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#3826
smelling the roses
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I don’t even know. It’s the process in general. Informing me at 10 pm the day before closing that another verification is needed from my employer, employer saying it will be ready and then can’t be reached. Now it’s the First time homeowners loan getting held up. To me it should be black and white. Get what you need, have it ready days before closing and no issues will arise. I just happened to be off but what the hell if I had needed to take the day off. They can’t even give me a clear time frame of when this new required document will come in. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there is another required document after that one.
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https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/b...e-celera-500l/
This actually really sweet looking. I would love to get a chance to fly this thing.
This actually really sweet looking. I would love to get a chance to fly this thing.
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Closed.
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Yeah they’re just cancelling the lease and didn’t want any of us happening to see the office address show up as available and find out that way. His guess is that it’ll be mid-next-year that they start to come out of pandemic mode and decide what to do then (probably relocate or sever). But hey, that’ll get me about one more year again. And anything could happen in 2021.
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Should Be More Popular
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#3833
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#3834
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#3835
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My work is so stressful, the idea of doing it 5 days/week indefinitely scares the crap out of me. I would surely burn out. The ability to take a mid-week break is good for my cycling and my mental health. Amazing how those two move together.
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At the casino, what feels like a lifetime ago, my shift was 12-8 Sun-Weds. Loved that with my teenage sleep pattern, but it was a whole different life.
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#3838
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Alternatively, while coasting on a flat, straight, mostly empty stretch of road, hold the empty in one hand that's resting on the bars, and swap the rear bottle to the front. Then put the empty in the rear.
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It doesn't take 5 fingers to hold an empty, and it doesn't require 5 fingers to keep the bar steady. Just don't do it at speed, or in a pack.
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I don’t even know. It’s the process in general. Informing me at 10 pm the day before closing that another verification is needed from my employer, employer saying it will be ready and then can’t be reached. Now it’s the First time homeowners loan getting held up. To me it should be black and white. Get what you need, have it ready days before closing and no issues will arise. I just happened to be off but what the hell if I had needed to take the day off. They can’t even give me a clear time frame of when this new required document will come in. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there is another required document after that one.
They also utterly refused to actually listen to and process what we were telling them about our employers and the fact that pay stubs are the only employment verification they will do. They kept saying "well and IF the direct deposit doesn't show in the system on the day that we need it you can just get your boss to write a note" after I had explained three times that there was no chance for anything but the DD slip. The whole process would be hard to make worse.
Glad you're through it! Now you just have to actually move...
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Stop, Swap, And Roll. Stop sign, top of the hill, before a climb, etc.
Alternatively, while coasting on a flat, straight, mostly empty stretch of road, hold the empty in one hand that's resting on the bars, and swap the rear bottle to the front. Then put the empty in the rear.
Alternatively, while coasting on a flat, straight, mostly empty stretch of road, hold the empty in one hand that's resting on the bars, and swap the rear bottle to the front. Then put the empty in the rear.
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https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/b...e-celera-500l/
This actually really sweet looking. I would love to get a chance to fly this thing.
This actually really sweet looking. I would love to get a chance to fly this thing.
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My wife does a 4x10, M-T, Th-F. Having a mid-weekend is a great mental/physical break. Having three days off together would be great if short trips were your thing (not much travel going on these days), but it would also make getting back in to work mode a little tougher.
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I get paid a lot less than I would at a university and have to put up with some uniquely annoying ****, but I’ve basically got the best job in the world.
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Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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It's easy for me. I only take 2 bottles if I'm going to be out >2 hours. I drink the first bottle in the first hour, which invariably takes me to Woodside, where there's a side road with a handy place to either stop and swap, or roll gently downhill and swap on the fly. I never ride with others, so I don't have that worry.
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The Wednesday off is amazing how it affected my mental state. Monday I could think about Tuesday being the day before a day off. Tuesday I would think about Wednesday's ride. Thursday again I would think about how Friday was only a day away. The stress doesn't get a chance to build up nearly as bad.
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Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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I have not worn a tie in decades. I don't even know if I still have a sports coat that fits. The advantages of being a jumped-up lab dog - nobody expects me to dress nice. Plus the last 12 years I've been working in the West Coast Outpost of our company, and my boss is back in Maryland - and HE never wears a tie, either.
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#3850
smelling the roses
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Only one of my three riders has double bottle mounts. One of them has none.