<p>I think Django is even better. Might be the best Tarantino film yet, although I still think the Uma Thurman & John Travolta dancing in the diner scene might be my all time favorite movie scene. Django is about as good as it gets. I can’t wait to see it again. The same actor as the German SS character in Inglorious Basterds. This time as likeable a character as he was despicable in the last one. Jame Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, and Leo DiCaprio are all terrific. Gory and brutal, though…</p>
<p>Plenty of exercise for me. Digging the cars out is a community project at the condo. Plow guy does the far side of the parking lot and then, on my neighbor’s signal, everyone comes out and backs their car across the lot. The plow guy clears next to decks. And then, on her signal, we all move the cars back. I’d say that we got a solid 8 inches of very wet, heavy snow. Lots of shovelling just to get the cars out.</p>
<p>Hmmm…guess this might be the wrong crowd for Les Miz. Just in from shoveling. H decided to drive north to visit his family yesterday. I am sure he has tons of snow to shovel up there…only difference is he has S with him to do the work. Snow is super heavy and there is a ton of it. It’s melting, but not very quickly; biggest problem is where the plow operator buried the end of the driveway. That was a workout.</p>
<p>You definitely got more than we did. I just drove through the snow and I only have FWD. The traction control kicked in while driving around though. This is my first car with traction control and the first time I’ve used it.</p>
<p>I need to charge my headphones and then go for a run.</p>
<p>So very happy with my inexpensive stocking stuffer bright blue ear buds.
The ones I’ve been using are ancient and wouldn’t stay in my ears while ellipticalling (is that a word?).</p>
<p>Family likes to tease me since I have only ONE working ear so they think ear buds should last twice as long…I do tend to use both even though the one ear has been broken since childhood. Weird.</p>
<p>Just one less excuse for this newbie to use to avoid exercising!</p>
<p>Me, too. I learned a lesson, too. When trying to power out of deep unplowed snow, even with AWD, I had to turn the traction control OFF… It works by cutting power to any wheel that starts spinning. But, trying to rock back and forth to get out of deep ice and snow, the traction control ends up cutting power to all four wheels! Hit the button, turn it off, and voila… File that away as lesson learned. Once out and moving, turn it back on. But, a trick for getting into and out of unplowed parking places.</p>
<p>I’m worn out from my wee bit of post-Christmas exercise!</p>
<p>I had an Audi Quattro that didn’t have TC but it did transfer power from slipping wheels to wheels with grip. There was a control knob on the console with three positions. Normal (differentials free), rear differential locked, rear and center differentials locked. I think that I only once locked differentials and that was with about a foot of snow on the ground. I guess the floating differentials was the old way of doing traction control - I’m pretty sure it’s all electronic these days.</p>
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<p>It was a relatively easy goal (I like easy goals).</p>
<p>How’s 2012? I know that you hit 2K with the half-marathon - haven’t followed all of the posts since. Actually that was last week. You would have hit 2012 by now.</p>
<p>Got a good workout in this morning. Hopefully I’m not too sore all afternoon/evening at work…</p>
<p>Was getting some interesting looks and comments about my workout. Had something to do with the fact that, with exception of those in PT, I was about 45 years younger than anybody else in there working out this morning ;)</p>
<p>Cleans, TRX Squats, Single-Leg Squats with barbell</p>
<p>Just got back from getting my Flying Monkey tattoo! It’s awesome. (inside lower left leg). It didn’t hurt nearly as much as running the stupid race!</p>
<p>BCE- remember that a number of those runners hitting 4000 miles do 100 at a time on several occasions!</p>
<p>Really nice day in NH. Blue skies. Fresh snow. Upper 20s. Pretty stiff breeze. So while daughter was getting her hair cut, I had her drop me off for a bit at the apple orchards for some snow shoing. Did a quick 1.4 miles in 70 minutes or so, mostly around some open fields and the orchards.</p>
<p>I think I’m going to enjoy an occasional snow shoe outing. It’s slow. Seems like there’s kind of deliberate rhythm to it. At least on fairly level terrain, not enough to jack my heart rate up, but it’s a noticeable workout for the hips and glutes. There were a few other snow shoers out. Didn’t see any cross country skiers, although there were tracks.</p>
<p>I’m sick of turkey, so I’m grilling rib eye steaks from the fancy butcher. Topped with Argentinian chimichurra sauce with a side of grilled squash.</p>