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I left at 63, a year after my son graduated and a year of recovering some cash. No regerts.
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Oddly I can't feel exactly where mine is. About the only thing I can do that may help is lie down.
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It was a bike maintenance morning. After talking about it for a while, I finally got around to retiring my rear tire; final mileage count was just short of 2,800 - that's good in my book.
Chains freshly waxed and bike (somewhat) cleaned, too.
Chains freshly waxed and bike (somewhat) cleaned, too.
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Fiddy degrees this AM at my house, although the town proper reported 43. My property changes slowly.
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But all they do is tell time. Like watches are supposed to.
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At this point, I'd be happy for some late fall weather, because here that means rain, and rain would be welcome. REALLY welcome. Like, out-in-the-streets-dancing-in-it welcome.
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It's supposed to be about 50F for the start of tomorrow's ride. I am going to try to get by with adding just a gilet and knee warmers, likely to pitch both after a couple hours when temps go above 60.
#FallCyclingAttire
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It's supposed to be about 50F for the start of tomorrow's ride. I am going to try to get by with adding just a gilet and knee warmers, likely to pitch both after a couple hours when temps go above 60.
#FallCyclingAttire
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It's supposed to be about 50F for the start of tomorrow's ride. I am going to try to get by with adding just a gilet and knee warmers, likely to pitch both after a couple hours when temps go above 60.
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Back in 1950, a good quality, but otherwise mundane watch would cost you about $30-$50, which translates to roughly $300-500 now. Funny thing is, you can buy the 1950 watches on Ebay for about $30-50 in 2020 dollars, with potentially decades of useful life left in them, if you're willing to spend $150 every 5 years or so to have them serviced.
The low last night was 65F. I was having trouble sleeping so I turned on my electric heating pad. It worked.
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Thanks to quartz, you've never had to. Used to be that more money for a watch bought you more accuracy. Then came quartz, and you could get a watch more accurate than any mechanical watch could ever be, for $10.
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A tyre needs to render 5000+ miles of faithful service to earn the Velo Vol stamp of approval.
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