seedsbelize 

By the time this one comes in another will be expired

abshipp 

Looks really neat, although the absence of useful load numbers is quite conspicuous.

bampilot06

Closed.

Bah Humbug

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.

datlas 

abshipp 

I always thought that the best 40 hour work week would be 4x10 Monday-Thursday or Tuesday-Thursday, but I'm starting to see the advantages of a break in the middle.

abshipp 

Congrats!

datlas 

Don't get too excited. Currently you are number 9, but you ARE ahead of the mouse.

Bah Humbug

datlas 

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.

Bah Humbug

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.

LesterOfPuppets

Yep. Tubes in the olde Basso and Schwinn.

I may have killed the rear tyre on the Lemond this morning. Had to inflate a couple of times to get home. Once up to 50psi there's a little lump on the tire that actually hit the brakes.

genejockey 

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.

genejockey 

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.

Bah Humbug

It's a terrible process. They tend to assume we live to jump through their hoops; the last time we tried to buy a house (and backed out in the option period) they were so eager to get all their boxes checked that they wanted us to get homeowners insurance and pick the home warranty DURING THE OPTION PERIOD and then we forgot and had to go back and cancel those. This time they did the same thing and I told them no chance until we were out, and they were quite unhappy. I'm not working with them again, but who knows if the next company I try will be any better.

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...

Bah Humbug

I've done that, but had a bit of a moment on Tuesday morning. Think I'll try to avoid it.

big john

It's a diesel?? How unusual is that?

seedsbelize 

I have one tie. I wear it for funerals

WhyFi

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.

MoAlpha

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.

genejockey 

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.

big john

In the 90s I worked at a dealer where there were 3 of us (driveability techs) so if I took a day off the other 2 could absorb the work and they made more money. I started taking Wednesdays off and did it for 2 years. It wasn't official and the boss just looked the other way. I didn't care about the money and I would do at least 50 miles every Wednesday and about 1000 per month.

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.

seedsbelize 

genejockey 

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.

seedsbelize 

The best way, as mentioned earlier, is to learn to take it from the seat post. If you can complete med school, certainly you can learn to do that.
Only one of my three riders has double bottle mounts. One of them has none.