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  1. I haven't started one of these forever. I rode a bike today! 10 miles. The streak lives. It's no longer a running streak, but an exercise streak.
    7 points
  2. In honor of our anniversary, I went searching for one of my favorite threads. I searched for all the "story of" threads and it made me happy to see how many "story" threads were posted by other people. But this one is probably my favorite - it combines family, the Catskills and it even is cycling related. And this is to make the post more festive for the anniversary party:
    7 points
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  4. Just took a walk through the pastures. The spiral orchids are up. One of my favorite wildflowers.
    5 points
  5. ... and on a side note I just found out you can rate your own thread so I gave myself a solid 5 out of 5. I love me.
    5 points
  6. WoJSTL and I rode 52 miles on the Katy Trail from Jefferson City to Boonville. Great weather. Needed to detour around a rock slide. Later needed to ford a creek due to the bridge being destroyed by the flood of 2019.
    5 points
  7. That was a fast 7 years. Happy Anniversary to us.
    5 points
  8. Because they started with the free oil changes.
    4 points
  9. We were only required to do the basic standard system. We have a section of property that is reserved for a replacement field. Permits were about a thousand dollars. The system install is $7500. So now I will have my own water and septic for under 20,000. We got a deal on the well. 50% off. I know people. The house is going to be expensive for a tiny little 2100 sq ft of construction (home 1100, garage 756, porches 308). We are doing mostly budget everything (appliances, modest materials and helping with sweat equity). We will no longer have a water and sewer bill. The payoff for the well is about 10 years. The payoff for the septic is way longer, but It isn't like I have a choice. I could put in city water, but I don't want to. The well will cost more, but provide more value. I want to water a lot of things (plants, trees, pump track, jump lines). I could not justify spraying water to hose down raw dirt for the sole purpose of having good traction.
    4 points
  10. I bet that the grocery store just installed really good spam filters
    4 points
  11. In celebration of life on this forum. Happy Anniversary... an image I had when I joined bicycling forum a long time ago.
    4 points
  12. nice SW. 23 miles for me
    4 points
  13. Gluten free vegan alchohol free martinis for everyone!
    4 points
  14. 3 points
  15. CSI Texas would solve this crime immediately. Just feed it into the image software and boom! All is revealed. Looks like a Chrysler 300!
    3 points
  16. Do the red lillies bloom in September there? It is one of our last seasonal blooming perenialls.
    3 points
  17. Alligators are a gateway reptile. You may have dragons and not know it.
    3 points
  18. 1700 bales of 3rd cutting alfalfa hay were stacked in the hay yard yesterday. I could smell them all the way to the house last night when I brought the dogs to the porch. Wind permitting we will tarp the stack tonight.
    3 points
  19. Probably celebrate by taking care of my wife another day.
    3 points
  20. I talked to the county guy that would be approving my occupancy permit. I explained that we want to do a lot ourselves and that we need our house sold in order to finish up the property. This means living in it with construction and camping on the property in a trailer. He was so nice about it. He said he would be the one signing off on it and that everything sounded fine. He said as long as we had a house permit, have paid our "camping permit" to camp on the property during the build, and as long as things were progressing and we keep having our inspections, everything is fine. Everyone at the city and county has been so nice and I love our permit department people. One of the contractors basically said that because we are self funding so we can "do whatever we want." I don't think we can do "whatever" we want, but we have way more flexibility. The bank has no say in the build or releasing of funds. I heard that banks can be a pain in the ass.
    3 points
  21. Happy birthday, way to cheat death to get to enjoy it! How are you gonna celebrate?
    3 points
  22. Both times we built we used a credit union. When they approved the construction loan they deposited the entire amount into our checking account so there were no draws against it. The only requirement they had was the we maintained insurance on the property/build but they never cam back and asked for proof of insurance. When the build was done they turned the construction notes into mortgages with no closing costs.
    3 points
  23. I think it’s easier for terrorists to contaminate one water treatment plant than a couple thousand private wells.
    3 points
  24. How is the hand this morning? Is it still puffed up? You might need to go buy yourself a new bike.
    3 points
  25. there’s confidential stuff all over my computers, so it’s a side view. I really like being able to sway and move instead of being tied to a seat.
