hell-is-the-attendant nozzle and wondering if I can just finish the transaction before they come back and/or notice.
Also, L-O-Freaking-L at the people who are like "but TRANSIENTS! Safety!" FFS, the other 98% of the country has managed to survive gassing their own cars for decades. You'll probably join that same statistic, sweetie.
Wait, what are the transients doing? I can’t put this together. Pumping your own gas will attract transients?
Apparently? There's at least a couple people in the comments complaining that the transients will be a problem if they start pumping their own gas.
As someone who lives in an area with a significant homeless issue, I have no idea WTF the concern is. Maybe that people will start begging at gas stations? (No idea, just guessing.)
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jan 3, 2018 19:44:55 GMT -5
I haaaate fueling in Oregon. If it's the middle of the night, you have to drive around until you find an open station. If the station's busy, you wait and wait and wait for the attendant and I'm sitting there behind the wheel staring at the already-shut-off-but-where-the-hell-is-the-attendant nozzle and wondering if I can just finish the transaction before they come back and/or notice.
Also, L-O-Freaking-L at the people who are like "but TRANSIENTS! Safety!" FFS, the other 98% of the country has managed to survive gassing their own cars for decades. You'll probably join that same statistic, sweetie.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jan 3, 2018 19:22:07 GMT -5
It's foreclosed and someone is still living there - either the previous tenants, previous owners, or random squatters. Basically, the bank is making their removal someone else's problem. It's a run, don't walk scenario unless you *really* want the property.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jan 2, 2018 12:05:42 GMT -5
My stash is in under-bed zipper storage and an ikea Expedit unit. No moth issues to date. If you're having trouble with moths, one of my LYS owners recommends storing in vacuum-sealed bags (like those space-saver ones). Apparently it doesn't hurt the yarn at all and protects them from all kinds of issues - water, smoke, and moths.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Dec 21, 2017 14:40:37 GMT -5
I live in a VERY red county in CA. This morning, our town's FB was full of folks complaining about cuts to entitlements... Weirdly enough, this gives me just a little hope.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Dec 20, 2017 13:23:33 GMT -5
There are some real doozies in here.
My MIL - I don't hate her. I just ... don't really like her much. She insists on calling herself "mom" when she writes to me. No. You are not my mom and I don't like you enough to ask to be adopted. They're religious fundamentalists and are incredibly judgey of some of our decisions, except that they're all blamed on me. I'm corrupting her baby boy (who is 38 and can make up his own damn mind about things). She is so freaking passive aggressive - one time she came early to visit us (FIL was coming later due to his work schedule) and needed to clean her glasses. We use lotion tissues like civilized people. She was mad that we didn't have plain tissues and CALLED FIL AT WORK to bring plain tissues. From NH to CA. Where we are also able to obtain plain tissues. Or, you know, she could have just asked me, a glasses wearer, if I had anything to use to clean her glasses (spoiler alert: I did). She (and FIL) constantly make racist and/or bigoted jokes and comments - see above re: religious fundamentalists. She constantly whines to DH about how a) we haven't given her a grandchild and b) her last visit here (4 years ago) we made her feel unwelcome because I wouldn't go with them everywhere. Because I was working. They voted for Trump and sent us a text afterwards saying they "did their part to keep that woman out of washington" which was really the final straw. I haven't spoken to her since.
I haven’t swam since the OWS of my triathlon, lol! It’s going to be really hard to start up again. And I’m worried I’ll have flashbacks. I should reread my triathlon recap b/c I know I enjoyed it and wanted to do another, but looking back now all I remember is the fear of the swim and the bike.
I’m waiting to hear if DH got in via the lottery of the Chesapeake Bay Swim so we can plan our races for 2018!
That's a great race. Let me know if he has questions.
She's pretty outspoken and had a bit of a scandal a few years back with a rant on social media (profanity). She doesn't really mince words which, you know, is fine for men but since she's a woman ...
Huh. I don't recall that at all and it seems like it would have blown up my twitter timeline or I would have seen on local news. But, like ESF I don't follow SF politics super closely. I've got my own nonsense in Richmond to keep on top of. lol
Is there any reason they wouldn't vote to confirm London Breed?
She's pretty outspoken and had a bit of a scandal a few years back with a rant on social media (profanity). She doesn't really mince words which, you know, is fine for men but since she's a woman ...
at my Y the masters sessions are 1.5 hours as well which is more than I'm able to do. She said you can swim as long as you like and leave but I feel like I don't want to be the loser who can't hack it and has to leave early every time lol
Our masters sessions are 1.5 hours as well. I stay the entire 1.5 hours. I am literally the only person left in the pool at the end of 1.5 hours, so either I'm the only non-loser (doubtful, as again, there are only like two people slower than me in our program, and one of them is 80), or people have lives and need to go to work/get things done. I've never assumed someone leaving early was anything other than needing to leave early for whatever reason.
I hate that people (not you, specifically, just in general) have this impression of masters, that it's some sort of hard-core do-or-die thing. Masters is for everyone. I don't know what we can do to relieve that impression, though.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Dec 12, 2017 13:23:52 GMT -5
I do masters. I am *not* speedy by any stretch of the imagination. And all I do is free. Don't let that part scare you.
The scheduling thing is another matter, though. What about getting a couple coached sessions (private coaching) for sake of making sure your stroke is good and then just doing a program like the Guppy challenge like @vtcupcake mentioned above?
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Nov 5, 2017 2:24:04 GMT -5
This one is from my first ultra-marathon swim. It's also one of the only medals I have. OWSs don't typically give out real medals, so it's doubly awesome.
As a general matter, the Fifth Amendment applies only to testimony and does not give criminal defendants or witnesses in congressional investigations the right to refuse to turn over subpoenaed documents. But there is an exception when the act of producing a document is itself incriminating.
Can I ask how the act of producing a document is incriminating? Is it like if I denied having a document under oath, I can plead the 5th when required to produce it because that would mean I had perjured myself? Or am I on the wrong track?
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Nov 1, 2017 15:55:20 GMT -5
I am, unfortunately, out this year. I just don't have the time to guarantee that I'll finish something between now and then. Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with, though!