NB..what exam are you doing ???
We're off later on this afternoon to help as sweepers for an ultra marathon. I wonder how many of them did the comrades run(south african race..v v famous) the other weekend
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NB..what exam are you doing ???
We're off later on this afternoon to help as sweepers for an ultra marathon. I wonder how many of them did the comrades run(south african race..v v famous) the other weekend
Monday is Site Design and Tuesday is Grading & Drainage.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
My poor calculator that I've had since high school has chosen this week to short out. I took it to the shop and it's definitely not the batteries :(
Sentimental value aside, I guess it was time for a new one!
I'm really trying to be good about not taking two showers in one day. (Even though I live in one of the places where water is still plentiful, it's still a waste of energy, and no I am NOT going to shower in unheated 55°F water.)
But if I take an evening shower, I just can't STAND myself by noon the next day. Yucky and crusty and greazy, ewwwwwww. So if I have an evening ride or gym class, it's either shower in the morning and go to bed sweaty, or shower late and be gross all day the next day. Ugh.
Run through the sprinklers like we did when we were kids? That way your grass is watered and you're rinsed! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
I wouldn't go to bed sweaty, I'd take the shower. You could compromise - take a "navy" shower - water on, get wet, water off, suds up, water back on for the rinse cycle.
How about just a rinse off in the evening?Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Take really quick showers if you feel icky. They work well and don't use much water.
It's an art.... I can take one in 60-75 seconds- suds and rinse only the strategic parts, everything else gets a nice cool rinse off. Very refreshing!
Make sure you have a water economizer on your showerhead if you are into saving even more water. Have a low-volume flush toilet, or put a sealed jug of water in your toilet tank to cut down on the tank volume. Don't flush every little tinkle. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. :)
Share your shower with someone. ;) :D
Recently stayed at a friend's place and she had a little timer in her shower to keep it under 5 mintes.
This weekend-http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...y/P1000383.jpg
and at the same event in 25 years-
Oh, I do all that.
"If it's yellow, let it mellow ;)"
Quick rinse or washrag wipe before bed is probably the best option.
Zen, I'm missing something. :confused: Is it just how much alike they look? Are they mother and daughter? Or did that ride really take a lot out of the first woman? :D
We look alike? :eek:
My dad wanted everyone to shower like that. Military shower. That's what we did in my old life when I had a motorhome, too. Here in Florida the groundwater is so warm you can easily shower in it if you're at all hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
That depends so much on the plumbing... if it's the kind where you have to adjust the temperature every time you turn it on, I wind up wasting as much water fiddling with the temp as I would if I just left it on. Replacing faucets is a little farther than I want to go, until they wear out naturally.
I really like the showers they have at some campgrounds and school gyms - where you press a button for a few seconds' worth of water - but I suspect that there's a lot going on behind the scenes to keep the temp constant in the mixing valve, that would make it wasteful in a home setting.
Wrap your hot water heater in a blanket. Saves energy and keeps the hot water hotter so you waste less water and energy getting to the hot water.
So you've already done that ... Go tankless. With traditional hot water heaters you heat a tank of water which gets cold waiting for that one shower a day, then you go through the cold water to get to the hot water. Tankless heaters only heat the water you need.
Less energy, less water.
On-demand water heater.
http://www.energysavers.gov/your_hom.../mytopic=12820
I find that makes the shower last much longer, thus not saving water. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
I have this. Initially you waste water because there is no tank, so you have to run the water until you get heated water. but once you get into the bath, or the shower, and you have your dishwasher going and your washing machine going, you can shower all day without ever running out of hot water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Hm, that doesn't save anything....
My exam today was in the "Jimmy Stewart" room, and there were a couple of nice pictures of him on the wall . . . which was oddly reassuring as I waited for the exam to begin!
Mimi, i think you're doing it wrong
Couldn't we save water, energy and time by running ourselve through the dishwasher? ;)
I hope you're joking. I know our system works fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Lots of water saved this way.
http://www.andruschak.net/image/dishwasher.jpg
put the dog in the dishwasher!
Why didn't I think of that?
Just use the showers at work.