    3 points
  26. Golf cart technology trickled down to the automobile.
    3 points
  27. Yay Wheels! 11 miles for me..., just back and forth to work(again) I need the smoke to go away so I can ride
    3 points
  28. I remember when I was a little Krazy, Things have REALLY changed!
    3 points
  29. Work. 11k steps & counting.
    3 points
  30. AnnounceD last week that we’re going from VMWare to Citrix. Dunno if we’ve outgrown VM or it just generally sucks. IT sent an email out a week ago, gave us access to try it out, but not do any real work cuz it won’t be saved . They attached a 7 page instruction sheet. Anyhoo, I logged in yesterday & got to page 3 before it diverged. Kept some notes, contacted IT when I got to a dead end, they responded very quickly & resolved it. Today they sent out an email delaying the release for a least 2 months. I must broke it.
    3 points
  31. Is this gonna be like an Oprah episode where SW starts saying "You get a new BMW! You get a new BMW! You get a new BMW!" to each and every one of us????
    3 points
  32. Puritanical though I am, I affirm with love each person's identity, knowing they are also seen and loved by the sovereign Lord of the Universe, time out of mind. Jesus Christ preached one commandment: Love the Lord your God with whole heart, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. It's a compound construction, meaning we cannot claim to do one, but not the other, and have wholeness. Did you see what I did there? The indefinite pronoun "each" is singular, but because it's indefinite, and we do not know the gender identity of the person to whom it refers, we use the personal pronoun "they." In this way, the pronoun they/them has referred to individuals dating back to at least the 1300's. So, @Randomguy, it's not changing the language for random reasons. More to the point of the OP, use of they/them to refer to non-binary, gender non-conforming individuals has been sanctioned by every news-writing organization and the Chicago and APA Stylebooks for years. So, the book @Razors Edge referred to used they/them correctly as the antecedent was either non-binary, or...get this...their gender is of no importance. One more thing: The word itself usually takes the plural verb, but some non-binary individuals may use they with the s-form of the verb. Why does this matter? Affirming someone's gender identity could be the difference between life and death. Although gender non-conforming people make up roughly 14% of the overall population, they have a suicide attempt rate in the mid-40th percentile. There are roughly the same number of redheads in the overall population as non-cisgender people. So, there's a pretty high likelihood you know someone who is non-binary. And it's a small thing for me to use the pronouns someone needs to hear to validate their existence matters to others. Thank for inviting me into this discussion. My name is Susan, and my pronouns are she/her? What's your name, and what are your preferred pronouns? How hard is that really?
    2 points
  33. They burrow into the mud and transition to full dragonhood. Slow process, takes 20 or 30 years sometimes.
    2 points
  34. My house has a moat. The land is terraced from back when it was part of a plantation. The house s built on one terrace and the carport is built on the next higher terrace. There is a bridge that connects the two. You enter the house on the second floor and it effectively gives you a moat between the two. All the living space is on the second floor and the design makes the house wheelchair compliant with no rise in elevation from the car to the interior. My mother designed the house with wheelchair accessibility because she had to use one for a year as a child when she had polio. She had to be carried into her childhood home both to be able to enter the house, and then again to be able to reach the bedrooms which were on the second floor.
    2 points
  35. I was laughing at myself at the amount of prep for a MTB shralp. KT tape for protection from this rough spot on my knee pads that likes to rub my knee skin off. Knee pads. High socks, and an ankle brace for the right foot. liner shorts, durable outer shorts. camelback Prep the chain by cleaning it and then relube pump up tires to perfect pressure wipe down all my stanchions. check pressure of shocks, forks and seat post dropper (this is not done every ride) I sometimes bring a Garmin, sometimes I don't. This never holds me up from a ride.
    2 points
  36. So real estate prices must be very high there because of that little advantage. Unless it gets so crowded that nobody goes there anymore.
    2 points
  37. Why else would they call it a “hotline”? But they usually change by the minute for the phone calls.
    2 points
  38. Fill the hole with a couple junk cars and then cover it over with some gravel.
    2 points
  39. ...just go to sleep and see what it looks like in the morning.
    2 points
  40. Had 2 weeks off doing some pt exercises for my shoulder..So nothing like easing back into it..15 step ups each leg..holding a 20 pound kettlebell in each hand ( yup 40 pounds). He also started me with 40 hollow rocks and 40 medicine ball slams (14 pound ball)..the next 2 sets were 30 and 25..there were walking lunges too..kinda a recovery..15 back and down no weight..And that was just the first half
    2 points
  41. @Kirby I’ve always appreciated your stories.
    2 points
  42. They would float up out of the ground if they did not leak. That would be bad.
    2 points
  43. 28 years of teaching from standing and walking around. I just couldn’t spend another day in the chair. It’s been nice having my legs today. I think better when I move.
    2 points
  44. Nate is a Meltdown In Waiting. Every forum needs a few of those.
    2 points
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