So are the days of our lives...
07-21-16 | 06:56 AM
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"thinking" definitely needs scare quotes.
07-21-16 | 07:01 AM
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GC, if you and your family have such common encounters with ticks, is there any version of Frontline for kids? Or could you just try the version for dogs on the backs of their necks? I don't think it would hurt.
(Note: I do not have children nor do I know anything about raising them, which may seem obvious based on my comment.)
Also, this is by far the best kind of tick:
(Note: I do not have children nor do I know anything about raising them, which may seem obvious based on my comment.)
Also, this is by far the best kind of tick:
07-21-16 | 07:24 AM
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Deer ticks are really small and the nymphs can be ridiculously small, like you can't even really see them without magnification. This bite was on my collarbone but I never saw the tick which was long gone by the time the bullseye appeared.
My kids get them all the time, probably 2 bites per week between the 3 kids, but they've either gotten lucky or subclinical exposure has led to some immunity because none of them has ever gotten Lyme. I read recently that you do build temporary (several years) immunity to individual strains of Lyme but there are 16? known strains.
Deer ticks tend to bite wherever they first find exposed skin so arms, legs, waistline, collar area. About half of the bites we find after a day or so because the bite gets irritated which makes it more visible. Apparently it's a myth that there's any correlation between how long the tick is embedded and the likelihood of transmitting disease.
I agree with you about not treating mild fevers, or really about overdiagnosing medication for symptom relief in general.
After 36 hours on the Doxy I'm actually feeling pretty decent and am thinking about going racing tonight.
My kids get them all the time, probably 2 bites per week between the 3 kids, but they've either gotten lucky or subclinical exposure has led to some immunity because none of them has ever gotten Lyme. I read recently that you do build temporary (several years) immunity to individual strains of Lyme but there are 16? known strains.
Deer ticks tend to bite wherever they first find exposed skin so arms, legs, waistline, collar area. About half of the bites we find after a day or so because the bite gets irritated which makes it more visible. Apparently it's a myth that there's any correlation between how long the tick is embedded and the likelihood of transmitting disease.
I agree with you about not treating mild fevers, or really about overdiagnosing medication for symptom relief in general.
After 36 hours on the Doxy I'm actually feeling pretty decent and am thinking about going racing tonight.
Differentiation of reinfection from relapse in recurrent Lyme disease. - PubMed - NCBI
Reinfection versus relapse in Lyme disease. - PubMed - NCBI
Reinfection versus relapse in Lyme disease. - PubMed - NCBI
The people are arguing through a top international journal of medicine. Drama!
07-21-16 | 08:43 AM
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I've just been asked to join a project at work. So far, I've had one 1.5 hour long meeting to go over the project and now have several more meetings and webinars to go over the processes they use to actually do the project. There is no work going on, just learning the process of how to do my work. In one of the process guides I have to read, it is suggested that for efficiency, we have a MINIMUM of two meetings to discuss things before we start working.
I'm not sure they understand the definition of efficiency.
I'm not sure they understand the definition of efficiency.
07-21-16 | 08:54 AM
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I've just been asked to join a project at work. So far, I've had one 1.5 hour long meeting to go over the project and now have several more meetings and webinars to go over the processes they use to actually do the project. There is no work going on, just learning the process of how to do my work. In one of the process guides I have to read, it is suggested that for efficiency, we have a MINIMUM of two meetings to discuss things before we start working.
I'm not sure they understand the definition of efficiency.
I'm not sure they understand the definition of efficiency.
07-21-16 | 11:28 AM
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Witnessed a hit and run yesterday in a parking garage. Idiot hit a car trying to turn into a space, then backs out and drives like 3 isles over and parks. I took pictures and left a note for the driver/owner.
Cop was like "do you think you could identify this person if you saw him again" - "yeah" - "could you identify him knowing he could go to jail over this?" - "uh, yeah. I'm a cyclist, hit and run holds a special place in my heart."
