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Where is everybody?
I am wondering if I am having some sort of computer issue. The # of posts that I get seems to have dropped down to 2 or 3 whenever I check. Previously there would always be 5-10 posts when I checked. Is it merely that people have to work for a living and aren't available to post? It never seemed to affect the # of post before. Anyone else notice this?
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Not much football to discuss right now. As competitive as UGA'S basketball team is this year, Forum posters don't seem to interested.
I'm around every day, and there is less activity according to how I see it, too.
Some folks are probably interested - big time interested - in basketball. I'm not one of them, but I keep up with all things related to Dawg football.
Go, Dawgs!
Yeah I am still checking in, but really not a lot to post about. I'm not a big basketball fan. Can't wait for spring ball. Also distracted by my upcoming trip to London and then cruising Norway for a couple of weeks. Never been to either and looking forward to it.
The Caleb Downs thing was really the last big story and it was going to be dead after that.
Like others not a huge basketball fan but will get interested if the team has success. Bandwagon fan I know but we have always been pretty bad in basketball.
The right story hits and it would get crowded here again. Otherwise its gonna be light until Spring Ball.
thanks all. Just didn't need it to be yet another computer issue for me.
Hope you get to fish over the pond and report back on results.
I actually have a fishing trip booked in Tromso, I think it's going to be very weather dependent, fingers crossed 🤞
😴😴😴😴You woke me up.....😴😴😴😴
I was offered a coaching job in Tromso back in the late 80's. Chickened out. Wish I had tried it now.
@donniem Are you still here? We all went home...go...
yep, still here. Practicing 2 octave scales in B flat and F.
How things have changed. Wednesday is the official signing day but it's "dead" here, lol.
National signing day question?? When energy is introduced in a vacuum, does it explode, implode or become inert?
@donniem I am here... but I am not posting too much.
I’ll ask Techie Hubby.
I ran the Midnight Sun Marathon in Tromso on July 4, 1999. Interesting race above the Arctic Circle so we started at 10pm on July 3 and finished on July 4 around 2am. Never got dark.
@TurkDawg I too have a pretty strong Summertime memory of being in a distant region (by Latitude anyway) nearby to where you speak of (Planet Earth, and Globe-wise), although not nearly as impressive as you were by running in a 26.2 mile marathon!!! I went up to Alaska during the summer of say perhaps either it was 1985, or maybe it was instead during 1986? I cannot remember precisely, as my own memory is slipping with my age. I will turn 61 years old in May of this year. Anyway, I was in the active duty ranks as a young United States Marine Corps Corporal, and we (my USMC military unit) were temporarily up at the Air Force Base known as Elmendorf AFB, there in Anchorage, Alaska for a few weeks during June of one of those two years. We were all coming out of a local area bar late, late one evening (actually it was very early in the morning), after we had all been consuming vast quantities of adult beverages all evening long, and it was bar closing time. I was STUNNED to see as it was after 2:00 am in the morning, and it was STILL LIGHT OUT!!!! I couldn't believe it!!!??? I will never forget that for as long as I live. Crazy thing being somewhere up close to being nearby to the Arctic circle of the earth during the Summer months. The skies up there looked something like this photo that I found:
Here is a YouTube video I also found of driving around there in Anchorage at MIDNIGHT in the Summer:
FREAKING WOW!!!!
Just for fun, here’s a blog post I wrote about my Antarctica 🇦🇶 marathon experience. Not your everyday run.
https://railstales.com/2018/12/02/over-the-glacier-and-through-the-mud-running-the-antarctica-marathon/
Turk, it is hard to find the word to describe how impressed I am with your story and how much respect I have for your "runner's mind". As a former coach, I know a bit about what goes into marathons and marathon training. My guiding principle has always been, "if God meant for us to go that far, that's why He invented cars". Your mental toughness is now legendary in my mind. Feel free to keep me (and, hopefully, others) up to date on your running exploits.