And the music played on...
I'm continuing to take full advantage of the new gym at work, sometimes before work and sometimes after... I'm still not really enjoying running, but I'm doing it... and I think I'm getting a little bit better at it. The other day the President of the company made some remark about me using the gym because everyone knew that I had made it into work and was already in the gym when they closed work due to snow and he asked me if the music was working. Music? What music? I didn't know anything about music in the gym and a couple of times I had gotten on the treadmill only to have my ipod say "Battery Low"... ugh. So, he told me that there is an ipad built into the wall where you first walk in and we can use it to play music in the gym. So, the other day I tried it out and it was great. I'm not really sure how I turned it on, or off that day, for that matter.... but it had a good play list and I enjoyed it. Today, I went in and tried to turn the music on.... but it kept saying that the wi-fi was off and it wanted me to sign in with my Apple ID...which I don't know by heart and wasn't sure I wanted to do that anyway.... and then eventually, somehow, I got the music to play.... but it was Iron Maiden and some other headbanging music.... which I couldn't find a way to turn down... or change to anything else that I would prefer to listen to... and I just figured that today, I would increase my pace and run faster, to finish earlier, just to get out of there before my ears started to bleed. I spent 30 minutes on the treadmill and enough was enough... had to get OUT OF THERE.... so I went to turn off the music and leave... but I couldn't.... turn off the music... and I couldn't turn it down... and I couldn't mute it. And one of our shooting instructors was somehow logged in to the ipad, even though she hasn't been there at work in the past week.... and I was beginning to think that someone, somewhere else was controlling this music.... so I called a friend that worked there and asked her how to make it stop... together.. we still couldn't figure it out and she told me to just leave and she would try to figure it out in the morning... and now I am only praying that our new employee, that has Mondays and Tuesdays off and is currently staying in the room above the gym, doesn't come back and try to sleep there tonight... because that place was vibrating when I left .... and because everyone knows that I am one of the only people that ever uses that gym, so there will be no question about who left the music blaring.... ugh. Did I mention that the better part of my work day was spent on the phone with our IT guy trying to get the Hunting license printer to print...and once that was working.... trying to get the things that were supposed to print out on the regular printer to STOP being sent to the Hunting license printer and being printed on little bright green pieces of hunting license paper.... and then trying to get reinstated into the Fish and Wildlife website because I was locked out ... have I mentioned that technology hates me and that everyone around me pretty much knows that by now. And have I mentioned that starting tomorrow, I may be back to running outside .... in the cold... early in the morning or late at night with a headlamp on.... after I am banned from the gym for leaving the headbanging music playing all night. Yup.... another banner day for me...
And the music played on...
I'm continuing to take full advantage of the new gym at work, sometimes before work and sometimes after... I'm still not really enjoying running, but I'm doing it... and I think I'm getting a little bit better at it. The other day the President of the company made some remark about me using the gym because everyone knew that I had made it into work and was already in the gym when they closed work due to snow and he asked me if the music was working. Music? What music? I didn't know anything about music in the gym and a couple of times I had gotten on the treadmill only to have my ipod say "Battery Low"... ugh. So, he told me that there is an ipad built into the wall where you first walk in and we can use it to play music in the gym. So, the other day I tried it out and it was great. I'm not really sure how I turned it on, or off that day, for that matter.... but it had a good play list and I enjoyed it. Today, I went in and tried to turn the music on.... but it kept saying that the wi-fi was off and it wanted me to sign in with my Apple ID...which I don't know by heart and wasn't sure I wanted to do that anyway.... and then eventually, somehow, I got the music to play.... but it was Iron Maiden and some other headbanging music.... which I couldn't find a way to turn down... or change to anything else that I would prefer to listen to... and I just figured that today, I would increase my pace and run faster, to finish earlier, just to get out of there before my ears started to bleed. I spent 30 minutes on the treadmill and enough was enough... had to get OUT OF THERE.... so I went to turn off the music and leave... but I couldn't.... turn off the music... and I couldn't turn it down... and I couldn't mute it. And one of our shooting instructors was somehow logged in to the ipad, even though she hasn't been there at work in the past week.... and I was beginning to think that someone, somewhere else was controlling this music.... so I called a friend that worked there and asked her how to make it stop... together.. we still couldn't figure it out and she told me to just leave and she would try to figure it out in the morning... and now I am only praying that our new employee, that has Mondays and Tuesdays off and is currently staying in the room above the gym, doesn't come back and try to sleep there tonight... because that place was vibrating when I left .... and because everyone knows that I am one of the only people that ever uses that gym, so there will be no question about who left the music blaring.... ugh. Did I mention that the better part of my work day was spent on the phone with our IT guy trying to get the Hunting license printer to print...and once that was working.... trying to get the things that were supposed to print out on the regular printer to STOP being sent to the Hunting license printer and being printed on little bright green pieces of hunting license paper.... and then trying to get reinstated into the Fish and Wildlife website because I was locked out ... have I mentioned that technology hates me and that everyone around me pretty much knows that by now. And have I mentioned that starting tomorrow, I may be back to running outside .... in the cold... early in the morning or late at night with a headlamp on.... after I am banned from the gym for leaving the headbanging music playing all night. Yup.... another banner day for me...