My almost son is going to be so pumped with the costume I'm making him. Not quite two yet and already knows he wants to be an airplane when he grows up.
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My almost son is going to be so pumped with the costume I'm making him. Not quite two yet and already knows he wants to be an airplane when he grows up.
Finally back up in the mountains. Laying in bed with the window open, I can hear the river rumbling outside the cabin. Had an awesome day of riding yesterday. Today, another day of riding awaits. Weather is perfect. Good friends are here and a few more are driving up today to join us for the weekend rides. Good times.
I've got nothing to grump about, and it's Friday. It's a sunny 70's day in central Fla. I'm loaded up with appointments until lunch and then I'm sneaking out the back door on the ducati and maybe not going home until dark. We lost another person in my Immunodeficiency group. This Friday will not be wasted.
It's Friday, I have the day off to take my older daughter to/from school and tend the younger while my wife gets/recovers from a root canal.
Had a great time with my older daughter last night helping her with homework - basically came up with a cool movie plot and story board.
And I made a little build progress on my nephew's MTB last night.
I had a morning at my son's school. "Dad's w/ Donuts" they called it. My son brought me a chocolate donut. Yes, they served Dunkin, but it's the thought that counts.
Youth and high school football seasons are over for my family, bittersweet as oldest is a senior. On a positive note, time to get outside, cook breakfast in a blind and hunt ducks. Insert smiley face here.
My daughter's in Istanbul for the week, asking old men to guide her friends to mosques and bazaars.
The gales/rains are coming to end, tmmrw/Sun gonna be high 50's w/some nice breeze, I'm going sailing!
Do the mods care if you make two posts in a day?
My 74 year old dad just called and and made me chuckle....
dad: would it hurt your feelings if I bought a used Cannondale Caad 9?
Me: why would you do that?
Dad: I just want a new bike and you seem busy. Plus I really wanna get my bars down another inch.
Me: do you remeber telling me before your last frame that you were getting old and 6cm of drop was where you would be comfortable?
Dad: yeah, but I've lost a bunch of weight since then and I'm riding with these old guys and they show no mercy. I need to be about and inch lower on the drops.
SHM ROTFLMAO
The 74yo effer is riding harder than ever. Cracks me up.
About 20-30 friends got their bar exam results today. I'm not there yet (15 hrs left) but happy to see a bunch of good friends achieve a major goal after 4 years of hard work. Most of them, like me, have been working full time and going to school at night. That's 50 hours a week *before* you add reading for class and exam prep.
- taz
So this made my day: guy gets in touch about getting some wheels, says he heard about me from Jenson. Huh? Turns out a sales guy there recommended he get custom wheels and recommended me specifically.
It's always nice to end the week on a high note!
It's coming.
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I've already named it, it's called Magi (aka Three Kings).
yea, theyve been on the money lately (even moreso than usual). i asked to have the windows of the dropouts done in varying colors, and the DT logos will look something like this:
http://i.imgur.com/wzwxSvW.png?1
welp. just bought a miller maxstar 150 sth tig welder.
now i can make a cafe subframe for my motorcycle this winter!
(and only eat spaghetti for the rest of the year because i'm hemorrhaging cash for all the most awesome reasons)
My youngest kid, 17 year old daughter had a fender (and grill and hood, etc) bender on 128 yesterday. Old car messed up a bit, but she’s perfectly ok.
Her fault, rear-ended a guy in stop & go traffic. His SUV was fine...
Accidents suck, but hopefully she’s learned something from this. And again, thank god she’s ok.
It's Halloween. I'm not giving out candy this year. I'm giving out eggs, toilet paper and shaving cream. I planned ahead. I went down to the drug store and bought up all those little cans of shaving cream they call "Travel Size" but I call them Fun Size.
I'm finally seeing the downward side of this cold that we picked up in Illinois. And while I'm doing full-time kid duty (my wife is back in Illinois for a funeral today), I'm still managing to get some things done.
One frame only needing another coat or two of clear, one more just needing braze-ons and finish work, and another with main triangle complete and rear triangle starting, two more in design.
Rode my regular route yesterday. Perfect weather. They just repaved the best part, the long downhill with sweepers. Yesterday was my first time down it since. Smooth as butter, pavement nice and grippy. It was about as good as it gets on a bike.
My boy loved the airplane costume I made him so much more than I could have hoped for. Trick-or-treating was a blast.
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its Friday, what else needs to be said.
New tires, new chain, new tubes installed. Weather is kind of nice. White Hotel guests are departing this weekend.
Looking forward to a four day weekend.
8 year old daughter has her first cross race this weekend. She's more excited than I am.
We hosted a ‘dry run’ fundraising dinner last night, to prep for a major fundraising effort for my daughter’s high school (my wife is a board member.) It not only reminded me how much I love the place, but a little distance and time helped me see even more how truly exceptional it is as a school.
I’m grateful my kid received that education; proud that the exceptional people who run the place still seem to want me to hang around and contribute; and kind of blown away by the people I had sitting around my dining room table. It reinforced my long-term commitment to the school, which was pretty much exactly what we hope these dinners are going to accomplish for others.
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Plus the whole thing was catered. It was pretty entertaining to be waited on by a stranger in my own home.
I arrived at work this morning only to be sent home, as the building had no power. Paid day off. This happens at least once a year, and is about the only upside of working in a building purchased by the government for $1 in an old naval shipyard and industrial wasteland.
Oldest just out of surgery for lateral meniscus tear. Short recovery!! Other option was 8 weeks non weight bearing, so this is good news.
finally got some worthy photos taken of my Meriwether
http://i.imgur.com/vI2BeSP.jpg
got more shots over in the gallery
happy good day overall. can't complain really, just anxious about that job. will hear back by tuesday if i'm moving on to the 2nd round. i'm optimistic, but cautious as it's really hard to speculate over phone interviews x_x
Got on the trainer for a short ride today. First day on a bike in over 2 weeks.
I'm gonna kick this one off, because my grump was:
Well, I dd'ed a live image onto a USB stick, booted from that, mounted my /, /home, and /boot, chroot, and reinstalled the kernel. I didn't even have to download the damn thing since I keep the last 3 versions in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Reboot and it's golden with no data loss.
Linux is the best.
Gotta love cold blustery Fridays, as the bike path was almost deserted and had a great ride into work.
Hey, if reflected glory is all I got to bask in I'll take it. They awarded my brother a metric shit ton of money for a research breakthrough. And in that context, the Boston Globe (I love you guys, I really do) is the grump that can do what the thread title suggests. Read again what he said. He's for reals with that.
My bro is on his way down for cFitt, the 258 mile cross fl tt mtb race. It's always nice to have him him around if even for a day. My day is looking like a couple of Ducati commutes in 60-70 degree weather, lunch with a client and quality time in the paint booth laying down a color I'm really excited to lay down. Tomorrow is my youngest kid's robotics tournament. All in all there is a lot of fun lined up.