Oh wait....... :o
I have Fri-Tues off. Kit and I are going camping near Bend, OR. We are dropping off a neighbor to visit with some mutual friends who moved there last year, spend some quality time with everyone and then we are heading to the campground ALONE. Can't wait. :cool::cool: Only 3 more days of work until parole!! OMFG, I need a break. I've got PMS so bad lately. (People Make me Sick) :p
X---There is truth in the saying "Hell is other people." ;-)
The great Irony---from November until last Friday, I worked in an office that was an oven. Even after the facilities folks reconfigured the air vents, it was still overly warm. As a consequence, I couldn't wear any of my nice winter blazers/sweaters this year.
We moved to another building Friday. The greatest thing is that I have my own office again but it is like a walk-in cooler in the entire office suite. I prefer a cooler office, but this one is ridiculously cold. Even the men were complaining about it. So instead of wearing my sleeveless/shortsleeved summer tops, I have to bring a big chunky warm sweater to work. LOL.
And the worst of it? In the fall, we are likely moving back to the old oven office that we just vacated!
are you a fed?
In my younger days, the word "fed" had very bad connotations.
I thought that was during Prohibition.
I've been a Fed for more than 22 years.
Very funny, Zen.
In some parts of the country, I think they used the word narc.
14 more days with kids.
ho hum.
scritch, scritch, scritch.
*sigh*
One more day of work after this. I'm going to go out of my mind just in time to afflict it on Kit in a tent deep in the woods. :o
Anyone have LOOK Keo pedals/cleats? I'm thinking of switching because I've been having a sore knee when I bike longer distances and the LBS guy suggested a pedal with more float. The ones I'm looking at have 9 degrees of float and have a non slip cleat which is good for walking/running (in a tri).
I guess I'm wondering if you found the switch from regular SPD's difficult or not.
Kg..sorry I don't have Look pedals..
whine alert
K...Is there any danger for a normal healthy person who hasn't dropped dead yet, to have to have a pap smear? I really can't be bothered visiting the dr for one...nothing abnormal on my last one...Do we really have to have them every year???
I have another thyroid blood test due in 2 months so i'll go then...
Whine over
I recently put Look Keos on my road bike instead of the Shimano mtb spd's I was using, and have started using separate road shoes. Maybe you can get shoes with more recessed cleats? because the ones I have have a HUGE cleat which is pretty impossible to run in. Walk, ok, though a bit ducklike. And they do have a non-slip layer of rubber, but it's wearing off like it was made of sugar.Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
They were easy to get used to though, but I still find it a bit of a bore to flip the pedal every time before clicking in, happens a lot in city riding. Otherwise I can't say I've felt a huge difference. The shoes are a bit narrow for me, so especially one foot easily feels a bit cramped and starts giving me twinges. With the right shoes I'm hoping the Keos will be better for long-distance riding.
USA standards for pap smears are every three years if you've had I think two normal ones in a row.
I've only ever ridden Look/Look compatible since 1987, so I can't comment on switching. In 1987, there was Look, the Look-knockoff Mavic that I had, and Time, which "looked" and worked just similar to Look but wasn't compatible in size and shape.
Getting into it is pretty similar to getting into a toe clip. You don't have to flip the pedal over; it hangs in entry position. Just slide your toe and it clicks right in. If you should miss and send the pedal spinning - which does still happen to me sometimes - that's when you have to stop the pedal from spinning before you can get in, but you still don't have to "flip it over," you just have to make it stop spinning.
I guess compared to metal cleats they do wear quickly, but having never ridden anything else, I just consider the cleats a wear item. I get about 3K miles out of the right cleat - the one I unclip at stop signs - and twice that from the left. I don't use cleat covers, and considering how much of the wear obviously happens when I'm unclipping just one foot, I'm not sure how much benefit I'd get from covering them (other than keeping mud out of the cleats).
They are NOT easy to walk in though, and I can't recommend running in them at all. I'm not sure how much it's the cleats that are slippery, and how much it is that they just protrude from the shoe. If your shoe has the little rubber walking pads at toe and heel, that helps a lot, but still, if you're on any kind of uneven surface or stairs, you're going to be balancing on nothing but the cleat, and it doesn't have a lot of traction. So I don't know how big the transition areas can be ... but I guess they wouldn't be my first choice for tri shoes.
I only have to have them every 2 years because I've been clear for years and have no danger factors.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Hmmm, well for what it's worth, the pedals I have now flip so I'm used to that part.
Any there any other pedals/cleats with float that aren't hard to walk in?
Clipless pedal discussions on Thread Drift? What's the world coming to? :eek: