Exercise

[Cali]

At home I do Bike riding, walking, and playing with the kids.  3-4 times a week when I'm at work I do about 30 min of eliptical and about 15 min of weights.  I really need to do more weights, especially focusing on my arms, but I hate weight training and I'm lazy...   :geek:

[Vix]

Today I added to my routine "escorting children to the playground." Our center is in a large office building with ground and first floor stores/services -- actually two buildings normally connected, but with construction cutting off some access. The park/playground is on the other side of the far building, which means that the children must now be taken down the elevator to the parking garage and then walked to the other side following a set of walkways. We need an extra person to escort the classes and their teachers to and fro and today the task fell to me. Back and forth, back and forth. Add to that moving furniture to rearrange one of the rooms for the new curriculum and my usual walk to and from the Metro station and I think I've done my exercise for the day.

[Amanda N]

It sure sounds like it Vix!

[Shale]

Any other runners here? :D

[Cali]

I used to run back in my academy days, but I got out of the habit and now it just about kills me when I have to chase somebody down.  I should really start back I suppose, but I don't seem to have the opportunity at home cause I've always got the kids with me.

[Amanda N]

I don't like running.  At all. :-p

[Jane]

I used to run back in my academy days, but I got out of the habit and now it just about kills me when I have to chase somebody down.

Squee!  More deputy sheriff stuff.  It's just so American!

[Cali]

I used to run back in my academy days, but I got out of the habit and now it just about kills me when I have to chase somebody down.

Squee!  More deputy sheriff stuff.  It's just so American!

ROFL!!! What... doesn't anyone in New Zealand ever commit a crime? And then run from it?  And jump fences? And try and hide in a dog house?

 :grommit:

[Jane]

ROFL!!! What... doesn't anyone in New Zealand ever commit a crime? And then run from it?  And jump fences? And try and hide in a dog house?

Well, perhaps they do and because I've never had a dog house I've missed out on knowing about it!

But the real point is that we only have police.  The same old police force all over the country and the same guys respond to city or rural incidents.

It's the different-ness of the American system that intrigues me!

[Cali]

Ah yes.  Just in my town alone we have Deputies (they cover the entire county) Police Officers (they cover the individual towns) and Troopers (they patrol the interstate and highway systems).  Not to mention the KBI (Kansas Bureau of Investigations that handles alot of drug trafficing and internet crimes), ICE (Immigration issues), and DEA (Federal Drug guys).  But we all work together and get along

[Vix]

It gets even more complicated where I live: we have city, county, and state police officers, security guards everywhere, transit police, FBI, air marshals, Secret Service. And much of our lives is on closed-circuit tv.

[Cali]

Gotta love the USA :D

[Amanda N]

I do not envy you Cali!  Scary work!

[emma]

All I'll say is that at least the police where I live don't have guns.  That's the scary part, if you seem armed coppers, you know something is happening.

[Eimi]

I won't even get into what a joke the cops over here are...  And firefighters...  I would NOT want to have to rely on Japanese firefighters.