Thursday, Feb 12th '26...

ST1100Y

ST1100Y

Site Supporter
ST1100 50,000 Mile Badge
Joined
Dec 4, 2012
Messages
704
Age
60
Location
Vienna, AuSTria
Bike
ST1100Y, ST1100R
Shout out to everyone who put their mug down and forgot where it was...
Mornings are hard... :coffee:

628900159_1436596464608213_4122376669973345194_n.jpg

G'Day...

3°/11°C, overcast with fog, but I glimpsed a little sunrise in da mornin'... nice orange/pinkish horizon... 🌆

Home and office caffeinated as SOP... ☕

despite already spotting some daring riders this week, don't let the warm daily highs fool you, frost and snow are predicted for Sunday and into next week... 🥶

office, calm...
ze GF has her physio today, so she's going to moan about discomfort in the evening, while bravely sitting/swinging on her Fas Fit foam rollers to loosen up them knots...

since she likes it, are we binge watching Bones (Brennan & Booth)... :unsure:
Dunno what to make of it, some characters are borderline annoying... ;)
(I'd rather relaunch X-Files, Burn Notice or In Plain Sight... 😁)

and: tomorrow is Friday... yay! :cool:
 
Last edited:
Thx Martin!

I was called to babysit Peter today.
He got the same bug as me, so we’re both in the couch coughing and sneezing, and watching Peppa Pig, and Number blocks (in spanish…).

Just below freezing, sunny, quite calm.
Tomorrow is another story, let’s tell it tomorrow.

Have a good and snotfree one!
Stu

Todays view from my daughters place
IMG_4537.jpeg
 
Good morning everyone

Thanks for the coffee, Martin.

It's 33°F and cloudy in Rockville, going to 36 under mostly cloudy skies.

@STooRay sorry to hear of the ongoing malady, and that it has spread to include Peter as well. Rough way to return from time in the sunshine, innit?

ST1100Y said:
Mornings are hard...
Click to expand...

... especially when they begin with "Cannot reload this site" error messages when trying to get into this and other sites. Not a pleasing way to begin a day. After a router restart, though, all appears to be well, or at least well enough for me to get my daily fix here before moving along to whatever comes next.

What comes next, in just a few minutes actually, is an 0620 departure to get Mrs. Fun to the ophthalmologist in time for her second cataract removal procedure, scheduled to commence at 0700. After that's finished I'll do a bit of uke playing (we're trying our hand at George Formby style today, something I've not done before) then head to the music shop for the usual Thursday afternoon strum session.

I dry-assembled the tool storage cart yesterday, and discovered a couple mistakes. They were both relatively easy to correct, and only one will leave a permanent and unsightly scar on the finished product. I'll do the pocket screw drilling tomorrow, along with the final assembly. It'll be ready to enter service by Saturday. If I feel like embellishing it, I may fab up a couple doors but they're not currently on the design and I don't really care. I think. Maybe. Or not. We'll see.

Stay safe and well everyone and tell your dear ones you love them. Do it today, NOW, for tomorrow may be too late.
 
Morning all, and thanks Martin for getting us going.

-3C and cloudy, headed to 0 and mostly cloudy. Spent 2 hours after work yesterday blowing snow, then another hour and a half this morning at 5am. The poor snowblower is starting to grow grey hair and I'm sure I heard it sputter "gran canarie" when I turned it off.

It'll be a busy 3 days at work, with a bunch of stuff happening thru Saturday. Monday is a holiday here so at least I'll get 2 consecutive days off. As I looked out the back of the building yesterday I saw our normal "head shake and smile moment" once again. Our building looks down the hill to a large public paid parking lot, that's often filled. When the snow hits and the lines are covered all bets are off. They were once again parked 3 deep. Do folks not look when they get out? I feel bad for the folks in the middle who are stuck not being able to get out, and incurring additional hourly fees to park there. Happens all the time. I think they all need to fill out some ID-10-T forms.

Have a great day and remember to look both ways before you park or cross the street.

Obo.
 
Last edited:
Good morning and thanks for the coffee, Martin.

It's sunny and 23f/-5c, rising to 33f/0.5c.
It looks like we got another dusting of snow, overnight.

