Tired, but not such that my eyes want to close

Yesterday was a tiring day what with getting up many hours before dawn, working a full day, then going to the gym.  It's catching up with me.  I was oddly tired for a lot of today.  I wasn't nodding off or fighting off headaches.  I was alert, but felt a strange kind of tiredness that didn't stop me from another trip to the gym and trivia tonight.

YW: 10 pullups, 10 dips, 10 sit ups, 10 burpees - 10 rounds (So that's my 100 burpees in one day displacedtexan.  Now that I think about it, I once did 210 in a day, doing sets descending from 20 to 1.)

TW: Legs - 200 leg presses, 200 calf extensions, 100 openers, 100 closers.

Our trivia groups was only four today.  I was going to invite the new housemates but I thought we would have too many then.  We wound up coming in second by one point.  This could be my last trivia for a while if the election is called.

There was a story on A Current Affair yesterday when I was a t the gym that I was dreading.  It was about how much people on the dole get.  There is an e-mail going around that comes across my desk every couples of weeks, that compares the amount that pensioners get to what refugees get.  It indicates that refugees get something like three or four times the support that retirees get.  It is also entirely bogus, but by being forwarded on and on it takes on the mantle of truth.  Fortunately (and though I still despise current affairs programs) they pointed out that refugees don't get more than anyone else.  I was bracing myself for a flood of e-mails complaining about immigrants rorting the system, but it has not materialised.

Calgary is in the midst of the Calgary Stampede, which is a bit like the Easter Show for you Australians, except that accountants and bankers have been known to turn up at work wearing jeans and cowboy hats, and the local news is presented on a western themed set.  A very white collar city basically goes insane for ten days every July.  Well today, my friend Heather was one of my Calgarian Twitter/Facebook friends who informed me that Calgary was hit by a sudden and sever hailstorm with golf ball sized pellets of icy wrath falling out of the sky.  Tens of thousands of people enjoying the day out at the Stampede had this to contend with.
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