OK, beta, so edjicate me--what's a "freewheel cog"? That Sloane is sooo pretty. I love the black with celeste paint! Very sleek.Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
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OK, beta, so edjicate me--what's a "freewheel cog"? That Sloane is sooo pretty. I love the black with celeste paint! Very sleek.Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
he has good days and not so good days. my brother visited him and he said he didn't remember him and kept asking about if the fields were finished being plowed. my niece visited him a couple times and he remembered her 2/3 times (but doesn't remember my older niece at all). she said he seems to be getting worse quick. no one has updated me otherwise. not sure what's going on. all i know is he's in a nursing home in waukesha, wi that is really small. they are trying to get one closer to home, but no open spots yet. they are still trying to get the meds straighted out, but they seem to be on the right path so far. thank you for asking. it means alot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
probably not a good thing, hope it was something i ate at lunch. tummy is really upset, this happening after testing 3 birds for avian flu too...... :eek:
Yesterday, BF and I were driving into town. He points at my leg, and I look down to see a huge cicada. So, I can't pull ot the left, across traffic, so I pull off into the ditch on the right (as BF spazzes out) and open the window and gently drop him out. He flies away...
Yes, this is so appalling to me. I'm surprised more people aren't upset about this. The incident is used like a springboard for unrelated things - changes & agendas that we normally wouldn't approve of.Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
As it happened, I started jury duty on 9/12. I spent the rest of the week at the courthouse. It made the week seem even more surreal. We all read the newspaper from cover to cover during the breaks. We'd pass on some new detail to each other, then go back to reading.
some guy at work today emailed me this link...
It's certainly interesting.
I agree with everyone, how it's sad that the whole world looked to America and offered their support, and we basically turned up our noses at them, then went so far as to have lots of Americans talk **** about the French because they weren't supporting us in the ways we wanted. (Maybe this was different elsewhere, but such was the case in WI)
It's going to be our generation's "Grassy Knoll" with the "magic bullet" that passed through Kennedy's skull/throat and a Secret Service agent's shoulder. No one will ever be able to know what exactly happened that day, but everyone will have theories, conspiracies and doubts. What we do know is that many people died in that building that day, and many more are dying and will die given our reactions.
It makes me sick to think that people are so easily lead, rights so quickly shed and violence so readily endured and prolonged. Didn't we learn anything from sending our sons/children/husbands (or in our generation, fathers or uncles we never got to know) to Vietnam? The enemy wears the same clothes as the innocent, and fights for *their* beliefs, and *their* home territory.
...How many have to die?
Don't we have *ENOUGH* things to worry about at *HOME* like properly educating our kids, making sure everyone, of every ethnicity and background has equal opportunities, worrying about our resources, etc?
DID WE GO BACK TO THE '60s (minus the popular will to change and civil rights movents?!)
Sorry. I'll get off the soapbox now. I have a date with Jimi, Janis, Jim. :rolleyes:
I saw each of them in concert. In case anyone needed to know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
I agree with everything you all have said about 9/11 and its aftermath. Arggh. VERY frustrating. Sometimes I think they dropped me off on the wrong planet.
Here he is in his pic I sent to a couple snake forums to get an official ID:
(Cali King, Coastal Phase, Aberrant Pattern)
I agree with what everyone is saying. I think it's pretty amazing how divided this country has become in its opinions. It does seem that the heyday of W is coming to an end. I'm really interested to see what happens in the November elections.
As for the bit about the French and "freedom fries" and other snobbery toward foreign countries. I chalk that up to ignorance from people who've never left our borders. I've been to France 4 times and the only rude person I've ever met was in the post office, and they're just as b*tchy here a lot of the time :D
Oooo, beautiful snake.
What are you doing up Nanci? I thought I'd be the only one floating around here :D
He's so little, Nanci!
Beta--I thought the same of you, when I saw the time of your post, "What is she doing up at this hour?"
I'm up because my hips hurt and I'm hungry. I've had a bowl of cereal, two Tylenol, and have resolved to schedule a massage once the rest of the world gets up.
I found French people behind counters (selling me a "telecarte", train ticket, cup of coffee) to be really snippy. Maybe it was my one-year-of-high-school-French that so annoyed them. :o But my cousin's married to a French guy, and all of his friends and family were lovely.
