"I picked the one day of the week when I didn't want to play like that, " he said afterwards.
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"I did five shots the first day, and was pretty sure I didn't want to do any more after that, " she remembered.
The estimate for this backup was a little over one day, though I didn't adjust CrashPlan settings to get the fastest transfer on this PC.
"Over the winter I didn't enjoy the day-to-day grind of training, " she said.
Starting the day on Wednesday, I tweeted jocularly that I didn't know whether to attend a UUP event marking the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement or take the advice of the SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell by treating the day as a public holiday.
Voice calls sounded crisp and clear and though I didn't perform a formal battery test, I found myself using the One for a full day without a recharge.
Even at that time I didn't realise the rain would continue through out the day.
"One day my list just said, 'I'm glad the dog didn't pee on the carpet', " she recalls.
"I had a massive panic because I didn't have my goggles, but Lizzie Simmonds saved the day and got me a pair, " she told BBC Sport afterwards.
That day that I saw him close his eyes for the last time, I knew that I didn't want anyone else to have to go through the same experience that he did.
Worse, I found that if DirecPC failed to update the site on my hard disk because of a glitch in its service, or I didn't leave my computer on, the news would be a day old.
When I was on the campaign trail, hardly a day went by when members of an audience didn't tell anecdotes about the lack of spare parts and training that were relayed to them by friends and relatives in the armed services.
I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.
"What the Digest did was ignore everyone who didn't respond to sweepstakes, so I'm having a field day, " says Klingel.
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