No, really, I love that I’m sitting here melting on a hot patio waiting for the swim meet to start while a strong thunderstorm approaches. And then I’ll get to wait in my car for an hour for the rain to stop (hah), and eventually they’ll push the rest of the meet to tomorrow anyway 🤦♂️
Any day I get a delivery from Blue Lug is at least a little good (some final parts for my wife’s Raleigh and some Nitto Noodle Bars for me)!
Is it still pareidolia if you see faces in mirrors? he dadded exuberantly
I don’t know whether the timing was a coincidence, but my late father only started trying to be a better dad as my brothers and I reached our late teens. Maybe because he could start relating to us like adults? I lost him in ‘08, but at least I always remember him trying (a little) at the end.
For a first build (and only second YouTube video), this Specialized Hardrock cruiser resto-mod by Anna Dong is pretty great—not just as a build, but also as a build video, especially when she uses split-screen to show old vs. new components. youtu.be/AmnnQd9wK…
US-Australia was better than I expected, still super physical. Still shocked at how much players get away with on the pitch. But the US won!? Color this fair weather fan impressed!
Went out to the shed to retrieve a hand vacuum I keep forgetting about. Futzed around with #bike stuff for 10 minutes and returned to the house without the vacuum 🤦♂️
Weather in RVA is :chef’s kiss: today, and it was a treat to get in my #bike ride all before starting the work day.
Ah, Shimano Nexave. Ultegra. SLX. Tiagra. Classic lines of…fishing reels!
Gotta love the use of group names across totally different lines of business.
Every time I see one of those dang Quintana Roo bikes on Marketplace I feel like I’m seeing a crime against industrial design.
That was one HELLUVA finish to that match. Hot dayum!
Well I sure didn’t expect the first half of USA-Paraguay to be that exciting. Wow!
Just tried my first ever batch of cold brew. I had some beans that weren’t doing it for me with my daily V60 pour over, so I decided to try grinding the rest coarsely for cold brew. It’s a bit strong (let the ice melt and it’s fine), but way better than I expected!
Is the Toyota Grand Highlander just a Sienna for people who are allergic to minivans?
Received a Rivendell Silver rear hub to pair with a gorgeous new-old-stock Suntour XC 9000 front hub that I plan to use in a wheelset.
UPS recently updated their live delivery tracking but it’s no improvement. It seems to imply the truck’s route to the delivery address when in actuality it redraws the route from delivery to the truck every time it changes location.
Taking a few days off the #bike sux (I think I made myself sick scream-cheering at my kids' swim meet), but I think I can still do a little maintenance work in the shed before it gets dangerously hot outside (lots of truing to be done on various wheels).
What am I doing this evening? Oh, just checking in on a map pin, watching Lael Wilcox crush it in her record attempt around the world on a #bike: www.followmychallenge.com/live/lael…
Always such a peculiar feeling to be excited to see my kids compete while simultaneously loathing summer swim meets.
GAWT DAYUM, Pixar’s Hoppers was gut-bustingly funny. I had high hopes for this one knowing it came from the creator of We Bare Bears, and I was not disappointed. Just silly, heartwarming fun.
Finished breaking down the 1990 Scwinn Crosscut #bike. Headset is totally indexed, one of the bearing cages in the BB had exploded, but I think I can salvage the derailleurs, cranks, canti brakes, and seat post. It’s mostly clean now, too 😛
Why can’t cows win any arguments? … … … Because anything they say is a moo point!
It’s totally badass that stage 8 of Giro d’Italia Women had a summit finish on a freaking gravel road.
Inebriated, nerdy, friendly dude argument going on at the bar in The Cask about whether the T800 or a Wookiee would win in a fight.
Big dad energy.
Drunk with hack-job home machining power, I have now used an adjustable reamer to slowly, carefully, ream out the seat tube of the Diamond Back Apex #bike from 26.6 to 26.8 mm. Now I can use my sweet 26.8 Thomson to match the stem.