The Tri Lounge from Jul 16, 2009 to Jul 21, 2009 comments

The Tri Lounge Jul 16, 2009 to Jul 21, 2009

Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 13:18 Comment 189710
vimp of nz email: @: HELLO JAMES YOU CHEEKY LIL SCALLYWAG!!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 13:08 Comment 189709 JD of @ email: @: hello?
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 11:38 Comment 189708 JD of @ email: @: If Rita decides to not pack up the chickens then there will be a hot meal waiting for her when she gets home. 8)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 10:58 Comment 189707 of email: @: ..
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 10:27 Comment 189706 JD of @ email: @: Ya'll want to laugh your ass off? Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2zqKi39Mo
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 10:22 Comment 189705 JD of @ email: @: PSE Nova, 70lb draw with 70% letoff, wisker Bisquit, 3 pin Trijicon = Dead Squirrel at 25 yards. 8)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 10:17 Comment 189704 JD of @ email: @: Alberto rides with Happy Feet. That makes me crazy... 8)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 9:39 Comment 189703 JD of @ email: @: Smartcar + accident = Jaws of life. 8)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 9:17 Comment 189702
Vimp of en zed email: @: I mostly expect 11 but often only get 4 or 5
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 9:13 Comment 189701
d2p of email: @: ahhh the disappointment of high expecatations
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 8:48 Comment 189700 Al of email: @: Yes.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 8:39 Comment 189699
d2p of email: @: are you disappointed if there are only 40?
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 8:13 Comment 189698 Al of email: @: I always expect to see 47 clowns get out of a Smart Car.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 8:10 Comment 189697
d2p of email: @: s smartcar just drove past. always makes me smile.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 8:09 Comment 189696 E of email: @: Good luck on those! That sounds perfect. :)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 8:02 Comment 189695
tina of @ email: @: The women will be back in the beginning of August and then they will be reviewing all the candidates and hope to start interviews at the end of August and into September. LONG WAIT!! :-)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:58 Comment 189694 E of email: @: Beware- this is the point where Vimp usually chimes in with somain like, "I gots a job fer you and ya only need one hand and it's in my shorts!" Or sumptin sleazy like that. That guy is such a perv mang! Whatev!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:58 Comment 189693
tina of @ email: @: The two primary women are currently at their projects in Africa. The day I sent in my resume, cover letter, and additional convincing information about my passion for this stuff ;-) I got a reply about three hours later saying they wanted to talk with me further but we'd have to wait till the women got back. Hang on...let me see what the email said specifically....
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:56 Comment 189692
tina of @ email: @: then, august 3-5 I will be going to a confernece being held by Four World Forum for Social Innovation. The conference is titled "Insitutionalizing Social Innovation - Concepts, Cases, Co-Creation" LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:55 Comment 189691 E of email: @: When's the interview and all that stuff?
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:53 Comment 189690
tina of @ email: @: What's cool about this non-profit is that it was started by a mother and daughter who had visited over there and were so totally moved. This np started in 1998 (?) and has about 15 people on the board and/or steering committee and 3 paid employees (I think they are paid anyway). My guess is that their organization is growing and is at the point where it needs to be run like a 'business' so that it can continue to keep growing. Most people who start non-profits really don't dig the business side of it, but I TOTALLY DO!!!! AND...it would be my first official step into the realm of solving global poverty (even if just in a few villages here and there :-)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:50 Comment 189689
tina of @ email: @: AL!! I would LOVE that!!!! :-)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:49 Comment 189688 E of email: @: I was jus thinkin NGO! Ya know, like that chick from The Constant Gardner who married an Ambassador dude... But she later got shot. FRIGGEN DYPRAXIN MANG!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:44 Comment 189686
tina of @ email: @: E! LOL! :-D
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:44 Comment 189685
tina of @ email: @: dan - yep! :-)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:44 Comment 189684 E of email: @: Why did Jesus give Tina an F? For having her own thoughts? Not a cool move Jesus!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:43 Comment 189683 Al of email: @: If I lived closer, I'd go to Tina's loft with white wine and let her vent.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:43 Comment 189682
tina of @ email: @: As the saying goes....If you don't wind up failing sometimes, you're not trying hard enough.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:43 Comment 189681 Al of email: @: I'm sorry you're having a rough time, Tina. (((Hugs)))
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:42 Comment 189680
d2p of email: @: tina - you atill on 5th st?
