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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 14, 2024 19:37:41 GMT -5
Oh yes, the terrain definitely matters when choosing what kind of bike. I only ever heard of fat bikes because 2 of my coworkers were interested in them a few years ago and I was curious about them. When I bought my mountain bike, it was because I hadn’t been on a bicycle for some years and I was afraid of falling. I was more comfortable with the wider tires even though I wasn’t riding going to be riding on dirt trails. The guy at the bike shop tried to get me interested in hybrids instead, but I was too nervous about the tires being more narrow. But after just a few months with my mountain bike (and not falling lol), I got interested in road bikes, and finally got one 2 or 3 years later. I prefer riding my road bike over my mountain bike, but I am sentimental about my mountain bike, because it’s the reason I learned that I enjoy riding bicycles. Chatting with you about bicycles reminds me of how I miss riding regularly and that I keep saying I’m going to start riding them again. Thanks! Chatting with you reminds me that I need to get my road bike in for service. Opti for rougher, uneven terrain like cobblestones I am inclined to agree with Pink and pick a road bike. Overall best for varied terrain. If you were just taking over smooth asphalt, I would have gone with the fat tire bike. I don't know if it is manageable, but there are lightweight fold-able bikes, too. I have never tried one, but I have seen them taken aboard on public transit.
I admit that you probably know a lot more about bikes than I do, but I have to disagree and say that imo, a hybrid would probably be better for someone like Opti, which is not a knock at all against Opti. For one, ime, road bikes are the most expensive of the options, and Opti seems to have limited funds, and 2, it costs even more to buy a road bike with options to provide some kind of cushioning to not shake, rattle and roll your bones as much over something like cobblestones. My road bike is an “old folks” road bike lol and has some stuff to kind of cushion the ride, and the people I know IRL look at me crazy when they ask me how much it cost if I answer honestly because I think they might have a genuine interest in buying a bicycle. I don’t always answer the question lol. 3rd, which again is not intended to be a knock against Opti, I think that because she doesn’t seem to be in better physical health than the average person, a fat bike would require more energy and work to get from here to there, than another type of bike. And 4th, even though I generally prefer riding my road bike over my mountain bike because of where I ride, if I was riding somewhere like on cobblestones or even somewhere where there is likely to be a lot of debris in my path, I’d feel safer riding my mountain bike. A hybrid is a good middle ground between the 2. It doesn’t do as well as either could do in specific situations that the 2 are designed for, but it can do better than one or the other in many every day situations when you are just trying to get to and fro. In addition to foldable bikes that you mentioned, there are also electric bicycles, where the rider doesn’t have to do all of the work of being the motor. I know that the lighter a bicycle is, the more it costs, and adding more stuff like being foldable and electric, drives the cost up even more, even if you can find one used that fits you, which while it’s not impossible, is probably something like trying to find a needle in a haystack. All of this is just my opinion. At the end of the day, regardless of any advice or opinions, Opti needs to do her own research if she is considering a bicycle as a means of transportation.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 14, 2024 19:40:54 GMT -5
I have naturally curly hair. My butt ugly gray hair comes in straight. I love what humidity does to my hair. I now own something that I never in a hundred years thought I would own. A curling iron. Don’t use often but there just in case. The gray hair that's coming in isn't as wavy as my blonde hair, but it's not stick-straight either. This time of the year there's a lot more wave/curl to my hair, and I can even get long ringlets if the weather is just right. In Winter, my hair is mostly straight, but still has wave to it. The shorter my hair is, the more it curls in the Summer. Hair is weird. I'm growing it out right now to try & control it more, but it DOES have a mind of its own. My hair is unruly in general. I don’t have a lot of gray hair so far, but the strands I do have, are even more unruly than the rest of my hair. Sighhhhh When my hair becomes mostly gray, I will probably just give up for real, and wear hats or scarves every day.
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Post by Opti on Jul 14, 2024 19:44:48 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my hair got really curly from high humidity. When I moved to Boulder, my hair was straight because of the lack of humidity. When I returned to Iowa, my hair doesn't get curly like it did when I was a kid. Maybe gray is a different texture.For me it was, but sometimes I think things vary a lot. My youngest sister chose not to stress about things and chose her current employer based on what she wanted to work with. She did not have gray hair at mom's memorial service roughly 5 years ago. I know my head and I are stressed. But I do have some area here and there that are defiantly brunette.