Come to think of it, there was a lady in a pharmacy in Paris who was a sweetheart. I was having a terrible period and had forgotten to bring any Motrin. I looked up some words in the dictionery and found a pharmacy. I stumbled through, "I have bad period pains". This little older lady asked me a couple of questions that I was able to understand and answer, and came back with a box of small white pills. They were wonderful, most effective. Of course I later read the box and figured out that they were codeine! Yup, OTC narcotics. Good stuff. :p
Hey Lise, good morning. Still nice and dark. Gotta love that. My office windows face east, so I get to see the sun come up. If we have sun today, which I don't think is in the cards.
I woke up because of brain-overdrive. I have a lot to do. I went through about a month or so of lack of motivation. I couldn't get myself to do more than the bare minimum, and now find myself behind schedule on things. Right now I'm writing patient progress reports. I need to keep on top of this better, otherwise I'm really going to fall behind. I have 4 patients I'm doing therapy with now, and am picking up a 5th in October. I need to just write the report immediately after I see them. Been a bad student that way. I went to bed thinking about the people I had to work on, and woke up at 4:30 with them right back in there. In between I dreamed the movie "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford. I have no idea what that means :D All I know is it wasn't about a GI exam, so I'm happy.
About time for coffee.
Sorry to hear about your hips. Just pain from running/training I hope?
Oh yeah, a freewheel is a cog you put on the rear wheel of a fixed gear to allow you to coast. It looks a lot like a fixed cog, has 18 teeth like the one I have on now, but has this extra mechanism that will allow the wheel to spin without engaging the pedals. You can put it on the opposite side as the fixed cog so you just have to flip the tire around to switch between types. In her current setup, Sloane's pedals rotate whenever the rear tire rotates. I'm going to try that out first and see how I like it. It makes cornering a bit trickier because you can't place your turning side pedal up so you don't clip the concrete. I just plan on slowing down :D I'll put the freewheel on if I really feel the need to coast. In city traffic, it might be a necessity. We'll see.
I get up at 5:20 to leave for work at 5:55 (if I'm lucky) to be there at 6:30 to have everything organized for when my first patients arrive at 8:00.
He _is_ tiny. Last night, he went in his pool, and swam round and round at top speed, totally underwater. He also watched a couple hours of TV with us. He's so sweet.
I was awake when y'all were posting - thinking about relocation companies and finding a house and all. I should've gotten up and checked the computer. Oh well.
Have a glorious day everyone!
FishJr gets her school pictures taken today.
What with packing and planning a move myself I must've missed your news...where ya headed??Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
The hips are sore from leaping back onto the 1/2 marathon training program after two weeks of not running much post-triathlon. :o I ran 10 miles on Saturday and 5 miles yesterday. Not the smartest way to do it, but, hey, the darned race is in 19 days. Fortunately, the distances start to go down again next week. The run yesterday felt relatively easy (operative word: relatively), so that gives me hope. But all the muscles around my hip socket are protesting today. It's an odd place to have pain. Ah, it occurs to me that I had the treadmill set at a slight incline yesterday. Maybe that's it. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
About the fixed gear thing--if you have both cogs, can you shift between them while riding? Or does the freewheel cog allow you to both pedal and coast?
Nanci, as your little guy gets bigger, will you come up with bigger and bigger swimming pools for him?
Checked FedEx. My bike is in Chicago now waiting for a truck heading west. All you Chicago babes, blow her a kiss and tell her she'll be home soon!
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Originally Posted by Kitsune06
GREAT POST!
You know, I think that kitsune is lying about her age.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
She is really One of Us from the "over 50" thread a while back!
I have been noticing clues in her posts for a while now.
Even tho' she didn't mention Bob and Joan in her list , she knows stuff only a woman of the 60's/70's would know.
Or maybe she fell thru a (un-darned) hole in the fabric of the space/time continuum.
The plot thickens...
There are lots of trucks headed west out of here! She'll be in your arms in no time! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
One of my favorite "old boyfriend songs" is Diamonds and Rust, by Joan, about Bob.Quote:
Originally Posted by margo49
"Well I'll be damned,
here comes your ghost again.
But that's not unusual,
it's just that the moon is full,
and you happened to call..."
I recently downloaded it. That woman can write and sing.
Nanci - your new baby is so tiny! He looks like a little striped bracelet! Does Maizey swim too?
Margo, you may be right about Kitsune.....
Lise - yay for OTC narcotics! I could use some about now, I have a pounder of a headache. I'm starting to connect them to "spare the air" days, when the air outside is so bad they encourage everyone to drive less, not use gas mowers etc.
