Kai Winters

It is now warming up and is 4f...feel even worse...no work tonight...screw 'em all I'm going to sleep.

gsteinb

-24 at my house in the daks this morning

substructure

Light sleet was falling on my way to work. 'Round here that means people will be hiding in their bomb shelters.

txvintage

Off to the bone Doc.

Much of the next few months may hang in the balance.

waterrockets 

Best of luck!

ldesfor1@ithaca

WKO+ is the bees knees.

Time to start generating some ATL! or TSS points, I dont know yet.

substructure

We're here for you.

botto 

just back from physical therapy. arthritis due to overuse on my non dominant hand? wtf?

substructure

switch hands

gsteinb

22 hours. 19 on the bike.

RichinPeoria

you should let your significant other help you with that instead of doing it yourself

substructure

His significant other is his hand.

MDcatV

because of business travel, wet cold weather, and myself being on the edge of a cold i havent ridden my bike outside since like thanksgiving time. snow in the forecast for this weekend, I'm glad I bought that damn computrainer

botto 

you should feck off back to the 41.

aren't you clever?

txvintage

Fark. One last 12 week attempt to avoid microfracture knee surgery.

Flatballer

raining/sleeting here. Snow later. I believe I'll be riding inside today. Hopefully there's a fan somewhere, I didn't bring mine from school.

ZeCanon

Sub I sent you a present yesterday.

Ex - I finally sent you your prize too. I can only stand being near all the old people at the post office once a month or so.

substructure

Judas Priest on a Popsicle stick! Our county is closing down the schools because of fracking rain. Rain, by God! Rain! (there's a slight chance of a wintery mix). But they act like a doggam volcano erupted and is spewing forth hot, molten lava all over the county.

Flatballer

Why didn't they do that crap when I was in school?

substructure

I remember my first year of school in the south (I started school in Maine). It started snowing ever so lightly but the buses still picked us up. When we got to the school the principal told us to turn around and take us home. School was canceled. I was dumbfounded.

I remember going to school in Maine with snow piled on the sides of the roads taller than my father. In 1st grade, during recess, we built snow castles.

gsteinb

This snow is really going to **** my weekend up.

Flatballer

I started school in central PA, but it was only Kindergarten, so I don't really remember. I'm sure we went to school in heavy snow though. When I was in school in Meck county, there had to actually be something on the ground, not just the threat of something.

Racer Ex 

Please do.

I believe it was Franklin who said beer was god's way of showing us he loved us.

ridethecliche

I have one awesome source that I'm probably going to use for an entire chapter. I don't know how I feel about that, but it's really helping me tie things together. Seems like a cop out though...

https://www.amazon.com/Public-Health-...1152545&sr=8-1

Here are some other books for anyone interested in history of disease/etc. Aside from the obvious 'Guns, germs, and steel' and 'plagues and people'. If you haven't read those, they are incredible. Different 'breed' of history, but the connections are incredibly well researched and thought out.

- Nudge: Book on choice architecture. I.e. how choice and display of choice affects decision making processes and how illusion of choice and free will makes people make better decisions, but at the same time how too much structure, i.e. forced choice, makes things crumble.(https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improvin...f=pd_rhf_p_t_2)
-Book on malaria eradication in mexico. (https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Deadl...f=pd_rhf_p_t_3)
-Short history on malaria https://www.amazon.com/Making-Tropica...f=pd_rhf_p_t_4)
-Malaria as a social force and how it shaped italy's history. also how it was defeated in Italy: (https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Malar...9&sr=1-1-fkmr0)

History of disease is cool as hell. I'm being pulled over to the dark side...

Note: Nudge is like the freakenomics of the health decision making world. It comes from the same school, i.e. uchicago. The chicago school of thought of this era is really really interesting. These two bookes (freakenomics and nudge) have been two of the most thought provoking works I've ever read)

Hocam

Silly yokels, rain just makes kids children wet.

Snow makes them crazy.