Dear So and So

[jobob]

Your time isn't more important than someone else's life.

I'm tempted to design a cycling jersey with that message, but it would likely pizz off the target audience and make matters worse.

[bmccasland]

Dear AE firm working on the project plans,
You said two weeks ago you'd get the deliverables to me by today at the latest. I am NOT happy that I had to explain to the poor schlepps left in the office at 3:00 this afternoon what I needed. Getting information today was like pulling teeth.

You should be expecting a call from me if the remaining deliverables aren't in my "in" box tuesday morning.

Sign me,
next time if I have a say in it, I'll vote for in-house engineering and not A/E out

[Catrin]

Dear Body,

The last three nights I've only woken once each night with neck problems, this is a great improvement, thank you! Please continue and I promise I will behave and continue to follow doctor's orders



I also heard from a "crime victim's fund" that I applied to last spring after the dog bite, I thought they had rejected my application outright. All of a sudden they want to see my medical bills and receipts from the incident. It is trying to pay for that little disaster that first started to send my finances spiraling down...if they were to reimburse me for my part of the emergency room bill that would go far to getting me back where I want/need to be...trying not to get overly hopeful but it would be nice...

[Owlie]

Catrin: I'm hoping at least a little money comes your way. That dog bite saga was nuts!

Dear bike shop--
I must say that the service at your new location is much nicer than at your old one, and more convenient for me. (Oh, and thank you for attempting to get in a 54cm Ruby for me to try!) Also, I wish you'd pay attention. My finances appreciate it, but seriously? Maybe you should check the underside of the bike more often.

She who bought a metric ton of shot blocks to try to make up for it.

Dear 54cm carbon Synapse:
You felt surprisingly good. Nice and responsive, but still a little bit long and more like I was sitting on top of you and less an extension of me.* Nice try. Sorry. Maybe your sister the SuperSix (or the CAAD10) might be a little more friendly?
*How much of this was the fact that the seatpost was set a little too high, combined with slippery platform pedals versus being an issue with the bike itself, I do not know.

[VeganBikeChick]

Dear Self,

Yes, PMS and hormones suck. That doesn't give you free rein to stuff every carb and sugar laden thing within 30 miles in your face.

Sincerely,

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

[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

[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.

[Crankin]

It was really out of character for her, which is why I wrote this.
But, I sometimes wonder how long my friendships with inactive people are going to last. I don't want my world to become so small that I only see one type of person, but it is becoming harder. And I don't even do the amount of training that some of you do, but it still seems over the top to "regular" people.
Maybe I am getting less tolerant in my older years? It does seem that there was more tolerance when I did more stereotypical female work out things, such as aerobics. It didn't take up all of the time cycling and other outdoor activities do. Just today DH wondered out loud "what would we do if we hadn't met (our cycling friends)?"

[lph]

I have a couple of non-active friends. Strike that, they're non-athletic, which is something quite different. We're friends because we share other traits and likes, but also because we both are passionate about something. It doesn't have to be the same thing, but we understand having an overwhelming interest in something.

This sort of links to the Facebook discussion, of friends who "like" activities they don't understand. I tend to get passionate about a lot of things I do, and I like it when others are like that, even if I don't understand their things.