But on a redeye flight in the middle of the night, no one in my cabin was knocking too many back.
But in life as in study, I was too ambitious to let my nerdiness hold me back.
"She must have taken the bend too tight, and then I felt her clipping my back wheel, " said Chausson, who had been unaware she was in a duel for the gold medal.
That was my attitude, and it stopped me from getting back on the proverbial horse too many times to count.
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"When I bowled the first over and it went for 13 I thought this wasn't too much fun but at least I could get my own back with my batting!"
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"I missed it too, I just didn't want to fly back with my baby, " she said.
Looking back at my years on the wrong side of the law, it seems almost too easy.
For one, it's a battery hog (that, or the battery's too small), lasting about three hours in my tests before going back to the cradle or having to run plugged in (the power cable's reasonably long at eight feet).
Sort of AWOL at the moment, and my intention is just not to go back, because it's just, it takes too much of who I am, I suppose.
This, too, failed to produce any additional yardage, but I did strain my back more regularly and would often lose my balance embarrassingly at the finish of a swing.
Linking back to my earlier example, Sony potentially held on to the belief that their game would never change for too long and then Apple came along.
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And finally, we managed to get the radio station in that area and they told us that they would broadcast my message to the two parties that are going on, so to all of them, thank you too, back there in the home town.
It gives me a massive kick that I am still thought good enough to come back and play at international level, but I've gone too far down the line in battling my stress problems to change my mind about now ending my England career.
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