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Old 02-05-14 | 11:52 AM
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Today it's snowing enough to use my new snowblower. Cost about as much as I've spent on bikes in my lifetime and is nowhere near as fun to operate as a bike.
I got one of these this year; it really works! Clears the snow in half the time it takes to shovel (quicker than most of my neighbors' snow blowers, even), much cheaper and easier to maintain.

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Old 02-05-14 | 11:54 AM
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I got one of these this year; it really works! Clears the snow in half the time it takes to shovel (quicker than most of my neighbors' snow blowers, even), much cheaper and easier to maintain.

Dang, and you haven't gotten a second one and built a bike around the wheels yet???
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Old 02-05-14 | 12:08 PM
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Old 02-05-14 | 12:18 PM
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today i bought a taxidermied piranha for $1.99
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Old 02-05-14 | 12:36 PM
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I'll let someone else say it.
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Old 02-05-14 | 12:38 PM
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Old 02-05-14 | 12:43 PM
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its rly kewl
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Old 02-05-14 | 01:23 PM
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today i bought a vaporizer and some juice, sup hedonism
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Old 02-05-14 | 01:26 PM
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My vaporizer doesn't use juice.
HEY OOOOOO


Whatchu cop homie?
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Old 02-05-14 | 02:07 PM
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Old 02-05-14 | 03:49 PM
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Whatchu cop homie?

ego-v with a kanger t2 clearomizer
some crazy raspberry lemonade shiz and a menthol tobacco with nicotine

i miss smoking but hate cigarettes, not a fan of being high anymore either
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Old 02-05-14 | 04:43 PM
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dont trip bro ill get high for you instead so u dont have to

i call it charity
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Old 02-05-14 | 04:43 PM
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in cycling news i kicked down 3hrs b4 work this morning.

getting out of bed before dawn sucks, but being on the road out in the cuts during sunrise is pretty kewl.
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Old 02-05-14 | 05:55 PM
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Copped a set of ceramic angular contact bb bearings. Gonna tear down the caad. Getting a set of nokon next pay check. I also got a new s works toupe.
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Old 02-05-14 | 06:51 PM
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I like my toupe, but I hated the little pointy things on the back of it
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Old 02-05-14 | 06:57 PM
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something ive always wondered: is it pronounced hairpiece or troop with a silent r?
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Old 02-05-14 | 06:57 PM
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On the lower end models its a torx 8 to take them off. On the s works they're apart of the shell so tough luck.
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Old 02-05-14 | 07:00 PM
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Like the hair piece.
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Old 02-05-14 | 07:09 PM
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Old 02-05-14 | 07:19 PM
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Today I woke up at 5 am to a lot of racket coming from my animal trap located on my front porch. So far in the last month I've caught 7 feral cats, one possum and now a racoon. They are all nuisance animals with the racoons being the most destructive and dangerous. I transport them out to the country and release them.

Also, today I finally got my new HEF (high efficiency toilet) installed. I was waiting for a new tile floor to be installed to replace a horrible old linoleum floor before installing the toilet, and the results look great. I have to wait a day before entering the bathroom to let the tile cement set up and the grout dry, but he tested the toilet and it works great w/o leaking. The house is 50 years old and it has black iron sewer pipe with a completely rusted out toilet outlet flange. He had to hammer and grind it off and then use concrete anchors to insert a new pvc flange. I'm sure glad I didn't try to do it myself.

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Old 02-05-14 | 08:41 PM
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Dat Aerospoke.
Waiting for someone to say that its on backwards, ha!

Originally Posted by TMonk
dont trip bro ill get high for you instead so u dont have to

i call it charity
I can contribute to that charity as well!
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Old 02-06-14 | 01:33 AM
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Today it looks like I committed to teaming up with a few buddies to do a mixed dirt&road century and two fleche randos this year in March, April, and May. Time to get back into shape.
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Old 02-06-14 | 01:45 AM
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Today I put my mad skills to use and installed a new deadbolt and passage set at the co-op... the funky biometric keyless entry system does not like extreme cold and after one winter of it mis-behaving decided to go with an old fashioned system. Should have figured that a product that was designed in Florida might not work where the temperatures can hit -40.

Thought I was going to freeze solid but got the job done, fabricated a new plate for the door as the old system used a larger cutout and back set which I was able to do inside but still had to make sure everything was fitted up right.

Installed a high efficiency valve in my WC last week... our water rates are insane and am hoping this cuts our water use-age although all these lower flow plumbing fixtures often cause problems with old sewage systems that were designed for higher flow rates.
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Old 02-06-14 | 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by hairnet
Today it looks like I committed to teaming up with a few buddies to do a mixed dirt&road century and two fleche randos this year in March, April, and May. Time to get back into shape.
Are you doing 24 hour fleches? What kind of distance?
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Old 02-06-14 | 08:25 AM
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Installed a high efficiency valve in my WC last week... our water rates are insane and am hoping this cuts our water use-age although all these lower flow plumbing fixtures often cause problems with old sewage systems that were designed for higher flow rates.
How does this differ from a HET (high efficiency toilet) ? I installed one in my house yesterday and it uses only 4.8 Lpf, which is about half as much water as my old toilet. I tried it out just now with a serious morning load and it works great. Instead of all the long swirling and swirling in the bowl before finally flushing, it just does an immediate effective flush much like the pressurized units you see in public bathrooms.

On another note, although it's not as cold down here as where you live, it's still only 10 degF (-12 deg C) and snowing with the predicted temperature staying below freezing all day. It's definitely indoor training weather for me and so thankful I don't have to commute to work today.
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