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:41 Comment 189679 E of email: @: Tina- one word: World Bank. Or, UN
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:40 Comment 189678 E of email: @: I follow my shorts
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:39 Comment 189677
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: TINA- you did the best you could and no one can tell you otherwise! :-) Clearly the universe has something else in mind for you right now!! :-) Follow your heart!!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:37 Comment 189676
tina of @ email: @: time to focus on economics, social innovation, and global poverty. I feel with what I have learned at Bethel in the past year has given me the foundation I needed/wanted before starting to seriously dig into this.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:35 Comment 189675
tina of @ email: @: No. Didn't plagarize at all (perhaps I should have). I just saw the grade and then read one random comment to my friend and then that was when I decided (needed) to leave.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:32 Comment 189674
tina of @ email: @: My decision to leave Bethel still stands, however... it's just the right time. :-)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:31 Comment 189673
d2p of email: @: how is it possible to get an F? you didnt copy your paper from wikipedia did you?
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:31 Comment 189672
tina of @ email: @: she signed it "I believe in you" *tearing up*
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:29 Comment 189671 E of email: @: Open it and share!
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:26 Comment 189670 E of email: @: You didn't tri hard enough. :)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:26 Comment 189669
tina of @ email: @: wow. *just* got an email from my prof. Don't have the guts to open it just yet though :-(
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:23 Comment 189668
tina of @ email: @: and please. no unsolicited advice about how I didn't try hard enough. thank you for your attention to this matter.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:22 Comment 189667
tina of @ email: @: I can't fb from work though...
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:21 Comment 189666
tina of @ email: @: the decision to leave goes way deeper than just this one paper though :-)
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:20 Comment 189665
tina of @ email: @: SQRN! I'd should like post a note or something explaining. The straw that broke the camel's back is getting an F on my last 'scholarly' paper. (we got our papers back at the class break yesterday. I saw my grade. Sat there for about 3 minutes and then told my friend sitting next to me that I was going home (we still had 2 hours of class left).
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:18 Comment 189664
tina of @ email: @: anchor babies included. We're not talking rocket science here people.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:18 Comment 189663
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: Miss Tina, when you're ready, I'd love to know what the heck happened yesterday!? :-/
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:16 Comment 189662
tina of @ email: @: yes...I know. You're.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 7:16 Comment 189661
tina of @ email: @: Dear California - legalize the weed and boot all the illegal aliens back to where it is they came from. Problem solved. Your welcome.
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 2009 0:31 Comment 189660
vimp of nz email: @: WIGGINS IS A MOUNTAIN GOAT! HE AIN'T GOT NO MONSTER WATTS FOR THE TT :-)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 22:14 Comment 189659
Aero of Goleta email: @: Thinking that Wiggins is sleeping with a fully engorged woodrow tonight--looking solid for the podium...
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 22:09 Comment 189658
Aero of Goleta email: @: VAMBLE ON! Brotha--lets do the dirty thang one a these days. I'm talking beer and surf, of course.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 21:01 Comment 189657 E of email: @: 72 Hours of Beer. I've won that race numerous times in the 80'z. No big
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 21:00 Comment 189656 E of email: @: "Toe" is the new "plumbers butt"
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 20:09 Comment 189655 JD of @ email: @: ...upon second observation I'm leaning more towards toe than not so much. Its a mystical one...sneaky toe. I believe its disquised as a high crease but could possibly be the real deal. Tough call. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 20:04 Comment 189654 JD of @ email: @: Aero -Dude. Not so much. I roll Rotor Rings now. They are the $hit. sb -So no toe huh? E for Effort. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 18:49 Comment 189653
noel of email: @: Laura,the Eagle landed in the Sea of Tranquility. How do senior moments rate on the geezer scale? lol
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 18:42 Comment 189652
vimp of nz email: @: I LOVE YOU HANNYWINKS!!!
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 18:42 Comment 189651
notBroooooooooce of nz email: @: *JUDO CHOP, KUNG FU KICK, KARATE SLAP, PRETZEL FOLD, VICO SWALLOW*
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 18:26 Comment 189650
Laura of @ email: @: No, the litmus test whether you are a geezer, is: where where you when Tranquility landed? ;-))
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 18:03 Comment 189649
ray of @ email: @: Duder, you got it reversed. Vico before, 72 hours of beer after...
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 17:53 Comment 189648 sb of @ email: @: Just saw a report on the evening news stating that the average age of the American athlete is rising. Can you say video games????????
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 17:39 Comment 189647
Aero of Goleta email: @: Yeah, well Raymang, after 72 hours of Vico, ol' Aero has decided no mo dojo...
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 17:25 Comment 189646 sb of @ email: @: JD.....The gf advises that's just spandex yanked up into the thigh crease....no camel toe....sorry dude......
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 17:04 Comment 189645 Al of email: @: We need a report from Rita.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 16:50 Comment 189644
ray of @ email: @: Bruce, we're friggin' fossils. But hey, you're still posting so you must have survived the dojo.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 16:42 Comment 189643
Aero of Goleta email: @: Got 5 chilly Bohemias at home. They're calling me...
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 16:40 Comment 189642
Aero of Goleta email: @: Oh, hey Rafe. We're old, right?
