My eleven-plus-year-old elliptical exerciser succumbed to
old age last month. I gave it away on
Craigslist to someone who had the energy and ambition to resurrect it.
Meanwhile, Debra did a bunch of research online and, based
on her research, we chose to replace the old elliptical with a new Schwinn 470
Elliptical. The old one came assembled
years ago. The new one needed about four
hours of labor.
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| It took about an hour just to get it out of the box before the four-hour assembly began. |
Assembling things is not one of my favorite things to
do. I sometimes get confused trying to follow
instructions that are not written in America.
Then I get frustrated. Then I
perspire. Then I get grouchy.
So today I launched a pre-emptive strike against a potential
bad attitude by having Peter, Paul and Mary help me to stay mellow throughout
the entire project. I started with a Peter,
Paul and Mary station on Pandora, but that station played mostly music from
other elderly artists.
So then I went to YouTube and found some videos that played
only Peter, Paul and Mary music. That
kept me entertained and mellow while assembling our new elliptical. The project is now done and I, amazingly, have a
pretty good attitude.
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| Keeping me mellow. |
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| Simultaneously assembling and staying mellow. |
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| It works. |
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| It has a blue display for tracking the workout. |
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| The old one is gone. |
Nice job on the pre-emptive strike. :) I think you should give Spotify a try. I wasn't sure I'd like it as much as Pandora, but they're different and now I find myself using both, depending on how picky I feel about what I want to listen to.
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