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Old 01-06-20, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I’m on day 3 of a head cold. Ugh.
No fun. Heal up.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
One interesting thing is that the Tennessee River flows through Chattanooga, and one might assume that everything close flows into it. But actually no, the basin only goes like 10 miles east in one part.
in Wyoming we were right on the edge of the anti-watershed area between the two paths of the great divide. We were just north of the bitter Creek which flows into the Green River, which flows into the Colorado, but the water on our street flowed into the bitter Creek, so we were definitely in the Colorado River Watershed, and we still are today in AZ.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
in Wyoming we were right on the edge of the anti-watershed area between the two paths of the great divide. We were just north of the bitter Creek which flows into the Green River, which flows into the Colorado, but the water on our street flowed into the bitter Creek, so we were definitely in the Colorado River Watershed, and we still are today in AZ.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Are you in the ORB club? I'm guessing not.
ORB?

You mean....


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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
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The little white area in the bold rectangle, ain't no water goin' nowhere.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
See, I use the good drug, prednisone.
Yeah, it’s five times weaker and less is more with ‘roids. Still, it might have saved some of my bacon.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I’m on day 3 of a head cold. Ugh.
Hope you’re over the hump. Take lots of vitamin F and get your tin level checked!
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
See, I use the good drug, prednisone.
Many years ago, due to a chronic lung infection, I was on high doses of prednisone. Made me very hungry, gained weight, and had a BAd temper. Got in an argument with my wife, I don't remember the details, but I took one of my best guitars off the wall and slammed it into the floor. Snapped the neck right off. I was able to glue it back and make it playable, but I always look at it and remember not to take very much pred for very long.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Are you in the ORB club? I'm guessing not.
I’m in the IRV and ultimately the MRB* group.

*Mississippi, not Missouri
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
The little white area in the bold rectangle, ain't no water goin' nowhere.
From what I remember when you posted pictures of that hellscape, there wasn't any water to go anywhere, anyway.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Hope you’re over the hump. Take lots of vitamin F and get your tin level checked!
I don’t know what those are but I did make chicken soup the last two days.

last night, my CPAP woke me up when my left nostril plugged up and my machine was still trying to pump air into my nose.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
From what I remember when you posted pictures of that hellscape, there wasn't any water to go anywhere, anyway.
There was precipitation at times...
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Why would anyone want to work at a bike shop?
Beats me.
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There was precipitation at times...
had to do a quick colour correction on that...
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Grabbed a glass of wine and some saltines, kicked back and went for a spin. Trippy.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I’m in the IRV and ultimately the MRB* group.

*Mississippi, not Missouri
Bummer. You could make a day trip to Cairo and see some of that pure Tennessee Valley water flow by, though.

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Many years ago, due to a chronic lung infection, I was on high doses of prednisone. Made me very hungry, gained weight, and had a BAd temper. Got in an argument with my wife, I don't remember the details, but I took one of my best guitars off the wall and slammed it into the floor. Snapped the neck right off. I was able to glue it back and make it playable, but I always look at it and remember not to take very much pred for very long.
Yikes. Daily prednisone isn't for everyone, unless they're students of the Velo Vol School of Zen.
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Shoes moved along from the Ohio River Basin and are now in East Syracuse.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Bummer. You could make a day trip to Cairo and see some of that pure Tennessee Valley water flow by, though.
We cross the Ohio at Paducah a few times a year.

Elizabethtown, IL is a step back in time. It’s a town on the Ohio that time forgot. It’s also near Cave-in-Rock that was made famous in the very long movie, “How the West Was Won.” There is also a ferry across the Ohio there.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Bicycle Engineering jobs pop up every now and then. I thought Guerilla Gravity was hiring a Design Engineer, but nope, not currently.
https://ridegg.com/jobs
I drive by them daily, and wondered what they were until I finally looked them up a year or two ago.
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We cross the Ohio at Paducah a few times a year.

Elizabethtown, IL is a step back in time. It’s a town on the Ohio that time forgot. It’s also near Cave-in-Rock that was made famous in the very long movie, “How the West Was Won.” There is also a ferry across the Mersey Ohio there.
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See, I use the good drug, prednisone.
Doug's don't do drugs.

In other news, behold the ample rain in December.
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When I was a wee lad in high school, freshman, I think, I had a friend who loved the ferry across the Mersey song and would sing it over and over. One day while walking home from school, he wouldn’t quit singing it so I beat the crap out of him.

True story.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I don’t know what those are but I did make chicken soup the last two days.

last night, my CPAP woke me up when my left nostril plugged up and my machine was still trying to pump air into my nose.
Sounds terrifying!
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When I was a wee lad in high school, freshman, I think, I had a friend who loved the ferry across the Mersey song and would sing it over and over. One day while walking home from school, he wouldn’t quit singing it so I beat the crap out of him.
Wow, more anger management issues.

You guys need to listen to more soothing trumpet music.
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