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The Cannondale MT800 came home with me. 2003 Cannondale medium/medium mountain tandem in excellent condition. Showed it to my cousin who has the bike shop and he would have bought it from me today for more than I paid for it. Another tandem is available for the Shipshewana weekend if anyone wants to use it. I am pretty sure that this one and the Santana are both claimed for the Thursday evening car show ride but not for the rest of the weekend.

Upside down sunglasses are all the rage.

I hope everyone is celebrating National Puppy Day and that all our animal companions get extra treats. As you can see, my cat is very excited about national puppy day.

She would get along with my granddaughter.

Yes. It is liquid bread.

I had RO on Tuesday. Normally I pick her up from daycare, then walk her slowly home (she runs, runs back, jumps on snow piles, climbs stairs, looks in shop windows, jumps in puddles, goes in certain shops, climbs fences, pets dogs, etc). FeRW lets us in, and RO eats food and we watch tv. Then I give her a bath, read some stories, put her to bed, then go get on a train to Manhattan (takes about an hour to get back). I love spending time with RO, but it is depressing as hell being in the old apartment. FeRW is difficult in lots of ways, although she is trying to be better behaved recently, but I still would rather not have to deal with her. The apartment is massively cluttered and disorganized, and I bum out that RO has had to grow up in that environment. Anyway, I sometimes just want to decompress from the whole deal and have a beer rather than just get on the train and go home, but I usually resist that urge. I did not resist on Tuesday, and walked across the street to a wine bar (there are always chicks in a wine bar) to get a beer (yes, they serve beer and cocktails, too). I go in and seats at the bar are mostly filled, except this good looking woman that looks like she is leaving. I ask her if I can have her seat, and she starts talking to me. She is clearly drunk as hell. She asks what I am going to order and immediately starts rambling. "You should have a cocktail, and it should be SPECTACULAR", she says. She then goes on a whole ramblefest, several paragraphs worth of "You should have a spectacular drink, not a regular drink. It should be SPECTACULAR. It should be as good as the best vagina you have ever had, the perfect vagina, and the drink should taste just like that". Really, several paragraphs worth of that, and way more graphic than I am saying. Getting a drink now is difficult, because I try steering the discussion to just the drink, and the bartender is getting held up by this massively drunk trainwreck. She is drawing him in to the conversation so he might be able to make the drink she wants to describe but can't articulate. He goes away several times and comes back. I finally get a dirty martini because of all the vagina talk, so the drink has to be dirty in some way according to her. This chick has been overserved, but at least she is entertaining. I tell her to stay and keep me entertained, she says yes then starts crying a little bit. Apparently she lives around the corner and is having a crappy marriage, and nonsensically talks about being a lousy wife. I wasn't sure if she was using the husband's words or if she actually thought she was a lousy wife, she was drunk and rambling. "I am a great litigator, one of the best in NYC, but I am a shitty wife". The husband calls and she answers, still at the bar next to me. "I AM AROUND THE CORNER, I TOLD YOU" she says "No, you don't need to call my mother, I am around the corner!". I am thinking that this poor guy has to deal with this probably every day, a drunk wife at a bar. At least feRW isn't like that, I think. Anyway, she stays and has a glass of water the bartender gave her instead of the drink she ordered, and then leaves to go. He buys me the martini, tells me I was a saint for putting up with her.

Sorry about your current situation RG, I'm sending positive employment vibes your way. That will get you in the right direction. I'd like to introduce the loud vagina lady you met at the bar to your CO buddy who was ranting about the tigers. That would be a hoot.

Today while I was getting an oil change at the dealer, Mrs sent me a text saying if I loved her and by chance they have the exact car she wants in candy red I would buy it for her.... Me thinks she has already perused their website... .

Oh no, that girl is a girly girl. No clue how since her mother isn't, but Fin goes nuts when she gets new clothes and wants to put it on right away. Her shoes and socks have to go on first thing in the morning and gets mad when you take them off for bed. In fact she gets mad at us for not wearing shoes around the house, she will go get are shoes and pretty much demand you put them on or she throws a fit, sometimes she will bring you shoes and you already have some on and she will demand you take off the ones you have on and put on the ones she brought you or she throws a fit (she ends up throwing a lot fits). At least her fits are quite funny, what ever she is holding she will throw and give you a huffy look, if she doesn't get the response she wants, she will go over pick it up and do it again. Us laughing at her, probably doesn't help the matter, but oh well.

His problem solving skills are faulty. Almost every surge suppressor on the market will fail so the power continues to flow if the surge suppression components fail. That's because the current to the fridge does not flow through the suppression components. When the suppression components take a hit to stop a surge, it's a voltage surge. The components essentially allow the voltage to rise only so far, they turn on, and then hold the voltage at that point until the surge dies away or the components burn out. In any case, they don't prevent voltage or current from flowing to the protected appliance unless the suppressor suffers a catastrophic failure. And if that had happened neither the microwave nor the fridge would be working, and the fridge would have had no lights on at all. To wit, the suppressor red light is on but both appliances are getting the voltage and current they need to operate. What I think really happened: Almost all refrigeration system compressors have a control system to prevent immediate restart after a power outage or shut down. This prevents rapid cycling which can damage a compressor. When the surge suppressor couldn't handle all the energy in the surge (evidence: the red light) the voltage rose to the point that the refrigerator control system shut itself down or lost its place in the control logic. When that happened, the restart delay timer was never initiated or never counted down. Once you unplugged the fridge, you basically did a Ctrl-Alt-Del on the control logic, and it found its place again. That bit about a surge protector 'overriding' the refrigerator's internal system makes no sense either. Any surge protector will be transparent to the fridge and its controls. A suppressor, even a weak one, will reduce the over-voltage condition to the fridge if only for a short time. That in turn reduces the energy available to fry sensitive electronic parts. I think GE's statement about the suppressor 'overriding' the fridge's systems is along the line of the wash-rinse-repeat instructions found on all shampoo bottles.

