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11-15-18, 08:38 AM
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Whoa, Amazon has upped their game for the obsessive trackers - I checked on a delivery and it showed me a map with (presumably) a live delivery truck location and the number of deliveries between now and my house (currently at 85).
11-15-18, 08:41 AM
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11-15-18, 08:42 AM
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Meanwhile I’m visiting family in Atlanta, waiting for the big storm to clear out of the northeast. Aiming to hit the road heading home tomorrow, amazed by the irony that our trip departure 2 weeks ago was delayed by a nor’easter and now the return home is delayed by another nor’easter. What are the odds of that? You can’t make this stuff up.
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11-15-18, 08:43 AM
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You don't have a Square reader? Sad.
11-15-18, 08:47 AM
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11-15-18, 08:48 AM
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11-15-18, 08:54 AM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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11-15-18, 08:55 AM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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Lake Minnetonka is icing up nicely! (sorry, no Minocqua update today)
11-15-18, 09:00 AM
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Yup, I was walking on the ice yesterday (shallow portions, hasn't been cold enough for long enough to trust anything more than knee-deep). Not on Minnetonka, but on one of the other 9,999 lakes in the state.
11-15-18, 09:01 AM
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11-15-18, 09:07 AM
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Were you at Hopkins or Maryland?
We moved down here in '89 from the Boston area, where I was quite involved in cycling, but, between the demands of academics and a baby, I cut back to commuting and a little fooling around on the MUPs. I switched over to running to satisfy the competitive urge and was never really plugged into the bike scene here. I started riding "seriously" again a few years ago after moving closer to work and no longer having a 22 mi round trip commute.
Never heard of Alpine, but there used to be lots of those fine builders around. My road frame is the one my old friend Peter Mooney built for me in 1983. He had a big reputation back then, but his frame business is now down to a few fancy builds for retro-enthusiasts. He's only still in business because he co-owns a large bike shop.
We moved down here in '89 from the Boston area, where I was quite involved in cycling, but, between the demands of academics and a baby, I cut back to commuting and a little fooling around on the MUPs. I switched over to running to satisfy the competitive urge and was never really plugged into the bike scene here. I started riding "seriously" again a few years ago after moving closer to work and no longer having a 22 mi round trip commute.
Never heard of Alpine, but there used to be lots of those fine builders around. My road frame is the one my old friend Peter Mooney built for me in 1983. He had a big reputation back then, but his frame business is now down to a few fancy builds for retro-enthusiasts. He's only still in business because he co-owns a large bike shop.
11-15-18, 09:08 AM
#2488
So it is
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11-15-18, 09:09 AM
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11-15-18, 09:15 AM
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Almost got creamed by a tractor trailer while riding this am.
Thankfully it was a slo-mo almost creaming. Traffic diverted from the freeway onto a usually low-trafficked access road, presumably due to navigation apps routing around construction. My only route home at the end of my ride was a few miles down this access road, no shoulder. Traffic moving at 10 mph so I'm riding far right and moving faster than the cars. The tractor trailer decided to move off the road to the right, into the space I was occupying. Ran me off the road into soft gravel. Thankfully everything was moving so slowly that I was able to ride the TT bike into the gravel and eventually get off the bike and then turn around and get back on the road by coming behind the truck.
I was surprisingly not that upset by the incident. Definitely would have been killed if traffic had been moving any faster. But still I thought the driver should know.
So I knocked on the cab of his truck and the guy rolled down the window. I told him I could have been killed. He never saw me and was very rattled, very apologetic. He was having engine trouble.
Oy.
Thankfully it was a slo-mo almost creaming. Traffic diverted from the freeway onto a usually low-trafficked access road, presumably due to navigation apps routing around construction. My only route home at the end of my ride was a few miles down this access road, no shoulder. Traffic moving at 10 mph so I'm riding far right and moving faster than the cars. The tractor trailer decided to move off the road to the right, into the space I was occupying. Ran me off the road into soft gravel. Thankfully everything was moving so slowly that I was able to ride the TT bike into the gravel and eventually get off the bike and then turn around and get back on the road by coming behind the truck.
I was surprisingly not that upset by the incident. Definitely would have been killed if traffic had been moving any faster. But still I thought the driver should know.
So I knocked on the cab of his truck and the guy rolled down the window. I told him I could have been killed. He never saw me and was very rattled, very apologetic. He was having engine trouble.
Oy.
I've been run into the curb, intentionally right hooked, just because I was going faster than the cars creeping along in traffic. At least this wasn't intentional, though no less scary.
11-15-18, 09:17 AM
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I was at Hopkins undergrad 83-86, worked downtown 86-89, back at Hopkins for grad school 89-92, did a quick 1 year post-bac premed at UMBC 92-93. So I know the area pretty well. I used to ride around Lake Montebello (about 2 miles West of the Homewood campus and just down the hill from Memorial Stadium, is that still there?).
What did you study in grad school, if you'll pardon my nosiness?
11-15-18, 09:19 AM
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@datlas: Snow has begun in town.
11-15-18, 09:25 AM
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@datlas: Snow has begun in town.
11-15-18, 09:26 AM
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I was in a PhD program for Applied Mathematics. I took my M.S.E. as a booby prize after 2 years, when I decided that academics was not for me. I believe my masters is technically in "Mathematical Modeling" but I just say Applied Math.
11-15-18, 09:29 AM
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11-15-18, 09:33 AM
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11-15-18, 09:36 AM
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11-15-18, 09:37 AM
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11-15-18, 09:40 AM
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Nice. I like quantitative thinkers. I'm a grad school dropout too, but I bleed tweed, as it were.
11-15-18, 09:40 AM
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@datlas: Snow has begun in town.