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2024 20:43:05 GMT -5
The gray hair that's coming in isn't as wavy as my blonde hair, but it's not stick-straight either. This time of the year there's a lot more wave/curl to my hair, and I can even get long ringlets if the weather is just right. In Winter, my hair is mostly straight, but still has wave to it. The shorter my hair is, the more it curls in the Summer. Hair is weird. I'm growing it out right now to try & control it more, but it DOES have a mind of its own. I keep mine short. It looks like I comb it with an old fashioned egg beater. And yes it has a mind of its own. Beautician many years ago said I had the cowlicks from hell. He’s also was the one who told me I would not go gray till well into my 70’s but it was going to be ugly gray. Damn he was spot on. Wow, that was mean! I prefer my blonde hair, but my Mom looked good in gray hair, so I hope when the time comes mine looks as nice as she did.
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2024 20:45:00 GMT -5
The gray hair that's coming in isn't as wavy as my blonde hair, but it's not stick-straight either. This time of the year there's a lot more wave/curl to my hair, and I can even get long ringlets if the weather is just right. In Winter, my hair is mostly straight, but still has wave to it. The shorter my hair is, the more it curls in the Summer. Hair is weird. I'm growing it out right now to try & control it more, but it DOES have a mind of its own. My hair is unruly in general. I don’t have a lot of gray hair so far, but the strands I do have, are even more unruly than the rest of my hair. Sighhhhh When my hair becomes mostly gray, I will probably just give up for real, and wear hats or scarves every day. If it stays unruly, could you pull it back, or braid it? I'm just asking. My hair seems to be a hybrid between my Mom's & Dad's side of the family, so I'm just gonna wait & see what happens.
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Post by Opti on Jul 15, 2024 7:32:25 GMT -5
I keep mine short. It looks like I comb it with an old fashioned egg beater. And yes it has a mind of its own. Beautician many years ago said I had the cowlicks from hell. He’s also was the one who told me I would not go gray till well into my 70’s but it was going to be ugly gray. Damn he was spot on. Wow, that was mean! I prefer my blonde hair, but my Mom looked good in gray hair, so I hope when the time comes mine looks as nice as she did. My mom colored her hair with folks who usually ran hair salons in their basement. Mom was a teacher so seemed to be pretty good at finding sole proprietor hair salons. Her dyed hair looked blue gray to me. I do my own because of finances. I also have migrated to more expensive natural hair color. The nice thing about the natural ones I use as they have real expiration dates on them. Nothing is more fun than planning two days in a row in prep for coloring my hair only to find out it mixes up as lavender with some gray, or no useful discernable color at all.
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Post by busymom on Jul 15, 2024 8:34:15 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! Yup, it's a Monday. I could NOT get to sleep last night because we had a mosquito in the bedroom, and the constant buzzing sound was keeping me awake. I even turned on the light for a bit to try & find it, but nope, it was hiding well. Please pass the caffeine. Lots of it...
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 15, 2024 10:11:23 GMT -5
I have naturally curly hair. My butt ugly gray hair comes in straight. I love what humidity does to my hair. I now own something that I never in a hundred years thought I would own. A curling iron. Don’t use often but there just in case. The gray hair that's coming in isn't as wavy as my blonde hair, but it's not stick-straight either. This time of the year there's a lot more wave/curl to my hair, and I can even get long ringlets if the weather is just right. In Winter, my hair is mostly straight, but still has wave to it. The shorter my hair is, the more it curls in the Summer. Hair is weird. I'm growing it out right now to try & control it more, but it DOES have a mind of its own. My hair is 95% gray now. I never dyed my hair and I don't plan to. I embraced my gray as I embraced aging. Mom and her sisters all had pretty white hair. I hope when my hair is more white than gray, it looks like theirs did.
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Post by jerseygirl on Jul 15, 2024 11:05:31 GMT -5
For a while my hair looked overall blonde. Mixture of ‘left over’ strawberry blonde and white. Now white in front and still faux blonde in back . Eyebrows were always blonde but now mostly white
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Post by Opti on Jul 15, 2024 11:12:15 GMT -5
For a while my hair looked overall blonde. Mixture of ‘left over’ strawberry blonde and white. Now white in front and still faux blonde in back . Eyebrows were always blonde but now mostly white Sounds pretty actually.