Cop was like "do you think you could identify this person if you saw him again" - "yeah" - "could you identify him knowing he could go to jail over this?" - "uh, yeah. I'm a cyclist, hit and run holds a special place in my heart."
07-21-16 | 11:33 AM
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People are such ********, it's impressive.
I was planning on a ride with my boss tonight, but doesn't look like he's going to make it. So, found a solo ride on ridewithgps. 28 miles, and either 1800 or 2800 feet of climbing depending on who you trust. Either way, the elevation map is pretty up and down. I'm gonna be wishing I had my 12-28 cassette that's sitting in the garage, hundreds of miles away. 11-25 and a standard makes fat boy hurt on the steep stuff.
I was planning on a ride with my boss tonight, but doesn't look like he's going to make it. So, found a solo ride on ridewithgps. 28 miles, and either 1800 or 2800 feet of climbing depending on who you trust. Either way, the elevation map is pretty up and down. I'm gonna be wishing I had my 12-28 cassette that's sitting in the garage, hundreds of miles away. 11-25 and a standard makes fat boy hurt on the steep stuff.
07-21-16 | 11:35 AM
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Witnessed a hit and run yesterday in a parking garage. Idiot hit a car trying to turn into a space, then backs out and drives like 3 isles over and parks. I took pictures and left a note for the driver/owner.
Cop was like "do you think you could identify this person if you saw him again" - "yeah" - "could you identify him knowing he could go to jail over this?" - "uh, yeah. I'm a cyclist, hit and run holds a special place in my heart."
Cop was like "do you think you could identify this person if you saw him again" - "yeah" - "could you identify him knowing he could go to jail over this?" - "uh, yeah. I'm a cyclist, hit and run holds a special place in my heart."
07-21-16 | 11:39 AM
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good for you for stopping and writing the note by the way. I always try to observe things like that in case it turns into something and I need to be a witness. I've stayed around a few car accidents as a witness, and given my number to the driver at others. It can be a big help to the person not at fault.
07-21-16 | 12:32 PM
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Witnessed a hit and run yesterday in a parking garage. Idiot hit a car trying to turn into a space, then backs out and drives like 3 isles over and parks. I took pictures and left a note for the driver/owner.
Cop was like "do you think you could identify this person if you saw him again" - "yeah" - "could you identify him knowing he could go to jail over this?" - "uh, yeah. I'm a cyclist, hit and run holds a special place in my heart."
Cop was like "do you think you could identify this person if you saw him again" - "yeah" - "could you identify him knowing he could go to jail over this?" - "uh, yeah. I'm a cyclist, hit and run holds a special place in my heart."
I am not a litigious kind of person but I tell all the people I know who got hit by a car to sue the crap out of the driver. The stuff they've gone through, in the last 2 years or so, it's ridiculous. At least they're alive, but the driver needs to feel pain. Fiscal pain is the only option available to a civilized victim.
A long, long time ago I was riding on a main artery road in the area (Route 1 so I guess it's a main artery road from Maine to Florida). It was night, I had lights/etc.
Long line of cars heading same direction as me. I was rolling along with traffic, guy in car next to me slowed. I thought he was turning or something. He was letting a left turning car in. The left turning car waited for me to clear his path then started turning.
CRASH
I look back, the left turning guy's car got t-boned by the driver that let him in. The guy turning left got out of his car. "What the eff, you let me in and then ram into me?"
I kept going because I was naive and clueless.
Several years later I learned this is a very common insurance scam. The scammer lets (who doesn't have the right of way) in, rams him, then claims the car cut him off. Add various neck injuries and that kind of stuff.
Nowadays I think it'd be less common, with dash cams, cell phone cameras, and a little more awareness (like on my part, for example).
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07-21-16 | 12:37 PM
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07-21-16 | 12:45 PM
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I'm getting tired of drivers being "courteous" or expecting me not to obey traffic laws, or whatever it is they're attempting to do. If you beat me to a stop sign, don't stop halfway into the intersection and wave me through because you expect me to run my stop sign. If it doesn't look like I'm stopping it's because I'm gonna rock the bike in a second after you clear the intersection. Instead I end up track standing and waiting for you to get the hell out of the way.
