Damn, I'm not ready for this shit.. oh well two weeks then its a ten day vacation to the PNW.
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I would very much like to go outside and ride some bikes in the woods today. I need my perspective altered in a positive way. Bikes are good for that.
Good Morning!!
It's a beautiful day out there.....a day which will be soured for at least the next hour while our Monday staff meeting makes me want to claw my eyes out....
It's a beautiful day out there.....a day which will be soured for at least the next hour while our Monday staff meeting makes me want to claw my eyes out....
Good morning!
Another weekend of no riding. House is 95% of the way ready for the showings this upcoming weekend, and a goodly way towards being packed up and ready to go. Trying my hardest to stay engaged at work, but damn it's tough...
Buddy whose wedding is in 3 weeks also flipped the script and asked me to get a different suit from the one the other groomsmen and I already have. When you say get a black suit, don't bitch when we get black suits that have a little bit of texture to them.
Another weekend of no riding. House is 95% of the way ready for the showings this upcoming weekend, and a goodly way towards being packed up and ready to go. Trying my hardest to stay engaged at work, but damn it's tough...
Buddy whose wedding is in 3 weeks also flipped the script and asked me to get a different suit from the one the other groomsmen and I already have. When you say get a black suit, don't bitch when we get black suits that have a little bit of texture to them.
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7:05am .... FTS already.
bork
Last day on Florida. I miss my bikes, I miss my cats, I enjoy the slow life here. Time for another drink?
that's plenty of time, but it'll cost you
Panic mode in the house. Woman-childs passport has expired. Have 3 weeks +/- to replace it.
Morning Monkeys.
Decided it was time for lil Man to hit the BMX track. Before anyone got a phone out he ran to the start and dropped in. Just hear "Yaaaaaaaaa" as he goes flying around the first burm. Bman and I are yelling"PEDAL!!!" and he doesn't have enough speed to make it up the triple jump. He tried a dozen times and just kept losing his pedals before the hill.
Not to be defeated we worked on his pedal and foot placement at the house and went back Sunday. Epic, just epic to see him bomb the downhill start fearless.
I will post a couple cute videos tonight. To end the day he was standing and pedaling back to the truck. As soon as he can stand up clean, it's over.
Decided it was time for lil Man to hit the BMX track. Before anyone got a phone out he ran to the start and dropped in. Just hear "Yaaaaaaaaa" as he goes flying around the first burm. Bman and I are yelling"PEDAL!!!" and he doesn't have enough speed to make it up the triple jump. He tried a dozen times and just kept losing his pedals before the hill.
Not to be defeated we worked on his pedal and foot placement at the house and went back Sunday. Epic, just epic to see him bomb the downhill start fearless.
I will post a couple cute videos tonight. To end the day he was standing and pedaling back to the truck. As soon as he can stand up clean, it's over.
I'm no terribly worried yet, just one more iron in the fire. Looking at an extra 75 bucks for the "expediting" process. I figure we owe the "stupid tax" and don't really have a problem paying it as long as we actually get her passport in time.
...aaaaaaand just like that seasonal allergies are on 11. Still in a benadryl fog. Taking a homeopathic remedy with belladonna in it. I think the belladonna is making my visions during my meditation more intense. Not sure if I like it though.
Not sure how much time you have, or where the closest Federal building is to you, but I got my passport the day before I left for Canada, so it's possible if need be. I burned an entire day at a government facility though....
Gotta take an important career test in about 35 minutes... Should be fun.
That's our fall back. There is one in Denver.
Had a long 10 day weekend. Spent all of it working 12h a day reading scripts. My brain is melting. Have to take a day off to prepare for a work trip because I have so little time. At least my trainers are back in Warsaw so my body can catch up to my brain and also feel horrible.
I know Naples. Sorry.
My folks live just up the road in Bonita Springs.
Bomb tacos all over Bonita. I miss the pastor from Marias.
Beauty sunshine-y day out. not even complaining about being at work.
Will have to bike out to a post office at lunch, I managed to sell my brand-new, never mounted 26" Minion SS DD for only a 50% loss...
fucking lizards 
On the bright side, lights were timed perfectly this morning, and I made it in 9:11 without really hammering. With a tire change (to slicks), and a bit of luck with lights, and a bit of hard pedal pushing, I'll be getting sub-9 pretty soon.