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Post by jerseygirl on Jul 15, 2024 11:20:22 GMT -5
For a while my hair looked overall blonde. Mixture of ‘left over’ strawberry blonde and white. Now white in front and still faux blonde in back . Eyebrows were always blonde but now mostly white Sounds pretty actually. Still sometimes startled when I look in the mirror. Being a redhead actually had effects all my life. Couldn’t be in sun for long before bad burns and Mom insisting I couldn’t wear red or orange caused they ‘clashed’ with my hair. Mostly wore blue and green Now there are good sunblocks, I use at least 50. And now happily wearing red and orange sometimes.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 15, 2024 11:59:48 GMT -5
I slept really well last night. I don't remember waking up and trying to get to sleep, or back to sleep. It was nice. Even though my alarm want off at 7 when it didn't need to, I slept until 10 this morning. I feel good.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jul 15, 2024 13:22:08 GMT -5
It sounds like she is referring to what they call “fat bikes”. The tires are even bigger than most mountain bikes. I’ve never been on one, but I am guessing that those fat tires are going to require much more energy to get moving and keep moving at a decent speed than any kind of bike with regular tires. I know that riding my mountain bike on asphalt requires more energy than my road bike, or even Mister’s hybrid. My mountain bike has more tire contact on the street, my road bike, the least. My mountain is lighter than the bikes I was use to when I bought it, but my road bike weighs even less, and is light enough that I joke and say I can pick it up with my pinkie finger. The fat bikes look cool, but I don’t think they are the best choice for the average person that wants to ride a bike regularly, for exercise or necessity. A hybrid would probably be a better choice. I agree about getting fitted, or at least buying from a bicycle shop, where they can at least help you get a general idea of what size you need even if you don’t pay for a proper fitting, you can learn how the geometry of the different frames may be more suitable for your body, and you can “test ride” the bikes. Those things can make a world of difference in whether you buy a bike you actually enjoy riding, or waste your money on a bike that doesn’t suit you and you don’t want to use. Yes a fat bike. Something to ride 3 to 6 miles to work one way. I am also learning about how to put a bike into storage under the bus and make sure the driver does not take off with it, so you are stranded without it. (Apparently if a driver forgets, stuff often ends up in Newark or if you are lucky it might ride that bus back the following day at that specific time.) So it can be for my total short commute, or for part of it when conditions could be better. Can they handle cobblestone streets and broken pavement etc.? Forget about getting a fat bike for your commute. As Pink Cashmere pointed out wider tires = heavier pedaling. With your bum knee that makes even walking 0.4 miles difficult a fat bike will not be an even close to optimal choice for you. Now I know nothing about bike shops in the US but you may look into whether they sell secondhand bikes to keep cost low(er)? That is an option in the Netherlands but I don't know whether it is here
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 15, 2024 20:35:45 GMT -5
I made tuna casserole again, because it's cheap, quick and easy. Plus I really like it and it makes a lot. 😊
I froze two containers and put the rest in the fridge, for later.
It's one of the few things I'm willing to make. I'm lazy.
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Post by busymom on Jul 15, 2024 21:38:33 GMT -5
I made a couple of meatloaves tonight, and both went straight into the freezer, to eat another night. We actually had meatballs & baked potatoes (potatoes are a sale item here this week).
It is miserably humid here tonight, and it actually feels like Florida. But, it's not supposed to last.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 15, 2024 22:21:33 GMT -5
I made a couple of meatloaves tonight, and both went straight into the freezer, to eat another night. We actually had meatballs & baked potatoes (potatoes are a sale item here this week). It is miserably humid here tonight, and it actually feels like Florida. But, it's not supposed to last. I LOVE, love, love, meatloaf. I just don't think to make it. I used to make it all the time.
