n_maher

Ahem, nothing is wasted on cafe mocha.

Happy Birthday!

How much do I have to add to my order for a t-shirt?

This. Also, listen to the wise words from Naaman. There are literally some people that you cannot please, doesn’t matter what you do. They are best left to their misery, don’t make it yours.

Just the start. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/08/coca-cola-follows-mcdonalds-starbucks-in-suspending-business-in-russia.html

If this was your first post we might have to give you some kind of prize.

Lily and I decided that while it was no longer my birthday, cake was still required. So we made our favorite, Key Lime Cake.

Decided that despite crushing myself on Zwift for an hour this morning that 65 and sunny (it was supposed to rain) was too nice to pass up. So did another 17 miles on the road. Ass sufficiently kicked.

Fixed it for you.

Condolences, Todd.

Paypal sent.

Not that anyone was following this saga, but this is exactly what I ended up doing. Thankfully I was able to find someone selling a nearly new Dura-Ace crankset with integrated 4iii dual-sided power meter for half price and my shop charged me like $30 to install the whole thing. I think I'll be able to recoup a couple hundred from reselling the old Stages PM. Now if the weather would just allow for me to get the bike back out on the road.

MOT MOT MOT MOT - wait, what trade are we talking here? Regardless, I'm in and Paypal will be on the way shortly for 2lbs.

In for 2lbs here. How are you planning to roast, Dan?

There are plenty of commercial products (and DIY for that matter) that take a line-level signal and use passive components to create a differential signal. My first thought would be that if you're going to do that, it'd be something I'd argue is worth spending some serious $ on.

Thanks all. Crap day at work fighting dry dock struggles but making up for it in Boston tonight - heading to Celtic's game shortly. First, an Old Fashioned with dinner.

happy belated birthday, Craig!

This. Have been through something similar, but shorter, and it is no fun.

Happy Birthday, Naaman. Here's to hoping your day is filled with ping pong and family fun.

Yup, my commute home was pretty much dead into it. Strava was fun to look at. Fun to pull nearly 270W average for an hour plus to go 17mph.

The ride home was painful. Mother Nature decided that she gave no fucks about the forecast, which had called for strong but not insane winds shifting from WSW to NNE later in the day. When I left work at 4:15 for the 20 mile ride, it was ripping WSW at 19MPH with gusts up to 32MPH. By the time I got home the temps had dropped into the mid 40s and I was thanking the good lord that I remembered arm warmers.

Seriously, what the shit is that?

^^^ Yup, it was 55F at 5AM so I said fuck it and rode my bike to work only to be greeted with a winter storm warning (for Friday). It is 65 and sunny currently. Tonight it is supposed to drop to 19. This shit is bananas. B A N A N A S.

Sorry to hear about the loss of a family friend, Dan. Your closing paragraph is pretty much spot on, in my opinion. My fear/concern/not-sure-what-to-call-it is that I don’t know what it takes to just get people back to being reasonable? Maybe they were never reasonable but I didn’t see it because there was not single dividing line like Trump and COVID both have been? At this point I’m ready for half of America to try to convince me that the Ukraine just invaded Russia.