'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Now I need to go make another pot of coffee. Thanks!
I've been poaching chicken quite a bit lately so I can make enchiladas. Save the broth for later. Just saw it in the fridge and realized it would be just the thing to warm me up. Oh dang! It was like a bajillion times better than I anticipated. Why do I even bother making soup? Next time I'm just drinking the broth.
This is awesome. And weird. Also, awesome.
Dutch athlete Monique van der Vorst became paralyzed from the hip down during a surgical operation when she was 13 years old, and used a wheelchair afterward. She also suffered a spinal cord injury in 2008. Meanwhile, she became a cyclist, using her hands for propulsion, and won two silver medals at the 2008 Paralympics, as well as other athletic honors. Then van der Vorst was involved in another crash last year when she was hit by a bicycle. While recovering, she began to feel tingling in her feet! Months of therapy followed while van der Vorst regained the use of her legs.
Doctors have no explanation for her amazing recovery. Some believe the trauma of her last accident may have jolted her body back into activity.
But the realities of her new-found joy also put an immediate end to a successful athletic career.
“Although walking is the best thing you could do in life, I immediately missed the sport, the people and the challenges,” van der Vorst said.
Rehabilitation and physiotherapy with an athletic focus strengthened her and as soon as she sat on a bike she again wanted to give it a try.
But van der Vorst has a new goal. She has signed with a professional cycling team as an able-bodied athlete, and is training to compete in the 2016 Olympics.
That could just be my local Teavana too. They are CRAZY there!
Oh, god, no. They are the WORST upsellers I've ever encountered, bar none. I hate that I'm so addicted to their product and they're right around the corner, because there's no justification to order it online. But, shit, their pitch is relentless. I want to shoot them. Even when I just buy what I went in for, they try and muscle me into buying seven million pounds of it. But I'm glad I did buy the seven million pounds of it, because then I don't have to go in and get their schpiel for yonks.
Wow! That is really like something from a movie.
Oh, shit. Another shooting at VA Tech.
No!!
I've never tried anything from Teavana. But I'm now addicted to several blends from David's Tea (link goes to one of my favorites).
I don't do a second pour, but I probably should.
And caffeine-wise, I drink a pot of black tea with breakfast, and then 2 cups of coffee with lunch. I am an equal-opportunity caffeine addict.
Why do people call a business and then express reluctance and snarkiness when you ask for the name of their business?
Isn't that information that you'd want your contact to know?
She has signed with a professional cycling team as an able-bodied athlete, and is training to compete in the 2016 Olympics.
That's so cool!
There was a cover story in Outside last month about a South African runner who lost his legs from the knees down when he was an infant. Now he runs on those "cheetah" legs, and he's competing in the regular Olympics, since a study revealed that the reason he's so good isn't the artificial legs, but his own physique. If he had the legs he was born with, he might be even faster.