Trainer = torture device.

Any chance you can bundle up and ride outside? I did a 50 miler yesterday, it was a blast. I only had to dismount once to walk over an icy patch (there is a spring by the side of the road that is ALWAYS wet, and this time of year it's icy).

Not today, I'm hoping I can ride outside the next three days though.

Are there many houses where it isn't?

The air is dryer but I go from sweating lots (if I ride) when it is warm to not sweating at all. I pretty much have to drink nothing all day to get "dehydrated" now.

It's a balmy 41F outside now--the warmest it has been since December 4.

The "normal" high is 51F.

I drown when I jump in water.

hey ruokie

next time you go swimming, time yourself for 50m. i want to see how bad i am, having not swum for years.

Yesterday something weird happened in my life I didn't talk about it yet since it was really shocking and weird to me... An obese girl laughed of me for using the stairs instead of the elevator she said to me : AHAH! How does it feels like to take the stairs!? AHAHAH!!!

and all I could answer was : good?

I was so shocked I wasn't even able to have an impressive comeback...
Now I'm thinking about it and I feel like I did something wrong for not insulting her with something like : good? But how does it feels to NOT TO BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR FEETS? or How does it feels to be a ****ing useless lump of fat?!?! or I dunno... I feel bad about myself... ;-;

coasting?

it's a lot wose than that. prince charles just got attacked. several government buildings including the treasury got smashed up. i said earlier revolution was in the air.

wut

Are you on Twitter? We can have a Tweet revolution like they did in Iran.

i've been watching the tv coverage all day. i'm amazed. totally amazed.

At what? The fact that students are upset? I bet if they tried to triple tuition here even the fatso gamer students would get a little rowdy.

Is that what this is about again..the students? Did they calm down for a short period and then pick back up?

amazed by the violent confrontation in that place.

the treasury amd the supreme court buildings got smashed up. astonishing.

today was the vote in parliament. it got voted through and the violence kicked off.

Sad day for students there. Riot on

just out of curiosity what sort of amounts are we talking annually in pounds?

per annum £3,000 now. to go up to £9,000. At the same time, government funding to universities to be cut by 80%.

Up from 3k to 9k per year? That's not bad. Here, for instate tuition at a public university you're looking at around 3.5k tuition for just one semester. So about 7k a year for tuition alone.

ahh, so now it costs about as much as it does to go to a low-end state college.

the brits did it wrong. in the good ol' USA they just kept increasing the price bit by bit over the years to get people to eventually think it is perfectly normal to put yourself 100 grand in debt to get a paper that proves you showed up to a bunch of classes on comparative folk dancing.

The 80% cut is terrible though. Aren't they hiking up [the interest on student loans as well?

this is ultimately what is going on. they are modelling on usa system and we know about fee inflation.

i thnk so..not sure. all in all, very bad deal.

Education should be free for everyone actually so the rich wouldn't get richer and the poor wouldn't get poorer...

wut