gsteinb

0 here this morning. Thinking I wanted to hike mountains regularly this winter feels a bit comical right now.

ridethecliche

Yeah man... that's on you.

I've been out snowboarding in Jay in those conditions with windchill that brought it below zero. It was ******g awful. But hey... it was a day on the mountain. Probably spent as much time drinking ****ty beer at the bar as I did riding that day!

Flatballer

Haven't measured how much we got, definitely on the low end of the forecast. It changed to sleet pretty early on. I'd say maybe 6 inches? Not bad.

The trash and recycling is still getting collected tomorrow, so I put my cans out.

The plows said 'F that' and knocked them all over, we had to go collect recycling from all up and down the street where it had blown to. I shoveled out a flat space on the grass, put them far back from the road, and built a mound beside them to stabilize them.

I heard the plow again a minute ago so I'll go check and see if it worked soon.

The funny thing is that the plow trucks are the garbage trucks, they just don't stop and collect while they're plowing.

Flatballer

LOL. Nope. Plow knocked them over again. Not as much spilled it looks like. The trash guys picked them all up, then got the trash with their robot arm, but then the plow came yet again and knocked the recycling over. Couple things spilled, but I'm busy at work at the moment.

Not sure how I was supposed to do a better job than I did. The plows just throw a lot of snow, at like 30 mph, not much is gonna stay standing.

TheKillerPenguin

We got somewhere between 18 and 24 inches I think. I spent a couple of hours shoveling a path from our front door to the street. Then a neighbor took pity on me and finished off my driveway with his snowblower. Super rad!

Flatballer

I did a first pass with my little electric 18" snowblower last night, and then just went out for about 2 hours. Maybe 1.25 were playing with the kids, 45 minutes was clearing a path as best I could for the car to get out and then the sidewalk. Sidewalk get snow tossed on it from the plows, and with that plus my clearing it last night, the bottom inch is hard pack and ice that I can't clear, but whatever. Good enough to walk on.

hubcyclist

My routine today: 2hrs on the bike 3x20 sweet spot and 90mins shoveling (all manual). My wife got an electric snowthrower a couple of years ago but it's pretty useless as far as navigating with the extension cord, so I never use it.

Flatballer

I bought a 100 foot cold weather cord, and I have outlets down by the end of the driveway on our brick pedestal light things (we fancy) so I can reach everything I need to (at least when the Christmas lights are up, because that gives me another 10 feet, otherwise I come up just short at the end of the sidewalk, the frontage is about 115 feet and the driveway is almost touching one edge of the property).

I do alright with cord management keeping it out of my way, but I've certainly heard others have issues. My main issue is that it isn't powerful enough to move big heavy snow. It does really, really well with 4 inches of fluffy stuff. But 9 inches of icy, heavy stuff that the plows tossed onto the driveway becomes a chore, but still better than by hand.

Flatballer

Today was my last day of work for the year, I'll be back on the 4th, which currently feels very, very far away but I'm sure will be here soon.

gsteinb

North country guy here. We got a dusting. Granted the high today was like 10, and yesterday I woke up to zero. We probably won't break freezing until May.

I live in winter.

ridethecliche

Happens with tourettes too!

big john

Boxing trainer Freddie Roach has Parkinson Syndrome and he tremors and stutters but when he puts the punch mitts on and gets in the ring with his fighter he moves very well. At least the last time I saw him on tv he did. He said it was due to the level of concentration.

Flatballer

Finally feel like playing my guitar a bit tonight, after like 4 years or something. No sound. Check the jack, wire is broken. No biggie. Get out the soldering iron and after a very frustrating 45 minutes of fighting with an awful, old, weak, cheap, oxidized soldering iron, finally get both wires cleaned up and landed (and order a new iron).

Still no sound. ****. Took off the back panel, nothing obviously wrong. Time to break out the multimeter, but I suspect a broken wire at the pickups, or a roasted jack.

Spent an hour and didn't get to play. We have other guitars, but I wanted to play my nice one.

ridethecliche

The additional visual simulation helps some of the 'freezing'. They actually use canes that can project some light for this exact purpose to help folks walk longer!

big john

It seems the symptoms vary from day to day with some people. I saw Michael J. Fox on two different interviews over about a two week period and his symptoms were much more pronounced in one.
I wonder how Davis Phinney is doing.

ridethecliche

This is the time of year that I remember that I really love snowboarding and try to rearrange stuff to get as much hill time as possible while trying to train a bit during the week to maintain fitness and maybe j improve a hair.

Yeah it can be pretty variable (stress, sleep, etc) and can be pretty drastic based on medication timing. The pump has been a huge boon to some patients. I had one patient who had to have his removed due to an infection and it was just awful seeing him frozen between doses since we were maxed out.

big john

The pump? Is that the thing they implant in the brain?. I remember Davis had surgery so he could go watch his son race in Bejing. Prior to that he wasn't able to button his shirt. I saw him in an interview after that and he looked like he was doing well.

ridethecliche

Yeah, deep brain stimulation and there's a dopamine pump coming out afaik. The patient I'm thinking of had DBS iirc.

big john

Writer Roy Wallack died Saturday after a crash on one of my favorite mountain bike trails. I never rode with him but I chatted with him years ago when he would come to our club meetings. My ex and I used part of a route he recommended when we toured around Oregon. It had much more climbing than his book made it sound like so she wanted to give him some crap about it when we saw him again. He took it in stride and we told him we enjoyed the route despite the extra work.

IN MEMORIUM: (THE WILD, CRAZY & LOVED ) ROY WALLACK | Road Bike Action

furiousferret

I hate it when you order something online, pay extra for it to be overnighted, and the seller is like, "Lets hold on to this for a week, and then overnight it..."

gsteinb

We got rid of prime because amazon started doing that where we live. It'll take 7-8 days to get something. Complain and they say 'it gets there two days after we ship it.' Order something without prime and it takes 7-8 days to get it.

Flatballer

Meanwhile, near civilization, we often get things the same day or next day from Amazon, it's crazy fast sometimes.

gsteinb

Distribution center is right near you. My impression is that they closed the one closest to us, because we used to always get things in two days.

ridethecliche

Just got the first dose of the vaccine.

🙃

big john

Did your arm fall off or did you sprout a third eye? You know Gates can track you now?