Yesterday's skiing was abbreviated. My knee was in pain on the first run, and things didn't get better. I kept to the lower slopes, and the conditions were great. I skiid and poled over to the bottom of the upper trail, but when I skiid down, my knee took a pounding and I retreated back to the lower trail.
I think my app shows 7 runs in a little over an hour.
I missed my opportunity to walk the neighbor's dog, but did manage to finish my latest book.

Today's plan is a meeting with my Urologist to discuss "next steps". The biopsy results showed a higher Gleason score, and we'll see what's needed to ensure that the cancer doesn't spread. The good news is that the MRI didn't show any spread.

@STooRay, I don't know what the problem is with warmer climes. My brother vacationed in FLorida a few weeks ago, and returned with a cold, as well. I guess the warmth brings different people closer, and allows spread?

Enjoy the day,
Steve
 
Warning! Longer than usual!
Wow, so much going on with y'all.
Thanks for the Black water Martin.
steve3b3 said:
The good news is that the MRI didn't show any spread.
Click to expand...
Steve, is your team considering removal or radiation, etc? When I had my prostate removed, I chose removal over the other 2 options i was presented... but guess what? There was a fourth option i was not told about, simply because this urology center did not have the equipment to perform the procedure!
Having learned of this after the fact (dammit! My bad. "Oops."), it was likely the choice i would have made. Robotic removal was easy, no more exams, all gone... but the resulting details I will now live with are disappointing, at best. So do your due diligence, is all I'll say. I could have done better.
As I said earlier this week, at least now I don't have to worry that I'll die young.
Two more quick things...
Two nights ago as I left work, I somehow neglected to zip my jacket chest pocket holding my phone. Y'all know where this is going.
A few minutes later, I felt something hit my right thigh. Weird! What was that? Did I leave my gloves on the tank while I put Kaiser in the trailer?
No, my gloves are on my hands.
A moment later, the radio broadcast I was listening to, quit in my Sena helmet headset (connects to my phone over Bluetooth).
Oh no! That was my PHONE that hit my leg, falling out of my pocket!
As I turned off the main road, into neighborhoods I've never been in, I circled back around to get back to my going- home route. All the hassle and expense of buying and configuring and reloading a new phone was freaking me out.
Fortunately, although it was dark, the GSA has low-mount auxiliary lights that actually light up the sides of the road, and I retraced my route in the darkness, standing on the footpegs in first gear with my hazards flashing. Also lucky at 7pm, there was almost no traffic going my direction.
First pass, nada, I saw nothing. Knowing it had hit my right leg, I wasn't concerned it fell into the middle of the road on my left.
I went back a couple of blocks, and realized I wasn't exactly sure where I was when it fell out.
So I went around a second time, a little slower, and rode a little further on my route before turning down a residential street, circling back to the left to look again.
Nothing.
Now I'm really worried.
This time, I turned into another neighborhood but came back in the opposite direction, just in case it had bounced into the oncoming lane.
Nope.
This is bad. I really, really don't wanna buy a new phone and go through all that again!
Once more, I turned and repeated the slow down and look, going back the same way that I had lost the phone.
SUCCESS! Unbelievable!
I saw the Otterbox holster that clips to my belt, in a yard on my right. I didn't have a place to pull over off the road, so I went a little further, and saw the phone itself in an easy half- circle driveway, whee I could pull out of my lane and safely get off the bike.
After I'd retrieved the holster, I walked back to the phone and found nothing broken.
WHEW! Dodged that bullet!
Thank goodness I always use protection! For my phones, I mean. The Otterbox Defender is their most expensive phone case, but it saved my phone again. Yay!
Well, look at the time.
And look at all the words!
Story #2 will wait until tomorrow.
Almost Friday.
We can do this!
 
