Originally Posted by datlas (Post 21574613)

:bday:

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21574573)

Embrace it. We all look like dorks on the bike.

Well, not me - I'm one of the cool guys in Spandex, but ya know... solidarity and whatnot.

Originally Posted by kissTheApex (Post 21574542)

it figures, all the models I like are for small faces :notamused:. The rest would make me look like even more of a dork.

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 21574636)

How could that be?

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21574621)

No fraying cables. :D

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 21574647)

I am a-frayed it's too expensive. Sad.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21574614)

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 21574788)

Oh boy.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21574812)

The only reason I rode it to the shop was to install the upgraded drivetrain. Nearly 14 miles of fatbiking on pavement in the heat. :o

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21574812)

The only reason I rode it to the shop was to install the upgraded drivetrain. Nearly 14 miles of fatbiking on pavement in the heat. :o

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21574816)

How many bottles of water were consumed? Did you pre-hydrate?

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 21574815)

Are you making the changes to increase your average speed?

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21574827)

Zero ounces consumed on the way down the hill. 80 degrees. 25 ounces consumed on the way back up the hill. 90 degrees. I did pre-hydrate.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 21574363)

So my contract before the corporate buy-out stated that I got 4 weeks of vacation time after 10yr of employment with the old company, which was a benchmark that I achieved before the corp stepped in.

But. The max annual vacation allotment with the corp is 3 weeks. I had to wrangle with them a bit when they took over my contract. In the end, they agreed to keep me at 4 weeks vacation. Cool. I get one more week vacation than most people in the corp.

Then. When I wanted to explore the 3 day work week, my regional VP looked into my contract and stated that the wording of my contract was such that I could go to 3 days a week, still be considered full time and all my benefits would remain the same.

I assumed that meant that I'd still get 4 weeks of vacation. With a 4 day work week that was 16 days, and with a 3 day work week it would become 12 days.

Nope. Thats not how it works. A full time employee accrues vacation hours at a certain number per pay period. It doesn't matter if you work 3 or 4 or 5 days, you still accrue the same number of vacation hours per week.

Which means I have the same number of total hours of vacation days per week. Previously that was equivalent to 4 weeks, but now it is equivalent to 5 weeks.

So: In September, I will move to a 3 day work week, same benefits, same base salary, and an extra week of vacation.

:D

Originally Posted by kissTheApex (Post 21574460)

Sigh. I did not have much confidence in our health trade system to begin with, but things like this makes it even worse.

The thing is, they’re the ones that “got caught” and may not be the most aggressive out there. :(

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...-he-d-n1232971

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 21574924)

A nearby giant 24/7 multiple specialty hospital and emergency has a human COVID case so they are shut down as of today. Three docs in the hospital to manage hospitalized cases but they are closed to new cases for what I assume will be two weeks. We are going to get very very busy. Thankfully I am on vacation for a few days starting tomorrow. Even though I am currently waiting for the first of the deluge of emergencies to arrive.

Also: a mountain biking friend/acquaintance flew to Texas for 10 days to visit family in Houston. This was right before COVID took off there. She and her son flew home, then two days later were both sick. Interestingly the son was GI sick, the mother was just vaguely sick. They are both still sick. Just got their COVID tests back: positive.

#funtimes

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21574952)

II hope people are taking it seriously.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21574952)

There has even been an uptick here, where things just started to loosen up.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21574978)

Uptick here, too. Things just started loosening up here, too. Weird coincidence, eh?

Originally Posted by phrantic09 (Post 21574508)

I have that exact same jersey and found I come home soaked. It doesn’t seem to evaporate as well although it also could be related to the extremely high humidity here.

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 21574980)

I hope for all y'all's sake it stays an "uptick". We started with an "uptick" too...

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 21574980)

I hope for all y'all's sake it stays an "uptick". We started with an "uptick" too...