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:D :D :D I guess you like coffee!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dachshund
I hope your fit works for you. persistence DOES pay off!Quote:
Originally Posted by dachshund
I am having a great day (mostly to myself)
tackling things i don't generally do..
ahhhhhhhhh
and Knotted, you shouldn't have to put up with that kind of BS in the office. You're not a traitor, THEY are inappropriate!
AAAAAAAAAH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! AAAAAAAA!!!! EEEEEEEK!!
<Knot running in circles waving arms in air>
AAAAAAH!!!!! EEEEK!!!!! AAAAAAAAH!!!!! EEEEEEEK!!!! AAAAAAAAH!!!!
<alternating expressions of elation and terror>
Pant! ** Pant! ** Pant! ** Pant!
<breathing into a paper bag>
The PT wrote back already, and he wants my resume and CV!!! Holeeeee Toleeeeeedo!
Of course, that means nothing really, but at least my quick little email was interesting enough that he wants to hang on to my resume for when he opens his own practice at the end of the year.
Now I gotta start polishing up the ol' Boast Sheet. (or other phrase that starts with B and S)
B'fast was yummy. Wouldn't it be great if I could just put out the call to all the TE'ers: BBQ at my place! Bring your bike! I'll supply the Portabellas the beer, the iced tea, and the pop; bring something to share. And we'll go for a ride, too. We could overflow from my apartment onto the patio and grass. The kids could run around. The spouses could get together and talk about how nuts we are. And as it started to get dark and dusky everyone could pack up and head home, ready to face the week.
Sigh.
It's gonna be a beautiful day today. We've got the widows open and are listening to blues on KEXP. Dog is sleeping by the screen door. SKnot is playing Gameboy. Bikes are glowing in the diffused sunlight. Sigh.
breakfast today... um... probably my cashew ginger granola w/ protein powder in it, coffee w/ sugar and rice milk (I just use lots of rice milk... doesn't curdle, and I sorta like the taste...) and maybe a tomato sliced nice and thick with a little sugar sprinkled on it.
...but I like Knot's idea.
...thought at first "Geez, those musta been GOOD eggs! :D I guess all our crossin' stuff did something for ya, Knot. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
good luck on the resume!Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
My spouse is more nuts than most of us.
he's doing a morning ride because he is meeting with some guys who only want to ride for 1 hour and he wants to do a metric century today.
so he's doing a pre ride ride.
I get to do stuff around the house! without him being underfoot!!
YAY YAY!
good luck knotted. i take it now that i'm up and moving (which that is questionable) your done with breakfast.
i need to get my but going for a ride. specially after last night i kept telling everyone i had to go for a ride today and now... well now i have to. good but bad. had way to much to drink last night and way to little water. feeling kinda bad today. think i might actually resort to water.
you know it was a good night though when your doing gymnatics and yoga poses in the bar competing with one of the guys. hey he started it, he did the splits and asked if i could. it snowballed from there. good times good times. i can't let a guy out do me, come on!
now to try and eat something and get me you know what on my bike.
And that, my dear, is why I am a scientist with the government! No grant proposals to write!Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
My grad program worked a bit differently in that we crammed in most of our coursework into the first 2 years along with starting the dissertation research and then focused just on research until the defense (approx 2 years later). Your 3rd year sounds rough! Good luck!
Knotted - way to go to take the initiative to send that email! Polish up the resume and wahooooo!
Okay - so far, it's me, Snap, Knotted, Kit, and who else that wants to change jobs? Team Transition might be a good name. ;)
Yep. Job change better happen soon. I've already let the Director know I've put early retirement back on the front burner. They have 7 months - it had better not take that long.
Knot! So cool! Polish up the boast sheet and get it sent.
So, I'm feeling absolutely sociable these days, I've even signed up for the Sept. secret sister. Good god what's next? Puppies, kittens and rainbows; with bluebirds flitting about......
Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
You're creepin' me out....
Lots of drift while I was out yesterday...
FWIW - I use SILK soymilk - steams up really nicely and tastes great. Oh yeah, and Bay Area housing is insane. A friend who lives here (renting) in Mill Valley just bought a house in Minneapolis - for about $1M less than said same house would cost if she were to buy it where she lives now. InSANE. I'll miss her, but I totally get why she wants to actually OWN a house.
the new snap.................
I really hate crabgrass.......
Sing along with Snap:
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together,
Brighter than a lucky penny,
When you're near the rain cloud disappears, dear,
And I feel so fine just to know that you are mine.
My life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
That's how this refrain goes, so come on, join in everybody!
Ummm... right. Miz Cakes and I are going to hide in a dark, shadowy place until all is right with the world... and Snap. I mean, no disrespect, but I thought I felt some kind of disturbence in the force today...
:D
It gets worse, though, this morning, I cleaned both rat cages, did my laundry (two whole loads!) cleaned the kitchen and started precleaning stained stuff. :eek: I'm never this productive. The new-agey side of me wants to run off to Astro.com to see what phase the planets are coming into (or going out of) to make this all happen...:rolleyes:
I'm such a geek. Maybe next I'll run off to find a shrubbery. A nice one. Ni!
Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest...
I just came back from Wallyworld - FishJr picked out princess shampoo and bubble bath. Everything is pink! She has declared herself as "princess of the bathtub" :rolleyes: Snap - you could borrow her Aurora crown for your next ride ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
i'm having a knotted moment. my ego is so big right now....
i had my first experience with dropping someone on a hill! :eek:
went out for my usual 20 mtb ride with the newbie at work. he's a mtber and wanted to go with me. starting out i was trying to keep up with him. i was starting to think. uh oh. what was i thinking. but on the way back, on the hill i usually have a hard time with i dropped him right off the bat. after that i just couldn't stop. dropped him on the next two hills too. wow it felt so good! specially to drop a boy! woo hoo!!!!!!!!
(doing my happy dance right now)
So this is what his Swiss Army pigeon carrier looks like, put together. He is very comfortable in it. The other end is the same, for another pigeon. I bought it on eBay...
CWR- Excellent!!
Snap-, what is the world coming to.
...With a herring?!Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
Hey, Snap, you still friends with the seals? Yeah, I know they smell of herring, but I've actually gotta ask them to borrow one...
Just watch. Next off, I'm going to crash off my bike, lose (most) limbs, and tell my biking buddy it's "just a flesh wound". :eek:
what is this world coming to? i dropped a boy on a ride and snap is well... not being snap. next thing we know she's gonna start using all the cute smiles. :D
I found out at lunch after the ride today that a guy who has been missing (but not really missed by me, from group rides, because he is so BOSSY) woke up in the ER a few weeks ago, after riding by himself, and has no idea what happened. A lady came out of her driveway, saw him on the road unconscious, and parked her car, blocking him from being run over. His helmet is broken, but no other permanent injuries...Today was his first ride post-crash.
Geez. Well, I take it that since this is his first ride post-crash, he's in physically decent condition, but that is weird. I hope he recovers fully physically and can make a swift psychological recovery, too. That'd be pretty traumatic. :eek:
that is weird. hmmm...
btw nanci i love dillbird's little carrier.
I like the carrier Nanci! Dillbird looks very happy :)
Way to go CWR! Very cool!
Snap - are you still giddy?
Our neighbors cut part of our grass today. Is that a bad sign? It wasn't that bad. They mow their grass at least 2x per week. We mow once per week, usually. They said they were out there mowing and wanted to know if we minded if they cut the side yard. Wierd. I dislike suburbia - especially when it's in the middle of nowhere. Nanci, I think you have the right idea where you live.
This was wierd, but not as wierd as the guy Nanci rode with. That has to be so strange for him. I still can't remember falling in my little crash. I can't imagine not remembering the whole thing. Yeesh.
The hunger strike is over. Maizey ate a pre-killed fresh mouse tonight. I left it sitting in its paper bag on top of her viv for five hours first. So she could smell it and get in the mood. I gave her a kiss for eating it.
I wonder about the soldier who carried that pigeon carrier. WWII. Swiss Army. Whose side were they on, anyway?? Over sixty years ago. How strange.
I had a 2.5 hour nap today, in which I dreamed about catching all kinds of cool cornsnakes, until someone's car stereo out on the road woke me up. That's gotta be 500 feet away!! I'm still tired. I did a 35 mile really hilly ride, and raced the last 6 miles. And had sucky spaghetti with oil and tomatoes.
And then, was looking forward to this bottle of Viognier that I'd been saving for a nice day, and it didn't smell the same, and didn't taste the same, and it turned out it was 2005, not the award-winning 2003...
Whoever invented au gratin potatoes was a genius, that's all I can say. Mmm, butter...
Fish, sometimes I cut some of either neighbor's grass if I'm having a good grass-cutting day. I don't think it means anything, other than they want to save you some work. I used to live by a guy that snow-blowed the whole block. And my ex DH would plow everyone's driveway.
Still undecided on the Zero X. I think I will keep it, in the museum of saddles that didn't quite work out. Maybe I will take it to Six Gap, where I plan to ride Three Gaps, based on how much I am hating hills. That will give it a tough 50 mile ride.
Today, while I was riding, I was thinking, you know how there's that rule for move your saddle up if you have X knee pain, and down if you have Y knee pain- there ought to be rules like, if you move your saddle forward, does it make you put more or less weight on your hands? If you tip your saddle up or down, does it put more or less pressure on your sit bones?
The Vitesse, it doesn't seem that picky. I can put her right back on the bike, and ballpark the setting, and I'm good to go. With the experimental saddles, it's like I'm always trying to dial them in, to make them more perfect. Or at least bearable.
Tried the Ben and Jerry's Milkshakes yesterday- Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey. Not worth the extra calories, and had a 10:1 carb:proteim ratio. Not a suitable after biking treat. But someone had to do it...Too rich.