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 16:40 Comment 189641
Aero of Goleta email: @: Crap man, I've seen Dillion's bike at races before. The dude runs a big ring with a bigger ring on the outside. Something like a 54/80. I don't understand that freak. Where do you find that kind of hardware?
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 16:16 Comment 189640
ray of @ email: @: JD, definitely a cameltoe. Yeah, AC looked shelled but 20 something year olds recover overnight--38 year olds not so much.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 15:30 Comment 189639 JD of @ email: @: Ray -I especially like the part when LA crossed the finishline and spit a biggo loogy on national TV. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 15:29 Comment 189638 JD of @ email: @: Yeah ray. I think he looked pretty shelled. However, so did Contador after almost falling off his bike after finishing. Tough day. Without EPO these guys actually look like there getting shelled. Speaking of shelled Ima go put in a few on the leather. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 15:27 Comment 189637 JD of @ email: @: Come on people I need a ruling here. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 15:26 Comment 189636 JD of @ email: @: Is this a cameltoe I can't tell. Ruling please... http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/photos/powers-eyes-womens-prestige-cycling-series-victory/75647
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 15:08 Comment 189635
ray of @ email: @: Even if you take AC out of it, lots of those skinny boys climb a whole lot better than Lance. But AC can time trial and wearing yellow makes you time trial faster. Just look at Sastre.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 15:06 Comment 189634
ray of @ email: @: Lance got nothin'. Shelled look on his face and muttering about missing something at the top end...he's done. Unless AC falls and breaks a leg. Look at the replay--he's got this blank stare thinking, "Don't you leave me, Kloden--you just keep doing the tempo!"
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:54 Comment 189633 JD of @ email: @: Prolly should get rid of all those broaches too huh? 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:51 Comment 189632 JD of @ email: @: WHAM! 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:51 Comment 189631 JD of @ email: @: Ole big George needs to shut his pie hole. He's all disapointed by saying he didnt get handed the yellow jersey by 5 seconds. DUDE! STFUAR FASTER! Don't expect the field to slow down just so you can have a jersey. That's like throwing the race for political reasons. I'm telling you what if I was in that race I would be like FU beoches i aint slowing down for nobody...ya bunch of candy asses! You wanta win...your gonna have ta beat me. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:51 Comment 189630 Al of email: @: GAWD! Now I have "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" stuck in my head. Friggin' JD!!!
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:47 Comment 189629 Al of email: @: Wait, so in NZ, that means it was last month.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:46 Comment 189628 Al of email: @: That was soooo two days ago, Vimp.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:44 Comment 189627
vimp of nz email: @: Or was it the one before? Ya know the one where Big Georgie G nearly went canary.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:43 Comment 189626
vimp of nz email: @: Seriously, if Roger was posting and saying stuff like "Hincapie, right?" throughout the tour, I would have pooped my pants after seeing the last stage!
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:38 Comment 189625 Al of email: @: Looked for a pic of George Michael in a half shirt. Didn't find one.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:32 Comment 189624 Al of email: @: Suicide note, 80's Apple IIe style. 10 PRINT "GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD" 20 GOTO 10
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:32 Comment 189623 JD of @ email: @: http://www.liebography.com/hed/Mesh.htm
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:31 Comment 189622 Al of email: @: I can't go out in public like this... I think I'll just go have Pop Rocks and Coke...
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:30 Comment 189621 JD of @ email: @: Al -I'm holding out on throwing out my half shirts. There coming back you watch! 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:24 Comment 189620 Al of email: @: It's not 1982? Dang it! I KNEW I shouldn't have let my stylist talk me into the Flock of Seagulls hair!
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 14:02 Comment 189619 JD of @ email: @: Well kinda true. I saw him coming to the intersection from the right and we made a left on to his street. I told wayne to look at the guy with the disc coming up from the other street. So we let him pass so we could hassle him a little. Turns out it was one of those faux disc covers. Like who the hell rides those things man. I mean seriously. This aint 1982. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:58 Comment 189618 Al of email: @: They have faux disk wheels? We used to put playing card in our spokes when we were kids. Does that count as a faux disk wheel?
