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Old 10-30-20, 07:35 AM
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This was my big score from yesterday. If it works as advertised I'll get one in every color. My biggest disability from the finger amputation is the inability to hold a nail when starting it. Especially finish nails, which I use almost exclusively.
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This was my big score from yesterday. If it works as advertised I'll get one in every color. My biggest disability from the finger amputation is the inability to hold a nail when starting it. Especially finish nails, which I use almost exclusively.
Is it made of Titanium? Aluminum?? Crabon fiber???
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Parka weather this morning.

#WhatHappenedtoFall?
Velo Vol tried to warn them. "This cooler weather is great!" they replied.

Dumb dumbs.
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So I'm still shaking from the cold after a hot shower. And I have red patches. Is it summer yet?
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So I'm still shaking from the cold after a hot shower. And I have red patches. Is it summer yet?
Time to grow some brown fat.

It may be a long winter.
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Heavy rain beginning at midnight. We actually got more last night than we got during the hurricane. We're beginning to wonder if ClimateChange will turn this area into rainforest. It would be wonderful if it did.
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Do not, under any circumstances, approach.
Too late, walked all through it. Had to rescue my houseplants.
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It feels especially cruel that the weather the last few weeks has been quite chilly and windy, but immediately after the time change this Sunday we'll have a sunny week with high temperatures in the mid 60s

Might have to do some night riding.
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anybody up in state college, pa? Get in tomorrow night and don’t leave until Sunday. I usually go to the Ole ye dinner to eat, any other recommendations. Plan on checking out The Bicycle Shop, it’s right next to the hotel.
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Got another eye injection today. Have to stay indoors the rest of the day.
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Got another eye injection today. Have to stay indoors the rest of the day.
Brings a whole new perspective to the saying "cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye...."

I hope the medicine works.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
anybody up in state college, pa? Get in tomorrow night and don’t leave until Sunday. I usually go to the Ole ye dinner to eat, any other recommendations. Plan on checking out The Bicycle Shop, it’s right next to the hotel.
Be careful. The state is setting COVID infection records right now. BTW...If you are talking about Ye Old College Diner, it's permanently closed.

Will you have a car? If so, a drive through the Brush Valley might be nice. PA 192 to Raymond B. Winter State Park. Amish valley. Great cycling road. You'll also pass by Penn's Cave.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Be careful. The state is setting COVID infection records right now. BTW...If you are talking about Ye Old College Diner, it's permanently closed.

Will you have a car? If so, a drive through the Brush Valley might be nice. PA 192 to Raymond B. Winter State Park. Amish valley. Great cycling road. You'll also pass by Penn's Cave.

damn, when did it close? and negative on the car. I havnt been in three years, the chili mac there amazing.

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Time to grow some brown fat.

It may be a long winter.
Remember, I used to always run shirtless. I’ll be getting acclimated ASAP. Just hard getting started...
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Velo Vol tried to warn them. "This cooler weather is great!" they replied.

Dumb dumbs.
I hate it when you're right.
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Originally Posted by datlas
IMO the censor is a very blunt instrument. And dumb.
I thought it was a filter?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
That never happens.

Jumping cactus, a.k.a. Cholla. Had a few encounters with that in my motorcycle days. A big clump sticks to you, you grab it to pull it out, then it's stuck in your hand.
Before I wore knee/shin guards I had the needles embedded in my legs. I remember pulling one out which was in about an inch, straight into the patella tendon.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Got another eye injection today. Have to stay indoors the rest of the day.
Down here it would be a good day to do that. Rest up, man.
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I thought it was a filter?
You can call it a filter, but it really rubs my fur the wrong way so I call it a ****ing censor.
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Originally Posted by big john
Jumping cactus, a.k.a. Cholla. Had a few encounters with that in my motorcycle days. A big clump sticks to you, you grab it to pull it out, then it's stuck in your hand.
Before I wore knee/shin guards I had the needles embedded in my legs. I remember pulling one out which was in about an inch, straight into the patella tendon.
"Ride off road, they said. It'll be fun, they said."
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Originally Posted by genejockey
"Ride off road, they said. It'll be fun, they said."
Pretty sure that's a roadie.
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The dam in Nashville on the Stones River was roaring. The people that we were with said that they had never seen all the gates open and so much water discharge. Since this was the day before Zeta, I wonder if they were discharging in preparation of storage after yesterday's rain.

Note how I snuck a pic in of my wife.


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Originally Posted by datlas
Brings a whole new perspective to the saying "cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye...."

I hope the medicine works.
This is the second injection of a three part series. The first three injection series back in the Spring only stopped the bleeding for two months.

On the good news side, I can see a little better. The bad news is that I'll never recover full sight in the eye again, only "better" sight.
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