Still buzzing from taking both boys out riding last night (there's a few pics in the "post a pic of your ride" thread). I'm still astounded by how much of a trooper my youngest is. He didn't complain once. not once. even when it was legit. towards the end of the ride, he was getting tired and getting bounced around a lot (he's on a single speed fully rigid Commençal with 16" wheels). He hasn't mastered the standing pedal yet (which is normal, this was his second time out riding trails - first time this year - and he only graduated from the Strider last October). Anyways, towards the end of the ride, he's clearly tired and can't make it up and over a root ball and tips over. He kinda grunted and kicked the bike off himself. that was it. Meanwhile, his big brother is off in the distance, out of sight, but I can still hear him screaming and whining about having to wait for us... and complaining the (almost) the whole time (but in fairness to him, once he realised we were slower, he took the time to stop and explore and look around, which was pretty cool to see him discover his surroundings). Overall it was a great success. We hit the Dairy Queen on the way home to celebrate our first outing...
Wife will be out of town Friday to Wednesday this week. Have lined up two ride nights this week, and will try and book a sitter for a few hours on the weekend.
We're also negotiating whether she's comfortable letting the youngest ride to school. There's 4 blocks from our house to the bike path, and another 5 blocks from the path to the school that are on a steep hill. She's worried he's not ready to ride down the hill yet, and there's pretty heavy traffic for a couple of blocks from our place. I think he'll fine, she's totally petrified. I've gotten her to agree to try it out tomorrow, all four of us together. We'll see how this goes.
Will have to bike out to a post office at lunch, I managed to sell my brand-new, never mounted 26" Minion SS DD for only a 50% loss...
fucking lizards On the bright side, lights were timed perfectly this morning, and I made it in 9:11 without really hammering. With a tire change (to slicks), and a bit of luck with lights, and a bit of hard pedal pushing, I'll be getting sub-9 pretty soon.
Still buzzing from taking both boys out riding last night (there's a few pics in the "post a pic of your ride" thread). I'm still astounded by how much of a trooper my youngest is. He didn't complain once. not once. even when it was legit. towards the end of the ride, he was getting tired and getting bounced around a lot (he's on a single speed fully rigid Commençal with 16" wheels). He hasn't mastered the standing pedal yet (which is normal, this was his second time out riding trails - first time this year - and he only graduated from the Strider last October). Anyways, towards the end of the ride, he's clearly tired and can't make it up and over a root ball and tips over. He kinda grunted and kicked the bike off himself. that was it. Meanwhile, his big brother is off in the distance, out of sight, but I can still hear him screaming and whining about having to wait for us... and complaining the (almost) the whole time (but in fairness to him, once he realised we were slower, he took the time to stop and explore and look around, which was pretty cool to see him discover his surroundings). Overall it was a great success. We hit the Dairy Queen on the way home to celebrate our first outing...
Wife will be out of town Friday to Wednesday this week. Have lined up two ride nights this week, and will try and book a sitter for a few hours on the weekend.
We're also negotiating whether she's comfortable letting the youngest ride to school. There's 4 blocks from our house to the bike path, and another 5 blocks from the path to the school that are on a steep hill. She's worried he's not ready to ride down the hill yet, and there's pretty heavy traffic for a couple of blocks from our place. I think he'll fine, she's totally petrified. I've gotten her to agree to try it out tomorrow, all four of us together. We'll see how this goes.
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this reminds me, my passport is currently MIA. not that i need it anytime soon. Just OCD.
I gotta guy who can hook you up if you cant find it, or need a new identity. PM me
You need to just suck it up and pay for expediter to handle it. Snowball's chance in hell that you will get a new one within time. Ask me how I know this...
Panic mode in the house. Woman-childs passport has expired. Have 3 weeks +/- to replace it.
I did it overnight, but damn... that was expensive.
Wait for mid-day ball sweat. It's fucking great.
Don't worry - it's not that important.
Interesting - my wife recently renewed the "slow" way and it took less than a week, IIRC.
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Also here. Baby is still up coughing all night a mucous drain meaning it seems to never stop. Lots of studying yesterday but still behind where I need to be. M started up happy and sounding clean this morning. Power is more responsive as well. Clean guts ftw.
So what the the consensus on which products to use for what symptoms? I'd like to "refresh" all of our vehicles, but don't want to start pouring snake-oil into various orifices in our old-ass cars.
Techron for fuel system and compression side - injectors primarily.
Seafoam (it's actually called that) to clean valves and the lubrication side of the system. Use this about a hundred miles before your oil change, as you just want it to clean shit up then get it out. I might end up doing a second run through as well but my oil is stupid expensive (0w-60 is $120 for 6 quarts) so I'll probably wait until my winter change.
Thank you, sir! I'm going to do this, as I have a couple vehicles close/at oil-change time.
