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I said it is.
I don't march.
I don't wish to walk with any dog.
Any more questions?
I don't march.
I don't wish to walk with any dog.
Any more questions?
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She THINKS she means for shopping and such, but my almost 48 years of experience with her tells me she won't really go out on foot to shop.
What she's really concerned about is having a good friend close by. She's afraid to move anywhere where she doesn't already know someone, even if they haven't been in touch much in years.
What she's really concerned about is having a good friend close by. She's afraid to move anywhere where she doesn't already know someone, even if they haven't been in touch much in years.
( but then again - how many US urban areas do ? )
are you looking more urban - or suburban ?
obviously - mass transit options are better in the urban and surrounding areas
in the suburbs - the ‘south hills’ area is one of the few that has decent access to mass transit
there are some new suburb developments popping up that have the ‘town feel’ - with close (walking) access to retail including restaurants (Pine Twp is one example)
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No.
The best marching instrument may have been the saxhorn, back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzT_sDR36-8
The best marching instrument may have been the saxhorn, back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzT_sDR36-8
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as you are well aware - western PA / Pgh does not have great mass transportation
( but then again - how many US urban areas do ? )
are you looking more urban - or suburban ?
obviously - mass transit options are better in the urban and surrounding areas
in the suburbs - the ‘south hills’ area is one of the few that has decent access to mass transit
there are some new suburb developments popping up that have the ‘town feel’ - with close (walking) access to retail including restaurants (Pine Twp is one example)
( but then again - how many US urban areas do ? )
are you looking more urban - or suburban ?
obviously - mass transit options are better in the urban and surrounding areas
in the suburbs - the ‘south hills’ area is one of the few that has decent access to mass transit
there are some new suburb developments popping up that have the ‘town feel’ - with close (walking) access to retail including restaurants (Pine Twp is one example)
That's what we want - what we have here, but someplace where we can use a fraction of the proceeds from selling our house to buy a nice place for cash and use the rest to live on. Equity Pirates!
I started looking at Pittsburgh, because it's got a growing economy, access to healthcare, a lot of housing for pretty cheap, and the Smith family has roots there going back to the 1820s - they lived in what's now the South Side Flats, back when it was a separate city called Birmingham. I'm kind of drawn to that. So we started looking in Pittsburgh, and what I discovered was the 'layering' of the suburbs. The South Side Flats, built in the 19th Century - row houses with no yard or garage give way to the suburbs built in the early part of the 20th Century - places like Dormont or Brookline, where the houses are close together but not row houses, and they mostly have a garage or parking space. Then farther out you have places like Whitehall or Mt Lebanon, where the houses all have attached garages but there aren't even sidewalks in many places, and farther still places like Bethel Park where the houses are even farther apart and it's totally car dependent.
Our goal is to find the sweet spot, close enough in that we don't have to drive EVERYWHERE, but far enough out that we're not dependent on street parking.
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that
Boo and hiss. Separately from my partisan feelings, NBs never worked for me either and were so poorly thought of that most of my running teammates all back to high school hated them, as well as my heathen pro-Boston physical therapist cousin, who worked with the other UT XC team and always panned NB.
I was going to say I'd use them for walking if they still had some made in the US, but then I went and looked and apparently they do still, or again. Time to order...
Boo and hiss. Separately from my partisan feelings, NBs never worked for me either and were so poorly thought of that most of my running teammates all back to high school hated them, as well as my heathen pro-Boston physical therapist cousin, who worked with the other UT XC team and always panned NB.
I was going to say I'd use them for walking if they still had some made in the US, but then I went and looked and apparently they do still, or again. Time to order...
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If you're ****ing the bar tape, you're doing it wrong.
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Had a decent Z2 ride today. I did get a front flat mid-ride, I could not find the culprit sliver despite everting the tire and running my cold fingers along the inside. The second half of the ride I kept sensing a “pulse” with each wheel rotation, it might be mental but I will have to take a closer look later today.
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DougRNS is starting to get it as his surgery looms (maybe). Perhaps he's spending time contemplating his mortality?
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So realized a couple of things today.
Electronic shifting is dumb. Think about it, what does it do for anyone. Other than removing the cables for a cleaner look, my 105 mechanical shifts just as good.
Anyways, I charged the derailers last night on the madone. This morning I did a press check on the shifters everything showed green light. Get about 12 miles in, I am going down a hill so I am big Front ring, smallest cassette, start going up hill, try to down shift. Nothing happens. At first I thought it was the derailer so I swapped batteries and tried to shift the front derailer nothing happened. Then I realized I was ****ed. I tried swapping batteries out of the shifter but couldn’t get the bad battery out. Stupid, had to struggle back up the hill I just came down in big ring small cassette, and ride 8 miles back home. At some point it felt sorry for me and magically front shifted to small ring. Now I am in major cross chain issue, and it sounded terrible.
Something else I realized today.
The Madone brings me no joy. I never ride it. Really debating with myself to sell it. This was kind of the icing on the cake. I prolly won’t sell it because I would take such a huge hit. There’s a bike swap event tomorrow I wish I could go too.
Electronic shifting is dumb. Think about it, what does it do for anyone. Other than removing the cables for a cleaner look, my 105 mechanical shifts just as good.
Anyways, I charged the derailers last night on the madone. This morning I did a press check on the shifters everything showed green light. Get about 12 miles in, I am going down a hill so I am big Front ring, smallest cassette, start going up hill, try to down shift. Nothing happens. At first I thought it was the derailer so I swapped batteries and tried to shift the front derailer nothing happened. Then I realized I was ****ed. I tried swapping batteries out of the shifter but couldn’t get the bad battery out. Stupid, had to struggle back up the hill I just came down in big ring small cassette, and ride 8 miles back home. At some point it felt sorry for me and magically front shifted to small ring. Now I am in major cross chain issue, and it sounded terrible.
Something else I realized today.
The Madone brings me no joy. I never ride it. Really debating with myself to sell it. This was kind of the icing on the cake. I prolly won’t sell it because I would take such a huge hit. There’s a bike swap event tomorrow I wish I could go too.
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As the 74th-to-last rider in the world not to have it, that makes me feel better.
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Had a decent Z2 ride today. I did get a front flat mid-ride, I could not find the culprit sliver despite everting the tire and running my cold fingers along the inside. The second half of the ride I kept sensing a “pulse” with each wheel rotation, it might be mental but I will have to take a closer look later today.
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