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Post by busymom on Jul 15, 2024 22:33:37 GMT -5
I made a couple of meatloaves tonight, and both went straight into the freezer, to eat another night. We actually had meatballs & baked potatoes (potatoes are a sale item here this week). It is miserably humid here tonight, and it actually feels like Florida. But, it's not supposed to last. I LOVE, love, love, meatloaf. I just don't think to make it. I used to make it all the time. I'll trade you some tuna casserole for a meatloaf. DH isn't a huge fan, but the kids & I love it!
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 15, 2024 22:43:36 GMT -5
I LOVE, love, love, meatloaf. I just don't think to make it. I used to make it all the time. I'll trade you some tuna casserole for a meatloaf. DH isn't a huge fan, but the kids & I love it! I wish! 😁
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 15, 2024 23:50:15 GMT -5
My hair is unruly in general. I don’t have a lot of gray hair so far, but the strands I do have, are even more unruly than the rest of my hair. Sighhhhh When my hair becomes mostly gray, I will probably just give up for real, and wear hats or scarves every day. If it stays unruly, could you pull it back, or braid it? I'm just asking. My hair seems to be a hybrid between my Mom's & Dad's side of the family, so I'm just gonna wait & see what happens. I have no problem with you asking. My whole adult life, wearing my hair pulled back or in a ponytail, meant that I was having a really bad day lol. It’s just not a good look on me, even though most other women can do either and look fabulous. Braiding it will have pretty much the same effect. I need hair covering my forehead or at least framing my face. That’s not me being negative about the way I look, I’m just being honest. I think part of trying to look our best is being honest about what is flattering IRT how we are made, or not. I’ve been letting my hair grow for a few years now, except for the times that hair scissors have somehow jumped into my hand, and I cut it to try to at least give it some shape. The biggest problem is that no matter how long I let it get, even if it is a few inches down my back, it has such tight coils and curls that shrink so much, that it still looks like I only have at most 2 or 3 inches of hair, that’s a misshapen blob on top of my head. Some parts are very small coils, some parts are very small curls, and overall, it’s really just a mess lol. So I end up cutting it again, to try to at least have some kind of shape. And that lasts for about 2 minutes, because it doesn’t do the same thing every day. When my hair was relaxed, my hair was always on point, and I knew exactly what to do with whatever style I was wearing, to keep it looking nice. I always got compliments on my hair. I still get occasional compliments on my natural hair, that I graciously accept, but on the inside I think “my hair is a mess, but thank you”, because I understand that those compliments usually come from women who wish their hair had some kind of curl or even a wave (less common), women that have hair similar to mine and understand the struggles with it, even if they choose to straighten their own hair (most common) or men that appreciate a woman that is comfortable with working with what what she was born with, and not putting her health at risk to try to fit in with what “society” says she should try to look like. And that is really what my struggle with my unruly hair boils down to, me being unwilling to continue a lifetime of using chemicals every 4-6 weeks, that literally burned my scalp, sometimes worse than others, meaning that for decades, there were times that the burning caused scabs that had to heal. Before I did it all over again in a few weeks….. just to straighten my hair to make it look “good”, and look like something it was not. And the truth is, even when I was doing all of that to tame my hair, and even though I always kept it cut and styled, it was still kind of unruly, and I had to do a lot of things just right to maintain the look. So now it pretty much just laughs at me and says “you want me to go this way? Well Imma go THAT way! You want me to do this? Well imma do THAT instead”. And I just try to roll with it, even though it means that I no longer have the kind of confidence in my hair being part of the pride I’ve always taken in how I present myself to the world. I will figure it out, even if that means I just cut most of it off. I’ll give up and do that before I go back to relaxing it.
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Post by busymom on Jul 16, 2024 8:00:57 GMT -5
Pink Cashmere, I don't look good in a ponytail at all. It's my bone structure of my face, I just can't pull off that look. But I CAN use combs to pull my hair back, and that looks ok. I cannot wear straight bangs, because whatever product I use to try & straighten my hair never lasts. The curl is strong, LOL. So, I work with what I have, as best I can. I agree with not burning up your hair with chemicals, as I worked with a woman who used to do that, and now in her retired age she has bald spots on top of her head from all of those years using chemicals. So, regarding my hair, it is what it is.
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Post by busymom on Jul 16, 2024 8:02:02 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! Yesterday was miserably humid, but today "feels" much better. It has cooled down, and hopefully it'll be comfortable for a day or two.
