Added to my Yuletide Wish List

[cyrano]

I've wanted an elliptical trainer for many years now, thinking "If there was a form of exercise sitting next to the god damned television, then how could I not use it?" However, for many years now there really hasn't been any space to put one up. But right now, in my bedroom, there's a space between the window, the altar, and the bed where I could fit one and probably see the television still.
Apparently my champagne tastes have bitten me in the ass again. (How's *that* for a mixed metaphor?) I'm a big guy. I don't want one that threatens to tip over if I get more energetic than a sedate stroll. I don't want one that looks like somebody took the bike I had when I was ten and removed the tyres.

This, unfortunately, means I'd be spending about twice what I'm prepared to shell out. sadface.

Comments

[mszappata.livejournal.com]

How wonderfully is the metaphor mixed to my foreign taste! Wonder where mine's going to bite me...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I suppose, to some extent, it depends on what your tastes are.
(What admirable restraint I show! No innuendo at all!)

[mszappata.livejournal.com]

I guess it might take some time to develop a dependence table representing the host tastes and bite sites :-))

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And I've had forty years of data collection to assist me, so it's a bit like the U.S. census.

[mszappata.livejournal.com]

So you know all the correlations?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

For myself, at least. Give me a situation and I can give you, within a 40-60% dependability, if and where it will bite me.
It would be far more difficult for me to give any information about you being bitten.

[mszappata.livejournal.com]

Then all I have to do is to collect my personal data ))

[silkiemom.livejournal.com]

Craigslist or yard sales? Some of those New Year's resolutions have got to be fizzling out by now. :) Er, although, it's probably not yard sale season where you are.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I did a run on Craigslist. The lower end of the price range was $500/$600, and I was budgeting about $200.
(We're still looking at snow eight inches deep on the ground in our yard.)

[silkiemom.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That is steep. Good luck on finding something, though. I think exercising and tv would go well together.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It looks like (a) we may turn this into a family financial project and (b) some of the models I pooh poohed as 'too rickety' may be serviceable.
So yes, fingers crossed. (: