Morning! Boarding a plane to the land of endless single track in two minutes.
According to the latest news, all the beer at the RM camp is already gone!
According to the latest news, all the beer at the RM camp is already gone!
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3rd night this week i can't sleep, might as well coffee and work. Right? Right.
Went to a fun little gtg at Yeti yesterday for trail work volunteers and to prep for an upcoming "e-word" race event in town.
Have to give a presentation this afternoon. Its not going to be awesome.
Went to a fun little gtg at Yeti yesterday for trail work volunteers and to prep for an upcoming "e-word" race event in town.
Have to give a presentation this afternoon. Its not going to be awesome.
Morning gents , I'm excited to get some lift assited riding in Saturday.is anybody racing the enduro cup at deer valley utard this weekend ?
tons of crap to get done this morning before work. I have to finish loading the camper, print out an invoice etc as I have a two hour drive to the weekends EMT standby site if I leave from work vs three if I come home. Coffee be very good this dark time of the morning. Driving the truck and camper is funn during commute hours as I make use of the largest vehicle gets the right of way rules 
Good night sleep and looking forward to some roof top bbq and drinks later to set off the weekend. Hope you all will have a good one too.
Good ride on the new trail last night. but holy hell was it friggin humid. jersey was completely soaked through, I was able to ring it out. this new trail is pretty old school, mostly natural with only 2 or 3 berms in it. It leads to some well established but equally old-school single track. It was only a 6 mi ride, with 850' elevation gain, over 1.5 hours moving time. Doesn't seem like much, but was it ever a kick in the pants... I like trails like that!
it's time to Friday!
it's time to Friday!
Hi all. I am ready for the work week to be done.
We couldn't see Yuna on the bed cam or the room cam so I had to peek in to find her. She apparently exited bed and fell back asleep in the middle of the night between the bookshelf and rocking chair.
We couldn't see Yuna on the bed cam or the room cam so I had to peek in to find her. She apparently exited bed and fell back asleep in the middle of the night between the bookshelf and rocking chair.
Mornin folks!
Worked a bit on the truck last night and grenaded like 15 Dremel cut-off wheels cutting sheet metal.
Engineering monthly meeting this morning, gonna hit the donuts hard so I can carboload for a big ride tomorrow.
Worked a bit on the truck last night and grenaded like 15 Dremel cut-off wheels cutting sheet metal.
Engineering monthly meeting this morning, gonna hit the donuts hard so I can carboload for a big ride tomorrow.
I have an angle grinder, but the area was too tight and the nature of the cuts were much better suited to a Dremel.
That escalated quickly!
Not really, it has taken 42 years to accumulate this level of cynicism and apathy.
The truck is caffeinated, I'm fully loaded, Devil Makes Three is cranked to eleventy, and I'm DTR northbound I-25 for the land of endless singletrack only 22 hours and 45 minutes later than my original planned departure.
Don't worry, I'm bringing moar beerz.According to the latest news, all the beer at the RM camp is already gone!
"Endurondo"
The answer is always angle grinder with a cut off wheel. Always.
yoi know I'm thinking "More than a feeling" by Boston has to at least make the top 10.
I have a soft spot for some Journey and Kansas, but not sure if they would qualify.
Morning Monkeys.
Why do folks gotta make stuff difficult? I like my job and my boss, so I guess it could be way worse. Weird how this whole pay and compensation stuff works. As a contractor, you make on average $10/hour more than an FTE in the same role. Of course you get no bonus or perks or corp bennies. So on average I was paying about 3x what an FTE pays for my shit medical/dental and no 401k match or bonus. But nobody looks at that. They look at what the FTE makes per hour and some say no thanks. But the reality is the paycheck on a take home basis is almost the same and the end of year bonus (up to 15% base pay) puts it way over the top.
That is why it's called "total package compensation", it's more than my supposed hourly rate. But I am salary, not hourly, so my hourly rate is math based, not time or effort based.
/coolstorybro
Why do folks gotta make stuff difficult? I like my job and my boss, so I guess it could be way worse. Weird how this whole pay and compensation stuff works. As a contractor, you make on average $10/hour more than an FTE in the same role. Of course you get no bonus or perks or corp bennies. So on average I was paying about 3x what an FTE pays for my shit medical/dental and no 401k match or bonus. But nobody looks at that. They look at what the FTE makes per hour and some say no thanks. But the reality is the paycheck on a take home basis is almost the same and the end of year bonus (up to 15% base pay) puts it way over the top.
That is why it's called "total package compensation", it's more than my supposed hourly rate. But I am salary, not hourly, so my hourly rate is math based, not time or effort based.
/coolstorybro
Listening to Gogol Bordello makes driving 87mph feel like driving 88mph. Everything is illuminated, time to engage the flux capacitor.
'Morning! Day 5 of sleeping my vacation away. 10 hours of solid sleep each of the last three nights and I regret nothing. I did go for a real easy 3 mile jog this morning. Tomorrow I take the bike back out.
Apparently at the end of this desolate road lies 100 miles of singletrack and an ice cold heady topper.
I figured out a while back that I'd have to make just shy of twice my nominal base pay as a 1099 contractor without benefits to achieve parity, between the bonus, insurance, etc. benefits.
[rant] Over the last few years, we have bought a bunch of movies for Haley through Amazon and Google Play. The new car has a DVD player, so we were planning on burning those movies to DVD so that she can watch them in the car. Apparently, neither applications allow you to download the movies to DVD anymore. You can only watch them through approved apps. And in both cases, if Amazon or Google lose contracts with media providers, I lose access to the movies.
That more than pisses me off. I drop $15 for a movie and I don't even own it? Fuck that. Both just lost our business for those services. I'd rather spend money at Walmart or even Best Buy if it allows me to keep ownership of my own purchases. [/rant]
That more than pisses me off. I drop $15 for a movie and I don't even own it? Fuck that. Both just lost our business for those services. I'd rather spend money at Walmart or even Best Buy if it allows me to keep ownership of my own purchases. [/rant]
That is complete BALLS about not having access to previously purchased items. Might as well call it a rental service.
There must be a way...
I've stopped using iTunes for any purchases for similar reasons. YouTube seems to be the way to go.
Watch out for these guys..Apparently at the end of this desolate road lies 100 miles of singletrack and an ice cold heady topper.
my solution to this is to buy the multipack disc - blu ray, dvd, digital download. its a little more expensive, but allows that kind of flexibility for viewing.
fwiw amazon prime you can download (some) shows/movies for offline viewing on a tablet. supposedly this is coming to netflix as well.
also? no blu ray in the car? dvd only??
Almost a 'full English, but not quite...
The whole idea of mfg's "in-car" entertainment systems is pretty moronic to start with.
And don't get me started with their retarded in-dash computer bullshit.
And don't get me started with their retarded in-dash computer bullshit.
Used interchangably. And we have been doing multipacks as of late, I just wanted to burn older movies.my solution to this is to buy the multipack disc - blu ray, dvd, digital download. its a little more expensive, but allows that kind of flexibility for viewing.
fwiw amazon prime you can download (some) shows/movies for offline viewing on a tablet. supposedly this is coming to netflix as well.
also? no blu ray in the car? dvd only??
Then I can't change it as needed while driving.
it was what i had on hand
can your rugrat not operate a tablet? or are you just unwilling to relinquish control?
She can handle it. She has Netflix dialed, but hasn't had to watch Amazon or Google Play much, so it's new navigation for her.
it's called a "learning experience"