I got my motorcycle helmet and gloves today.
Now we get to practice riding two up in the parking lot. :cool:
V.
KnottedYet "What soy milk do you use? I can't seem to find one that won't curdle in my coffee. Rice milk works ok, but it doesn't taste so nice."
Nothing fancy, Trader Joes unsweetend Organic, sometimes I go for chocolate or vanilla, never had a problem. What coffee do you use?
The ride today was good I think 50 sumthin miles (my computer did not work).
We started with 6 riders two took a detour, then another left at Walnut Creek and it ended up with 3. We are all about the same pace. What a difference a road bike makes. We stopped at Peets, and at Whole Pacycheck (Whole Foods), nice weather, nice folks, real good food and coffee...
We sang made up country music songs about the gal we saw riding on a flat tire (of all the possible expananations we decided that her GF ditched her for some hussey on a Huffy so she's off to ride said GF's fancy carbon rims and fancy FS mountain bike into dust.
Probably not true but makes a great CW song ;-) She looked very mad and determined so maybe.
nanci very happy to hear that the hunger strike is over. what a relief!
So Maisey won the strike? Hope she was on strike for work peace, or better snake'y pay and benefits.
KnottedYet "Might wanna hold off on the legs and eyes crossed, Trek. That's not gonna help you find the next DPITA...;) Or, it could, but that'd be the wrong kind of DPITA."
I'll keep 'em crossed till I find the right one, how's that? :rolleyes: ;)
I'm watching the Emmys, and Barry Manilow beat out Stephen Colbert for best performance in a variety show. :eek:
While that's completely asinine, I can't wait to see what he does with that on his show :D
Maizey ate! Hurray.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Barry Manilow has a variety show?:eek:
One more good reason why I rarely watch award shows...
Yeah I never watch this bunk. But I wanted to see the dynamic between stewart and colbert since they were competing for the same categories. Colbert was nomitated for 1 more, which was the performance. I guess he's no Barry Manilow though....
well, yesterday DH had to make blackberry pies for a picnic,
and there was just enough left over for breakfast this morning.
So he went off on a 50 mile ride today and i said i'd do dinner.
well, as typically, he came home with all sorts of ideas and made two
great salads and so i was going to do the fish and the potatoes. then
younger son and his gf came home both of them with their teeshirts filled
with MORE BLACKBERRIES(teeshirts a mess too!).
so right in the middle of making dinner, DH made two more pies and young son made the fish on the barbeque. and i made my typical roasted potato slices with rosemary and other
spices...
So we are all full of dinner and the whole house smells like hot blackberry
pie, life
is good.
That pigeon house is the cutest thing! does Dilly like it in there?
Are we all going to send Snap pink stuff now?
Send Snap Blackberry Pie!!!!!!!!
Others have said it, but now I've experienced it: Six pages of thread drift to catch up on! WHEW! :p
Lessee, and I'm sure I'll miss some...
Queen--welcome back to the Land O' Lincoln. I'm glad you gave AZ a shot, and I'm glad you had a way to leave when it wasn't working.
Nanci--Maisey ate! YAY!
Fish--I would've had a very hard time not getting physical with those kids who were stomping on fishjr. Good job just getting loud. And I'm glad she was crowned Princess of the Bathtub!
Snap--yikes.
Knotted--GOOD FOR YOU! That job sitch. you're in stinks. I'm glad you took action. It will probably make you feel a lot better when you are at your current job, too, knowing there are options out there.
I had a very nice weekend in Wisconsin. My friend's "summer house" turns out to be the main house on a farm once owned by Frank Lloyd Wright's uncle. Frank spent his summers in that house as a boy. His main home and workshop complex, Taliesen, is across the road. "Summer house" indeed! It wasn't fancy, but a nice and comfortable place to be. My friend is a midwife with whom I went to school. We've worked together on two jobs now. She also invited an old friend of hers, an interesting an fun woman. We had a great weekend of just poking around art galleries and thrift shops, eating good food, and learning Frank Lloyd Wright gossip. I went for a 3 mile run Sat, but it was so humid that I felt I was nearly breathing underwater. Walked/ran/w/r, etc. I still don't feel recovered from the tri last weekend. It was good to just sleep in and hang out. Best of all: No cell phone reception! :D
I'm off to work, hoping for a quiet (or quiet-ish) night.
Snap,Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
do you want it in a baggie or a box?
:D
Box might be tidier.......;)
Which ever shipping method works for snap would work just fine for shipping to Illinois, too! ;)
Oh, yeah, and beta--Colbert vs. Manilow? And Manilow won? :eek: Have we slipped through a rend in the fabric of time and space and found ourselves in an alternate universe? O! How I wish I got Comedy Central! This will make for some good Colbert Report!
OMG, snap has been abducted by freakishly perky disney creatures. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Who are you, and what have you done with my friend snap ?!?!?!
and can I have her chocolate if you don't want it? :D