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04-18-20, 04:10 PM
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. The media is fox times a hundred (I’ll just leave it at that).Many of the roads on the coastline are begging for cyclists, but our drivers all think they’re Indy car drivers.
04-18-20, 04:14 PM
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She is. I don't necessarily agree, but from her perspective I understand her. It is clearly the number 1 school for her intended area of study (film), and it's also the number 1 school in the country for something called "student experience" I don't know that I give that as much weight but I can't deny it's the best school for film.
She already had an interactive online meeting with USC. She has an online discussion with a Temple film student later today, and we all have an online conference for students/families for NYU tomorrow.
We are going to have a serious family discussion about all the options sometime next week. Stay tuned. I hope we all end up on the same page.
It might be TMI, but one thing that DOES weigh heavily on me. My sister, who is 4 years older than me, got accepted to Tulane. She really was excited to go there. My parents told her that it was too expensive and too far. And she was told she HAD to go to our state school (Rutgers).
Sound familiar??
My sister was very angry and resentful about that for quite some time. She finally came around and accepted this but only after many years of anger. She told me recently that it's only been maybe in the past 5 years she really is ok with it, and I bet on some level she is still not happy about it.
That does weigh on my mind.
#FirstWorldProblems
She already had an interactive online meeting with USC. She has an online discussion with a Temple film student later today, and we all have an online conference for students/families for NYU tomorrow.
We are going to have a serious family discussion about all the options sometime next week. Stay tuned. I hope we all end up on the same page.
It might be TMI, but one thing that DOES weigh heavily on me. My sister, who is 4 years older than me, got accepted to Tulane. She really was excited to go there. My parents told her that it was too expensive and too far. And she was told she HAD to go to our state school (Rutgers).
Sound familiar??
My sister was very angry and resentful about that for quite some time. She finally came around and accepted this but only after many years of anger. She told me recently that it's only been maybe in the past 5 years she really is ok with it, and I bet on some level she is still not happy about it.
That does weigh on my mind.
#FirstWorldProblems
04-18-20, 04:17 PM
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04-18-20, 04:36 PM
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We must remember that my rims are 40-50 years old. Maybe that makes it easier. But you,re right. Better the correct tubes. And there truly is no hurry
04-18-20, 04:36 PM
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Grrrrr - locked out from the last page. 
04-18-20, 04:37 PM
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Kind of ironic because:
(1) with increasing automation/robots + gig economy, the workplace could look a lot different in 10 years
(2) this spring could really accelerate a shift toward online learning. Once you "go there," it completely upends the traditional college model.
(1) with increasing automation/robots + gig economy, the workplace could look a lot different in 10 years
(2) this spring could really accelerate a shift toward online learning. Once you "go there," it completely upends the traditional college model.
04-18-20, 04:39 PM
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I once read several books by a West Virginia author by name of Mary Lou Setter. She lived for several years in Turkey at a seaside town and had many friends there. After leaving, she returned some years later to hugs and kisses from her friends there. She evidently spoke enough Turkish to get by on her own and took a bus into the interior. At one point she was invited to visit a family at home. We travel out of curiosity but the people we visit are curious about us also. She carried a pocket photo album that she showed to her hosts with photos of her home in W. Virginia, the mountains there and friends and family. I thought this a superb gesture.
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04-18-20, 04:40 PM
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04-18-20, 04:42 PM
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04-18-20, 04:43 PM
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04-18-20, 04:46 PM
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04-18-20, 04:47 PM
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I thought Temple offered her a full ride?
04-18-20, 04:56 PM
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In addition to a butt-load of wheels, I have broken 4 frames, 3 pedals (crashed twice because they snapped off) a stem, at least 3 seatposts, at least 4 saddles, lots of cables (usually my fault for leaving them on too long) but only one chain, and that was my fault, too. I broke a front derailleur and I was 20 some miles out. Got to practice my spin that day.
I was climbing a grade with a friend and he sprinted after someone and his middle cog split in half and fell out. He didn't crash and that was amazing.
I was climbing a grade with a friend and he sprinted after someone and his middle cog split in half and fell out. He didn't crash and that was amazing.
You're missing out.
Well yes. One of the problems is a career should be minimum 30 years, probably more like 40. We "train" for this sort of career in 2-4 years, whether traditional college or trade school, and then the world changes prior to your career being over. Whether that's welding or other manufacturing before the job goes overseas (or just to another state) or is automated, vast reams of office workers being replaced by MS Office, travel agents, pretty much everything. And when you're 10-20 years into the career, you usually can't just stop and retrain as effectively as the next batch of kids going to school with no mortgage and family, only for the cycle to repeat again, and again.
Heck, we don't even know how traditional careers such as doctor may change in the next 10 years.
04-18-20, 04:56 PM
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So our drip coffee maker pot/carafe cracked somehow and now leaks a little. It is a proprietary size to fit in the unit and also push up the spring so the coffee drips down. I may have to disable that spring for the time being. I scoured ScamBay and did see a used replacement for like $25 (half the price is shipping), no way.
Why can’t they just use a universal size pot? Sigh.
Why can’t they just use a universal size pot? Sigh.
No thrift stores now, however.
04-18-20, 04:58 PM
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Cars man.... Cars.
The only thing that pulled me away from my cars was a Maxwell House commercial, from what I understand.
04-18-20, 05:01 PM
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04-18-20, 05:03 PM
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04-18-20, 05:07 PM
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My undergraduate college gets an A+ at this site. And it was freezing cold as well.
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04-18-20, 05:09 PM
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04-18-20, 05:13 PM
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04-18-20, 05:17 PM
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Saw these guys on my ride today. Picked them up on the Fly 6. Not a great pic, but it was super cool to see and hear them in real life. Air Force Academy graduation today, so they did a zig-zag type flyover over the Front Range, starting up in Ft Collins/Greeley area. This was in appreciation of the folks on the front line during these times.
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04-18-20, 05:20 PM
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04-18-20, 05:20 PM
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There seems to be slowly some grassroots beginnings of it, but at the risk of sounding elitist, I wonder how long it would take to develop it. After all, annual mean household income per Capita is about $3000-3500, and that doesn’t leave much to drop $500+ on a road bike even one takes the “usual” income inequality in to account.
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