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:56 Comment 189617 JD of @ email: @: Me and Wayne got passed by a weekend warrior with a faux disc wheel. True story. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:53 Comment 189616 JD of @ email: @: You know both AC and LA had an agreement to not attack each other in the mountains so if Lance decides to make a go at a stage win then Contador must sit in. Plus if Lance attacks you know all of the other high GC guys are going to go so that would seemingly be working in AC's favor to wear down his biggest competitors. Coy stuff. I believe that this is all kind of playing in Lance's favor. Unless Contador can handle up on the attacks time and time again and then ride a strong TT. Which is also possible. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:47 Comment 189615 JD of @ email: @: Well by then he will have to have defended alot of mountain attacks and may be worn down enough to get beat by a minute or two easily. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:33 Comment 189614 Al of email: @: I was kinda wondering about the TT. Is Contador any good at the TT? I can't 'member.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:32 Comment 189613 Al of email: @: Ten mile run followed by Cheerios with beer instead of milk.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:30 Comment 189612 JD of @ email: @: Last I can remember the concert sucked. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:29 Comment 189611 JD of @ email: @: I thought it was keep drinking... 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:28 Comment 189610 JD of @ email: @: I got 5 bucks say's Lance is bluffing and will try to get the 1 minute and change back by waiting on other teams/attackers to shell ole Contrador and then Lance pounces on him in the TT. I know one damn thing I wouldnt want the Yellow jersey on the first alps day and have to defend it for the rest of the alps days witha group of people that could possibly put you in a world of hurt by the last day.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:27 Comment 189609 Al of email: @: You're supposed to sweat out a hangover, JD. A ten mile run at 5am woulda done the trick.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 13:26 Comment 189608 JD of @ email: @: I felt like hammered dog mess this morning coming to work. S'all good now. 8)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 12:52 Comment 189607
vimp of nz email: @: Methinks Roger may have contributed to the top of that cupcake :-)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:31 Comment 189606
ChrisG of Mpls email: @: Tina, kudos to you for all the hard work. I'm familiar with going back to school later in life, and it's not easy. And those deep fried twinkies are the worst item on that list. Yuck.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:20 Comment 189605
tina of @ email: @: OK. Other than perhaps the chick in the halter top, did you happen to notice the size of all the people lined up to get a deep fried twinkie?
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:16 Comment 189604
tina of @ email: @: She's also going to meet the newest member of my family! MIYA!!
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:16 Comment 189603
tina of @ email: @: I have a date with Gina for good drinks and good conversation the evening of July 31. I am counting down the days... :-)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:15 Comment 189602
tina of @ email: @: Hey Chris! I was home all day yesterday writing my FINAL paper of the semester!! (tonight is the last night of class :-)
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:10 Comment 189601
ChrisG of Mpls email: @: Oh yeah, Al, I am a little embarassed to say that I've tried almost all of those Fair foods.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:09 Comment 189600
ChrisG of Mpls email: @: Hi Tina, ran into Gina, and the Real Deal yesterday. You should have gone to the Annandale Tri yesterday, it was a beautiful day for a race.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 11:09 Comment 189599 of email:
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 10:44 Comment 189598
tina of @ email: @: Because MOA is the obvious place to showplace gluttony.
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 10:14 Comment 189597 Al of email: @: And why is it that stuff like this is always at Mall of America?
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 10:14 Comment 189596 Al of email: @: Isn't a giant cupcake just, well, a cake? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31994119/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 9:39 Comment 189595 Al of email: @: Fair food: http://www.delish.com/recipes/cooking-recipes/unusual-state-fair-food?GT1=34133
Date: Monday July 20th, 2009 6:58 Comment 189594
Flovesparko of email: @: Swoosh, good news. Hopefully more rain is coming.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 21:50 Comment 189593 JD of @ email: @: Drunk. 8)
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 19:08 Comment 189592
swoosh! of starlite email: @: geesh SQRN, that is really sad! I hope they find her soon and safe!
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 19:00 Comment 189591
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Thanks Alynn ! I'm still at home! We got ready to get out, but the sheriff never came down our street. So we waited and watched, kept an eye on the wind, and eventually saw some flames coming over the crest; lots of thunder for quite a while. Then, most of the fire crews left, while helicopters came around dumping water onto the flames on the hillside. They died down to what looks like just a smoldering field and then about 1/2 an hour ago we got a big dump of rain for about 15 minutes. We just heard on the scanner a report that the fire 1 mile south of us is now contained. But I'm not planning on unpacking anything yet !
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 18:52 Comment 189590 jd of @ email: @: No already got my drink on... 8)
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 18:50 Comment 189589 JD of @ email: @: Sitting at the amphatheatre waiting on aerosmith to come on stage aftewr watching zztop. Yes I'm toast. Me and wayne rode 50 this morning it was good. Now ima get my drink on. 8)
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 17:01 Comment 189588 Al of email: @: Please stay safe, Rita. We're thinking of you.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 16:31 Comment 189587
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: Possible child abduction at Moonlight today. :-( 6 year old little girl...helicopters, police, everyone had to get out of the water...scary stuff. The poor dad was like, "she was just right here!"
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 16:07 Comment 189586 E of email: @: Leave the bbq sauce where I can find it quickly?
