Olas Nah

Oh I ride, it's just that riding solo and getting in competitive type riding is too...schedule focused. I've never once had to actually DO hardcore interval training. I just rode with fast assholes.

I used to go daily to the local Y here, and you could tell which ones expected to be perved on, as they were always looking around a bit to see who was eyeballing the(ir asses)m.

That was someone I was going to ask about... Need to give her a...peace of my mind... the hate has been building... lol

I suppose a bit of an update on me is worthwhile... and I know it's been quite a spell In 2013 I got married, in 2014 I had my son (Oliver, who damn him, hates riding a bike (for now))... bought a bigger house close to my kids' elem school... I went back to school for my Masters (Analytics), got lateralish promotion as a result...(been at the same company since '05)... more or less quit riding cold turkey for about three years (my last ever bike race was a Merckx TT in the month just before my son was born)... got back on the horse after buying a Giant Defy Pro... did some charity rides, and just been kinda doing fitness riding for the last few years since... my schedule is always too iffy for too much dedicated training, and clubs around here are pretty spotty on group riding, sadly. Most of the shops don't even do rides anymore. I kinda feel like cycling's heyday is long past...

Damn... Hard to believe it's been 20 years since I first heard some of these names too. I remember Chopped a fair bit...

Ha... that movie looks so stupid, I might watch it just to give it a super sucked review. Been binge watching TV shows lately. 'House of Ninjas' was good, and 'The 3 Body Problem' is great...although... I understand that future seasons are a few years off and, they're supposed to get probably too weird for TV viewers to likely appreciate, if the books are any indication. 'Shogun' seems really promising, but I've only seen one episode.

Eh... I can't even see a reason to watch the first one... I read the book for the 2nd, and by god it was boring as hell. I know it won a Pulitzer or whatever, but it spends an awful lot of time on his communism accusations and really irrelevant life backstory stuff, some of it even disturbing (he once tried to poison one of his professors), and really very little about his actual scientific contributions, which was really odd. It's like the author just figured that's all anyone cared about, so that's what fills most of the book. I doubt I'll ever watch the movie.. I know what happens and IMHO 'Fat Man and Little Boy' plus some old TV movie about the project with Brian Dennehy was more educational.

Look, I need material for my next film review...which will suck. Uh... I saw Dune 2 the other week, it was a lot better than the first film the other year, but it still kinda sucked.

Long time no see. Even just accidentally ran across an old bookmark to land here... I'd half forgotten about this place. So much trauma from the old Bicycling forum days. Glad to see many of you still alive and well. Did we lose anybody?

Why do you think I disappear for several years? GATORS

I noticed just perusing the forum that he wasn't posting... anyone know where he went?

You too! I'm still amazed the group has stayed consistent. Gosh, I think I first hit the old Bicycling forums nearly 20 years ago...

I've had one coworker lose their father to it, and she's gotten sick with it herself twice already. As someone who has written papers on Herd Immunity (long before Covid) it saddens me that so many preventable deaths have occurred. It felt like for a while there in early spring of 2021, everyone rhetoric or not was happy to have a vaccine available and was going to get it and help us out of this mess, but, alas, so many are invested in the political advantages that they'd sooner see people die than be seen agreeing with the other side. A far cry from the days when everyone in a community lined up for shots and saved their own lives.

It sucked. Mostly. The movie starts out with a lot of Viking-y atmospherics and sounds and all that, story is about a boy who's father the king is killed by his own brother, who then steals his wife and kills many in the village and the boy escapes and vows revenge etc... But he grows up (serving as a Beserker), finds out the evil uncle has already lost the kingdom he stole and was exiled to Iceland to start over again, and so young guy travels there to seek his revenge...and... win back a backwater settlement in Iceland. He later finds out his mother was actually in favor of his father being killed, because apparently he was a bastard who looted villages all the time (I mean, what ELSE does a Viking do?) and so hero guy ends up killing his own mother and even one of his nephews or whatever, along with half the village (although he makes friends with the slaves and one girl played by Anime eyed chess girl whose name someone here probably knows, but should not utter).. but then he kinda flames out and after getting various small injuries finds himself fighting the evil uncle near the foot of an erupting volcano ('Hel', which is where everyone would want to live near)...and he and the uncle end up killing each other, and he dies, while the slave girl he impregnated sails away presumably to carry on the legacy of the boy who killed his own mother and had a father who apparently looted and pillaged TOO efficiently for others' liking. If you've seen the 'Vikings' TV show, you aren't missing anything. Most of the plot lines in the movie were done better in some way in the show. So how is everyone doing? Long time no talk.

