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08-12-21, 10:00 AM
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Uh....Say what now? Cuddebackville, NY. On a Monday. Not going to happen. I can stay up the road for half that. $50 if I want a riverfront site.
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08-12-21, 10:02 AM
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Super guppy is hitting the skies of El Paso. I guess that flight through here last year was a rare opportunity I missed 
NASA941 (SGUP) has just filed a flight plan. It is scheduled to depart from El Paso Intl (ELP) at 10:30AM MDT Thursday (12 Aug) heading for El Paso Intl (ELP) for an estimated arrival at 12:20PM MDT Thursday (12 Aug).
Expected route: SFL/D1+00 V16 ELP
Expected route: SFL/D1+00 V16 ELP
08-12-21, 10:03 AM
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08-12-21, 10:29 AM
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Ya think? It’s not even during one of the large Russian festival weekends held there.
I’ve stayed there twice before since it changed to a KOA. Both times on the expensive end, but $81 is nuts.
I stayed there in ‘99 when it was a different franchise. Hurricane Floyd moved in over night. The next morning I saw a frog come out of the river looking for shelter. Asked about renting one of their cabins for shelter. The guy running the place said there was a two-night minimum. The woman working the office was embarrassed and called a motel a few miles down the road. As I was leaving, the guy saw me and radioed the office to tell the woman I could have a cabin (no electricity) for one night. Too late, jerk. Rode a couple of miles in the early bands of hurricane rain to a comfortable room with a TV. The motel owner even drove me to an open deli so I could get food and beer.
I’ve stayed there twice before since it changed to a KOA. Both times on the expensive end, but $81 is nuts.
I stayed there in ‘99 when it was a different franchise. Hurricane Floyd moved in over night. The next morning I saw a frog come out of the river looking for shelter. Asked about renting one of their cabins for shelter. The guy running the place said there was a two-night minimum. The woman working the office was embarrassed and called a motel a few miles down the road. As I was leaving, the guy saw me and radioed the office to tell the woman I could have a cabin (no electricity) for one night. Too late, jerk. Rode a couple of miles in the early bands of hurricane rain to a comfortable room with a TV. The motel owner even drove me to an open deli so I could get food and beer.
08-12-21, 10:32 AM
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TBT. During a 2014 fundraiser for some food bank. Look at those quads. I had been touring in Montana the previous month.
08-12-21, 10:39 AM
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Ya think? It’s not even during one of the large Russian festival weekends held there.
I’ve stayed there twice before since it changed to a KOA. Both times on the expensive end, but $81 is nuts.
I stayed there in ‘99 when it was a different franchise. Hurricane Floyd moved in over night. The next morning I saw a frog come out of the river looking for shelter. Asked about renting one of their cabins for shelter. The guy running the place said there was a two-night minimum. The woman working the office was embarrassed and called a motel a few miles down the road. As I was leaving, the guy saw me and radioed the office to tell the woman I could have a cabin (no electricity) for one night. Too late, jerk. Rode a couple of miles in the early bands of hurricane rain to a comfortable room with a TV. The motel owner even drove me to an open deli so I could get food and beer.
I’ve stayed there twice before since it changed to a KOA. Both times on the expensive end, but $81 is nuts.
I stayed there in ‘99 when it was a different franchise. Hurricane Floyd moved in over night. The next morning I saw a frog come out of the river looking for shelter. Asked about renting one of their cabins for shelter. The guy running the place said there was a two-night minimum. The woman working the office was embarrassed and called a motel a few miles down the road. As I was leaving, the guy saw me and radioed the office to tell the woman I could have a cabin (no electricity) for one night. Too late, jerk. Rode a couple of miles in the early bands of hurricane rain to a comfortable room with a TV. The motel owner even drove me to an open deli so I could get food and beer.
08-12-21, 10:57 AM
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Tell me about it. 
