cholesterol

burger
Originally uploaded by Orrin.

shellie tested her cholestrol and her hdl was 84, ldl 66, triglycerides were 88. I'm not sure it's her diet or exercise. Sometimes it's all in the genes.

no wii for you

PB230112
Originally uploaded by Michael T. Gilbert.

So i had received word (http://crayz.org/target_wii.php?zip=52246&asin=B0009VXBAQ) that Target now has Wii's. I was pretty sure the next shipment was the 21st, so i was extremely excited to see if i could get my hands on one today. There is a swim meet today, so it pretty much changed all of my training room hours, so i rushed to Target
(Iowa City
1441 Coral Ridge Ave
Coralville, IA 52241
(319) 351-5150)
at around 10am, with pretty much no one in the store. I checked the shelves and there were none, so i copied the look up number and checked one of the inventory scanners which said there were none on the shelf but some in the storeroom. There after I asked an employee if he could check, to which he showed me an empty shelf an offered to scan the LU to see if there were some in the back. I said I already had and there were in the back. As he was going to the store room to get me one (think I'm now a little excited) he asks the entertainment section guy who tells me there is none in the back. To which I say, "I have already checked." He offers to go to the back which I accept. He comes back and says there are some but are "on hold until Sunday." As I was walking away a few of them had a meeting where they the entertainment section guy was discussing how to handle the question of "Do you have any Wii's?" My suggestion say "yes, let me sell you a product we currently have in stock." I was going to buy other things as well, as I know this will get plenty of people in their store on Sunday looking for them and ending up buying plenty of other things instead. So unless you can find someone who will reason and think about the process, don't plan on getting a Wii until Sunday. In the end I got hosed. A waste of time, gas, and smashed dreams. I just wish the entertainment guy would have been honest from the beginning.

i can not even comment

Leche fresca
Originally uploaded by Saúl GM.

a male athlete milked himself today at practice. like a lactating woman. i have no words to describe what i saw. all i can offer is laughter.

Hawkeye State

American Kestrel (with lunch)
Originally uploaded by copeg.

Shellie has two offices at the hospital. One of which has a window to the outside. Really all you can see is other offices, but there is a bit of a cubby where there are sometimes animals. There has been a squirrel that comes around every once in a while, but that's usually the extent of the wildlife. Yesterday on the other hand, there were two large hawks with lunch in hand. There were devouring another bird. The morale of the story is that sometimes coming to the hospital isn't going to save your life.

back to school

u of miami sunset
Originally uploaded by jfravel.

oh back to school, back to school. i have now been in school for over 19.5 years. thats a lot of learning and a lot of forgetting. hopefully more learning than forgetting.

hello winter

DSCF0004
Originally uploaded by jfravel.

i finally am back in iowa city. no more traveling for another month. it was a long trip but it was great weather. in the end it turned out to be a great training trip for the athletes plenty of sun for myself and i think everyone would agre by the end of the trip to be better than we all expected. so i have 24 hrs of vacation and then school starts. there are plenty of pictures on flickr of the trips. so check them out.

traveling band

traveling band
Originally uploaded by jfravel.

Jon made it back from San Antonio. He has a lot of great pictures of the game and the river walk and some good stories from his weekend. Unfortunately, the Hawks couldn't pull out a win but all in all I think the trip went pretty well. Last night we were able to ring in the new year with all of Jon's old roommates. It was quite a night, as can always be expected when all of those guys get together. Now Jon is off again.......to Miami this time with swimming. He'll be gone for ten days. More stories to come when he gets back.