I am listening to the computer programmer explain our degree plans completely incorrectly to a new computer programmer. It doesn't really matter for what they are doing, I don't think, but it is making me crazy. I have learned a whole lot about our school database (which I do not have access to). I learned that "no one cares" about the students who take the programs I work on, so they are not in the database.

I bet the guy here, who's used to nearly a mile of elevation, can beat the pants off any soft sea-level cyclist.

Hence the anti-oxygen mask. Which I really did not know was a thing, outside of maybe Olympic trainees.

Brenda, it sounds like you work for my org. Ugh.

I have a cold. It's a little one, but it came on in an instant. One second I was fine, the next I had a stuffy head and postnasal drip.

This is my last day off before going back, so I am basking in the laziness. But, the I don't wannas about going back tomorrow keep creeping in.

I bet the guy here, who's used to nearly a mile of elevation, can beat the pants off any soft sea-level cyclist.

Absolutely. I was in damn good shape (back in marathon days) when I visited Colorado the first time. We went up to one of the ski resorts and it was all I could do to walk across the parking lot to the ski lodge. I had to sit and rest before I could consider walking up the stairs. It was amazing how much difference elevation makes. I think we were at 11,000 feet while my house is at 14.

edit to fix actual height

I drove to Pikes Peak once. (Is that around 14,000 feet?) It was cold so I changed from short to long pants in my car. I was so exhausted just from doing that.

This is probably not up to ita levels of horrifying, because it is just a list, but I am horrified:

Things Used in Fanfiction as Lube & Condoms That Should Never Be Used as Lube or Condoms [link]

Ah, Utahns: "It's so warm out there! I left the house and wondered if I really needed a coat." "I know, it's nearly 30 degrees out there." "Yeah, dude, where are the palm trees!"

Highs last week were in the teens, so we can be forgiven for being a little giddy.

So I was mostly offline for the weekend as we were visiting my FIL with spotty wifi and come home to find out that some militia group or something is now occupying federal lands to protest the jailing of arsonists or something like that? WTactualF are people thinking there? Maybe I have my facts wrong

No, those are the basic facts, but layer them with the typical rightwing "The Federal government has no right to take my land away from me, even if it is Federal land that I've been using illegally!" mindset.

I'm horrified, Sophia, so I say: Count It!