I am so happy :-) We have 5 tickets for the Olympics and from the amount we were charged I'm guessing it will either be athletics or gymnastics. I was quite despondent when we were not successful the first time and subsequently, each time I saw or heard anything about the Olympics stirred in me a resentment for the tickets I didn't get for my family. I seemed to be targeting this poisonous resentment on Sebastian Coe, maybe he sensed my glares at his image on the television, I'm sure I saw him twitch once! Anyway, this initial let down has made this change of fortune particularly sweet, I do feel a little hypocritical when my heart now jumps at the mention of the Olympics. So fickle am I!
Perhaps it helped that we were a family of five as this meant that we could not apply for any prime tickets as they were for families of four. This is a common problem when we have more than two kids, everything is for a family ... of four! Why? Is this some sort of covert social engineering? And why would prime events at the Olympics be more suited to a family of four or less? Oh well, in this case being a family of five might have been advantageous :-)
This didn't seem to make my run this morning any easier. I struggled to run the six miles. To be honest I'm just tired, I'm just not sleeping enough. I'm simply trying to fit too much in my day. My run was helped listening to Marathon Talk. I've only recently started listening to this podcast and I've never listened to a current episode, I'm always catching up, although I have skipped a few after listening to the first two and a half episodes. I couldn't reconcile talks on running in the snow when I was sweltering running in the heat. So yesterday, I skipped to episode 70 and listened to some of episode 71 today. This does mean that I probably have enough episodes for all my runs for Juneathon ... should this be a new challenge? Listen to all the Marathon Talk episodes.
Some of you will notice it will be past 1am when this post is eventually posted. Yes I should go to bed but in my defense I did actually have a sleep earlier on so I'm feeling a little better ... I just hope I feel better tomorrow.
I have a gripe (nothing unusual there)! Why is making comments on blogs becoming so awkward. Am I the only Juneathon participant that has been trapped in an endless loop trying to leave a comment on a blog using Google ... you write a comment, sign in, type some obscure word to prove your human, sign in, type another obscure word, sign in .... on and on! Then you think, oops have a I inadvertently left the same comment half a dozen times? Why can't I just leave a comment as me? Why has the whole exercise of leaving a comment become so complicated? Even at the bottom of my posts there are a half a dozen icons, half of which I don't know what they are for. What is this '+1'? I could look it up but why should I ... waste of time ... have I just become a grumpy middle aged man? But it is getting to me and I really am losing the will to comment. I diligently read other blogs but I have lost a quite few comments down, what appears to be, some sort of security, spam filter black hole! All these spiralling confirmations just to try to prevent me advertising Viagra, of course, they never spell it like that. Thinking about it, this post might never be published because I've said Viagra, some over zealous spam filter will recognise the word but they're wrong, Viagra is never spelt correctly! (which irritates me too) Maybe not publishing this post might be a good thing as I'm rambling ... grumbling might be more accurate.
But quickly changing the subject, my Juneathon total is now about 69 miles and I have some Olympic tickets :-)
8 comments:
Congratulations on your tickets. I never completed my order as it would not accept my debit card and I dont Own a credit card. Thats my grumble. I aagree about the google comment process. Its a pain.
Now Im rambling. The most important part of this comment is well done on achieving so many miles.
I know what you mean about the commenting, there are a number of blogs that I'd like to comment on, but because you have to have some kind of account, with some other organisation I can't. And the idea of setting up another online account, just to comment . . . well that slightly makes me lose the will to live.
Well done on the run and also the Olympic tickets. So you don't know what event they are for? When do you find out? Kind of like a lucky dip really. When the Olympics were on in Sydney we didn't go to any events at the stadium, but the whole City was *alive*. There were big screens down at the key, so you could go there after work and watch the latest events. Huge fun. We did go to some of the Paralympic events and they were superb.
Great news on the tickets!
I struggle to leave comments on Bblogs when I'm using Firefox. I have to open up another browser and try again - a right pain when I use Blogger for my own blog! Grumble grumble.
Don't get me started on the comments! I have a Wordpress account and a LiveJournal account, yet i can't comment because it won't recognise my username on either. I also have a Google account from years ago but this links to my old job which i'd no longer like to associate with. That said, this blog was nice and easy to comment on. I have no idea if mine is or not!
My feelings exactly on leaving comments. It's Ok for wordpress which I blog on. Anything else and I'm in a loop and having to prove I'm human. Sometimes I end up not leaving my comment!
Well done for getting Tickets. We are a family if 4 and have got nothing. Now to see if I can post this...
I mostly don't leave a comment on Blogger (I think) blogs that don't have an option for Name/URL and you have to leave a comment with your own Blogger (I think) ID. I set up an account with them a few years ago just so I could leave comments but I'd rather sign in with my blog name and my blog address, so thanks for having this option on yours!
Lena: I'm so pleased about the tickets although I'm also irritated by it all too. Thanks.
kathryn: I'm definitely looking forward to next year. Thanks for the recommendation about the Paralumpic events.
K,like in caKe: We have solidarity in our grumbles.
Kieron Chapman: Perhaps we should do a rating system for ease of commenting?
Rachel: You posted, thanks. I'm sorry that you didn't get tickets, good luck with the next stage.
JogBlog: As Kieron mentioned, it's hard to know what it's like to comment on your own blog - I think mine must be okay.
And I can never read the word to prove I'm human. And if I manage it the autocorrect changes it to what it thinks I meant. Just like it changes my email address EVERY time I type it. You are not alone!
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