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[astroNikon]

we're nearly at 20,000
keep it up ... i'm headed out soon.
I expect to be at 20,000 when I get back later tonight.

 

[mmaria]

OK. Thank you. I'll save a cinnamon roll for you (the yeast is rising now)

OH YES!

 

[mmaria]

oh ma is here

I saved you some pizza

 

[snowbear97]

My boss--in fact, most of the people on my floor of the building--is at the board meeting where we'll find out whether 4B has managed to bulldoze enough board members into voting for the train wreck of a route proposal. I really, really hope it doesn't pass, but I'm afraid it will.
Then I'll have to get busy posting a bunch of stuff about it online. And I would have trouble making it sound very positive, because I think it's a ridiculous idea.

Is it likely to increase, or decrease profits / expenses?

Neither. It's a cost-neutral proposal.

I know what that's like. Good luck.

 

[snowbear97]

WVFD 12 is rolling out again - sounds like the ambulance.

 

[limr13]

Pictures of nails, please!!

 

[mmaria]

oh sorry, forgot..

they're simple


just a sec

 

[Gary A.]

Lunchtime any suggestions?

My mac & cheese with chicken and jalapenos was pretty good. I have some leftovers; you want them?

Too late. Mary Lou is playing hookey so I cooked up some turkey sausage, peppers, mushrooms, scrambled in some eggs, some chili powder, spices and a splash of Parmesan and we had some burritos.

 

[mmaria]

Pictures of nails, please!!

I want to scratch someone!

Yeah, really, I have that strange desire... they're strong now and I need to put them in use

 

[Gary A.]

I feel as if we've all just won a Gold Medal in the Special Olympics.

I feel as if I got a flat tire right before the finish line .... from the BLOCK that we got ..

In one race I was told to attack in the hills - since I was a hill climber.

As I positioned myself going up a looooooong hill to attack a few Alfa Romeo dudes rolled around me. One in front and another *right* next to me. He put his hand on my hip preventing me from attacking moving much. They blocked me the entire race. I guess the peloton was a bit tired.

That's kinda how I feel.

LOL ... but "Marines Don't Quit!" I heard that in a movie.

yup, except these guys were big and muscular. I'm a shorty riding a 49cm frame .. 130lbs to fly up a hill back then. It was obvious their intent.

So where were your teammates?

laughing

what 'cha gonna do ... have a fistfight in the middle of a bike race ?

FWIW .. I was a good sprinter too ... so they were dropped near the finish

I just couldn't TT worth anything except in hills

If I was on your team I would have figured out a way to spring you. On my mark vere left and I would have squeezed between you and the competition. I would have jammed 'em up one way or another.

Some of the toughest Marines I've encountered have been Marine Snipers. Much different than Army Snipers. These guys were like Marine Recon on steroids ... 'cept they were all scrawny smallish guys ... like you and I.

 

[snowbear97]

Closeup on the ring-finger, please. I'm trying to figure out that spot.

 

[Gary A.]

When I was younger and my siblings and I would get into some sort of trouble, or when we wanted to ask our parents for something, they'd always send me in first. "You're the youngest, so they'll be the least mad at you," they said. "No," I said, "You just need me to go in and use up their bullets so you can trample over my bloody corpse to safety!"

I started calling myself the Marine of the family.

ME too! I was, essentially, the youngest of 7 kids. There were 5 siblings, but we also lived right next door to two of my cousins, and we spent every waking moment together, so it was more like 7 siblings with two sets of parents. Only my cousin's parents weren't really so good at the parenting part.

But they really DID send me in because my dad would hardly ever say No to me. Mom was an entirely different story.

I was the baby too. I had two older brothers who were four and seven years my senior. So we didn't hang out together, but I did get beat up a lot. lol

 

[sm4him]

When I was younger and my siblings and I would get into some sort of trouble, or when we wanted to ask our parents for something, they'd always send me in first. "You're the youngest, so they'll be the least mad at you," they said. "No," I said, "You just need me to go in and use up their bullets so you can trample over my bloody corpse to safety!"

I started calling myself the Marine of the family.

ME too! I was, essentially, the youngest of 7 kids. There were 5 siblings, but we also lived right next door to two of my cousins, and we spent every waking moment together, so it was more like 7 siblings with two sets of parents. Only my cousin's parents weren't really so good at the parenting part.

But they really DID send me in because my dad would hardly ever say No to me. Mom was an entirely different story.

I was the baby too. I had two older brothers who were four and seven years my senior. So we didn't hang out together, but I did get beat up a lot. lol

The two oldest boys are 9 & 10 years older than me. Then there's a brother who is about 2.5 years older; he's the one that picked on us the most. Then my sister, who is one year (and 18 days) older than me.
My cousins fit in, agewise, between my sister and the youngest of the boys, and then between the youngest and middle boys. I have some pictures of all seven of us, stair-stepped together when we were young and again when we were older. I'll have to find them and post them.

 

[Gary A.]

My new view. I have to share it!

View attachment 87546

I like the fall colors in the trees.

 

[sm4him]

Pictures of nails, please!!

I want to scratch someone!

Yeah, really, I have that strange desire... they're strong now and I need to put them in use
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1. Those are beautiful.
2. So are the nails.