Knock Knock

This afternoon at the team afternoon tea (I know, old school public service, but its kind of nice!) the conversation somehow turned to knock knock jokes.  I haven't heard a knock knock joke for years.  Years!  The interesting thread (or at least I thought so) of the conversation was trying collectively to translate knock knock jokes for the young Chinese analyst whose english is extremely good, but it is her second language. So, while the team was laughing at quite silly jokes, she didn't get it.    Knock knock jokes get lost in translation.  And then trying to translate the jokes became funnier than the jokes themselves. There can be a child like quality to them which is kind of fun.  And then there are others which are clever play on words etc. So, then the remainder of the afternoon was interspersed with silly (but fun) knock knock jokes.

Like:  Knock knock
Who's there
Boo
Boo hoo
Oh, I didn't mean to upset you....

I know, silly, and childish eh?  But fun!


But I have been replaying the question more seriously.  Knock knock.  Who's there?  I like to think I am secure in knowing who I am, what I believe in, what is important to me, what I care about, what I'm passionate about, what I value etc etc.  On the whole I am.  But there is an underlying thing with physical change  - letting go of my physical weight means "who's there" is not the person that once was.  At least physically.  So when that question is asked in my head, by myself of myself:  I like to respond with words like energetic, passionate, positive,  loving, strong, etc etc - at least those are those are the aspirations I strive for.  I also though need to address the whose there in terms of my body. That is the next step, and progression I need to make.

Good workout today.  I drank heaps of water aferwards, which I always find a bit of a measure of how hard I have been able to work myself. As a set the music worked, although no particular favourite tracks.  The thing I can now achieve in RPM that for awhile I couldn't -  working up a sweat and overheating becasue I can push myself, is what I need to do on the road bike - before Taupo! - I'm sure it will help in some way once I have the computer.  Sure, its not going to halve my time or anything.  But if I can set goals to achieve each training ride for certain speeds and distances - and cadences, it should help.

Knock Knock ?