Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19559599)

I have 8000 text messages and photos to look through by tomorrow morning.

Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19559599)

I have 8000 text messages and photos to look through by tomorrow morning. I've had all week.

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19559289)

I would say a normal mower would be fine. But you bought a ryobi toy popcorn mower... so who knows.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19559667)

Same.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19559315)

It's interesting. The overall vibe in this group (who gave me my start) is that you should never make anyone else feel badly about their own abilities. So generally speaking, trying to be faster is not OK because you could drop someone and make them feel badly. It's ok to drop the rank newbies though, as long as you wait at the top of the hill. The only thing it's ok to aspire to is more distance and more climbing, they'll typically have a shorter route option for newbies. So the stronger people ride fairly slowly but go long.

Mostly. It's not exactly that cut and dried.

But no one is challenging me to make it up the hill first. I'm not challenge anyone either. The "competive" comments come from the knowledge that I race my bike ergo and the belief that the reason people race is out of insecurity- you're insecure about yourself so therefore are willing to push push push to try to prove something, even at the expense of making people feel badly. It's just weird.

The interesting thing is that some of these people ARE competitive. I hear more talk on these rides about people's relative speed than I do on the race-oriented rides. They think about it and worry about it. Just don't think it's ok to articulate it.

Most of these types tell me stories about being newbies and someone on a more traditional group ride in town being mean to them or looking down on them. It might have happened 5 years ago but they still bring it up.

Originally Posted by Dan333SP (Post 19559362)

I probably should just mow when she's not around. She was pulling weeds while I mowed last week and one of the pinecones zinged out of the side of the mower and missed her head by a foot. That started the whole "you shouldn't use it that way" conversation.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19559449)

You're a doctor. You can live anywwhere you want

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19559676)

Actually, I'm lucky to get one or two.

Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19559599)

I have 8000 text messages and photos to look through by tomorrow morning. I've had all week.

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 19559654)

I would, but the vagaries of BF discipline have left me gun shy. :innocent:

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19559668)

I have a good friend in your line of work. It's truly mindboggling, that stuff.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 19559629)

I just ate some leftover blackened oven-roasted cauliflower as part of my lunch (we put it right under the broiler to get it black). It was quite good. Mrs datlas has informed me that according to her cooking/food sources, cauliflower is the "new kale," ie the latest fad superfood. I have liked it all along.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 19559747)

Mrs. rjones28 makes cauliflower rice to go with her meals these days.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 19559629)

I just ate some leftover blackened oven-roasted cauliflower as part of my lunch (we put it right under the broiler to get it black). It was quite good.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 19559725)

Uh, not so much. I make less than the finance and IT guys I ride bikes with. I am not crying poverty, but I certainly could not live in NYC or San Francisco or, apparently, Boulder.

Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19559729)

Have you considered a lady friend? That would help.

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 19559757)

If a door can be ajar I guess cauliflower can be a rice.

Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19559807)

Vol has a GF?

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19559789)

The one or two is the extent of my lady friendship.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 19559819)

It's a technique, apparently. The consistency looks more like couscous than rice. I haven't had any yet. I imagine that it tastes just like cauliflower. :)