Last edited:
Sadlsor said:
Steve, is your team considering removal or radiation, etc? When I had my prostate removed, I chose removal over the other 2 options i was presented... but guess what? There was a fourth option i was not told about, simply because this urology center did not have the equipment to perform the procedure!
Having learned of this after the fact (dammit! My bad. "Oops."), it was likely the choice i would have made. Robotic removal was easy, no more exams, all gone... but the resulting details I will now live with are disappointing, at best. So do your due diligence, is all I'll say. I could have done better.
Click to expand...
We haven't gotten to that point, yet. That's pretty much what this appointment is for.
I'm trying not to overthink, which is what my urologist said when he called with results.
There's a /Prostatecancer sub-reddit that I've been looking at, to get up to speed with the lingo and some options.
 
Morning Martin & All from overcast Southern Utah!

We actually got 0.01" of rain last night! WOW, the drought is OVER! :run1:

Currently it is 36F, up from 35F and heading for 52F. The storms aren't over, but if we get any more rain, I'll be surprised. The winds are calm now, earlier they were blowing pretty good, and later they will be out of the SW @ 12 to 14mph.

Chris and I will be heading down to ST George for a Costco run. So that will be pretty much of our day.

Once Chris wakes, we'll eat and then take off. I'm sure we'll see a Pepsi or two down there.

Anyone :bl13:, have a great day on the roads! :hat3:
 
Good Morning, Thanks Martin for coffee and the entertainment. Sadlsor ,Glad you found your phone, I want a phone that bounces, nothing worse than having to bend down to pick it up. Cloudy 36 F high 46 F wet stuff overnight. Charging batteries for park vehicles is the only thing on my agenda today. Y'all have a great day G
 
Sadlsor said:
Well, this much I can tell you... the frustration, self-loathing, fear, disappointment and angst were very, very REAL..
You might even say palpable.
But I was truly blessed.
Click to expand...

If you'd lost a prepaid phone, no matter how long you searched you'd never get those minutes of your life back.
 
Obo said:
I'm not entirely convinced @Sadlsor's story is actually true,

It certainly sounded phony to me.
Click to expand...
See, to me when you had ridden back into BT range, wouldn't your music start up again? Or was that a detail you left out? If I were in that situation, I'd be listening for my music or whatever to cut back on to tell me I was close. But glad that he did find it!

G'dafternoon y'all! Short update from SoMD. It's 39F/4C and breezy with peeks of sunshine. WFH thank goodness after two days of awful IRL traffic, partly due to the monks Walk For Peace, but mostly due to the usual spastic, self-important snots that also work in the DMV.

Got two more music stands refinished and some laundry done. Not sure what tonight holds. Feel better y'all!
 
Last edited:
jdmccright said:
See, to me when you had ridden back into BT range, wouldn't your music start up again? Or was that a detail you left out? If I were in that situation, I'd be listening for my music or whatever to cut back on to tell me I was close. But glad that he did find it!
Click to expand...
Interesting that you noticed that, and yes I WAS hoping that would help me.
But once the connection is broken, iHeart Radio app terminates the feed, and must be restarted after the Bluetooth connection is restored. But not by simply riding back into range.
Same thing happens when I accidentally dislodge the wired Etymotic earbuds jack from the Sena 50S headset.... once I plug it back in, I have to press Play in the app to continue streaming.
 
Obo said:
I'm not entirely convinced @Sadlsor's story is actually true,

It certainly sounded phony to me.
Click to expand...

Glad you found it. Your story certainly had the ring of truth to me.

When I was still riding, one day I had my phone in the Ram Mounts X mount on my dash, but did NOT have the supplemental rubber corner strap retainers deployed. While on a relatively busy two-lane state highway I crossed a bridge that had a bump at the far end. The X holder lost its grip and let go of the phone, which bounced off my left quad and disappeared.

I was able to slow and pull off almost immediately- thankfully there was no car tailgating me- and began to make a very low-speed U turn. I had the handlebars cranked over to the left but something seemed to be impeding them from full range of motion. Looking down I realized the phone had bounced so that it was lying vertically on one side, trapped between the inner surface of the fairing and the top of the left fork. My attempt to turn had pushed the fork against the glass of the phone's face, which of course cracked said glass.

But the phone wasn't lying in the traffic lane and nobody had run over it, so I was able to head for a local shopping mall (remember those?) and get the screen replaced. I was much more diligent about using the rubber corner strap to secure the phone after that little le$$on.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom