revchuck 

Tuesday Night Worlds.

gsteinb

you kids and your abbreviations

furiousferret

Tuesday Night Worlds.

That sounds miserable. Good luck with the venture. Just remember if it does succeed you may not have time to race, post, or train. Its good to at least try and go it on your own at least once, even if you fail you can at least die knowing you took a few swings instead of the just accepting the lot of being a white or blue collar servant.

Sounds like you have a better family than many of us, I never trusted mine (outside of the wife).

gsteinb

I ran my family textile company, that I built with my dad, for many many years…until the US gave away manufacturing. I closed it in 2003. I was just talking to a buddy of mine yesterday and it occurred to me if that had survived as it was for another decade I'd be able to punch out and live large. So it goes.

JohnKScott

Bored...so I figured I'd share some pictures from our Spring Break trip. We had an awesome time and lucked into a great place to stay. Will probably go back. Note...no pictures of wife as she doesn't like being photographed and shared...

View from our deck



Destin Harbor at night



My "little" girl (now close to 6' tall)



Being goofy - Dad's getting a little "fat"



V-22 Osprey cruising the beach



Interesting pier ruins I found in "restricted" area on Okaloosa Island.

JohnKScott

Sounds interesting. Good luck with that!

Ygduf

This describes almost every meeting I've ever sat through in my 7 years at this university.

revchuck 

Watch it, youngster.

gsteinb

nice

thechemist

Id rather work for someone than myself

shovelhd

Shows how important you really are haha

shovelhd

At this stage of my career, absolutely.

Ygduf

For real. I have no illusions of my role here. Well-paid warm body 90% of the time. I try not to take too many days off, lest they realize how little work I actually have most of the time.


Still the best among my peers at what I do, though.

Some days I wonder what it would be like if my job were my passion, but it's not, so I'll ride my bike a lot and enjoy the life I lucked into!

thechemist

welp...some sort of animal has gotten into our dryer vent. I am guessing a squirrel as the vent is pretty high up, a good 30ft. I won't know the details until i get home. Wife has locked the laundry room and put towels under door. Wonder if I can just bring my dog in and let it loose

merlinextraligh

I don't see anything going wrong with that.

JohnKScott

Ernie will fix ya up!

furiousferret

I can safely say my job is my passion. Not my only one, but one of them. The problem is when you have been doing it for 20+ years its hard to keep that fire burning.

globecanvas

We had a squirrel drop down our chimney into the (cold) wood stove last fall. I locked the cats away, opened every door and window, put packing blankets up to try to guide its path towards the open windows, waited until everyone was asleep so the kids wouldn't get in the way, and opened the stove.

The squirrel dashed past all the open windows, down the hall and up the stairs, leaving a trail of soot. The only door open up there was my office so it went in there and started doing laps, knocking over lamps, computers, total mayhem.

I got a cookie tray (standard bat-in-the-house removal tool, btw) and shut myself into the office with it, opened the door to the deck, and tried to deflect the thing out the door. It jumped onto my head and then straight up into the air. While it was coming down, I bunted it out the door at last.

Nobody in the house woke up.

Ygduf

shoulda used a net and opened the door into the netted area!

tetonrider

i'm not certain this is it. last year there was a mad rush to pre-reg and many fields were sold out instantly. (i know as i wanted to make sure i got in.) this year i took a casual look a few days after reg opened and saw so many fields with barely any entrants.

pre-reg opened back in november, no? people could not have known how the winter would play out at that point. if one waited until march to register, last year or in years prior they would have been shut out (most fields).

i feel like when battenkill lost (or abandoned) the UCI element of the race, the race lost much of its mystique -- at least speaking for riders i know who are not local to it.

i decided not to attend battenkill for a few reasons. i realize that i'm the exception (flying in), but the idea that they could postpone it a month just doesn't make sense for one who must book plane tickets.

i pre-reg only as far in advance as required. no doubt it helps the promoter, but i figure they set their early discounts and late penalties in a way that makes sense. i find that for most events (other than the rare few that sell out months in advance), the $10 penalty for late registration is worth it. there are many events out here in the spring where weather is really iffy. few promoters offer any refunds, so those who pre-register take on much of that risk.

thechemist

bahahaha. That story is awesome and probably what will happen. Sucks that the vent is so high I really have no way of getting up there from the outside and resealing it. I will probably end up disconnecting the vent from dryer and use a broom stick or similar to shew it out. Crossing my fingers it has already bailed before I get home.

waterrockets 

No exceptions

Creatre

Lol, that sounds like something that would be in a movie. Not funny at the time I'm sure, but I bet you laugh looking back.

globecanvas

Well, that's a good point

Creatre

My family had squirrels in the attic one time when I was growing up. My dad read on the internet that moth balls apparently will drive the squirrels away. So instead of doing the intelligent thing and putting a couple moth balls in a container up there, we decided to play a game. Which was moth ball baseball. Basically one of us would pitch the moth ball, and the other would try and hit it with the baseball bat. Well we littered the whole attic with destroyed moth balls. Good news is the squirrels were never to be seen again. Bad news is, we almost had to vacate the house the smell was so overwhelming once we came back downstairs. It took us about 2 years to get rid of all the tiny pieces of moth balls in the attic insulation and eventually the smell went away. LOL.