[today’s run: 3 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m a water drinker. I really like cold water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On hot days in the summer, a cup of cool water goes down very easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a couple of metal coffee tumblers that insulate very well. I put some ice in there, then some water, put the lid on and shake it up. The water is then so cold and delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we lived in Estes Park the water coming out of the tap was cold, cold enough to drink straight. And it tasted very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our water in Mississippi is from a rural water association, which is a shared well system. It usually tastes OK but sometimes not so much. It is “soft” water, takes a lot of water to rinse off the soap in the shower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was growing up in Iowa we sometimes had chlorine tasting water. That happens in Mississippi too. For that kind of situation, if I fill up a pitcher and put it in the fridge, the chlorine taste dissipates over time and the water stays chilled.. it tastes good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I eat at restaurants I get frequent refills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I buy water in bottles I like Dasani, which is just filtered water bottled by the Coke company. Their website says they put some minerals into it. I think it does taste better than the cheaper bottled water at the convenience store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I get to doing some heavy work in the heat, or athletic effort, I’ve been drinking Gatorlyte. It really works for me. I like it better than normal Gatorade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday I had the pleasure of having dinner with two of the people I graduated from high school with in 1980. Dan and Lynn married and have children and grandchildren. Dan does computer programming and Lynn is in education and remote learning. I had lost track of them right after school, so we had nearly 40 years to catch up on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We met at Tasty Tacos, which is a Des Moines treat for me almost every time I come to town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talked about our paths through school and career. Both of them were in Christian secondary education for a while. Then Dan branched off into computer programming. He does something kind of similar to what I have done but with different languages and different purposes. Be we can converse about similar things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lynn went back for graduate school in English and Rhetoric, which is something I don’t know a lot about. I had recently read Francis Schaffer’s “The God Who Is There” which is about Christianity as an answer to post-modern philosophy. And somehow I had picked up that Rhetoric is kind of a post-modern discipline as it is currently taught. So I told her I thought that was a brave thing to go into, which I do. She seems to have survived the experience and is taking on a new role as Director of Digital Education at FBBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m glad I got to talk to them, to see that they are doing well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At least from my limited knowledge, Lynn is the only PhD from our graduating class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [today’s run: 3 miles] I’m a water drinker. I really like cold water. On hot days in the summer, a cup of cool water goes down very easy. I have a couple of metal coffee tumblers that insulate very well. I put some ice in there, then some water, put the lid on and shake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa","category-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}