Dear So and So

[Owlie]

Dear external hard drive
Where are you?

[lph]

Dear in-laws,

please go home already. I love you dearly and you bring great gifts, but I've been wearing uncomfortable nice clothes and smiling through a cold at you for eight hours in a hot, tiny apartment and my head is about to explode.

[solobiker]

Dear in-laws,

please go home already. I love you dearly and you bring great gifts, but I've been wearing uncomfortable nice clothes and smiling through a cold at you for eight hours in a hot, tiny apartment and my head is about to explode.

I feel your pain...mine just left a few weeks ago. They stayed with us for 2 weeks.. Our house is pretty small and it was getting to be way too much for me. Could not relax or do the things I enjoy. Hang in there.

[Crankin]

Dear Friends Who Don't Ride (or x country ski, hike, snow shoe),
Please don't roll your eyes at me when I tell you I went for a 4 mile hike, after you ask me what I did today.

Thank you,
Crankin

[Catrin]

Dear Friends Who Don't Ride (or x country ski, hike, snow shoe),
Please don't roll your eyes at me when I tell you I went for a 4 mile hike, after you ask me what I did today.

Thank you,
Crankin

Tell me about it, I've noticed my sedentary friends and co-workers have stopped asking me what I do on my days off... My supervisor is now extolling the pleasures of being a couch-potato. He thinks after two injuries that I need to give the bike up. Yeah, right, like THAT is going to happen

[alexis_the_tiny]

Tell me about it, I've noticed my sedentary friends and co-workers have stopped asking me what I do on my days off... My supervisor is now extolling the pleasures of being a couch-potato. He thinks after two injuries that I need to give the bike up. Yeah, right, like THAT is going to happen

My co-workers are the exact opposite. Every time we return to work after a weekend or long holiday, they want to hear how many miles I've run, or where I've been riding to. Although I still can't convince them ever to go for a run with me...

[Anelia]

My colleagues also ask where I went or what I did after the weekends. Also they want to see pictures but after the third picture, they seem bored by watching people with helmets or green mountains. But I don't blame them, it's not their cup of tea. Still they are really supportive and they are very proud of me when they see me come to work by bike in rain or snow or the temperatures are low.

[bmccasland]

Dear Friends Who Don't Ride (or x country ski, hike, snow shoe),
Please don't roll your eyes at me when I tell you I went for a 4 mile hike, after you ask me what I did today.

Thank you,
Crankin

So the more appropriate response would be....

Where'd you go, did you see anything interesting, is this a route you've done before or a new route?

[Crankin]

Yes.
The person who did the eye rolling is one who usually responds with those kinds of questions. She seems genuinely interested. So, that was why I was a bit surprised to see that body language.
She's probably just feeling bad about herself, as it's the time of year for resolutions. She later made a comment she's going to be on a diet of grapes and some other weird thing starting this week. But I know she told our mutual friend (who also rides) that she's just given up on her weight issues.

[jobob]

Yes.
The person who did the eye rolling is one who usually responds with those kinds of questions. She seems genuinely interested. So, that was why I was a bit surprised to see that body language.
She's probably just feeling bad about herself, as it's the time of year for resolutions.

Could well be - she might have been rolling her eyes at herself, as in "geeze, why can't I be doing that?"

Just a thought.