WhyFi

I hope that you're not circling back to the Schadenfreude bit.

thin_concrete

Very good

Hope everyone here is doing well too!

rpenmanparker 

Nah...I never left it.

Trsnrtr

Wonder if @Rowan is in bed sleeping off a drunken New Years party.

WhyFi

Oof da. Did some 30-sec seated intervals today - a liiiiiittle bit of a different kind of stress than the FTP-ish work I've been doing as of late. I'll have to watch that first set of stairs that I walk down.

BillyD

For the all-around sports fans, a really well done piece on Muhammad Ali from the NYTimes.

surgeonstone

Ok, I'm cycling indoors, how do I get zwift started. I'm logged in but I see no way to get on a ride. What gives

Doug28450

Zwift is smarter than you.

surgeonstone

Gee thanks.

Doug28450

Don't make me laugh...I'm trying to superglue a broken Christmas ornament together and to my fingers.

Rowan

No. Sadly I am the age where I almost abhor the sight of drunk Aussies, stubbie or oversized wine glass in hand, staggering around during the summer holiday period (or any other time, actually). Put them together in a group, mix in a few on meth, and it feels like a powder keg waiting for a spark. Really an unpleasant atmosphere for us.

We went to watch the fireworks on the river put on for the kids at 9.30pm which is the prelude to the ones at midnight. It was a nice show. The weather has been such crap here, the turnout for this one was much less than in previous years. I was home in bed by 10.15pm.

Anyway... We've started 2017 already. When ARE you guys ever going to catch up?

Rowan

Off to do a 100km ride, first for the year, and part of a metric C-a-month for an Audax Australia award. If we are successful this ride, it will be 3 down out of 12 (season starts in November).

Trsnrtr

Are you on the application or the web site? It took me a while to figure out that there was an app for that.

topslop1

100%. From my spend thrift days in late teens to early 20's I have stuff around here that I'm sure would get tossed that would be a couple grand. Too cheap to Uhaul, too expensive to throw out? Something like that? Ugh.

topslop1

I dressed up the cover letter and resume on Motorola's site to which I continue to apply to jobs on. I'm still looking for my first 'good' job. Been looking and applying consistently over the past 4 years. I think having a PMP cert would really increase my odds, however I really want the (next) employer to pay for it and to then trade-up to a better position within the same company. I do not want to collect certs on my own dime, a very costly en devour to which reward is not certain. Maybe I'm being a cheap ass. I don't know.

BillyD

2016 is fading fast, and the fat lady is getting warmed up.

topslop1

Retul bike fit was cake, looks like it straightened me out a whole bunch. Was told to switch to road pedals and road shoes for additional stability and power transfer. Important to do so?

Seat went up and back, hoods down, stem flipped (up), brifter shifted slightly inward, cleats moved back, shim installed on right foot. Retul printout / report being e-mailed later I believe.

topslop1

What celeb will pass between now and 12p?

Doug28450

Yeah...

Well...

You live in Illinois, it can be expected that it takes you longer.

Velo Vol 

wut

Velo Vol 

Do you want to trade hemispheres until April?

Jadesfire 

At least for me, it's a balance between time spent on certifications and money being earned. For instance, there are some certifications I could earn through work, which offers about a $0.75 raise in total over three levels. But to be eligible to take the third level exam it takes three years of employment. But they also offer a tuition waiver, so 90% of my grad school is paid for- though I have to take ~20% of a pay cut each semester (which is mostly returned at tax time). I'm almost finished with this, and it's starting to get a little awkward as my boss knows I'm not sticking around much longer as I am educating myself out of my position and my field. If you are looking to stay in your current field, though, and move up in it as well, wouldn't it be better to be able to show you are at least working on these certifications? Granted- I know nothing about PMP, is it a matter of hundreds or thousands of dollars? And are there stages to it, or just a single exam? Honestly curious- I have no experience in your field.

jtaylor996

Here's to a 2017 of pain free riding!

Those guys can really find a lot of little changes to make to get your joints tracking just perfect, and then keep it that way.

jtaylor996

My money would be on Queen Elizabeth. Poor old gal. She's supposedly a distant relative of mine.

jtaylor996

I'm done on the bike for the year. No big push for me today, just a casual MTB ride introducing my friend to the sport. He had fun and didn't get hurt (and didn't break the equipment) so I'll call that a total success any day.

2643 miles, 72,650' elevation, and 206 hours on the bike.

My real accomplishment this year has to do with the reshaping of my diseased heart muscle that I was able to make much better. I got that good news in September. It's kind of hard to compete with that, so I'm very meh on mileage. It's just not what matters to me anymore.

Tomorrow I start the diet in anger. That's my goal for next year. Lose another 30 pounds. We shall see how that goes. Going to be a LOT of plain chicken salads in my future.