For you, I can give a discount of 5% and I'll throw in one Happy Joe's taco pizza.
Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire
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MrsWx used to cut my hair for a long time but she did not like doing it so I am back to a barber.
Since @VeloClone is bored maybe he has time to tell me of a decent bike shop that can bleed the hydraulic brakes on my bike without leaving my bike with them for two or three weeks?
On a scale 1 to khaki cargo shorts, how middle aged white guy is it of me that I absolutely despise windy days?
I really started hating those windy days after this last week. After 15 years with zero issues, I discovered by the high winds, that my fence has two bad posts. So now I get to pay $500 to have those replaced. Oh on the same day I had window shutter come loose on the 2nd story. "I'll just reach out this window and fix it. Let me pull out this screen....". I rip the screen. Next let me spend the next hour trying to figure out where to put my ladder in this section that is completely covered by evergreens. This was all happening within a few hours and windy as hell.
I'm not sure.
Are cargo shorts a middle-aged white guy thing now? Since the other symbol of that was clunky white tennis shoes and that is what the kids are wearing these days, I'm not sure that I can accurately rate this based upon the cargo shorts scale. Maybe change the scale to something more timeless like "the girls clothes are too revealing" or "modern music is terrible".
Bike World in Ames.
Just yesterday daughter was having a recurring problem (a thunk!) that I was trying to diagnose over the phone. We thought we might have it down to a bad pedal. She is a poor college student so she didn't want to go to a bike shop, but they were riding by Bike World so she decided to stop. They diagnosed the problem and sold her pedals, mounted them and just charged her for parts all while she petted their shop dog and shot the **** with Steve. I told her next time she is in there to tell Steve that she is the daughter of one of the guys that bring the drink machine by his mobile shop every day on RAGBRAI.
Yeah, I know that is a long way to go.
I have been going to Maple Grove Cycling, but they are probably getting their spring rush so probably backed up too. Last year I took in a couple of bikes early spring. When I picked them up a few days later he said I got in just in time because the wait was over 2 weeks then.
How do you like the hydralic brakes? I have never been brave enough to make the plunge to hydralic brakes or "fly by wire" shifting.
It wouldn't hurt to give MGC a call and see if they are crushed yet. It is a ways but wouldn't be too bad of a drive for you since they are right off of 94 at Weaver Lake Rd.
That is my winter cut. Summer cut is 2 to 4. And to think I had long - a little longer than shoulder length - hair while working at Hilton.
I always thought you had a mullet. Was it all long or just the back? My old brain is getting fuzzier.
I had a mullet that I eventually grew out to long all around. I don't think I got many (any?) haircuts in the ~5 years I worked there.
Girls clothes ARE too revealing. Pretty sure most schools have said "Aw, **** it, we aren't fighting that battle" to any kind of dress code.
It's tough when you're outside trying to get stuff done when it's really windy. Or worse yet when you're stuck on the side of the interstate in 60 mph winds trying to deal with the tonneau cover that it ruined.
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