Saturday, March 12, 2011

Six Thoughts Saturday

I've been having trouble with my Garmin for months. Now it won't charge or turn on at all. Yes, I already tried reseting it. Without the Garmin, I was forced to use the "MyTracks" application on my phone. While it's great to have an alternative method to track distance, but it's not particularly user friendly for that purpose. I need a new Garmin. This time I mean it.

We've had a couple nice spring days. I used one of them to do some work clearing out the veggie garden in preparation for this year. Spent another one doing some spring cleani'ng in our office/sewing room. Still lots to do on both fronts, but I was happy to make some progress while I had the motivation.

Haven't heard back from the orthopedic office yet. I'm expecting a call early next week to set up the appts for those injections. I'm soooo ready to get this started.

I was supposed to take a urine sample back to the vet to be sure Bandit's infection is cleared up. After chasing him around with a Tupperware container trying to catch him in the act of peeing, I finally gave up. At this point, I figure that it's either cleared up and he's fine or it isn't and we'll know when he has problems again.

I've been taking our recycling to the same place for years. I loaded up the car and went over there on Friday and to my surprise, the recycle bins were gone!! What?!?! I was able to find an alternate location, but it's much farther away. What a bummer!

I have mixed emotions about daylight savings time. On the one hand, I'm glad that we won't be racing the sunset after work anymore. On the other hand, It's going to be dark when I leave in the morning again. Ugh.

18 comments:

  1. I usually find that it lightens up in the mornings again pretty quickly after the time change. I can't wait for evening daylight!

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  2. we have an extra garmin i bought my hubby and he doesn't want to use it.....you could buy off of me....

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  3. I have mixed feelings too. I have liked it lighter in the mornings.

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  4. I'm with ya, but am really, really, really looking foward to being able to run after work (that early am thing doesn't always work for me mid-week)

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  5. Did you know AZ doesn't do daylight savings? I always thought that was strange.
    But maybe now I can actually ride outside after work instead of going to spin classes?

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  6. I have a friend that just had her Garmin replaced (by garmin). Of course it was still under warranty. But she could not praise Garmin tech support enough. Try giving them a call. Might get it fixed far cheaper than buying new.

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  7. I don't like driving to work in the dark, either. Ugh. I am excited about having more daylight in the afternoon, though! :0)

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  8. I always hate losing that hour of sleep. :(

    I got a hilarious mental picture of you following your dog around with a container. I hope the infection is cleared up!

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  9. I think we need to start a broken garmin support group. Mine will charge, but then it freezes up. I've reset it, too, three times. No fun!

    I'm laughing over you trying to get your dog's urine sample. You must admit that it's kind of comical sounding. I'd give up, too. LOL.

    Yeah, we forgot about the time change this morning until we realized that the kid was late for Sunday school. Oh well. I'm sure he wasn't the only one.

    Too bad about the recycling place. Now you're using more gas to drop off your recycling. I hope they put up another center closer to you.

    Have a great week!

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  10. I'm wondering if there is something up with Garmin...mine froze up on Saturday and D's froze up today (2 years apart in purchase date). Both restarted but what a pain.

    I would call Garmin before buying a new one.

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  11. That sucks about your Garmin! I can't imagine running without mine now that I have had it for a few years.

    "After chasing him around with a Tupperware container trying to catch him in the act of peeing, I finally gave up."

    We totally need a video of that! Haha. I hope the infection is cleared up.

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  12. you deserve a new Garmin! THERE!! :-) I like the extra daylight too, but this clocking moving stuff is the pits....

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  13. I have just bought another garmin (this is the 3rd): 210. I tested it in race too. It works very well.
    I am with Ironman we need a video!!!!!

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  14. I can't imagine following my dog around trying to get a urine sample! That's hilarious to me!!!!!

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  15. you, your dog, tupperware...STOP!
    Daylight savings never really bothers me...I don't really care about the dark mornings - I like that actually. Losing the hr sleep burns me...

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  16. Arizona does have DLS, so I never worried about till I moved to Ohio, now it confuses the heck out of me

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  17. We don't have daylight savings so I don't know much about how it works. Haha, I can imagine why you gave up on the dog!

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  18. Even Garmins get the blues, I guess. I thought they were infallible.

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