we made it!
23mi this morning starting in the dark. Bike is quiet again after a mystery noise. Yay!
23mi this morning starting in the dark. Bike is quiet again after a mystery noise. Yay!
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18 mile MTB at the Kingdom Trail yesterday! 
More of the same the next three days. The weather here is looking beautiful through the weekend but back home it's all rain. We picked a good weekend to come.
More of the same the next three days. The weather here is looking beautiful through the weekend but back home it's all rain. We picked a good weekend to come.
I'm done with this week. Gonna burn 1/2 sick time for a mental health day and take the afternoon off.
Rain all weekend, guess I'll stay inside and put up some crown molding.
Really read skin where I got the kill sun damaged skin cells treatment but to be expected.
On a positive not I had a good meeting today over coffee and came back and found a job that was worth applying for and a second that might be relevant but company located far away.
On a positive not I had a good meeting today over coffee and came back and found a job that was worth applying for and a second that might be relevant but company located far away.
Have been at a farm show for work most of the week. Well see what I get into today. Might work, might not.
unless you have kids.
oh man, so yesterday was quite an adventure. Boy 1 was feeling under the weather with a low-grade fever and nasty cough. we let him stay home, and he mostly spent the day in bed, no biggie. Thursday is ride night, but it was also "meet the teacher" night at both boys' schools. at the same time. so no riding for me. luckily the schools are only a 5-minute drive apart. My oldest has joined the drama program, and my wife didn't get to see the school last year (he had started in middle school), so we went together and brought our youngest with us. we met the drama teacher, the home room teacher, and the resource teacher (she helps him deal with/overcome his ADHD).
Next we zipped over to the new school for the younger boy. This is a new school for him as he's in a special program for kids with learning disabilities. It's been a bit of an up and down ride so far this year - the school is in a very 'underprivileged' part of town, and there's some pretty rough kids there. Our boy can be pretty sensitive, and has been pretty shocked by the language and attitudes in the school yard... so far he's learned the N-word and the C-word, and been told that two men can't be dads, and gender diversity is wrong. Which doesn't compute for him since our immediate neighbours are two dads, and one of their children has decided they are non-binary and wants to be referred to as they. Several of my wife's best friends are also same sex couples and have kids. He's grown up in this reality, and it is entirely normal for him so it was a bit of a culture shock for him at the new school. we were a bit concerned that it might have been a good fit for him, but the teacher reassured us that he's doing well in class, seems to be getting along well with the other kids, and most importantly seems to be working hard and learning well. She even commented on the incongruity of her observations vs his report card last year, which seem to concern a different child almost. This confirmed our suspicions that his teacher last year is a fucking useless idiot who doesn't give a rats ass about his students.
So against that backdrop, we get home, and our oldest (he'll be 13 in a month) comes into our room crying, complaining he can't breath. So off to the children's hospital he goes with my wife. Turns out it was an asthma attack brought on by a viral infection. They were almost out the door at around 2:30 am, but then he vomited all over the place, so they sent him for chest/stomach x-rays... which found nothing, so they were sent home and got here at around 4:40 am.
Parenting sure is grand.... Luckily I have a 'boys weekend' at a friend's cottage this weekend to recover!
Here. Internal meeting that I did zero prep work for because I was too busy doing actual work (whatever) my fts with work is bordering apathy levels.
I also have an interview today. It's with the Director of Financial Planning at my friend's firm. Assuming I don't fuck this up, I'll be flying out to KC in a week or two for another to meet the company president.
Then it's to the track to drop the kart and do a bit of work on the motor.
I also have an interview today. It's with the Director of Financial Planning at my friend's firm. Assuming I don't fuck this up, I'll be flying out to KC in a week or two for another to meet the company president.
Then it's to the track to drop the kart and do a bit of work on the motor.
A guy at my team said to me he talked to another department head and they commented with "oh no they are going to break another one" which seems like a red flag.
On the good side a local pumptrack got lighting so I will check it out today before it's cold AF at night here.
On the good side a local pumptrack got lighting so I will check it out today before it's cold AF at night here.
This is the new "we're adding X to your jobs, but not adding any comp AND we won't reduce the goals that you can't currently hit because they are too high" bit. I got real unpopular when I called out a VP publicly about it ~1m ago. Really coincidental, I'm sure.
What's on the menu?
I'm thinking I need to make some pumpkin bisque and a loaf of bread this weekend.
finally getting around to trying deep dish pizza in the cast iron skillet.
wife got the moosewood cookbook from the library, and she wants to make the swiss mushroom quiche.
also this:
Laughing Horse Lodge on Swan Lake was superb....in 2011 when I stayed during Tour Divide
The crew is still fighting with the brakes on my $printer. Living on a gravel road is part of the issue... Discussed it with the head wrench; I think I'm going to start having them do annual preventative maintenance each April.
All contemporary motor vehicles are PsITA.These vans kinda sound like a PITA.
Seriously, and everyone's doing it. All these fancy key fobs that must communicate with the vehicle, MB headquarters, and Carl Benz through the spirit portal before authorizing the vehicle to start, all in the name of "security".
All that additional cost absorbed by the consumer under the guise of preventing something that The Club is just as effective at.
Eh, we’ve had the Sprinter since 2019, I think? It’s a Dodge-badged 2004 we bought from a friend of a friend who did a super simple camper conversion on it. It’s not
Fair.
Still ridiculous, and frustrating. And we don’t even have a “fob” thinger, I think that’s the price for just a standard “stick it in the hole” sort of key.
jebus...
And to think I was pissed it cost me $28 for a passenger door handle with the same key as my back door.Seriously, and everyone's doing it. All these fancy key fobs that must communicate with the vehicle, MB headquarters, and Carl Benz through the spirit portal before authorizing the vehicle to start, all in the name of "security".
All that additional cost absorbed by the consumer under the guise of preventing something that The Club is just as effective at.
I still have a separate key for the RV side door, but I will go keypad on that eventually.
not in nevada
would that be artisanal bisque or just regular?
