[CBJ]

Getting ready for school and work to resume tomorrow. Cleaning house and buy food so we are ready to face the real world.

Started watching The Sopranos. Never seen it.

1 hour indoor bike ride later.

 

[Muddy]

Can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting strong winds and frigid temps. Achieved muscle fatigue on my bad-side, shuffled in rotator cuff exercises instead. Optimism rises. I too shall acquire mass quantities.

 

[sunringlerider]

Made a fucking mess. But odd shaped piece needed to be moar smoothered with a hand loud wood smootherer
Watched Sicario the other night. God damn. That was good.

Coffee now. Bikes later

 

[Nick]

Can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting strong winds and frigid temps.

I hear that.

Skiing trees all morning, being traffic all afternoon.

 

[Pesqueeb]

 

[6thElement]

Watched Sicario the other night. God damn. That was good.

Second one is good too.

Similar to @Nick 's locale it's freezing here this morning, 12 freedums. The world is white from the freezing fog yesterday. Zero snow on the ground though. Maybe a chubby bike ride if I can work out if there's snow anywhere.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Two hours/16.7 miles done on the treadmill this morning. Sitting in my hot tub now.

 

[jimmydean]

Morning Monkeys.

Had a nice date night dinner at a hipster restaurant downtown. We have like $700 ($600? now) dinner credits we need to burn through and this place was listed. I'm not 100% sure how we ended up with that much credit, but I know we got a deal for like 2x when we signed up. It was supposed to be used at Kann but you can never get a table there (we've been once), so it's just been sitting there. They finally opened it up to more places, so we actually have a chance to spend it all eventually. We will still try and get a table at Kann, but at least it's not the only option.

Last night's dinner.
https://www.mamabirdpdx.com/

And for reference:

kann - A Restaurant by Gregory Gourdet

Haitian cuisine meets Pacific Northwest bounty at kann, a live-fire restaurant from James Beard Award Winning chef Gregory Gourdet.

kannrestaurant.com

 

[sunringlerider]

Second one is good too.

Looking forward to watching it today while on the Kickr

 

[Banshee_Rider@73]

Morning fellas, went to see Nosferatu last night, it was good.

 

[Muddy]

Getting ready for school and work to resume tomorrow. Cleaning house and buy food so we are ready to face the real world.

Started watching The Sopranos. Never seen it.

1 hour indoor bike ride later.

Did Sapranos start-to-finish this past Summer - never seen any of it either. Quite the television event, it must have been. (read aloud in Yodaspeak is optional)

 

[eric strt6]

espresso consumed, doing domestic chores until it warms up enough to go for a comfortable ride ( in the 50s)

 

[mandown]

Made it back to the gym yesterday for the first time in weeks. Low level workout but still a step in the right direction.

 

[CBJ]

Did Sapranos start-to-finish this past Summer - never seen any of it either. Quite the television event, it must have been. (read aloud in Yodaspeak is optional)

Yes, deservedly so. Sound like you liked it too. Nice to have some quality TV for the winter nights.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

18° F out, @pigboy's headed south, ought to get my ass outside.

 

[Banshee_Rider@73]

Breakfast is served

 

[Banshee_Rider@73]

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Made a fucking mess. But odd shaped piece needed to be moar smoothered with a hand loud wood smootherer
Watched Sicario the other night. God damn. That was good.

Coffee now. Bikes later

Mmmm wood

 

[jstuhlman]

a measure of peace has been achieved

 

[stevew]

Getting ready for school and work to resume tomorrow. Cleaning house and buy food so we are ready to face the real world.

Started watching The Sopranos. Never seen it.

1 hour indoor bike ride later.

binge snowfall when you are done...

fantastic

the birth of crack with a fantastic soundtrack

 

[CBJ]

binge snowfall when you are done...

fantastic

the birth of crack with a fantastic soundtrack

Thank you for the recommendation! A lot of winter ahead of us.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

The sky is falling. The sky is falling.

 

[jimmydean]

Did Sapranos start-to-finish this past Summer - never seen any of it either. Quite the television event, it must have been. (read aloud in Yodaspeak is optional)

I did this a few years ago. Quality show.

