“Well I’ve never been to England
but I Kinda like the Beatles”….

The new puppy is having real issues. In a fit of genius, I decided that since he hasn’t had a poop accident in two days, to let him sleep with his crate door open. I awakened at 3:00 AM to hear a wet fart noise and leaped of bed without turning on the light - a big mistake. I immediately stepped in a warm sloppy, gushy pile of poo. I then hopped to the bathroom to wash my foot while seeing several gushy piles on the light colored close pile carpet. MrsRSbob awakened and got him outside where he just sat on the lawn - since he had already relieved himself. I then got out the carpet cleaning machine and got to work. Put the dog in his crate and finally got back to sleep about 4:30.

#Living the dream

It'a boring* rainy type of day in Central Illinois. Sort of moping around the house with no interest in anything.

*I use the "boring" adjective with a little fear that my mother will rise from the grave and smack me with a yardstick. Living life as a child was sometimes a little dangerous.

"What does it matter..."

Wild lenticular over the city this fine morning.

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Woah, massive BNSF power move, 20 units headed eastbound! I shoulda sat by the tracks for coffee

Sad.

I saw this comment on a thread I started:

Wishful thinking related to an apparent quest for a magical fountain of youth elixer, makes up much of the discussion on this list about diet, "training" regimens, chemical/nutritional supplements, exercise routines, etc.

I mean ouch! Talk about dropping a turd in the punchbowl.

Checking how I rate on the "quest for a magical fountain of youth" checklist:

• Diet ✅
• Training" regimens (scare quotes) ✅

• Chemical/nutritional supplements ✅ ✅

• Exercise routines ✅

100% -- guilty on all counts.

What am I doing with my life?

enjoy the day of being a slacker. They are few and far between.

No one here gets out alive - Abraham Lincoln

Agree. I check in with MoAlpha once in awhile, he says all ok but gotta lay low for another couple of years for obvious reasons.

I've never understood that guy. He absolutely hates any discussion of training, Strava, data, or equipment. He has inserted his crap in legitimate threads and has been told by the mods to leave threads. You saw how I responded to his crap in that thread where he was mocking riders for trying to go fast? It's about the only way to deal with him.

He once said he did these things because others had mocked him for the way he rides, or some such nonsense. I asked him to provide one example of that, or even one example of him talking about the way he rides. He didn't.

On today's ride, about 45 minutes into the ride, we saw a cyclist who turned out to be one of my group's riders riding the course in reverse to meet us, yelling "get up there, they need a doctor!"

About 300 feet beyond, there were two cyclists on the side of the road. One was down, on his back, getting CPR from the other. I ran up and verified they had called 911, and asked if the guy doing CPR was trained in it. He said no. I suggested I could take over. We did hands-only CPR (which is now recommended) and waited for the ambulance to come. It took seemingly FOREVER (we were on a back road and not exactly in the boonies, but not in town). After about 20 minutes, I was getting quite tired so another friend took over. A few minutes later the ambulance FINALLY came. The guy had no pulse and was doing what is called agonal breathing, which is a brainstem reflex.

I looked up the guy's name via google and found out he works for Vanguard and another cycling friend (who was NOT on the ride) knows him.

I called the ED and asked if the guy made it, they told me he was alive and in the ICU. I hope he does ok.

My other friends were great, they waited patiently and we resumed the ride. It was a sobering reminder about how lucky we all are, and how tomorrow is never guaranteed.

Momma always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. I suppose this person did not get the memo.

holy cow what a story. that guys owes you for helping to save his life!

Let's be sure he does ok before we celebrate.

One of my former patients and fellow cyclist had an "event" kinda like this about 15 years ago. He survived but his brain was NEVER the same and he did not have a full recovery. He lived for another year in rehab/nursing home as a shadow of his former self before passing away from an infection. My hope is the guy from today has a good recovery but we won't know for a few days.