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12-29-20, 06:59 PM
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12-29-20, 07:09 PM
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I hate shopping for shoes because I'm hard to fit. Some shoes hurt my feet and I have to have at least size 13.
I've had more sets of pedals than shoes. Several sets of clips and straps, Mavic swiveling pedals, Shimano Look copies, 3 sets of Time pedals, (kept breaking) 3 sets of Look Delta pedals (the latch wears out) and 3 sets of SPD pedals. Also a few sets of SPD knock offs in the mix.
I've had more sets of pedals than shoes. Several sets of clips and straps, Mavic swiveling pedals, Shimano Look copies, 3 sets of Time pedals, (kept breaking) 3 sets of Look Delta pedals (the latch wears out) and 3 sets of SPD pedals. Also a few sets of SPD knock offs in the mix.
12-29-20, 07:31 PM
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After carefully scouring today's posts, I have determined that this thread needs more [MENTION=25227]Velo Vol[/MENTION].
YMMV
YMMV
12-29-20, 07:43 PM
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12-29-20, 08:21 PM
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Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
12-29-20, 08:28 PM
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I'm reviewing the report from today's appointment with the witch doctor (the first one I've actually had with him, not a nurse, in more than a year):
Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
12-29-20, 08:33 PM
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I'm reviewing the report from today's appointment with the witch doctor (the first one I've actually had with him, not a nurse, in more than a year):
Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
reminds me of this classic.
12-29-20, 08:34 PM
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I'm reviewing the report from today's appointment with the witch doctor (the first one I've actually had with him, not a nurse, in more than a year):
Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
Observations:
(1) I didn't think the consultation was particularly lengthy or complicated. I don't know how billing works, but this seems to me to be a justification to upgrade ($$) the coding. He repeated himself a lot and didn't offer a lot of other options.
(2) What was more complicated was the "aspiration" part. Now there's a euphemism. He was talking about how difficult I am as a patient, telling me that my last doctor must have mistakenly omitted me from her "problem patient" list when she left.
Then he just throws out the idea ("I'm brainstorming") of draining my knee and giving me a shot. wut No one ever talked about doing this before. After hee hawing around for a few minutes he said we should try it at least once, "to see what happens."
So I get on the table and he starts rummaging through some drawers, looking at almost-empty bottles. (There was an unnamed assistant sitting there for reasons I never determined, entering stuff into the computer). Finally he assembles his voodoo kit, smears ointments just above my knee, sprays on a freezing/numbing agent, and jams a huge syringe into my leg to extract "fluid."
After milking it out for a minute or so, he manages to suck out about 50 ml of "Mellow Yellow," as he affectionately called it.
After that I got to walk do the hall to the infusion room to have a needle stuck in my arm for over two hours. A delightful afternoon.
Where do I sign up for snake therapy?
You pay for this?
12-29-20, 08:46 PM
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12-29-20, 08:47 PM
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Maybe some local Snake Handlers could therapy you with their snakes.
12-29-20, 08:52 PM
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12-29-20, 08:53 PM
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Maybe some local Snake Handlers could therapy you with their snakes.
12-29-20, 08:55 PM
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12-29-20, 09:03 PM
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Some modern music for ya.
12-29-20, 09:28 PM
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I have more bike shoes than plain shoes. Or pedestrian shoes. Or whatever those things are called.
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12-29-20, 09:31 PM
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A guy at work once said to me "What? They have special shoes for biking?"
12-29-20, 09:49 PM
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I made some special holiday oatmeal cookies. Started out by simmering, then soaking raisins, dates, pecans, and walnuts in some bourbon...
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12-29-20, 09:58 PM
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12-29-20, 10:02 PM
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12-29-20, 10:18 PM
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12-29-20, 10:23 PM
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12-29-20, 10:49 PM
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Tried on the specialized torch 1.0, low end shimano and some north west something.
Specialized looked and fit the best, the shimano felt tight and had a rachet system I wasn’t a fan of.
The NWS were okay but color was ugly. I’m not super vain but my current shoes are ugly and if I am getting new ones if they don’t match the bike I atleast don’t want them to be ugly.
Gunna try on some bontrager tomorrow, nobody carries the Fizik in my area but the price was pretty good on amazon so I havnt ruled those out yet.
Specialized looked and fit the best, the shimano felt tight and had a rachet system I wasn’t a fan of.
The NWS were okay but color was ugly. I’m not super vain but my current shoes are ugly and if I am getting new ones if they don’t match the bike I atleast don’t want them to be ugly.
Gunna try on some bontrager tomorrow, nobody carries the Fizik in my area but the price was pretty good on amazon so I havnt ruled those out yet.
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12-29-20, 11:04 PM
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In early December, my wife got a big tin of assorted cookies from her employer. That day, my kids decided that they wanted to split one of the cookies for their bedtime treat (their sweets intake is limited, usually to something small before they start getting ready for bed). My son went digging through the layers in the tin and pulled out a chocolate chip cookie, broke it in two and gave one half to his sister. They took bites simultaneously. My son exclaimed in disgust as soon as he realized that he'd grabbed an oatmeal raisin cookie by mistake. My daughter took a bite, started chewing and then silently retched twice. I had some momentary concern, I really thought that she was going to puke, but it was one of the more funny things I'd seen in a while.
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I thought about taking a ride today, I'm just short of 5500 miles for the year and would like to cross that mark, but a quick test ride told me that it probably wouldn't be wise; we got another few inches today and it's deep enough that the studs aren't getting down to the ice/pavement, so it's pretty slippery. Maybe tomorrow.
Instead, I spent some time in the shop. I decided to work on a couple small projects as I get the feel for some of the new tools. Speaking of new tools, I've got a few more on way - should be fun.
Instead, I spent some time in the shop. I decided to work on a couple small projects as I get the feel for some of the new tools. Speaking of new tools, I've got a few more on way - should be fun.
12-29-20, 11:27 PM
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In early December, my wife got a big tin of assorted cookies from her employer. That day, my kids decided that they wanted to split one of the cookies for their bedtime treat (their sweets intake is limited, usually to something small before they start getting ready for bed). My son went digging through the layers in the tin and pulled out a chocolate chip cookie, broke it in two and gave one half to his sister. They took bites simultaneously. My son exclaimed in disgust as soon as he realized that he'd grabbed an oatmeal raisin cookie by mistake. My daughter took a bite, started chewing and then silently retched twice. I had some momentary concern, I really thought that she was going to puke, but it was one of the more funny things I'd seen in a while.
