I told him he was more judgmental than God.

That was the last straw, so he smote me.

I spent a few years in Syracuse, but it was before I discovered cycling.

Actually it was where I first encountered real cycling with a room mate riding rollers.

Maybe you can hash out your differences on #OWNTV. Or Springer.

...or take it to fortyonederdome.

I moved here in 2001, and wasn't cycling at the time. I initially loved the proximity to the daks, and the Finger Lakes. Once I started cycling again, I really started to explore the area, and it has some very nice riding. I'm 20 minutes from downtown and five minutes from rural roads to ride.

What happened? I thought you two were BFF

Cocky, arrogant, jerks, can be very entertaining.



How's Sam?

I didn't think God was judgemental, especially after he found Jesus. Old testament God was a bad ass. That one is why Leviticus is my favorite book (granted I read the Torah, but I expect similarity).

We still are, I have all the inside poop.

Went to college there in the mid 80's. Got my real road bike 2 yrs after graduating. Been riding since, except for a few years in the 90's

Jeeesh! How does one become a lawyer with thin skin? All the lawyer jokes would have to toughen you up some.

He is doing well so far, we put him on oral chemotherapy meds today, which the vet hopes will stretch his healthy time out to more like 6 months, and he is tolerating it well this evening. Vet says most dogs do, a few don't. If he tolerates, it, vet says it can give him more quality time. Remember that 6 months to a large breed dog is multiplied by a factor of 7, which would be 3.5 years for a human cancer patient. He also said they would come here to put him down when the time comes. We don't want his last experience to be the vet's office with those strange and scary smells.

I've been through Syracuse on I-81 en route to the Great White North.

We also went shopping in Syracuse for milk and gasoline, like all good Canadians.

I didn't ride from 1995 until 2010, roughly, and the shame is I lived on the south end of the Finger Lakes, which is gorgeous riding country, and almost no traffic. But my kids were little, and I always thought it was too dangerous. I was a stooge.

For many years, I did the same, and never thought I'd live here. My family is from south of here, and Syracuse was too metropolitan for the clan. Central New York probably has more in common with Tennessee than it does with NYC.

I hope he feels OK. I could not watch my dog being put down. It's great that you can think of what he would feel at the vets, and make it easier on him.

Thats a lot of kicking right there.

You'll survive.

Lewis Black fan? He did an hilarious bit on that. :lol:

Ha, the milk would be spoiled and you'd be out of gas before you reached Canada.






Ok well I exaggerated a little . . . but not that much.

Our vet is the best. Howard Rothenberg owns the place, he did Sam's surgery and he dealt with us today. Everybody there really cares, and they are quite competent and responsive. I've been going there 15 years. You find a vet like that, you go there for life. They told us Sam was a special dog. I bet they say that to all the dogs, but I don't care. That was the right thing to say to us today.

http://www.goosepondvet.com/doctors.htm

Rest is important, every now and then you have to take a decade or two off.

Thanks for the recap. I currently use the Manlius shop.

It's funny, I didn't ride much either when I first moved to the area. I mean as much as I rode fearlessly in urban traffic throughout NYC, I was askeered to ride out the main road of my development. I still wouldn't - there's no shoulder, too much traffic, and the drivers just don't expect to see a cyclist.

wut

That's quite an endorsement.

I had a cramp.