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08-12-21, 11:14 AM
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08-12-21, 11:20 AM
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I got a guy like that in softball. He's from another team, I think he's ID'd me as a soft touch, he latches on to me in the parking lot after the games while I'm changing the sweaty shirt and shoes, and he won't let you go. I wouldn't mind if he brought a couple beers with him . . . but no such luck.
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08-12-21, 11:22 AM
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Y’all know I’m one of those guys. 
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08-12-21, 11:25 AM
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Cuddebackville is indeed that. About 5 miles off state NY17 on 209. I adopted one of my rescue Rotts from a lady who lived out there several years ago.
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08-12-21, 11:27 AM
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08-12-21, 12:08 PM
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08-12-21, 12:17 PM
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08-12-21, 12:32 PM
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Speaking of literally holding on, I once worked at a garage where the owner was an alcoholic (no surprise). Nice man, great boss but once he had a few (every day) he would start blathering on about something while backing me into a corner or a wall. He had been injured in Viet Nam and had a lot of work done on his face. He looked fine but when he got drunk he would spit and spray while talking. Yuck. His wife finally demanded he stop drinking and he did. I hope it stuck.
I worked at a new car dealer where the service manager would get drunk every day at lunch. We would come to work in the morning and he was so helpful and nice, sending the porters to clean my stall, asking if there was anything I needed, etc. After lunch he was the opposite and would rage at us and scream and it was embarrassing. He ended up getting fired and I heard he dried out and got another job.
08-12-21, 12:57 PM
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Courtesy of Ray Maker, I just found out about the different map type settings on Strava, to help visualize power or speed or elevation, etc. It's a dumb little toy, but I like dumb little toys, and I just wish there was a way to make the a chosen map type the default, instead of having to change them for each activity.
08-12-21, 12:58 PM
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lol @ word vomit. I used to call it verbal defecation.
Speaking of literally holding on, I once worked at a garage where the owner was an alcoholic (no surprise). Nice man, great boss but once he had a few (every day) he would start blathering on about something while backing me into a corner or a wall. He had been injured in Viet Nam and had a lot of work done on his face. He looked fine but when he got drunk he would spit and spray while talking. Yuck. His wife finally demanded he stop drinking and he did. I hope it stuck.
Speaking of literally holding on, I once worked at a garage where the owner was an alcoholic (no surprise). Nice man, great boss but once he had a few (every day) he would start blathering on about something while backing me into a corner or a wall. He had been injured in Viet Nam and had a lot of work done on his face. He looked fine but when he got drunk he would spit and spray while talking. Yuck. His wife finally demanded he stop drinking and he did. I hope it stuck.
08-12-21, 01:00 PM
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Courtesy of Ray Maker, I just found out about the different map type settings on Strava, to help visualize power or speed or elevation, etc. It's a dumb little toy, but I like dumb little toys, and I just wish there was a way to make the a chosen map type the default, instead of having to change them for each activity.
08-12-21, 01:02 PM
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08-12-21, 01:02 PM
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Uncontrollable talkers are particularly difficult on offshore races. Feeling your ass go numb and checking your watch every three minutes in the wet, windy, darkness is bad enough, but a garrulous mate going on and on about his wife's car insurance in the middle of the goddamn ocean can turn it into bizarre and exquisite torture.
08-12-21, 01:06 PM
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08-12-21, 01:08 PM
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Welp, new Rapha purchase on the way. I wanted to replace those bibs that are quickly going see-through, and I saw that Rapha had some blue cargo bibs in stock. I've been wanting some not-black bibs and I've been wanting some cargo bibs, so I why the hell not?
08-12-21, 01:13 PM
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That ain't the same thing. Who here hasn't had dating issues?
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08-12-21, 01:13 PM
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Uncontrollable talkers are particularly difficult on offshore races. Feeling your ass go numb and checking your watch every three minutes in the wet, windy, darkness is bad enough, but a garrulous mate going on and on about his wife's car insurance in the middle of the goddamn ocean can turn it into bizarre and exquisite torture.
08-12-21, 01:20 PM
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and now I just sit there like a lox.
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