Originally Posted by Ramona_W (Post 16797411)

Not sure how you feel about the whole thing but you might still qualify for the ACA.

Originally Posted by surgeonstone (Post 16796823)

That's a collective generic were. I never had one.

Originally Posted by Ramona_W (Post 16797092)

Are you saying that you only had to go to work one day this week? Or that this is the only day there's been a decent thread?

If I'm driving and I see another driver wave at me, I figure A) there's something wrong with my car that I don't know yet know about or B) they're flipping me off for some reason I don't yet know about.

Originally Posted by BoSoxYacht (Post 16796639)

Thank you.

I'm weak compared to before, but about where most people would be very happy with their fitness level. It came back quick so far, but I expect to hit a plateau soon. I've gained back a little over half of the weight I lost, so that makes me happy. My legs are still much smaller in muscle, but nowhere close to how skinny they got.

For just over 5 weeks since being allowed to ride, I'm happy with the progress. My trauma surgeon is an Ironman, and he is very happy with my recovery rate.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 16797444)

It's a Jeep thing. Roadies wouldn't understand.

Originally Posted by Herbie53 (Post 16797452)

Jeep guys never wave.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 16797444)

It's a Jeep thing. Roadies wouldn't understand.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 16797497)

Interesting, rjones. They did race in Topeka last weekend, and heading to Englishtown.

Originally Posted by Ramona_W (Post 16797178)

I feel included and accepted here and part of the group- not sure what that says about me or you- and that's sufficient. If I was out riding and saw someone in full kit, I'd assume they were a far more serious cyclist than me- pretty much everyone is- or, at least, that they take themselves more seriously than I take myself and, because of that, I would neither wave nor expect them to wave to/at me. In the immortal words of David Byrne "This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around."

One Saturday morning I was riding my nearly twenty year old bike to the shop to volunteer and I was wearing jeans and sneakers and a denim jacket, enjoying the ride, clearly not in a great hurry. I could hear several people behind me on bikes and I moved toward the gutter so they could pass me. I didn't pull over and stop though or move onto the sidewalk and I heard a loud heavy sigh. Then another one. And, finally, a half resigned, half exasperated "On your left" and four people rode by all in full kit and all on bikes that probably weighed less than the backpack I was carrying my laptop in. And I just thought "Bite me", you know. I gave them most of the street and this wasn't a race; it was the regular Saturday morning group ride. I'm not saying everyone on a so-called weight weenie bike who spent a lot of money matching their jersey to their shorts is like this guy, but it doesn't exactly encourage other kinds of riders to get out there.

Originally Posted by Herbie53 (Post 16797452)

Jeep guys never wave.

Originally Posted by 3alarmer (Post 16797632)

...
Heck, out of 65 years, I bet I spent at least twenty of 'em as a mess .

Originally Posted by patentcad (Post 16797647)

I called that place we played Saturday today and they booked us for another date right away. They even offered me another date in September, didn't want to commit that far in advance at this point.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 16798072)

The hotel is swell. Santorini.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 16798323)

http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...8F30C766C8.jpg

We have to go home soon lest we degenerate completely. We have given up on sightseeing and now are content to just sit on our patio drinking wine in the shade.