This ignores hospitalizations, durations of them, side effects, and how the recovery rate you are quoting includes populations almost barely affected, like young children. Depending on your age, your 'recovery rate' can be as low as 20 percent. Currently the case fatality rate for Covid19 (Where you go and get tested and are confirmed to have it) is 2.5%. And while increased testing is trending that 2.5% downwards, just imagine that 2.5 out of every 100 people getting this disease are dying. That's a VERY high number. Many times higher than CFR for seasonal flu, which is barely a tenth of a percent, and even then, only for elderly and other susceptible groups. Depending on who you are, by age range, etc...the CFR is a LOT higher.

You know, there hasn't been much released lately that I've even bothered to watch. I saw 'The Outpost' about that Korengal Valley firefight or whatever, but it seemed to be a rehash of a "Medal of Honor' episode about the same event, and the Prime/episode version was just better in telling the story, although just marginally. It's hard to really tell a good story about a 30 minute firefight that ends with America just blowing the hell out of the Taliban with air support as usual. Heroics aside, just goes to show our overreliance on Air Support in those theatres. Those guys needed either not to be there in the first place, or to have had more dedicated support. Men died essentially for no reason. I suppose I also finally got around to watching the Guy Ritchie movie 'The Gentlemen', but it was a bit slow in pacing and seemed to lack the snappy dialogue of his other films, but fun all the same. Colin Farrell was really good in it, especially with some of the situations his character was in. Funny. Oh... last year I went to see 'The Lighthouse', which had atmosphere of an incredible even mythical nature and then some, but the lovecraftian aspects really end up falling flat and the ending was fairly disappointing. Still, great acting by both Dafoe and the Twilight guy... Pattinson. I'd say you watch the first half (til the storm arrives) and then just bail on the rest of it, and let the mystery be the 'ending' for you.

I don't try to ride if it's below 45, but around here (TN) most days that's usually the high even at the peak of winter. It means I can't go out in the mornings or evenings, but the daytimes are decent. I worked out a reverse layering system with my jersey/gear where instead of having a beefy riding jacket, I instead wear three layers, one is a windproof jacket, and then I have a heavy insulated underarmor shirt, and then if necessary I'll wear a basic underarmor body fit shirt under that. Seems to help deal with my changing temperatures as I start a ride and then get well into it. With gloves I start out with Lobsters on, then switch to some lighter weights once my body temp is up as well.

I know, it's an odd subject to bring up from me, after a super-long hiatus where I occasionally pop into this group once a year, but I'm just curious how cyclists feel about it with respect to how it impacts their riding. With Covid19 in place and me working from home, I get the luxury of riding during the daytime unlike when I was going into the office and I had to wait until dark to ride, or not at all (usually I would just all but quit cycling except on the weekends during the winter), but certainly this situation wont' last, and I'll get angry about the time change again... What say you?

Yeah, I honestly just forget about this site, and I'm on some other social media which has really killed my drive to hit up messageboards where I have to be on PC.

Isn't he a conservative prick tho?

Well, I've lost my enthusiasm for riding (planning a strategy to start riding in the mornings now tho), and even lost my enthusiasm for sim racing. My 5yo son is basically unrestrained all day long at home while my wife and I work and get precious little free time, and the demands of our jobs being what they are keep us busy sometimes into the evenings. I'm eager for 'some' return to normal, like my son starting school again, but I just don't know how this virus thing will play out on that. I'm upset that he'll miss a chance for me to ceremonially walk him to school on his first day, and be excited about his friends from daycare being there, and so on. We chose our house because of its proximity to this school, and now its like its on the other side of the planet.

I would venture they were probably patrolling their... land...

Yeah, that's about the only time I'd ever obtain a firearm again and for this reason. I'll never go into a large forested area without a weapon. My chief concern is people and the second concern would be defense against any animals that are bigger than I'd care for.

Full recovery of the leg anticipated?

Yes, but at a range that was not conducive to seeing its immediate effect. (I am not currently a gun owner, and that (above) was when I was in service. I owned a few guns for some years after leaving, but the ended up collecting dust after I simply lost interest in shooting due to the expense and the culture of it).