Fifty Plus (50+) - Where the heck is everyone?

It's late Friday night, and no one is posting on the Fifty + Forum! You can't all be out riding; it's too late. Where is everyone?

Dinner, laundry, archery forum..............

Where is everyone?

Well, I'm in Wisconsin. ;) Currently heading to bed. I gotta work today. Darn work interferrs with my riding time.

Well, I'm in Wisconsin. ;) Currently heading to bed. I gotta work today. Darn work interferrs with my riding time.

Round with a neighbour, along with a few others, having a few beers, and waiting for the sun rise.

It's late Friday night, and no one is posting on the Fifty + Forum! You can't all be out riding; it's too late. Where is everyone?

Got back earlier from an after work 20 miler.....so much spring seasonal allergy shrapnel in the air I could barely breathe....but a lovely evening nonetheless. Was reading the Bama cyclist site checking up on Will.
Did some laundry, ate dinner, etc.

Here's a point towards finally being invited to become an Elistist Bastard: My teachers' union had a reception tonight where, with a few others, I was supposed to receive a pin for 30 years' service. Told 'em I was going riding and they could put it in my message box for Monday morning. My fellow teachers just looked at me like you might look at a holy man laying on a bed of nails. LOL. Sheesh, are we the only people with real values any more?! :eek: :D

Here's a point towards finally being invited to become an Elistist Bastard: My teachers' union had a reception tonight where, with a few others, I was supposed to receive a pin for 30 years' service. Told 'em I was going riding and they could put it in my message box for Monday morning. My fellow teachers just looked at me like you might look at a holy man laying on a bed of nails. LOL. Sheesh, are we the only people with real values any more?! :eek: :D

30 years working with kids. That is longer than a life sentence over here. Glad to see that you still have your priorities in the right place. I think if it affected a planned ride- I would have told them where to stick the pin- especially after 30 years.

It is 6:00 am in Denver, and I am the ONLY one on this forum (or the mountain bike forum, for that matter). Where is everyone? :D DG - you need to get up earlier!

GG - After 30 years of service, they should give you a new BIKE!

Reminds me of when my dad did an open swimming race in his youth, and the reward was to be a diamond pin. He won the race, and he got - you guessed it -







A dime and pin.

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Ok, I checked the "Who's online" and found just 10 folks online for the whole forum. I then tried to go to the home page and couldn't. I always come in through my "control panel" page and it is fine, but it seems that folks can't get in through the front door home page this am.

And now, at 7:57 PST, I'm the only one in the 50+ Forum. No guests, no other members, no one. And it doesn't look like anyone made coffee, either.

Oh well, it's Saturday, and the weather, while not perfect, is plenty good enough for a nice long ride. See you all later!

(Or, as my daughter would text message me, c u l8tr!)

:D

Morning DG...we have the place to ourselves....ahhh the restfulness of it...actually kind of boring. Say, does your daughter have her own cell, and if so, unlimited calls or do you give her a quota of minutes. My guys have been running over theirs for years. Finally, it became financially wiser to go "unlimited". With a 14 year old, you have many, many phone bills to go. More than enough for that carbon fibre wunderbike [obligatory cycling content].

"Yes, dad, just me and friend studying here at her house"......all the while you hear mall-sounds in the background. What's a dad to do?? :eek: :rolleyes:

Morning DG...we have the place to ourselves....ahhh the restfulness of it...actually kind of boring. Say, does your daughter have her own cell, and if so, unlimited calls or do you give her a quota of minutes. My guys have been running over theirs for years. Finally, it became financially wiser to go "unlimited". With a 14 year old, you have many, many phone bills to go. More than enough for that carbon fibre wunderbike [obligatory cycling content].

"Yes, dad, just me and friend studying here at her house"......all the while you hear mall-sounds in the background. What's a dad to do?? :eek: :rolleyes:

Well, the good news is my daughter's cell phone is paid by her mom. That said, she's on Verizon and can call other Verizon cell phones unlimited. The only thing that gets expensive is she likes text messaging me, and I have to pay for those on my end. :mad: :)

The only thing worse would be if she didn't text message you! :) You're a lucky guy, DG...

I know. Believe me, I count my lucky stars on that one! :)

LOL......I was backpacking in Yosemite, safely out of cell range I thought.....and, just for fun checking my cell, I find a message from my daughter wanting her grandfather's chicken coating recipe for a dinner for her college roommates that evening. Good old Verizon...I could actually call out from where I was. The evening was saved and I felt a hero. That cell phone has saved my son from various mildly egregious situations, helped me locate both kids when I was sure they were goners for sure, etc. Its also gotten me home a couple times after ripped tires [obligatory bike content], not to mention interrupted me at work, in church once, a few movies, etc.

In the end, a great gift to parents....although 98% of its content seemed to involve adolescent inanity. 8-)

The cell phone was probably targeted at busy executives but the biggest market share has to be teens and preteens. I can't count the number of times I've seen three or four teenage girls having lunch somewhere, EACH on the phone at the same time talking to who knows whom?

My daughters are embarrassed for me, because all my phone will let me do is talk, text message, and I can get on the internet (not that I have a clue HOW to do that!). It doesn't take pictures, play videos, have games, or download silly songs for ring tones. It's just, how shall i say it -- a phone. OMG!

I always take mine in my bike bag for emergencies like a flat i can't fix for some reason (call a cab!) or if someone needs to reach me. Of course, I pull over to use it -- I'm not that coordinated!

I can't count the number of times I've seen three or four teenage girls having lunch somewhere, EACH on the phone at the same time talking to who knows whom?

They are talking to each other, silly!

GrannyGear wrote: Its also... interrupted me at work, in church once, a few movies, etc.

GrannyGear,

Not in CHURCH! Actually I've had one woman who always seems to forget to turn hers off and someone calls in the middle of my sermon. But I don't know which is worse--- her call--- or all the members who comment about it after the service. Some of them would like for me to announce before I begin preaching--- "OK Mindy, it's time to turn your phone off!" PLEASE! Last Saturday, during a funeral service, my 13 year old daughter's cell went off as I was preaching. Fortunately it was on vibrate and no one heard. My wife immediately took the phone away. She thought she had lost her phone for the rest of the week!

BTW, you guys missed everyone because some of us couldn't get on yesterday. I tried all day, from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. EDT. They must have shut out the east coast crowd!

BTW, you guys missed everyone because some of us couldn't get on yesterday. I tried all day, from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. EDT. They must have shut out the east coast crowd!

If you had your "favorites" set to something besides the home page, you could get in. I have my main favorite set for my "user control panel", and it worked fine. Joe was working on fixing it ll day.