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 15:19 Comment 189585
swoosh! of starlite email: @: yeah. they just drove down the southern block on the loudspeaker announcing a mandatory evacuation. my dog totally knows something is up; she's glued to my side. i've got my backpack packed and sleeping bag by the door. anyway, guess we're outta here.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 15:13 Comment 189584
ray of @ email: @: Weird weather in the midwest. 65F today and overcast. WTF? This is July fer crisakes.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 15:12 Comment 189583
ray of @ email: @: rita, yer killing me. Abandon ship! Save the boyfriend and doggies first. Leave the chickens in the coop. Spread some mesquite chips on the floor so the firemen don't go without sustenance if the fire gets there.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 14:48 Comment 189582
swoosh! of starlite email: @: hmmm. bulldozer just headed down the road and six more CDF trucks just pulled in.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 14:42 Comment 189581
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Thanks E. We aren't seeing any flames at all, but (we are geeks and have the scanner going) heard there is a new start, and that is looking quite ugly. If we see flames come over the crest then we've got about 1/2 mile. Anyway, the bulldozer and firetrucks have mostly been in place since they arrived. We figured that if it was getting close enough then the bulldozer would be busy doing something. Forest Service trucks have driven past our backyard through the desert a bit, and, the firetrucks did go out to our neighbors' house about 1/4 mile away; I am pretty sure they are in the backcountry right now unfortunately. Anyway, they were definitely doing some clearing around their place. Our neighbors have driven out their horses and mules; and yes, I'm afraid the chickens would be left on their own. well, i might grab one of 'em.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 14:20 Comment 189580 E of email: @: Swooshie! Fire bad. Fire beds down at night and kicks up in the afternoon. You probably won't get a drive by knock on the door until fire is imminent. it sounds like they are deploying fire break assets ahead of the fire if buldozers are staged on your street. Depending on the rate of spread you may be okay today and tonight. Watch for an update tonight or tomorrow morning and anticipate what the fire could do tomorrow afternoon. If so, get out early and patiently. No mad dashes. Don't wait till the fire is near. Don't know how you evac chickens but good luck. Usually we would tell people to evac pets and horses/livestock only. Chickens should probably just stay unfortunately. I guess you could box them but hotels and evac centers won't let you have them. They have better odds in the coop because crews will protect structures almost at any cost. If you set them free critters will feast on em and they will not out waddle a fire. Put all your explosive or dangerous goods like propane bbq or light fluid in a small pile in a clear area like your driveway. Crews will appreciate it or most likely do it for you once you are gone...;ust before they fire line all the landscaping around your house. :)
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 13:43 Comment 189579
swoosh! of starlite email: @: well according to the "calfire blogspot" we're being evacuated. but nobody's knocked on our door yet!
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 12:36 Comment 189578
Boop of LA email: @: Don't venture out in to the Buttermilk's today, Rita. Stay safe!
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 10:45 Comment 189577
swoosh! of starlite email: @: well, the big black plumes are back, the wind is picking up a bit, and fire crews and bulldozers just showed up at the end of the street. good grief.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 10:18 Comment 189576 JC of SC email: @: Watching "Off Limits" "were never out gunned" as the Helicoptor show up. This movie always makes me think of Rod. I told him about this movie.....Get Some Glad to hear you are safe Rita and the chickens
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 9:04 Comment 189575
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Thanks Laura! There are no more dark billowing plumes of smoke, just a thick blanket of yuck, so I think they've maybe got it under control. :-)
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 8:44 Comment 189574
Laura of @ email: @: Hi Swoosh! Glad that you checked in this morning..please stay safe and don't take chances! As for E..someone get him a Diet Coke and tell him to get a move on up to Rita's. :-)
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 7:50 Comment 189573
swoosh! of starlite email: @: that's what I'd like to know too Laura! Ray, this was a lightning strike; apparently there were dozens of them yesterday. The view of Mt. Tom is similar to when you and Aero and Mare were here for dinner. :-/
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 5:49 Comment 189572
Laura of @ email: @: Speaking of non-flatlanders, where is E? Shouldn't he be pulling on his fire-fighting gear and muscle shirt and showing up on Rita's door step about now?
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 5:47 Comment 189571
Laura of @ email: @: Rita, we'd offer you the lake cottage as an evac place, but it's on flatland and has all that way too thick oxygen stuff...:-) Seriously, stay safe!
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 5:42 Comment 189570
ray of @ email: @: rita, stay safe. Sorry to hear about the fire. Any idea how it started? Natural lightening strike or another arson? Oh yeah, and I'm with Aero--that framed picture of Aero and Ray--make sure you take it if you evacuate along with the boyfriend, the dogs and food. The chickens, not so much. Chickens were made to be roasted.
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 4:03 Comment 189569 Al of email: @: I hope things calm down soon, Rita! Stay safe!
Date: Sunday July 19th, 2009 4:02 Comment 189568 Al of email: @: I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FIRE AT RITA'S!!!
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 23:16 Comment 189567
swoosh! of starlite email: @: You are right Aero. There are only three "things" I would take in the event we get booted out of here in the middle of the night (other than the dogs and the boyfriend). :-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:57 Comment 189566
Aero of Goleta email: @: Number one--dog. Number two--dog food. Chickens don't factor into this. Oh yeah, boyfriend. He's in.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:56 Comment 189565
Aero of Goleta email: @: You know those rocks on top of the fireplace? Leave those...
