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0 here this morning. Thinking I wanted to hike mountains regularly this winter feels a bit comical right now.
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I've been out snowboarding in Jay in those conditions with windchill that brought it below zero. It was ******g awful. But hey... it was a day on the mountain. Probably spent as much time drinking ****ty beer at the bar as I did riding that day!
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Haven't measured how much we got, definitely on the low end of the forecast. It changed to sleet pretty early on. I'd say maybe 6 inches? Not bad.
The trash and recycling is still getting collected tomorrow, so I put my cans out.
The plows said 'F that' and knocked them all over, we had to go collect recycling from all up and down the street where it had blown to. I shoveled out a flat space on the grass, put them far back from the road, and built a mound beside them to stabilize them.
I heard the plow again a minute ago so I'll go check and see if it worked soon.
The funny thing is that the plow trucks are the garbage trucks, they just don't stop and collect while they're plowing.
The trash and recycling is still getting collected tomorrow, so I put my cans out.
The plows said 'F that' and knocked them all over, we had to go collect recycling from all up and down the street where it had blown to. I shoveled out a flat space on the grass, put them far back from the road, and built a mound beside them to stabilize them.
I heard the plow again a minute ago so I'll go check and see if it worked soon.
The funny thing is that the plow trucks are the garbage trucks, they just don't stop and collect while they're plowing.
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Haven't measured how much we got, definitely on the low end of the forecast. It changed to sleet pretty early on. I'd say maybe 6 inches? Not bad.
The trash and recycling is still getting collected tomorrow, so I put my cans out.
The plows said 'F that' and knocked them all over, we had to go collect recycling from all up and down the street where it had blown to. I shoveled out a flat space on the grass, put them far back from the road, and built a mound beside them to stabilize them.
I heard the plow again a minute ago so I'll go check and see if it worked soon.
The funny thing is that the plow trucks are the garbage trucks, they just don't stop and collect while they're plowing.
The trash and recycling is still getting collected tomorrow, so I put my cans out.
The plows said 'F that' and knocked them all over, we had to go collect recycling from all up and down the street where it had blown to. I shoveled out a flat space on the grass, put them far back from the road, and built a mound beside them to stabilize them.
I heard the plow again a minute ago so I'll go check and see if it worked soon.
The funny thing is that the plow trucks are the garbage trucks, they just don't stop and collect while they're plowing.
Not sure how I was supposed to do a better job than I did. The plows just throw a lot of snow, at like 30 mph, not much is gonna stay standing.
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We got somewhere between 18 and 24 inches I think. I spent a couple of hours shoveling a path from our front door to the street. Then a neighbor took pity on me and finished off my driveway with his snowblower. Super rad!
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I did a first pass with my little electric 18" snowblower last night, and then just went out for about 2 hours. Maybe 1.25 were playing with the kids, 45 minutes was clearing a path as best I could for the car to get out and then the sidewalk. Sidewalk get snow tossed on it from the plows, and with that plus my clearing it last night, the bottom inch is hard pack and ice that I can't clear, but whatever. Good enough to walk on.
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My routine today: 2hrs on the bike 3x20 sweet spot and 90mins shoveling (all manual). My wife got an electric snowthrower a couple of years ago but it's pretty useless as far as navigating with the extension cord, so I never use it.
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I do alright with cord management keeping it out of my way, but I've certainly heard others have issues. My main issue is that it isn't powerful enough to move big heavy snow. It does really, really well with 4 inches of fluffy stuff. But 9 inches of icy, heavy stuff that the plows tossed onto the driveway becomes a chore, but still better than by hand.
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Today was my last day of work for the year, I'll be back on the 4th, which currently feels very, very far away but I'm sure will be here soon.
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North country guy here. We got a dusting. Granted the high today was like 10, and yesterday I woke up to zero. We probably won't break freezing until May.
I live in winter.
I live in winter.
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Boxing trainer Freddie Roach has Parkinson Syndrome and he tremors and stutters but when he puts the punch mitts on and gets in the ring with his fighter he moves very well. At least the last time I saw him on tv he did. He said it was due to the level of concentration.
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Finally feel like playing my guitar a bit tonight, after like 4 years or something. No sound. Check the jack, wire is broken. No biggie. Get out the soldering iron and after a very frustrating 45 minutes of fighting with an awful, old, weak, cheap, oxidized soldering iron, finally get both wires cleaned up and landed (and order a new iron).
Still no sound. ****. Took off the back panel, nothing obviously wrong. Time to break out the multimeter, but I suspect a broken wire at the pickups, or a roasted jack.
Spent an hour and didn't get to play. We have other guitars, but I wanted to play my nice one.
Still no sound. ****. Took off the back panel, nothing obviously wrong. Time to break out the multimeter, but I suspect a broken wire at the pickups, or a roasted jack.
Spent an hour and didn't get to play. We have other guitars, but I wanted to play my nice one.
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Boxing trainer Freddie Roach has Parkinson Syndrome and he tremors and stutters but when he puts the punch mitts on and gets in the ring with his fighter he moves very well. At least the last time I saw him on tv he did. He said it was due to the level of concentration.
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I wonder how Davis Phinney is doing.
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This is the time of year that I remember that I really love snowboarding and try to rearrange stuff to get as much hill time as possible while trying to train a bit during the week to maintain fitness and maybe j improve a hair.
Yeah it can be pretty variable (stress, sleep, etc) and can be pretty drastic based on medication timing. The pump has been a huge boon to some patients. I had one patient who had to have his removed due to an infection and it was just awful seeing him frozen between doses since we were maxed out.
Yeah it can be pretty variable (stress, sleep, etc) and can be pretty drastic based on medication timing. The pump has been a huge boon to some patients. I had one patient who had to have his removed due to an infection and it was just awful seeing him frozen between doses since we were maxed out.
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This is the time of year that I remember that I really love snowboarding and try to rearrange stuff to get as much hill time as possible while trying to train a bit during the week to maintain fitness and maybe j improve a hair.
Yeah it can be pretty variable (stress, sleep, etc) and can be pretty drastic based on medication timing. The pump has been a huge boon to some patients. I had one patient who had to have his removed due to an infection and it was just awful seeing him frozen between doses since we were maxed out.
Yeah it can be pretty variable (stress, sleep, etc) and can be pretty drastic based on medication timing. The pump has been a huge boon to some patients. I had one patient who had to have his removed due to an infection and it was just awful seeing him frozen between doses since we were maxed out.
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Writer Roy Wallack died Saturday after a crash on one of my favorite mountain bike trails. I never rode with him but I chatted with him years ago when he would come to our club meetings. My ex and I used part of a route he recommended when we toured around Oregon. It had much more climbing than his book made it sound like so she wanted to give him some crap about it when we saw him again. He took it in stride and we told him we enjoyed the route despite the extra work.
IN MEMORIUM: (THE WILD, CRAZY & LOVED ) ROY WALLACK | Road Bike Action
IN MEMORIUM: (THE WILD, CRAZY & LOVED ) ROY WALLACK | Road Bike Action
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I hate it when you order something online, pay extra for it to be overnighted, and the seller is like, "Lets hold on to this for a week, and then overnight it..."
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We got rid of prime because amazon started doing that where we live. It'll take 7-8 days to get something. Complain and they say 'it gets there two days after we ship it.' Order something without prime and it takes 7-8 days to get it.
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Meanwhile, near civilization, we often get things the same day or next day from Amazon, it's crazy fast sometimes.
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