Why the anguished faces?

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The weather's been nice here for a few days, and lots of people are out jogging.
I have't seen one person running who doesn't appear to be in great pain, or very angry, or grimly depressed, at least judging by the looks on their faces? What's the story on that. I run, rain or shine, and I'm pretty sure my face isn't clouded over like these.
And while I do enjoy seeing the fit, lovely women running, the ones I admire are those people who are not in shape, not dressed in shiny neon colored lycra, but are out there in public struggling to keep mopving. Takes a lot of nerve and a lot of heart.
 
Maybe you saw a lot of people that just got back into it after a layoff and are not enjoying their current physical condition. I probably looked the same way when I started running again last year!
 
Do you see a happy face anywhere these days ?

When my kids laugh, you can feel the whole town turn to gawp at us, 30% of those then smile.

Don't see young couples hugging and laughing anymore. Don't hear middle aged men whistling as they walk down the street, or at work. Parents yell at kids for getting muddy.

We're all to serious and worried.
 
Peeps around here are pretty grim, too. Northern Va. is the seat of AOL, WorldCom, lotta Verizon types, plus all the Federal drones we hav here, being the bedroom to Washington DC.

Real estate is down, the loans are huge, everyone is completely overextended with the McMansions, his and hers BMWs and the credit cards. Lotta pressure on folks here, plus the Va. Tech thing this week, jeez, it's a blue funk round here. They white-knuckle their triple-double whatevers in the bars, and my impression is, there's no idle time, they aren't playing enough golf, and they aren't relaxing when they ARE off in between 4-hour round trip commutes and ten hour days.

Makes me glad I started up my own bizz, got off the sardine-train rat race treadmill. I could just never go back to that ever again. The traffic is a contributor to the grim here. Funny this thread came up, it's a dynamic I've noticed in the last year or two. Pressure follows the go-getters right on up the ladder, I guess.
 
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Toocrazy, what do you do?

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This that, and t'other. How bout you?
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But seriously, folks. Nah, I have a one man band, after 20 years in business telecom, voice mail, and data nets (which followed 6 years aboard Va-35 embarked aboard USS Nimitz), I service Home PC's, home theater, whole-house lighting and sound. Primarily for the private citizen, very little for businesses these days. I like to get away, and business needs 24 hour support, the home user, not so much.

Funny thing, you guys were talking about the joggers and workout mavens, the military awhile back (early-mid 1990's) started pushing the chubbies to lose weight, although these days, they're probably retreating from the policy. When I was in and out of DC back in my telecom days, I remember the poor berstards running the paths alongside GW Parkway and the Pentagon around lunchtime, there'd be dozens of em. They'd jog on the asphalt roadways in humid, 95 degree weather on the worst days of summertime pollution. Talk about some miserable-looking folks. Hanging on for the pension with the threat of discharge if they didn't get their weight down to some number on a chart. What a life that must be, eh? I used to wonder how many of them dropped dead with a stroke or heart attack alongside the river.
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"I can't understand why the people working out in the TV ads are always smiling? I've never seen people smile while giving an extreme effort."

When I asked the club that we belong to if they were planning on setting up a lifting platform for doing Olympic lifts, they said no, it's noisy, from the weights and the grunting and such, and also because of the way that the people look when lifting. Don't wanna make people think that exercising is sometime hard or anything I guess, bad for recruiting new members.
 
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Toocrazy, what do you do?

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This that, and t'other. How bout you?
laugh.gif


But seriously, folks. Nah, I have a one man band, after 20 years in business telecom, voice mail, and data nets (which followed 6 years aboard Va-35 embarked aboard USS Nimitz), I service Home PC's, home theater, whole-house lighting and sound. Primarily for the private citizen, very little for businesses these days. I like to get away, and business needs 24 hour support, the home user, not so much.

Funny thing, you guys were talking about the joggers and workout mavens, the military awhile back (early-mid 1990's) started pushing the chubbies to lose weight, although these days, they're probably retreating from the policy. When I was in and out of DC back in my telecom days, I remember the poor berstards running the paths alongside GW Parkway and the Pentagon around lunchtime, there'd be dozens of em. They'd jog on the asphalt roadways in humid, 95 degree weather on the worst days of summertime pollution. Talk about some miserable-looking folks. Hanging on for the pension with the threat of discharge if they didn't get their weight down to some number on a chart. What a life that must be, eh? I used to wonder how many of them dropped dead with a stroke or heart attack alongside the river.
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sweet, i was with VA-34 and the USS GW 1992-1994!
 
No way!

I hear they're fixing to mothball the EA6's now, too. They're on their last cruise right now, according to military.com. They're going to use the old S3 platform, and some F-18s to fill the EA6 gap when they retire them. They lost a lot when the A6 format went away. 26,000 lb payload capability is quite a load whether carrying fuel as a tanker, bombs as a bomber, or extra aircrew and electronics as a jammer. They just got too brittle, too old and too expensive to maintain and fly, but I bet mission planners miss them. They weren't stealthy, but they could fly low in the weeds, and the best pilots never got shot down no matter how sophisticated the SAMS got in more modern times.
 
yes, they are getting rid of the ugly, yet effective, EA6's....I loved our Intruders, watching them pi$$ all over the deck constantly LOL.
we dropped a lot of ordanance in Bosnia in 94....nothing could touch the A6.

Rob
VA-34 Plan Captain!
HMCS(FMF/AW)
 
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