This must be the week for free food. Yesterday the
state pork producers’ board was giving out free lunches to anyone who wanted it
in the downtown area. It was just a promotional tool primarily.
Pork sandwich, chips, pop, and frozen fudgesicle were being given away to
whoever wanted it. A lot of people from my company walked the seven
blocks in the skywalk system to get it. We knew about this one ahead of
time and had planned on it.
This morning's food was unexpected. On the skywalk system, in between our parking garage and our building, there were a couple McDonald's employees just handing out free Egg McMuffins. It was in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the sandwich. That was nice. It couldn't have come on a better day, either. I was up early as I have been doing for more than a week now. However, I was just dawdling about until it was time to get ready for work and dawdled too long, forcing me to quickly grab a couple cereal bars and a Gatorade G2 as I headed out the door.
I didn't even attempt to do any athletic activity this morning since I had a hard workout last night. I ran for the first time in well over a year last night (last year I focused on biking only except for some swimming in November and December). 2.5 miles round and round a YMCA balcony track. At 19 laps per mile that was 48 laps. I didn't have anything interesting to look at on the track, especially when you see the same thing 48 times. I found myself just watching the pickup basketball players down below. A couple of them used terribly bad language. Somehow my line of thinking went from players trash talking to technical fouls to how you can get a technical for dunking the ball in pre-game warm-ups (not that I ever had that problem since my vertical leap was at most 2 inches) to wondering what happens to the possession arrow when that technical is assessed. Normally you get two free throw shots and the ball afterwards (unless you're talking the NBA where they have the stupid 1 shot rule, which just encourages more bad behavior, I don't like the NBA at all for other reasons as well). Because of the possession part, the game doesn't start with the usual tip. On a tip the team that doesn't recover the ball gets the arrow. I was wrestling with that thought for probably 6 laps. The team that was penalized had paid their two shot penalty and in effect had lost the tip, so they should get the arrow for actual game play. That doesn't seem right even though it makes sense. Why does the team that wasn't penalized lose the opportunity to get the ball the next time there is a tie-up? I eventually came to the conclusion that the penalized team gets the possession arrow. I was glad I was using my fingers to keep track of my laps because otherwise I would have lost count somewhere in there.
This morning's food was unexpected. On the skywalk system, in between our parking garage and our building, there were a couple McDonald's employees just handing out free Egg McMuffins. It was in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the sandwich. That was nice. It couldn't have come on a better day, either. I was up early as I have been doing for more than a week now. However, I was just dawdling about until it was time to get ready for work and dawdled too long, forcing me to quickly grab a couple cereal bars and a Gatorade G2 as I headed out the door.
I didn't even attempt to do any athletic activity this morning since I had a hard workout last night. I ran for the first time in well over a year last night (last year I focused on biking only except for some swimming in November and December). 2.5 miles round and round a YMCA balcony track. At 19 laps per mile that was 48 laps. I didn't have anything interesting to look at on the track, especially when you see the same thing 48 times. I found myself just watching the pickup basketball players down below. A couple of them used terribly bad language. Somehow my line of thinking went from players trash talking to technical fouls to how you can get a technical for dunking the ball in pre-game warm-ups (not that I ever had that problem since my vertical leap was at most 2 inches) to wondering what happens to the possession arrow when that technical is assessed. Normally you get two free throw shots and the ball afterwards (unless you're talking the NBA where they have the stupid 1 shot rule, which just encourages more bad behavior, I don't like the NBA at all for other reasons as well). Because of the possession part, the game doesn't start with the usual tip. On a tip the team that doesn't recover the ball gets the arrow. I was wrestling with that thought for probably 6 laps. The team that was penalized had paid their two shot penalty and in effect had lost the tip, so they should get the arrow for actual game play. That doesn't seem right even though it makes sense. Why does the team that wasn't penalized lose the opportunity to get the ball the next time there is a tie-up? I eventually came to the conclusion that the penalized team gets the possession arrow. I was glad I was using my fingers to keep track of my laps because otherwise I would have lost count somewhere in there.
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