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:54 Comment 189564
Aero of Goleta email: @: Lemme tell you a thing--and Alynn can back me up on this. Load the Element with the six most important things that you have. It's easy and it'll likely be effort wasted. No big, just do it. Think--do I have a picture of Aero I can't live without;-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:51 Comment 189563
Aero of Goleta email: @: It means it's dark, and the pilots don't wanna meet an irresistable force.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:35 Comment 189562
swoosh! of starlite email: @: the water tankers have stopped flying over, so i'm not sure what that means. Arnold prolly called and said "we dunt have dat in dis budget to be flying dem aeroplanes...."
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:29 Comment 189561
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Thanks Aero. :-) It's definitely getting more impressive-looking!
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:25 Comment 189560
Aero of Goleta email: @: Rita sistah, the Shack is open to E. Sierra refugees--as long as they're you.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 22:04 Comment 189559
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Thanks SQRN!
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 21:49 Comment 189558
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: On a more serious note...stay safe rita! You and the chickens are welcome here in the garage anytime! :-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 21:48 Comment 189557
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: Evacuate the chickens!!!!!!!
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 21:44 Comment 189556
swoosh! of starlite email: @: direct path to where the fire is, is about 6 miles. I think that would take a while to get here.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 21:42 Comment 189555
swoosh! of starlite email: @: thanks. it's easy to keep an eye on, the ridge about 1/2 mile south of us has a bright pinky-orange glow behind it. but, there is no wind so that's a good thing :-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 21:20 Comment 189554
Boop of LA email: @: Good luck Rita! I hope there will be no packing up of the chickens....
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 20:40 Comment 189553
tina of @ email: @: If anyone would like to 'enlarge your manhood', I have an email I can forward....
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 20:09 Comment 189552
tina of @ email: @: Only in Rita's world could one understand "IT'S TIME TO PACK THE CHICKENS!!!"
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 18:38 Comment 189551
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Had to pass a quiz with the CHP to get home just now; there's a fairly significant fire up the 168 at Intake 2 and they're evacuating all the campgrounds. Got a few miles and a big ridge to go before we would need to pack up the dogs and chickens though.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 18:05 Comment 189550
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: ray they are so kind the days I'm missing are coming out of sick time hours!! :-D
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 15:33 Comment 189549
Laura of @ email: @: I do, however emphasize re the construction traffic. My bee-line of I 43 to Milwaukee is all torn up; and adding insult to injury, heading due south on HY 120, I ran into Alpine Valley / Dave Matthews concert traffic; but if I had driven south from the hospital, I would have hit Country Thunder traffic. Sandwiched between two big concerts and neither one of them appealing...
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 15:28 Comment 189548
Laura of @ email: @: Jeeze Ray, I think you ought to live a little..point that bike of yours onto I 294 and see what happens..;-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 15:27 Comment 189547
Laura of @ email: @: Deer's playlist? "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" but of course..;-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 11:31 Comment 189545
ray of @ email: @: Duh!!! Hugh Masekela, Grazing in the Grass. ;-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 10:17 Comment 189544 Al of email: @: I wonder what would be on a deer's playlist. Sound of Music? Prolly no Ted Nugent. Prolly.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 10:16 Comment 189543 Al of email: @: On this morning's ride, I got stuck in the middle of an organized ride event. Lots of people with bike handling skills worse than mine not paying attention. I yelled, "On you left!" "Head's up!" at one chick several times and she never heard me. iPods on the bike are idiotic! On my way back, I almost got taken out by a deer jumping a fence onto the trail. Then I noticed the tell-tale white cord hanging out of her ears. Apparently I was the only one without an iPod today.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 9:53 Comment 189542
swoosh! of starlite email: @: that's a shame.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 9:37 Comment 189541
ray of @ email: @: Unfortunately, all roads in are not really bike friendly. Distance would not be a problem, just getting back unshot, unstabbed, and not having left parts on someone's bumper would be an issue. It's not like Bishop where you put a foot in the crosswalk and everything comes to a screeching halt. ;-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 9:07 Comment 189540
swoosh! of starlite email: @: can you ride your bike in? or part way? that's what i'm starting to do with my commute; makes a lot more sense :-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 9:03 Comment 189539
ray of @ email: @: Suck it up and race or blow it off and train long? crap, I dunno...
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 9:02 Comment 189538
ray of @ email: @: I have to drive all the way into Chicago to pick up a race packet for a sprint tri tomorrow. That's about 5-6 hours of driving in construction traffic for about 1:25 minutes of racing. Doesn't seem very green or worth it at this point.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 9:00 Comment 189537
ray of @ email: @: You are not excited because who wants to waste good vacation time rehabbing a stupid injury. :-/
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 8:36 Comment 189536
tina of @ email: @: you're not excited because you love your job :-)
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 7:48 Comment 189535 JC of SC email: @: SQRN, come on in and see us. Just one day for a few session, you might just see a nice reduction in swelling, reduced pain and a nice increase in healing, a much nicer vacation.
