seedsbelize2

16 hours into fiber optic and we lost signal. They put it back and it went again. They are blaming our second modem not being configured with their modem. It worked fine for those first 16 hours. Wife is being all touchy feely and I'm playing polite hardball. We will use our old system until Monday.

In other news I'm 24 hours into the cold. I'm due for the second multi symptom pill in about an hour. I have a lot of experience with these things. The first one gets me nice and high for an hour and then does nothing The second lasts most of the eight hours and by the fourth it's smooth sailing I have an eye appointment on the 28th, that was scheduled three months ago.

I can't remember ever sneezing this much.

bampilot06

Apparently bike forums has picked out my next bike purchase.

abshipp 

It feels ironic as a water department employee that a neighboring unit had a pipe burst and we may be without water until Monday, but I also know that our responsibility stops at the meter.

Doesn't make it any less annoying though.

abshipp 

Say goodbye to any more care packages from the Trek store if you get one

genejockey 

If I were made of money, I might get one. But first, Giovanni Battaglin would be given the opportunity to make me another bike.

genejockey 

Rango is such a sandbagger. We went for about a mile walk, around a long block where the high school is. The whole way, he's trotting along at a pace I can barely keep up with, till we turn toward home. He starts going slower and slower, to the point where I worry that he's worn himself out - he is over 13 years old, after all. Finally when we're about 1/4 of a block from home, we're approaching a side street he likes. He starts angling across the lawn of the house on the corner. I try to get him back to the route we were taking, but he seems adamant. So we start down the side street. 3 seconds, he's back up to the same fast pace I can barely keep up with.

He's a dog of very small brain, but he gets very definite ideas about which way he wants to go.

thin_concrete

Someone needs an ad blocker.

LesterOfPuppets

What kind of drugs are being discussed there?

LesterOfPuppets

Uggh. Still 37.1 miles per day needed to get the F500.

genejockey 

It's not fair. I don't have time for that! Rapha should have checked my schedule!

big john

Somehow it grafted in the previous post from seedsbelize.

bampilot06

I will ban you.

genejockey 

What, are you suddenly BANpilot?

big john

When I woke up this morning the wind was blowing pretty hard and I was apprehensive about a club ride, but I went out there anyway and it was a pretty good turnout. About 15 riders on the route I took but this one lady turned around and went home at about 12 miles, before any climbing started. She is known for that and I asked people who know her why she didn't just pick an easier ride but it's a mystery.

Turned out the wind wasn't too bad for most of it and I actually felt pretty good. By the time we got back into town we had headwinds for several miles and this little woman got on the front. It's weird to have the smallest rider pulling across the valley but she is pretty young and probably didn't burn so many matches in the hills because she weighs about 110 pounds, if that. I told everyone she was being mean and she said "yeah, I'm such a b****h". We all laughed.
It was pretty fun and I'm glad I went

bampilot06

I thought that’s what my name was.







Just realized I miss typed.

LesterOfPuppets

Reminds me of

WhyFi

Are they back to mailing out roundels or just giving pats on the back? I was kind of miffed when I completed my second F500 and only got a virtual roundel. I need more motivation than that to ride 500 chilly-ass km in 8 days.

thin_concrete

I’m not looking forward to riding 300+ miles indoors over the next month, let alone 8 days! I hate my 8-10-12-15 mile Zwifts enough as it is to commit to anything like that insanity.

But I love skiing so I need the winter. And my wife loves skiing too, but she’s a BQer so she’s running hill repeats and tempos all winter long. Our house becomes quite bipolar this time of year…

LesterOfPuppets

Unfortunately yeah it's a digital patch And a chance to win a bike

BillyD

If you run into any flight delays here in Albany let me know and I'll come get you, if you like. Got family over but the blowup mattress is better than the airport floor.

seedsbelize2

Cold medicine.
And just an hour and a half til the next round.
Christmas eve and New Year's eve are all night parties. In the olden days, living in Merida and setting out for a day long ride, I would ride past the remnants of bleary-eyed people breakfasting. Much later I learned that many of those partiers then loaded up the kids and drove home. And learned to stay off the main roads.

bampilot06

Merry Christmas!

Bah Humbug

Thank you so much. However, once here in Albany, the in-laws make it a non-issue.

And Merry Christmas to you and all! I know I don't always show it well but all of you are very important to me.

bampilot06

I am at the top of the list right?

WhyFi

Pfffft. Yeah, that's bull.