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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 08-26-16, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Can't be...all my exes don't live in Texas. The other two live in Florida and SoCal these days.
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
Speaking of Roundup. The lawn service that the company I work for uses decided to use Roundup instead of fertilizer on the lawn earlier this week. Now the landscaping looks like west Texas.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
There is a damn fly in my office. How did it push the elevator button to get to the 13th floor?
They make those? Scary!
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Old 08-26-16, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by thin_concrete
Chucking hubcaps at people a la Tonya Harding is a sign of affection.
We used to live right next to the town where the hubcap incident occurred.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I'm not blaming doctors so much as their schedulers.

BTW, everyone deserves days off. I never complain about anyone's hours or how much cash they make and that includes doctors.
Oh I blame the schedulers too... a job that rarely has a happy end. Poor things, everyone and I mean everyone jumps on their case.
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Originally Posted by RUOkie
Never??

I take Friday afternoons instead.
Frikin surgeons are idiots, we pretty much all suffer from a personality defect that tells us the busier we are, the better we are.
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
I wear jeans and sneakers and no lab coat. Sometimes I wear a warm-up jacket. I am uber-casual.

I spent a lot of time crawling around on the floor with my patients.

Sometimes I call them "Sweetie" or "Sweets" or "Sweetie Pie". I also do a lot of sweet-talking and cajoling.

I draw lots of pictures for people about how their dog's wiring is laid out and why the symptoms mean the problem is specifically in X location in the nervous system. But I never have a pen (because I have no lab coat pocket to put it in), so I always am bumming pens off people and then immediately losing them.

Note to self: never buy a Mount Blanc as a present for Heathie.

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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
datlas has been enjoying your days off. I would settle up with him.
The bastid!
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Dr Oz...I loved this guy when I usta be able to just for the fun of it use him as a source pick to argue with my doc. But doc caught on and stopped rising to the bait after a bit. So I now got's no more use for Dr Oz.

Accountants...My wife is a CPA. She's not allowed to do our taxes.

Texas...I know Texans got unhealthy attitude problems 'cause the only ex-wife I don't at all get along with be from and still lives there.


Edit: Love that fiddle. I think that's Gene Elders in that clip. On the original recording of that song was Johnny Gimble, who was one of my teachers over the years, and who sadly passed away this past year.

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Reading a book on Buddhism and was surprised to find this, one of the 4 noble truths of Buddha- " The more you ride the more you like it, the more you like it the more you ride; conversely the less you ride the less you like it... et cetera et cetera et cetera".
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Pretty cool skies out last night.



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Originally Posted by Herbie53
Nice pics! It is beautiful and IMO under appreciated up there.
Good morning America rated it as the most beautiful area in the country in 2012 by some survey. have no idea how they did it , certainly more spectacular regions exist in the US but it does have a very quiet beauty about it. Rode every day, just wonderful and though the roads were generally great, the Sleeping bear dunes Heritage bikeway is truly a spectacular MUP. So much so that I confess I became a MUP Nazi racing about for awhile.
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Originally Posted by surgeonstone
Note to self: never buy a Mount Blanc as a present for Heathie.
Why not?
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BTW, I had a Waterman in my pocket on my afternoon ride.
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Originally Posted by surgeonstone
Reading a book on Buddhism and was surprised to find this, one of the 4 noble truths of Buddha- " The more you ride the more you like it, the more you like it the more you ride; conversely the less you ride the less you like it... et cetera et cetera et cetera".

Methinks that advice had more to do with humans than bikes.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Why not?
Originally Posted by Heathpack View Post
I wear jeans and sneakers and no lab coat. Sometimes I wear a warm-up jacket. I am uber-casual.

I spent a lot of time crawling around on the floor with my patients.

Sometimes I call them "Sweetie" or "Sweets" or "Sweetie Pie". I also do a lot of sweet-talking and cajoling.

I draw lots of pictures for people about how their dog's wiring is laid out and why the symptoms mean the problem is specifically in X location in the nervous system. But I never have a pen (because I have no lab coat pocket to put it in), so I always am bumming pens off people and then immediately losing them.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Pretty cool skies out last night.



Great Pics. Big Sky country.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Pretty cool skies out last night.



It really is interesting country out where you are, and I really do mean that. It reminds me of some of the other places I have been (yep, I've also been in your current part of the world, at least the State), including the moors of Scotland and the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, as well as the Central Plateau here in Tasmania.

Scratch under the surface of these places, and there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Jeans? What kind of hillbillies ski in jeans?
And the camo jacket. Disgraceful. That's why our mountain is Copper. They haven't heard about it like Vail and Beaver Creek and Breck and Keystone, so it must not be cool.
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Originally Posted by surgeonstone
Note to self: never buy a Mount Blanc as a present for Heathie.
Oddly a client gave me a nice pen as a gift and I've managed not to lose that one for probably 7 years. Because I only use it at my desk.

The rest of these pens I have zero idea where they go. Someone hands me a pen and literally 5 minutes later I no longer have a pen and I'm asking for another one. They ask me where the pen went they just gave me and I have no answer, all I know is that I don't have one now.

Now all my people just start their day with a big pocketful of pens and they just dole them out as needed. I'm pretty much doing three things at once most of the time, maybe that's the issue.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
And the camo jacket. Disgraceful. That's why our mountain is Copper. They haven't heard about it like Vail and Beaver Creek and Breck and Keystone, so it must not be cool.
All this talk is making me wanna put on some Levi's and go ski Colorado this winter!
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Hmmmph! She drove herself away. When you lie to your online pals you have to expect they're going to talk about you.
All those little cutie selfies she constantly posted can't buy undying loyalty.

"Cute" comes a dime a dozen, it can only take you so far.
Truth. It wasn't all bad. But when Herbie exposed her, that was it. No cheaters allowed in Addiction.

I blame ST. What did Lester call it - the Twitch Hunt?
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
So far I like Texas the best.
That's nice and all, but you're not a Texan. So you get a pass from the sweeping generalization.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
Truth. It wasn't all bad. But when Herbie exposed her, that was it. No cheaters allowed in Addiction.

I blame ST. What did Lester call it - the Twitch Hunt?
Well, I didn't coin the phrase. Apparently it's a thing.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
All this talk is making me wanna put on some Levi's and go ski Colorado this winter!

You're from WY, and it's almost expected and excused. Another truth: Stay the heck away from the vehicles with the prancing horse on the license plate.


Nice pictures, @LesterOfPuppets
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