 

[sunringlerider]

@6thElement yep, second one was also good.

 

[6thElement]

I also rode the hamster wheel, but it was a threshold workout. So no ability to watch anything else at the same time.

Hoping they'll make a third, as they set it up for it. Just not going down the OTT John Wick style everything else has done lately.

 

[chuffer]

Sigh. I met two Sheriff's deputies on our very illegal trails this morning. They were nice enough, but they're obviously on the hunt.

"Nice trails you guys have got here."
"Mmm. Hmm."
"You know who builds them."
"No Idea."
"Figured you were going to say that."

A little more small talk and they started telling us that one of the tree companies (there are three owners plus BLM land here) had been complaining about cut trees. At which point we explained to the deputy that only people dumb enough to cut live trees on a tree farm or BLM land (without a permit) are meth-heads and naturally occurring morons.

One of the deputies eventually mentioned one site in particular that had a lot of "damage from cut trees" that the owner was complaining about. I confirmed the location he was talking about and told him the owner was full of shit. It was his own crew that went through a few years back did a commercial thin.

It was interesting conversation, because it is fine line to tread. Technically, we are allowed to ride bikes on this land. Building trails is however technically a no-no. There have been trails in this location for decades, but some recent events have called negative attention to them. So now they're watching, building trust and collecting info. Kinda feels like watching a cat getting ready to pounce.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Sigh. I met two Sheriff's deputies on our very illegal trails this morning. They were nice enough, but they're obviously on the hunt.

"Nice trails you guys have got here."
"Mmm. Hmm."
"You know who builds them."
"No Idea."
"Figured you were going to say that."

A little more small talk and they started telling us that one of the tree companies (there are three owner plus BLM land here) had been complaining about cut trees. At which point we explained to the deputy that only people dumb enough to cut live trees on a tree farm or BLM land (without a permit) are meth-heads and naturally occurring morons.

One of the deputies eventually mentioned one site in particular that had a lot of "damage from cut trees" that the owner was complaining about. I confirmed the location he was talking about and told him the owner was full of shit. It was his own crew that went through a few years back did a commercial thin.

It was interesting conversation, because it is fine line to tread. Technically, we are allowed to ride bikes on this land. Building trails is also technically a no-no. There have been trails in this location for decades, but some recent events have called negative attention to them. So now they're watching, building trust and collecting info. Kinda feels like watching a cat getting ready to pounce.

Seems they're more on your side than that of the owner...

 

[chuffer]

That’s a very positive and optimistic take. Certainly not my default. I treat them with as much courtesy and respect as I can considering I have very little trust in them.

 

[eric strt6]

42.7 mile bike ride followed by pizza and beer. My work here is done

 

[Banshee_Rider@73]

Carne asada quesadillas with salsa macha

 

[stevew]

your perceived bad day and vegetable humor

Ran Mott on Instagram: "No Karen’s please."

610K likes, 2,367 comments - maggoboom on January 4, 2025: "No Karen’s please.".

www.instagram.com

 

[canadmos]

Today's ride was a bust, but we did enjoy a local beer

 

[stevew]

woodness goodness

Jonathan Emery on Instagram: "Most interesting start to a trail ever? .... the start to this trail is no joke especially when it's wet! #mtbdaily #mtblife #mtb #mtblovers #bike #mountainbike #mtblove #mtbgram #mtbcolombia #mtbbrasil"

6,457 likes, 79 comments - projectnortheast on January 4, 2025: "Most interesting start to a trail ever? .... the start to this trail is no joke especially when it's wet! #mtbdaily #mtblife #mtb #mtblovers #bike #mountainbike #mtblove #mtbgram #mtbcolombia #mtbbrasil".

www.instagram.com

 

[Toshi]

booked lodging for Japan

saw Harry Potter 3 live with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

shall moonlight a bit and either lift or spin for an hour tonight. probably the latter.

 

[jimmydean]

Ha, somehow landed a table at Kann for 2/28 at 4. You gotta take what you can get.