Slow swimmer

I met my first seriously slow swimmer today. REALLY slow. INCREDIBLY slow. There were times when I just put my feet on the bottom and stood there, in the middle of the lane, waiting for him to change position perceptibly. It was amazing. Eventually I caught on to what the other five people in our lane were doing: partial laps. Reach this guy and immediately turn around wherever you are. Makes it hard to keep count of what you've done in your workout, but it's that or have no workout.

He just kept soldiering on, too. No rest at the end of the lane. No changes in stroke. No use of the kickboard or knee float (whatever you call those things). Just sauntering along.

Took him a while to hoist himself up the ladder at the end, too. He hung on, bobbing, for long enough that I wondered if that was some other kind of exercise he was doing.

Very very weird. I thought I was slow. I don't know how to move steadily through the water at a speed like that. Wow.

Get Rich Quick

[From a Y!IM conversation, reposted with permission]

cjsmith: What else can we make lists of?
joedecker: hmm
joedecker: ways to easily become fantastically wealthy with no work
cjsmith: 1. inherit from millionaire
joedecker: 2. lottery
cjsmith: 3. discover you are the long-lost heir to some kingdom
joedecker: 4. have a bank fall into your back yard
joedecker: 5. invent a world-class fart-noise-generator
cjsmith: 5a. and don't build a prototype or anything, just have someone offer you a bajillion for it sight unseen
joedecker: right!
joedecker: put it on ebay
joedecker: put "playstation 3" in the item title
cjsmith: 6. get people into a bidding war over who can give you the most money
cjsmith: 7. tell a friend to sell his old socks on eBay and give you half the proceeds
cjsmith: OK, number 7 needs lots of friends or one with lots of socks.
cjsmith: 8. trip and fall into a gold mine
joedecker: 9. "up from the ground came a-bubblin' crude"
cjsmith: 10. dream, verbatim, the next Harry Potter (ie the next smash hit)
cjsmith: 10a. and dictate it to someone who's willing to do the work of writing it and submitting it
joedecker: 11. have your urine tested and find out it's a new world-class antiviral drug

I'm surprised we came up with as many as we did. Frankly, I think #4 is a masterpiece.

Any additions? :-)