Happy Friday.
I’ve spent the (mercifully short) week listening to a coworker mumble-sing (she doesn’t know many words, just the tune) along with damn near every sappy, shitty pop song on the radio, off key and off time.
New bike day
New-old stock 2018 Transition Patrol, got on a hell of a sale.
Aesthetics in Motion bait
Need a shuttle vehicle for two downhill mountain biking in the snow? Miata is always the answer. (18:00ish if time-cut link doesn’t work)
22 years of automotive mediocrity: a history of my vehicles.
This took a hell of a lot longer than I thought it would to compile, but I’m glad I did. It was a fun trip down memory lane for me.
Helmet testing.
Had a pretty good wipeout on the mountain bike this morning, which unfortunately gave me a chance to find out how good my helmet is was.
Oppositesock
This is where I live. I’m fortunate enough to have the Appalachian Mountains/Blue Ridge Parkway and it’s amazing drives/climbing/hiking/biking essentially surrounding my home.
DOTSOTM (Down on the side of the mountain)
So I spent my weekend absolutely neglecting my lawn in lieu of playing dirtbag mountain biker (I think I made the right choice). 17 miles and 5400' of climbing (which also means 5400' of descent fun time), all within a stones throw of my front door.
New toy
I started riding single track 27 years ago, with my last new ride being a 2004 Giant VT2 (I’ve been on an 8 year hiatus for bad reasons). Holy shit have bikes changed.
Follow-up on an old post/finished project pics
This could double as DC3LS bait, I’m guessing.
Telemarketers
Being the primary employee to field telephone calls at my job, I tend to get a hell of a lot of telemarketers. They’re pretty easy to quickly identify (background conversations from cubicle farm, flat/dead delivery of reading from a script for 8 hours), but I’ve had a couple in the past month that have been different.
Lazy coworkers.
I’ve come to grips with the fact that I’m the only one around here cognizant enough to notice that the water cooler is empty, and thus always end up refilling it.
Far Side Friday - Ramblin' is letting us down
Edit: I should look before I leap, Ramblin’ actually made a couple posts earlier today when I was doing the unthinkable (actually working at work).
Pseudo Far Side Friday
Fell down the YouTube rabbit hole and saw this commercial a couple weeks ago, and immediately thought “If Gary Larson did television commercials...”
Deer whistles
Did not help.
Guess the MSRP
2017 Mercedes GLS450 left headlamp, with night vision and curve illumination.
RIP Malcolm Young
The first time I really displayed interest in music was at about four years old, and it was AC/DC’s “For those about to rock”. I think it was the cannons that got me, they were unique and interesting to my little mind and ears.
Bodyshop catlopnik.
So winter is approaching, and it’s getting colder outside as it tends to do in mid fall. It’s been warm enough during the day (mid 60s) that we’ve been keeping our bay doors open as long as possible. When my coworkers and I opened the shop up Monday morning, we noticed tiny little kitten footprints in the dust on a…
Power Rules
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