Ramona_W

I wasn't drinking enough water so I downloaded a free app to my phone called "Plant Nanny". I put in how much I weigh, how active I am, and my gender and it calculated how much water I should drink. Then I set it to pop up an alert every two hours reminding me to drink. What gets you to drink though is every time you take a drink, you give one to the little plant as well and since you don't want it to die, you're more likely to keep up. Won't be a hook for everyone but it's worked for me for over a week except on Saturdays for some reason.

Ramona_W

Yes. Because it isn't our property to be creating a garden-level Air B&B apartment in. If we own a house someday and you want to do that, go for it.

Ramona_W

I consider pages 133 through 141 lost to me.

seypat

You better do some more research before you decide to move down there. I was raised in Wichita Falls, TX. Home of the Hotter N Hell Hundred AND winters with temperatures below 0. Wind chills in the minus double digits. Plenty of snow and ice. The wind is always blowing. In the summer it is a blast furnace wind. In the winter it is a freezing wind from the north. Did I mention tornadoes? You have to deal with those as well as the hail, etc. that comes with those super storms. Droughts, floods, you name it, it's all there. That's why Texans are hard to the core. They have to deal with that stuff day in and day out.

2manybikes

Great idea!

I just look at my watch, so boring.

f4rrest

What kind of "plant"?

f4rrest

I've got a 61cm Allez you could borrow if you're in LA. But it has Powercranks on it, which makes for an interesting first ride.

Dan333SP

Ok, riding in California is amazing. Also, the 5800 on my rental BMC is lightyears better than the 5700 I'm used to. So slick, you might even say it shifts like buttah.

Bah Humbug

In fact, I'm 99% sure I remember that Wyoming swimming piggy-backed on Colorado.

patentcad

The Great Pcad Velo Garbage Mile Streak of 2016 hit 65 days yesterday. Joe DiMaggio's was only 56.

Heathpack 

I know!

Where'd yall ride?

topslop1

Doesn't make Pokemon Go look so stupid anymore now does it. For all the haters out there! I like the plant app, I naturally slam 32oz Nalgene's all the time while I'm at work so I probably drink 'too much' water, but I'm always thirsty.

topslop1

I'm on the 5700 as well, go on, tell me more..

topslop1

Don't push me down to Florida. Don't you do it.

thin_concrete

I only drope hamers.

WalksOn2Wheels

It is stupid nice. I was talking about putting the DA9000 on the Crockett to replace the 5700, but that's really idiotic. I haven't ridden a 5800 bike, but have built quite a few of them out of the box and just shifting in the stand it feels as good as my DA 11 speed stuff. I could get all the 5800 stuff I need for about 350 bucks online. Then all I need is to build up a proper wheelset.

But yeah, I'd love to ride in Cali. I'll probably put it on my list of future bike-centric road trips, but I've already got a few of those in que for Colorado and New Mexico.

Dan333SP

Just up and down the 101 from Encinitas, my brother (the groom) is a little sick so he didn't want to push it. Still, everyone is so friendly to cyclists, the infrastructure is so consistently good (marked lanes, share the road signs, ect), the weather is perfect, ect ect. If I lived here I'd never have an excuse not to ride!

Views like this would never get old-



Now I'm coffee'ing up for a solo ride around La Jolla.

f4rrest

Good times.
I love riding in San Diego.

If you head south in the morning to Old Town, grab some fresh homemade tortillas. The foil wrapped packs of 3 are perfect for jersey pockets.

Dan333SP

Front shifting is much easier and more precise, rear shifting up and down feels more mechanical and consistent than 5700, brakes are better than what I'm running (Apex), drivetrain is virtually silent (though it's better maintained than my bike), the levers feel slightly better in-hand, ect. Easily worth whatever the current price of the full group is if your stuff wears out.

rjones28 

5800 is nice.

WhyFi

Let us know if it's one that you'll be working/attending. Schedule allowing, maybe @RPK79 and/or myself could meet up for something, whether it be a ride, a visit to a local brewery or whatever.

WalksOn2Wheels

Did you see where I had to replace the pulleys on my 5700 RD? It couldn't have had more than 2K miles on it and the upper pulley had massive play. I could not get it tuned right. Even after replacing them and triple checking the hanger, it still hesitates going to a smaller cog on the right side of the cassette.

Ok, that does it. The Crockett is getting 5800 sometime this winter.

WalksOn2Wheels

I doubt one would ever happen in Denton and the distance from Dallas or Fort Worth would probably negate the savings of a hotel room, but you're certainly welcome here any time.

RPK79

I'm going to be out of town camping from the 11-14th. On the 10th we have our all office firm outing where we hit Lake Minnetonka for lunch on a tour boat and then it's happy hour. I could probably do something later that day or Monday, but not Tuesday (unless you wanted to join me for trivia and beer).

BillyD

Dammit! Some reactionary idiot league official cancelled today's softball games last night, based only on the forecast of heavy rain overnight into this morning. Why not wait till the morning to see what will actually happen instead of jumping the gun?

Turns out the storm totally missed us to the south, as last night's radar clearly showed it doing at the time of cancellation. Now the sun is out, the fields are dry, and a bunch of makeup games have to get made up before the playoffs bearing down on us. Idiots!