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 7:12 Comment 189534
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: My hand earned me a two week vacation. Why am I not excited?
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 6:16 Comment 189533
Bear of @ email: @: Anyone notice food wrappers getting harder to remove? Used to be these thin metal wrappers with wheels. Now ya have to peel away 5-6 layers of wood, wallboard...WTF?
Date: Saturday July 18th, 2009 4:15 Comment 189532 Al of email: @: swoosh - Stealing food? Are you sure it wasn't JD dressed as a bear?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 21:25 Comment 189531
swoosh! of starlite email: @: This is why I love this place ... Here is the latest "Police Beat" from the Mammoth Lakes newspaper: Friday, 17 July 2009. The following individuals were arrested by the Mammoth Lakes Police Department last week: No arrests last week. Wildlife Report for week of 7/17: Monday, July 6 � Bear had been inside a dwelling on Lodestar Drive, caused damage. Photos taken and copy of report given to Wildlife Specialist. Tuesday, July 7 � Bear had been inside a private residence on Monterey Pines Road, Wildlife Specialist and police officer responded. Bear returned to the area in the evening, Wildlife Specialist fired rubber bullets causing bear to flee. � Report of bear in a residence on Twin Lakes Loop Road made at MLPD front counter. Wednesday, July 8 � Report of bear possibly in home at Twin Lakes Cabins. Wildlife Specialist responded, but bear was not found, but food was scattered among paw prints. Sunday, July 12 � Bear had been inside Twin Lakes Store, broke window to enter and ate food. Copy of report given to Wildlife Specialist.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 18:47 Comment 189529
d2p of email: @: "The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $91 million. Alerus Financial, National Association's acquisition of all the deposits was the "least costly" resolution for the FDIC's DIF compared to alternatives. BankFirst is the 55th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the nation this year, and the first in South Dakota. The last FDIC-insured institution to be closed in the state was First Federal Savings Bank of South Dakota, Rapid City, on April 24, 1992."
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 18:42 Comment 189528
tina of @ email: @: confirmed! "He comes to Marshall BankFirst [new president] at a time of major transition at the Minneapolis-based company, which had an enforcement action taken against it by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the South Dakota Department of Revenue, which regulate the bank. (The company's BankFirst charter is based in Sioux Falls, S.D.)"
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 18:36 Comment 189527
tina of @ email: @: Looks like it was a State chartered bank, so if it was a member of the Fed (which most are), the fed (in conjunction with the State of South Dakota Division of Banking) would have regulated this place. The Fed would have also regulated the Holding Company (entity that owns the bank) On Friday, July 17, 2009, BankFirst, Sioux Falls, SD was closed by the South Dakota Division of Banking.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 18:33 Comment 189526
tina of @ email: @: ahhhh....I see the regulators closed it. hang on and let me check who their charter is with...
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 18:31 Comment 189525
tina of @ email: @: Dan - that bank doesn't sound familiar. Why do you ask?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 17:36 Comment 189524 Al of email: @: :-(
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 17:23 Comment 189523
d2p of email: @: "and thats the way it is" Walter Cronkite, r.i.p.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 17:18 Comment 189522 Al of email: @: (Tour news, but not a spoiler) WTF???? http://www.velonews.com/article/95303/
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 17:08 Comment 189521 Al of email: @: You know, something about getting the weinermobile to "pull out" of the garage. Or maybe a safety lesson about using condiments.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 17:02 Comment 189520 Al of email: @: So many weiner jokes, so little time...
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 16:53 Comment 189519 sb of @ email: @: A moment please...........
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 15:55 Comment 189518
d2p of email: @: NO!!!! http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-090717-weinermobile-crashes-into-house,0,6217102.story
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 15:33 Comment 189517
d2p of email: @: tina - you ever been to BANKFIRST in Sioux Falls?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 12:27 Comment 189516
Dice of email: @: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet... Along came a spider who said, "Yo, b!tch! What's in the bowl?"
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 12:20 Comment 189515 JD of @ email: @: I don't know tina. Have you eaten giingerbread lately? EYUK! 8)
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 12:18 Comment 189514
Dice man of @ email: @: little ole lady lived in a shoe...
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 12:03 Comment 189513
FFO of . email: @: We can no longer say the French are a bunch of wooses. - - - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8156329.stm
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:54 Comment 189512 Al of email: @: Or the icing attaching the shutters and roof tiles would melt.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:54 Comment 189511 Al of email: @: Or at the very least, the giant oven she wanted to throw the children into would burn the rest of the house.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:50 Comment 189510
tina of @ email: @: *drinking diet dew*
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:50 Comment 189509
tina of @ email: @: *chewing bubblegum*
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:49 Comment 189508
tina of @ email: @: la la la....