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Post by Opti on Jul 16, 2024 8:13:45 GMT -5
I'm still alive and yet again have failed on sleeping longer like I planned. Maybe my dreams/nightmares keep waking me up?
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Post by busymom on Jul 16, 2024 9:25:50 GMT -5
I'm still alive and yet again have failed on sleeping longer like I planned. Maybe my dreams/nightmares keep waking me up? IDK. Does reading a good book help make you sleepy? That often works for me. Cooler weather helps too, although yesterday it was miserably hot here.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 16, 2024 21:51:57 GMT -5
What a ride this whole well process has been. After heaving sands, cascading water, and 4 change orders the well is finally drilled. It took several days longer than expected because of all the issues, they also ended up going to 450 feet. They pulled the last of their rigs out this morning and shortly thereafter the well pump guys showed up. We had a change in the bid/pricing before they even started due to the depth of the well. They did get the pump and piping pulled from the old well and started stuff on the new well. The plan is for them to be done with the new well by tomorrow. So of course we have a 20% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow. If there are thunderstorms in the area I doubt they will work since they need to raise a mast about 25-30 feet in the air. I am also currently without running water to the house until they get me onto the new well. DD let me borrow two 5 gallons jugs that DSIL uses for hunting to fill with water. I also filled some misc containers here in the household. If I do run out of water I do have water available from the pasture well, it just isn't convenient to reach and tote back to the house. Right now I'm just worn out.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 16, 2024 22:26:09 GMT -5
Wow, Sharon. That's a big job! I'm glad it's mostly done. Although I suppose it isn't over, until the fat lady sings. So to speak. I hope your water lasts until the new well is hooked up and running.
Hopefully, the weather holds out, until they're done.
Get some rest!
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Post by Opti on Jul 17, 2024 2:10:39 GMT -5
I'm still alive and yet again have failed on sleeping longer like I planned. Maybe my dreams/nightmares keep waking me up? IDK. Does reading a good book help make you sleepy? That often works for me. Cooler weather helps too, although yesterday it was miserably hot here. Sometimes, although sometimes it keeps me up as well. I'm doing the library through home borrowing so there's usually a week or two delay minimum on getting what I want if its in stock. I have a movie DVD which is usually not my kind of thing, horror genre, but the trailers on another DVD looked interesting, so I am slowly watching 'Drag Me to Hell'. Sounds like my life off and on since Covid.
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Post by Opti on Jul 17, 2024 6:12:54 GMT -5
I think I am up for the morning. Maybe got 3 + 2 hours sleep or only 2 + 2 hours sleep. IDK yet. I have to write down things precisely when I am under 4 hours of sleep a night in order to be even close to accurate. Going to log into our system and update my wall calendar to the reality of how many days I have been out, and when my last vacation days had to be sacrificed simply so I could make more days of employment.
I did notice looking on the FMLA paperwork I have to fill out a prominent date is 7/10/24, last Wednesday. My only paid day off for holidays for me and all bank employees was Thursday 7/4/2024. See if I journaled when the big crash was up the road. One of the drivers works for the same company and is scheduled to be out until early August. B and her bff growing up preplanned scattering dad's ashes up on the Island I think August 2-4.
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Post by busymom on Jul 17, 2024 8:06:27 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! It's sunny & cool here. Now, if we could just do something about those mosquitoes... Sharon, I'm sorry the process of getting you a new well is such a PITA, but it'll be great once it's set up & running. DH has lived on a number of rural properties. He says he's lived on properties where the well was deeper than 450 feet. I suppose that's why the process of getting a new one is so expensive.
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Post by Opti on Jul 17, 2024 8:06:46 GMT -5
Ah, need to go check when the big crash was!
Well today's in person moved to Friday afternoon. Might not even get a quick meet & greet televisit prior to then because everyone busy.
ETA - Morning of July 3rd
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Post by Opti on Jul 17, 2024 20:53:49 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! I've been sitting on a $25 gift card for our local movie theater, and DS really wants to see the newest Minion movie, so that's what we're going to do. I was surprised to find out, even 'tho I'm not retirement age yet, I'm considered a senior there, so I get a reduced rate on my ticket price. Sweet! I want to see that movie as well. Let me know how it is.
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