...I will be in California for lunch.

I find myself in Toledo Ohio, with my boss, it hasn't been fun. Going to dinner, with my boss, I decide I've earned a beer. They have Bells Two Hearted on tap. Two beers later the trip is saved

...this thread is inspired by RG's story about the drunken martini in the dirty vagina. Anyway, I was boarding a flight in Chicago for a 3 1/2 hour trip west. Since I fly a lot, I often upgrade to first class. My seatmate, a woman, is already aboard. Now, when I board a plane, I begin to get busy right away with a book or my computer and music. The subliminal message is "I don't want to talk to you". I'm not going to tell anyone my life story and I sure as hell don't want to hear theirs. This woman doesn't seem to care that I don't want to talk. She's plowing right ahead, and I soon gather that she's drunk. After ignoring her, she finally says "you don't like me, do you?" To which I say "I don't know you". And she says screw it then, I'll just drink. And every time the flight attendant comes by she gets a drink. And when dinner was served, she skipped the food and had the wine. An hour later she puked all over herself. What's your story?

Is it bad that I talking about lunch at 8:30 A.M.? (And, is my punctuation correct?) Turkey burger made with spinach,and feta. Tzatziki sauce on the side. An apple, a banana, nuts, some olives, A green salad, celery sticks, 5 radishes, olive oil and balsamic for choking down all the healthy crap. HAHA I will consume all of this by 5 P.M.

The Muppet show?

Some years ago WofTy had to have surgery and was in the hospital for several days. She would feed them eight or nine loaves of bread a day. I was home alone at times, like when the raccoons came up to eat. I met them with the garden hose. They didn't like that. Then, while she was recuperating, I continued the no-food water-hose treatment. After a few weeks of that the visits dwindled down to nothing. I did have one day when several came up one morning. I grabbed the hose and let one have it point blank. When I went to step off the garden shed deck, she came out and grabbed my ankle. No bite, just a scratch. So now, very few raccoon sightings.

Came here for this, was not disappointed. There may be a sliver of hope for you yet.

In Indy's case it would be "You must be knew hear".

They had puppies on the news this morning..rescue puppies.

Yeah, I sent her an e-mail stating I was basically done. I'm done trying to go above and beyond, pushing processes forward. I will just crawl back into my hole, do my basic job while I search for opportunities outside of the company. Man, that got a quick reaction, but I know her, she doesn't like to make waves so will not push for anything, she will just try to talk me into continuing working to get noticed like have for over a decade and continue beating my head against the wall like have for over a decade. While she knows she can not replace me and I had just made a recommendation for another very significant process improvement that I told her I will not be pursing any further and that her and my coworker are more than welcome to proceed forward with it. I know they can't completely pull it off with out me. God I am an asshole anymore, but assholes are tough to ignore.

HAHA, I can see how one wrong click, oops.

That is pretty fucked up.

The usual work commute of 2.5, and then I did climbing repeats on Freya for a little over 5 miles and some change. I got in 1800 ft in about 8 miles so far today. I will gently glide down the 2.5 miles home. In addition, I worked out this morning and did weighted steps ups, front squats, burpees, these hanging bar things where you bring your feet up, rower and assault bike thing. I will sleep well tonight.

Is beer a food?

It is not an Iphone. It is the Samsung..7 not the one that explodes or burns...the lesser version New android stuff to learn and explore...

this worked well on "petite's great adventure" aeropress

Robots love androids!

I don't know about trusted, I am just a decent listener.

You sir, are too hard on your muppets. They are morans but they do not suck.

90 seconds? You can make it that long?

Something like this would be good.

I hope if his insanity defense sets him free that they release him in a parking lot full of cars driven by families of the victims who just took their prescription medications.

Walker 4 miles with WoJSTL at Scott AFB IL.

Whelp did you pass your tests? Did you study for them?

I have a flip phone, a fact from which you may construe how significant a cell phone is in my life.

FIFY

Test driving a Buick Regal today

Tell them you want something extra for your skills, other people put a monetary value on them. Tell the senior managers that you want a promotion to justify your above-normal raise that matches your talent level in the marketplace.

Never tried this, but the description makes me VERY interested. I had to google it.

Gruesome nastyness, that sounds interesting.

Notice I said wife? Seriously people, am I the only one who's actually awake today?

You realize there will be no cheese, no eggs and no meat, right?

He's coming from Pa. 50 cents a gallon more

So you fixed the fix that fixed the thing you tried to fix. Sounds like Microsoft. Thanks for keeping us updated. And just for the record, I look at the Leaderboard maybe once a month.

fixed

I figured you'd do this:

"Refund?! REFUND?!"