Heading to Baton Rouge - changing jobs. I'm staying with the gov't, just switching critters (from catfish to honey bees). We move in about a month. Still waiting on a specific date.Quote:
Originally Posted by Queen
Hope it's great move for you and your family! I had a friend who did her grad assistantship with a prof at U of IL who was a bee researcher...her job involved something to do with painting dots on the bees for ID purposes. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
There's a Cornsnake Halloween Costume photo contest. I wonder what Maizey could be???
fish can't wait to see the school pictures.
nanci very cute new addition. love the nail polish. what is it? i think maizey should be a millapede. think she'll go for all those legs attached to her?
lise hope you feel better. i've been achey for some reason. probably trying to do to much.
We are getting an offer on the house today!!!!!!! She is dropping off the offer and paperwork around dinner time. Ooh - this could be good. I was starting to feel like the offer would not come. I was wrong! Yippee!
The first round of tests came back most normal for Roux. This was just a basic blood work-up. His white cell count was elevated, but kidney function, etc. was totally normal. Maybe it is the wierd fungus or something else. He is still breathing fast (but not panting all the time) and those lymph nodes are huge. We should get the other tests back today or tomorrow. Cross your fingers!
I am making myself a big lemondrop tonight!
Uh-huh. I'm voting on the space/time continuum idea, but on this forum, I think only Chickwhorips knows for sure (even then not so sure-forsure) and a lady doesn't really tell her age, anyway. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by margo49
I didn't add Bob because I was going on my j-thing, and honestly, Baez (sp?) somehow didn't 'do it' for me... ...and I've always worshiped Janis. What a voice. She couldn't grow old- it wasn't her way, anyway.
The Times, They are a' Changin'... but they're still pretty much the same?
Knotted- it won't be long now, but don't freak out watching it, it'll take so much longer if you do!
I wonder what about the lymphoma makes Roux breath fast. I had a LH Dachshund when I was a teenager, named Roo, because that was how she barked- "Rooooooo." Actually, she started out being named JC after my soon to be exBF, and had to undergo a name change...
CWH- that's what my friend Teresa suggested- a centipede. Make a black tube, sew legs on it, get her to crawl through. Do you mean what is the snake? Because I sure couldn't tell you what the NP is- I get a different one each time.
I have the BEST manicurist. She can make nails that will stand up to cave diving! She also can get them _really_ short.
Choco is a California Kingsnake, coastal phase, aberrant pattern, likely a "designer snake." (Bred for a weird, not normal pattern.)
Great news about the house, Fish! Was that the people who looked at it , was that just yesterday?
nanci i ment what is the polish, not the snake. your nails look really good (i miss doing nails and all the girl time :( )
congrats fish! woo hoo!!!! hopefully its an offer you want to hear.
kit i know so much more about you too than just your age. (insert evil laugh http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/...mileys2/16.gif)
Nanci - the lymph nodes swell and make breathing very difficult. I lost my first corgi to lymphoma.
Not really. You put a cog on each side of the hub so you can just flip-flop your wheel depending on what you want to do. If I have the fixed cog, I can't coast. Freewheel I can. There are no shifters or gears on Sloane. She likes to KISS.Quote:
About the fixed gear thing--if you have both cogs, can you shift between them while riding? Or does the freewheel cog allow you to both pedal and coast?
Hope your hip pain is fleeting.
Done :DQuote:
Checked FedEx. My bike is in Chicago now waiting for a truck heading west. All you Chicago babes, blow her a kiss and tell her she'll be home soon!
I commuted today. It was overcast but the radar looked pretty good. Ride in - fine. Ride out - rain. I got a little wet....But at least it's somewhat warm so I didn't freeze. Just a nice shower.
Fish - congrats on the offer! I'd say pour me a lemondrop, but I got sick off those about 5 years ago on St. Patricks day. Not exactly an irish drink, but hey it did the job. A little too well.
curiouser and curiouser...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
a woman of mystery
CWR- well, it's OPI something- I'll look next time. If I didn't have them done, they'd look like crap, because I'd bite them down to nothing!! I don't like going there that much, because I immediately start falling asleep. So it's like being at school, or work, or driving, and trying to stay awake, and I can't, so it's pretty miserable.
Hush! :o ;) :D You're trouble!Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
Kits = Lady?! HA! :D I didn't think ladies used DP's white dish towels to clean their bikes! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
:o Got me there, Tater.
:D
nanci don't feel bad about falling asleep. i use to have clients come in for pedicures and as soon as their butt hit the chair they were out!
oh and btw kit. i'm so scared. http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/bicycle.gif
and tater i'm with you on the lady comment. no where even close. (ain't them some fightin words)