Day: January 8, 2015

Nine degrees

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Cold enough to where if I want to mention it, I have to write out the number, because in conventional writing, single digits are treated in such a manner.

Seriously, nine degrees? Granted, I don’t dislike the cold, but even for me, this is a little bit of frigid.

The scary thing is that I remember the last time it hit single digits, and it was around this time last year; it was like seven degrees when I got back from Las Vegas, and my car’s ignition was definitely labored in the face of the bitter cold. Subsequently, within the next few weeks that arctic snap would also result in the Snowpocalypse which crippled the city under two inches of snow and a sheet of ice, making Atlanta the laughing stock of the planet for a quick breeze.

I’m reluctant to bring that part up, because frankly I’d rather not go through it again, despite the fact that there were hundreds of people that probably had it way worse than I did.

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The other side of the story

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This time of the year, one of the most common conflicts I see on social media as well as select groups of peers is the one that stems from the onslaught of people who embark on a New Year’s resolution to lose weight, and crowd their choice gym to begin their ascent into physical improvement.  As the story goes, 99% of the people that set out to get in shape give up after an extremely short denomination of time, whether it’s a week or a month.  However, it doesn’t change the fact that for whatever denomination of time that is, they’re still there, clogging up the gym, taking your parking spaces, locker spaces, (ill) using the equipment you want to be using when you want to use it, and just plain taking up space.

There are people that believe that it’s of poor taste to shame those that are simply just trying to improve themselves, and roll their eyes and scoff at those people who bitch and moan about how their gyms are all clogged up and crawling with n00bs.  Then there are those people who are, and have been regular gym goers, which are all often times creatures of habit, never liking when the norm is deviated from, especially the influx of n00bs that are now encroaching on their routines, and they will bitch and moan about how such is occurring, and exclaim how “they can’t wait until next week/month when they’ll all give up and stop coming.”

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