Surprised my wife with a very early mother's day present and she loved it, I scored major points.
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Surprised my wife with a very early mother's day present and she loved it, I scored major points.
I'm off, and gonna go salvage yarding to find some cool mirrors for my van.
Took the day off. 3 hour ride this morning. Going to pick up my new bike in a couple hours. Somewhere along the way I'll get something fun for lunch.
going to ride 2 miles from my door to some sweet singletrack. i like my new neighborhood and working from home sometimes.
seanile, my old neighborhood was stony brook. now that you are saving all that money on rent, are you going to buy Zach's IF? I'm guessing that is who you were meeting with. also, stony brook is as gentrified as it gets in JP nowadays.
heading home to visit the parents tonight, gonna go turkey scouting with my uncle, and new-to-me bike day was last night.
not saving it yet! that begins in July, and my funds are already set aside for a firefly and a meriwether. and nah, i was meeting up with a messenger friend, i bought his work bike (GT GTB) for cheap and am gonna get it repainted.
depends on where you're standing i guess, centre street and columbus/washington st are only a couple blocks away.
re: that new-to-me bike, another yay moment was that i got $30 off for it (the GT GTB) because the fella i bought it from thought he stripped the puller threads on the crank and didn't wanna work on it getting it off. so, naturally i trusted his competency and when i got home i immediately started at it with the hacksaw, then after 20 minutes i looked a little closer and realized that he'd merely just snapped the head of the puller off inside the crank, and that i just hacksawed a perfectly good crank arm. notably less effort on my end was nice, but coulda saved him the trouble of getting a new crankset if id noticed earlier.
Just found out a buddy bought an E36 to campaign in a 24 Hours of Lemons event in NJ in August. Pit crew!
Despite some frustrating events right now, I get to take a break from it all and hit Fruita and Moab from Tuesday thru Sunday next week. The opportunity to go fell into my lap and was too good to pass up. We'll be camping out the whole time which is just a bonus of the trip. Of course, since I'm roughing it, I used points for the flight and went full Baller for the first class upgrade to/from Denver.
Made it to Friday. Good weather, little league, riding, easter eggs, and a leg of lamb on the grill: At least five reasons that grumps can suck it this weekend.
Reached a huge milestone in construction of my new house. Finally got enough completed to convert the stupid construction loan to a bona-fide mortgage. Now I can complete the rest at my own pace which means - more time to ride!
I'm hired. thanks!
My team just took spots 1 and 3 at Winston-Salem, and through the miracle of the internet I got to watch it all from my couch.
Enough said.
Hey I know it's not Friday but I can go the rest of this week feeling content with accomplishment - because this morning I caught a mouse from under the sofa in the basement with my handy grabber tool, then proceeded to fling & release said mouse about 60ft over the back fence in one smooth graceful motion. It was beautiful. He bounced twice, and then ran into the woods. Wife is safe, I wear a cape, and that mouse has a pretty @#%!ing good story to tell his friends.
Hat tip to Alice the cat for being my spotter.
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Leaving work at noon. Riding for three hours. Not thinking about tomorrow.
Received my gabba SS jersey in fluo yellow. Looks like a nice piece of kit!
PS: no more rain forecast for the sunday race though...
My problem child employee announced his retirement, I will now get back ten hours of my work week, so I can spend more time on V-Salon :)
4 pieces of vintage Heywood Wakefield furniture, some from the 50s for $400 at the Salvation Army store. Bed, Dresser with mirror, bedside table, and a step down, corner table.
Yeah, ok, it isn't Friday, but I just replaced the clutch pack and thrust bearing on my motorbike. Is there anything nicer than working on your motorbike in the driveway on a warm spring evening?
Spending all day with a telephone glued to my ear is made tolerable by the 30 miles of bliss my Zank and I experienced while the sun was rising.
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I'm not afraid to tell you that listening to the Beatles and Queen makes me tap my foot.
Oh well.
*It is friday in OZ.
I found 4 Carlin records on the side of the road on cleanup week.
I'm racing on gravel this weekend and seeing good friends who live too far away.
It's almost Friday where I live and I'm going back there tomorrow. That makes me happy.
my wife and kids are totally fucking awesome
and hey, for a bunch of total strangers on the internet, you guys are pretty great too*
* just dont ask to meet up in real life, lure me into your van, and make a wind chime out of my genitalia
Fun relatives inbound from another country. Two half days due to Cubs day games upcoming, and 3 total Cubs games in the next ten days. Two of which are against my Yanks. And it's hot here!
Florida man + van... Be afraid.
First 50/50 morning of the year (55 degree air temp, 50 degree dew point), I'm WFH with the Pig on the radio and I'm going to be WFH from the road for maybe an hour and a half after the first thunderstorms of the year wander past. The little cat is screwing the teddy bear loudly and there's a skunk rooting grubs in the back yard. The coffee's hot, too. It doesn't get much better than this.
Some quality mileage this week. Interesting stuff going on at work. Going camping with the family this weekend. If Tom could pour me a cup of that coffee, I wouldn't have a single complaint.
Voting hasn't even begun this morning, but I'm about to take home top (plop?) prize in my company's annual cookie contest.
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I missed the boat on the help losing 20 pounds thread, but I'm officially half way through a 30 pound loss goal that began on my birthday in early April. Started from an undisciplined mostly vegetarian diet with a shocking amount of cheese and cookies to dropping all dairy and sugar, and added an easy 30 minute wake up run to my fixie commute (originally for my mood, and for something weight-bearing cause my joints aren't getting younger, and hey, there's cross in the fall so can't hurt). 161 lbs > 180 lbs using the new math. The shit they say about casein and sugar addictions are true in my case- no more cravings after the 3rd week or so- I took a sniff of my favorite manchego that I used to inhale and--- meh. I'm eating too much dried fruit and almonds but cutting myself slack on that for now. 15 pounds or so to go.
It's Friday and the kickoff to Mother's Day Weekend (yes that's how we roll for Mom). The first adventure is to hop on Orlando's new Double Decker wifi enabled commuter train for a ride into downtown for $2 tacos and beers at Gringos Locos.
Hellish week of travel, and its not over yet, but I'm moving in the direction of home.
Ended my week in Orlando. The Lancaster Park neighborhood south of downtown does not suck.