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Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day.

Oops, forgot to do this earlier. Done. Thanks for the reminder. Have a great ride and have fun.

At least it's a happy scar. Heal well!

Wow. It looks the the bearings seized. That definitely shouldn't happen in such a short time. What does the bottom bracket look like? Were you riding the bike under water?

Happy Birthday, Matt! Miss you.

Don't forget Trump.

The small one, lower left.

Oops, erred on the model number. This getting old is hell ...

Just watched the clip. From what I saw there, Chelsea was fortunate to win the game. Arsenal missed two wide-open chances in front of the goal and a third chance that would result in a score more often than not. Neither team seemed to be playing much defense except for the goalkeepers.

Happy Birthday, Ian! Glad to hear you had a good one.

Thanks Brent. My other bike is a 2014 Trek Fuel Ex 3. It was my 2014 Xmas gift to my health.

Maybe you should look again at your system to see if anything else needs breaking?

I'm riding my ebike all the time these days. To make the Trek more enticing, I'm planning on fixing its two biggest flaws, which are the lack of a dropper seatpost and 3 chainrings. To that end, I've ordered a Brand-X dropper from Reaction Cycles and and Sram NX Eagle drive kit. The dropper arrives next week and Sram is releasing the NX Eagle in September. Can't wait to play with them.

Knob Creek is a reasonable value rye if you can get it at a discount. Costco here had a double bottle for $40 (or maybe it was $45). Jim Beam Pre-prohibition Rye is the exact same whiskey with less aging. It has a bigger bite but it's not as smooth as KC. I had a bottle of Copper Creek thanks to Jacob. It wasn't bad but the attempt to use wood pieces to "insta-age" it made the whisky taste a bit confused. I'd look elsewhere unless you're getting a great price.

In-laws? Did I miss an announcement?

I agree with Stretch.

Hang in there, Özgür . Best of luck in your new venture.

Flank steak? Looks really good.

Ordered. I guess this was what was needed to finally get me to try meat bathing. Any recommendations on the plastic sealer?

Greg drinks nothing but Screeching Eagle wines.

Happy Birthday, Todd! Have a wonderful day. Thank you so much for all you do here.

Happy Birthday! Have a great one.

Happy Birthday, Antonio! Have a wonderful day.

It's just a little mint.

Yep. We have high winds tonight too, a phenomenon called a "sun downer". And, of course, we just had a house file that has become a vegetation fire not 3 miles from me. The fire is to the NNW of me and fortunately the winds are NE (from the NE blowing SW. So I'm probably in OK shape. There have been mandatory evacuations near the fire.