And seriously, don't stop in the freaking through road to try and let me out from a side road. Are you kidding? You're going to get me killed and yourself rear ended. Not to mention I was going left and there was traffic from the other direction, so it wasn't safe right then anyway.
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And seriously, don't stop in the freaking through road to try and let me out from a side road. Are you kidding? You're going to get me killed and yourself rear ended. Not to mention I was going left and there was traffic from the other direction, so it wasn't safe right then anyway.
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I'm going too fast at this point to stop easily without going through the light and turning around, because I was expecting him to go. So I just dipped left real early, leaving myself tons of room in case he decided to go after all.
So dumb though. If you would just go like you're supposed to, I could turn left behind you like I was planning, and everything would be fine.
If I could average the overly nice drivers with the jerk drivers, I'd have perfect drivers all the time.
07-21-16 | 12:56 PM
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Today car across from me with left blinker on at stop sign. I wait, we both wave, I trackstand and wave again, he sits there, another car goes through the intersection cuz we are all just not moving, we wait some more. I finally unclip and lean on the bars like I plan on being there a while.
07-21-16 | 01:05 PM
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I heard there was a vaccine years ago, that got taken off the market by anti-vaccination groups.
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07-21-16 | 01:09 PM
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How often do you find attached ticks? I've read that they have to be attached for quite a while for infection to occur. Also where on your body do you usually find them?
Your second comment is why I think providing symptomatic relief for mild fevers is a mistake. Sure you may feel better but you are disabling one of your bodies normal defense mechanisms.
Your second comment is why I think providing symptomatic relief for mild fevers is a mistake. Sure you may feel better but you are disabling one of your bodies normal defense mechanisms.
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07-21-16 | 01:10 PM
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07-21-16 | 01:35 PM
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TIL East Coast vs West Coast goes far beyond watts and rap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0R...youtu.be&t=35s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0R...youtu.be&t=35s
07-21-16 | 01:53 PM
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That bike has seen some things, man.
Also, the Vector pedals that I've been leaning towards lately (probably in a few months, if at all) have a 200 lb weight limit. My fat ass at 220 would probably be fine, but that sort of gives me a goal I guess. It sucks being too fat for cool bike stuff.
Also, the Vector pedals that I've been leaning towards lately (probably in a few months, if at all) have a 200 lb weight limit. My fat ass at 220 would probably be fine, but that sort of gives me a goal I guess. It sucks being too fat for cool bike stuff.
If a pedal has a weight limit, there must be a reason.
07-21-16 | 01:59 PM
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Yeah, apparently because the spindle is hollow to house the electronics there's a possibility of breaking it. I think mostly they're covering their ass, but it wouldn't hurt to obey it (and not void the warranty).
07-21-16 | 02:00 PM
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^spindels apparently on the vectors.. I'm sub 200 and plan to stay that way...
07-21-16 | 02:08 PM
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TIL East Coast vs West Coast goes far beyond watts and rap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0R...youtu.be&t=35s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0R...youtu.be&t=35s
07-21-16 | 03:25 PM
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I've never understood titanium pedal spindles. I would never try to save a few grams on a pedal spindle given the consequences of them failing...
07-21-16 | 03:43 PM
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That bike has seen some things, man.
Also, the Vector pedals that I've been leaning towards lately (probably in a few months, if at all) have a 200 lb weight limit. My fat ass at 220 would probably be fine, but that sort of gives me a goal I guess. It sucks being too fat for cool bike stuff.
Also, the Vector pedals that I've been leaning towards lately (probably in a few months, if at all) have a 200 lb weight limit. My fat ass at 220 would probably be fine, but that sort of gives me a goal I guess. It sucks being too fat for cool bike stuff.
07-21-16 | 03:45 PM
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