How long has it been since you've heard the term "Jogging"? I'm listening to a book on CD, by author Sue Grafton. She's written a whole series set in the late 1980's. When the main character Kinsey Millhone's clock radio alarm goes off in the morning, she gets up to jog. If you like detective novels, these are good!
Jogging was all the rage in the 1970's. It was like the word was invented then. All of the sudden people were wearing workout clothes and were "trotting or running at a slow or leisurely pace." (from the Wikipedia) Sometimes with sweaters tied around their necks - oh wait - that was the 1980's.
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| Today we just call it running |
And who thought of combining clocks and radios. Genius! Before that we just had alarm clocks and transistor radios - or big giant radios. My college roomie Vicki had a cool clock radio with numbers that flipped.
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| Why who is that in the background of this pic of Vic? Robyn and Roger? |
there was a slight problem - some of the numbers didn't quite drop right. Still it was quite groovy! I recall waking up to the sound of the numbers flipping. When one had a hangout - it was quite loud. I only had a cube with a regular clock and radio. Not as cool. I'm glad groovy Vicki was my roomie.
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| Paul's head gets run over |
Pablo and I took a step back - at least we sat with a couple people who did at El Bait Shop for Team Building. The bar is connected to the High Life Lounge - and a couple guys slipped over there and got two-fers on Grain Belt and Old Style beer. Yum. If you don't have anything else to drink that is...Paul and I drank a blue corn beer from Confluence Brewery in DSM.
And who thought of combining clocks and radios. Genius! Before that we just had alarm clocks and transistor radios - or big giant radios. My college roomie Vicki had a cool clock radio with numbers that flipped. 
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