Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[jacked]

Leaf blower crapped out.

[Chad]

My wife ran over a fucking pipe on Rt 128, tearing up the bottom of the car and scaring the crap out of her.

The insurance co. wants us to pay the deductible since they can't go after the moron who dropped it. And then they'll probably want to raise our rates since we've had an accident. All for $400.

Why would the deductible not apply?

[Shinomaster]

Really dark, dangerous wet conditions on my commute home.. saw a guy going fast T-bone a car.. ouch.. Accidents really freak me out now. Guy seemed ok.

[bigbill]

I live in the tony neighborhood of Paris, TX. I've got 22 pounds of candy for kids tomorrow. Part of me looks forward to it, part of me wants to randomly turn on the sprinklers. Get off my lawn.

[72gmc]

Leaf blower crapped out.

this should be in the Friday thread! [pushups]

[boxerboxer]

The lighting in my kitchen seriously blows. Low stakes, but there it is.

[devlin]

It's Thursday here.....


Laying in bed last night thinking about the framebuilding I was going to do this weekend. I just realised the frame I just put a white base coat down on needs to have the brake cable stops on the top tube. Farrrrk!! Luckily not much heat need so a I may be able to blend in some new paint. This one will stretch me.

[Saab2000]

OK, so we're not supposed to be grumpy about bikes and ordering places but I ordered some stuff online almost am month ago for the Giant as the LBS said they could not get the items I wanted.

Ordered from a popular online place in the US.

First shipment shipped to my old address. I changed it in the system when I ordered. Called them. They admitted error and would get out a new shipment immediately to my new address. Check the tracking link about 48 hours later. It again shipped to my old address. They intercepted the shipment and had it rerouted to my new address. Except they didn't because it was now an incomplete order.

I waited to get the box and open it to see what was up. It was indeed incomplete. I called to ask why. They said it was because my new address requires them to charge sales tax. But they never contacted me so this would have gone unfulfilled had I not contacted them. I authorize them to add the sales tax (a couple dollars - trivial almost) and they said they'd get it out ASAP. That was Monday morning at the start of the business day.

Yesterday came and went with nothing. Tracking info says today. I start a 4-day trip today.

What should have been a 3-4 day order has been a month and has required me to be proactive to get it fulfilled and they have been, at best, reactive. And slow on the reactive part. Probably won't be doing business there again. They've gone downhill. Way downhill.

At this point they probably think I'm a big PITA but they charged my card immediately and haven't even come close to fulfilling their end of the bargain.

Off to work.

[deboat]

To get to work everyday I have a 45 min train ride then I ride a very old Rennrad about 3kms to the office. I ride down a very small and narrow road that runs beside a beautiful forrest in the middle of nowhere that maybe I see one car per a trip. This morning at 7am it was about 4 degrees with light rain. And a police car stops me. The old fat guy asks me why don't i have lights on my bike, I say because it is not dark, he says but it is raining. I then said that the lights won't stop me from getting wet but thanks for his concern. Then the young guy with bad hair says that it is dangerous to ride a bike with your hands in your pockets. I say maybe for you but my hands are cold.
I ride the last 200m singing NWA Fu#c the police.
Tomoorrow morning I will put on my MTB lights and blind his ass!!

[Tom]

Sunday: Worked overnight Saturday, slept and did not ride.
Monday: Did not ride. Don't ask why.
Tuesday, Wednesday - did not ride. Vendors on site for all day workshops.
Thursday - Last four days thinking Oh boy when Thursday comes I'll ride!

Not riding. All the work that backed up has to be addressed and I have a two hour Corporate Program Du Jour session that I can't just put over on my second screen and not pay attention.

Yeah, excuses but what I need more than anything is to bury myself on an empty road for a few hours and get these goddamn brain tangles hammered flat, or at least just smoothed out. Gangs of Furies are all babbling and yelling up there and it ain't about work.

[znfdl]

Wake Up, go to my fendered commuting bike (raining pretty hard), back tire is flat. Not in the mood to change the tube.

Go back inside, get changed to drive to work. Start the car and the check tires light is on.....

I should have gone back to bed.

[Matthew J]

Dadgum Golden State Warriors games so far start too late for this early rising Central Time Zone denizen to enjoy. Former Bull Steve Kerr has that team playing at another level.

(n.b.: do have tickets for their one visit to the United Center though - so take this grump for what it is worth)

[j44ke]

I can't get moving in the morning. I usually get up at 7AM and am functional by 9AM. This morning I got up at 6AM and at 9:30AM I still feel like I just crawled out of bed. So frickin' dark. Was it this dark last year?

I think I need a grow lamp.

[Brandon White]

I can no longer ride no-handed. I sit up and I _really_ lean to the right when pedaling. Bike leans to the left, body leans right to balance it out. When left leg is down, I'm even. When right leg is down, I'm way over. Have tried a few things, which some have helped a little: fixed float and position on both cleats (equal), fixed setback (saddle was just a tad forward). Can't figure out if it's equipment or the nut on the bike. I never had issues with this before. Noticed today though my Romin is super flexy on the sides, maybe more on the right side. That might be my last resort.

[seanile]

I can no longer ride no-handed. I sit up and I _really_ lean to the right when pedaling. Bike leans to the left, body leans right to balance it out. When left leg is down, I'm even. When right leg is down, I'm way over. Have tried a few things, which some have helped a little: fixed float and position on both cleats (equal), fixed setback (saddle was just a tad forward). Can't figure out if it's equipment or the nut on the bike. I never had issues with this before. Noticed today though my Romin is super flexy on the sides, maybe more on the right side. That might be my last resort.

iirc that's an issue of the frame's alignment?

my grump = super nervous about this job interview today. hardly slept last night, stomach is in knots today. i really want this.

[David Tollefson]

Cold is STILL hanging on. Over two weeks now. Haven't been in the bike in that time. I may give this cold the finger and just ride tomorrow.

And when you idiot proof the red-tape processes in a big company, you pretty much assure that only idiots will be around to work it.

[Nierman]

I can no longer ride no-handed. I sit up and I _really_ lean to the right when pedaling. Bike leans to the left, body leans right to balance it out. When left leg is down, I'm even. When right leg is down, I'm way over. Have tried a few things, which some have helped a little: fixed float and position on both cleats (equal), fixed setback (saddle was just a tad forward). Can't figure out if it's equipment or the nut on the bike. I never had issues with this before. Noticed today though my Romin is super flexy on the sides, maybe more on the right side. That might be my last resort.

Higher C of G due to all those September push ups.

[Nierman]

...and my grump

I'm gonna make about an acre of dense bush honeysuckle my bitch this weekend. Which means I won't be riding in the woods Saturday morning. Which means I won't likely get any riding in during these perfect 50-60°F days.

[mainemike]

Earlier this wk I was driving along and listening to NPR and Frances McDormand was talking so I started paying attention. I like her. Then she used the phrase: "start that conversation", and I whinced. I hate that f'n expression! She gets a pass cuz she's cool/smart/was in Fargo, but few others do. It is, at best, an affectation that is generally coming from someone who thinks their super smart and in tune, full of human insight, and all us rubes are lucky their here to help us. Bullshit.

While I'm at it, Actors and the like can go ahead and dispense w/referring to their vocations as: The Work. F^&* does that irk me!

[Brandon White]

iirc that's an issue of the frame's alignment?

Frame hasn't been crashed though ... ever. Wheels are true. I'm going with an f'ed up saddle (spec saddles last what - 1/2 year?) or the out of shape guy on top of the thing.

Higher C of G due to all those September push ups.

Hah. I was going to say I'm lopsided from carrying around my super heavy 9 month old.