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05-01-21, 05:46 AM
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05-01-21, 05:46 AM
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BTW, you working yet?
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05-01-21, 06:33 AM
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05-01-21, 06:36 AM
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Moving day #1 for my yutest. Three hour drive, load up Jeep to the roof, drive three hours back, and then unload today. Repeat in two weeks. 
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05-01-21, 06:44 AM
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05-01-21, 06:46 AM
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To me, guacamole is like green snot but less tasty.
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05-01-21, 06:59 AM
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05-01-21, 07:13 AM
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05-01-21, 07:47 AM
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I love avocados and guacamole. In my drinking days we would rob the avocado trees in the hills north of here then drive further into the hills and drink beer and gorge ourselves on avocados. Always kept a salt shaker in my truck.
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05-01-21, 08:15 AM
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05-01-21, 08:23 AM
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I know that, on occasion, I've given some of yous the business about being old, dusty farts. I have to apologize, because it's not so funny when you start showing indisputable signs of aging yourself. I'm actually a little... concerned. You see, I was listening to some music while cooking, and Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" came on... and I started singing along.
Ugh, I don't know how I'm going to cope with this.
Ugh, I don't know how I'm going to cope with this.
05-01-21, 08:24 AM
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05-01-21, 08:27 AM
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It'll just be days. I've never ridden on tubulars and I'm really curious. I'll stretch them onto the rims, blow them up and let them sit for a day or so, then finish cleaning up the rims and mount them. I want to do that on a day/evening when I won't be rushed. I have to decide between two methods I saw on Youtube. In both, you put the tape on the rim, pull up the backing strip on both sides of the valve and pull both ends to one side. Then stretch the tire onto the rim and pump it up enough to have some shape. Then you carefully center it and even it out. Then with one method, you put a pencil or pen under the tire to lift it off the rim, then roll it while pulling off the tape right behind it. With the other, you let off just enough pressure that you can pull the backing tape out from between the rim and the tire without tearing, and pull it all out.
Then check alignment AGAIN, and pump up to full pressure, and leave at least 24 hours before riding.
I suppose I should have sprung for better quality tires than Continental Giros. Excel was selling 2-packs of Vittoria Corsas for almost the same price as the Giros, but I dawdled and they sold out.
Then check alignment AGAIN, and pump up to full pressure, and leave at least 24 hours before riding.
I suppose I should have sprung for better quality tires than Continental Giros. Excel was selling 2-packs of Vittoria Corsas for almost the same price as the Giros, but I dawdled and they sold out.
05-01-21, 08:40 AM
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05-01-21, 08:51 AM
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I know that, on occasion, I've given some of yous the business about being old, dusty farts. I have to apologize, because it's not so funny when you start showing indisputable signs of aging yourself. I'm actually a little... concerned. You see, I was listening to some music while cooking, and Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" came on... and I started singing along.
Ugh, I don't know how I'm going to cope with this.
Ugh, I don't know how I'm going to cope with this.
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05-01-21, 08:52 AM
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05-01-21, 08:53 AM
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05-01-21, 08:55 AM
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05-01-21, 09:04 AM
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It's good and soooo good for ya, one of the healthiest fats around. I eagerly pay the extra $2.49 for guaq with my Chipotle meals.
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05-01-21, 09:07 AM
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I could dig living in the snow belt, just show me a little snow now and then even when it's no longer winter.
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05-01-21, 09:43 AM
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05-01-21, 09:47 AM
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Cruel. Fate sometimes is cruel. I am sitting on a road watching contractors work around a main. This road is all brand new asphalt. This road, that is part of one of my favorite rides. I haven't done in a while due to the pandemic.
It is absolutely gorgeous weather wise today. Not even a breeze,warm enough for a tee shirt, beautiful.
It is absolutely gorgeous weather wise today. Not even a breeze,warm enough for a tee shirt, beautiful.
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05-01-21, 09:57 AM
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I read somewhere that avocado toast is why Millennials can't afford to buy houses, but it's possible the person who wrote that hasn't looked at 1) the cost of housing or 2) the cost of avocados and bread.
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If I'd stayed up later, and watched other videos, I'd probably choose somebody else's method. Because it isn't necessary to actually know **** if you SOUND LIKE you know ****.
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