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:49 Comment 189507
tina of @ email: @: You'd think that, like, when it rained, the gingerbread house would get all soggy....not a very practical way to build a house if you ask me.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:47 Comment 189506
tina of @ email: @: And the lady who was going to eat them lived in a gingerbread house, correct?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:47 Comment 189505
tina of @ email: @: YES!
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:47 Comment 189504
tina of @ email: @: No wait. Hansel and Gretel were going to be eaten...I think. Gingerbread house? Now I'm all confused?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:47 Comment 189503 Al of email: @: Hansel and Gretel.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:46 Comment 189502
tina of @ email: @: NICE STORIES TO TELL YOUR KIDS! GAWD!
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:46 Comment 189501
tina of @ email: @: Actually, I think the woman in the shoe just had all the kids (and didn't know what to do)...I think some other old lady was trying to put them in the oven.....
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:45 Comment 189500
tina of @ email: @: Does the crazy neighbor lady live in a shoe and eat little children?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:44 Comment 189499
tina of @ email: @: ...an icey stare?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:44 Comment 189498
tina of @ email: @: did the crazy neighbor lady kill it with a spell?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 11:43 Comment 189497
tina of @ email: @: If it was a cat, I really wouldn't care, but a kitten :(
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 10:44 Comment 189496
ironmanny of sd email: @: Did it have beach cruiser tire tracks on it?
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 10:21 Comment 189495
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: One of the stray kittens was dead in the street this morning. :-(
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 10:21 Comment 189494
tina of @ email: @: SQRN - perhaps you could borrow e's prosthetic arm until your's works correctly again.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 10:16 Comment 189493 Al of email: @: Deep fried Twinkie.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 10:02 Comment 189492
d2p of email: @: the county fair is currently across the street. i could go there for lunch and have a corndog, funnel cake,and a cream puff. or i could save my money and just go to the bathroom and stick my finger down my throat.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 9:07 Comment 189491 JD of @ email: @: I'm hungry! 8)
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 8:43 Comment 189490
Flovesparko of email: @: Big loss for Lance and Team.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 8:24 Comment 189489
ChiChaz of Chgo email: @: So does Leipheimer...
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 8:21 Comment 189488
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: The sad thing is I'm having to use sick days for my stupid actions... :-( My right hand is not workable. :-(
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 7:30 Comment 189487
d2p of email: @: apparently others are having hottube injuries too - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/world/main5167186.shtml?tag=stack
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 7:20 Comment 189486 JD of @ email: @: BEER ME! 8)
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 7:10 Comment 189485 JD of @ email: @: I have a vision of a heaping bowl of steaming nurses in undies rolloing allover each other as they drink marg's. Ya'll just remember...no diving and no running. 8)
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 7:02 Comment 189484 JD of @ email: @: For 25-40 g's this looks pretty cool. http://www.aptera.com/index.php
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 6:42 Comment 189483
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Nobody's 'falling' for that, eh? ;-D
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 6:34 Comment 189482
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I don't think I've heard the Manny slip-n-slide story!
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 4:07 Comment 189481 Al of email: @: I've re-told the story of Manny and the slip-n-slide many times.
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009 4:03 Comment 189480
notVimp of @ email: @: YEAH YA DO!!!
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 23:25 Comment 189479
Jen of NZ email: @: I need to try the necktie out! : )
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 22:49 Comment 189478
ironmanny of sd email: @: SQRN - If you broke a bone, at least you'd have a cool story. Unlike me and my slip-n-slide.
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 21:53 Comment 189476
vimp of nz email: @: Raymang!!! Doodes going on about being concerned with Squirrel swimming in cootie water and having a broken risk. Maaaaaate!! Lets focus on the important matters here like were there somein like a doozen nurses in the tub?
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 20:25 Comment 189475
SQRN of Cardiff email: @: I crashed the cruiser after hot tubbing! A friend had to come and pick me up off the pavement. My wrist is fine my friends it's my finger and hand!! :-)
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 19:39 Comment 189474 KP of SD email: @: BIKE BUSINESS!?
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 19:38 Comment 189473 KP of SD email: @: ray, I think I need more from you, mang. Any 'business' travel to SoCal coming up?
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 19:35 Comment 189472 KP of SD email: @: hooo-ray! nomesane?!
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 19:29 Comment 189471
ray of @ email: @: Yeah, what KP said before he was rudely deleted. ;-) An assessment is good but if it's taking it's time healing you might need more. Hey, did you really crash the cruiser or is that the cover story for hot tub injury? ;-)
Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009 19:24 Comment 189470 KP of SD email: @: I might break my own hand just to be examined by Dr. Jo!

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