Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
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bigbill
It does, I knew something was up. There were days when walking across the house was exhausting, then a day later, everything is fine. For now, I take Plaquenil and waiting on my next Dr. appointment. The M-spike was disconcerting, I had to google that term. Best case I just live with MGUS for the rest of my life and never develop MM. I think I can manage the Lupus but next spring I'll probably get rid of everything but one road bike, gravel bike, and MTB. Pretty much everything Campy and just have shimaNo bikes.
Geez us. That seems way over on the unfair side of things. You seem to have a solid view of it though. Inner strength to you. And outer strength too.
Campagnolo’s marketing dept would be having a fit if they knew about this though. :-)
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
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Originally Posted by
j44ke
Geez us. That seems way over on the unfair side of things. You seem to have a solid view of it though. Inner strength to you. And outer strength too.
It's all about embracing the suck. Neither condition has a cure, so I have to figure out how to live with it. To own the suck. I'll hang on to the Lynskey Helix and the two Coconino's. I've had the Big Leg Emma for about 14 years, so maybe two road bikes. But I'll endure sacrilege and put 9100 on it.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
I've been kind of surprised at the animosity I've gotten from drivers lately when I'm out on the road. Jerks are nothing new but it seems like anger has risen in my state post election. Saturday I was stopped at a stop sign waiting for traffic to clear so I could make a left turn. A guy rolls up behind me and immediately gets on his horn and then yells at me when passing.
but I'm still better off than my friend. He was riding around his neighborhood today and a driver nearly clipped him, rolled around the block, came back, then threatened to shoot him AND showed him his gun.
WTF?
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
My grump: My generation is fucked six ways from Sunday. I joined one of the classic learned professions and make more money than I ever have in my life and it's still not really enough to raise a family in California. Until my wife can go back to work when the kids are older or I make partner, we'll be treading water instead of saving for retirement, putting money in our kids' 529 accounts, having a cushion in case we get sick, or saving for a down payment. We are renters with little in the way of assets. In comparison, my father did not graduate college, started a business, and owned a home and commercial properties by the time he was at an equivalent point in his life. I had to become an attorney just to have a shot at what I think of as a middle-class lifestyle, and I still feel like we are at risk of being downwardly mobile and precarious. We'll be OK, but thinking of my friends who will be hobbled by student debt for the rest of their lives and just had to opt not to have kids makes me so sad. And people wonder why young people are skeptical of capitalism!
Further grump: the Democratic Party, which was once the natural home in mainstream American politics for those who wanted to improve the material conditions of life for regular people, is blowing it on this. It makes me sick to see the party go all in on cultural signification and actively ignore the ever-growing pool of those who suffer from economic precarity.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
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Originally Posted by
zachateseverything
I've been kind of surprised at the animosity I've gotten from drivers lately when I'm out on the road. Jerks are nothing new but it seems like anger has risen in my state post election. Saturday I was stopped at a stop sign waiting for traffic to clear so I could make a left turn. A guy rolls up behind me and immediately gets on his horn and then yells at me when passing.
but I'm still better off than my friend. He was riding around his neighborhood today and a driver nearly clipped him, rolled around the block, came back, then threatened to shoot him AND showed him his gun.
WTF?
Tell me where you live so I don't go there, please.
Totally WTF
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
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Originally Posted by
ides1056
Tell me where you live so I don't go there, please.
Totally WTF
Akron, OH but this seems way out of normal character. My incident happened in the nearby Cuyahoga Valley National Park. My friend's happened in a well off neighborhood full of old and well maintained Tudor homes, adjacent to a Convent, and down the street from Whole Foods..