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It's over, the sun is out, the snow is melting, the flood warning is past, the lark is on the wing and the snail is on the thorn. The streets are almost completely clear. It's supposed to be cold, rainy and windy tonight. Let's ride!
I'm thinking a shortish ride to someplace with hot food and beer. A roundabout route to Pies and Pints (I still haven't been)?
I'll be at the CIP at 5:30 or so.
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GingerMac
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:20 am
Joined: 05 Dec 2008Posts: 167Location: Ravenna
I'm in. Pies and Pints is good, but it's expensive. I support the shortish ride ending in hot food and beer though.
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GingerMac wrote:
I support the shortish ride ending in hot food and beer though.
What's up with all this short ride shit? It's fucking spring outside.
GingerMac wrote:
Also, does anyone have a digital camera with a flash that they want to lend me tonight?
My D50 has the built-in flash, but it's at the house. If you want to drive there Tori oughtta be able to get it to you. It's in my larger camera bag with the glass in my room. There's a bunch of photos my mom took of the kids at the Phoebe House though, don't delete those.
Alternately I have my crappy P&S in my bag, which has a flash, but I feel like you're not being specific about the quality of the camera you desire.
What's up with all this short ride shit? It's fucking spring outside.
I just want to be able to bring my dog. Una hasn't gotten to go for a real run in almost a week and she's getting unbearably twitchy. Although, if we're riding in that neighborhood, it doesn't really matter, 'cause I can just drop her off when we go past my house. She could probably keep up with a longer ride just fine, but I don't want to push it until I've worked more kinks out of the biking-with-dog system.
btm wrote:
Alternately I have my crappy P&S in my bag, which has a flash, but I feel like you're not being specific about the quality of the camera you desire.
The P&S would probably work great. They are going to print the photos post-card sized and deliver them to various legislators, so the image file doesn't need to be huge.[/quote]
zuvembi
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:23 pm
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btm wrote:
GingerMac wrote:
I support the shortish ride ending in hot food and beer though.
What's up with all this short ride shit? It's fucking spring outside.
That's not what my bruised hip, knee, and elbow say from sliding across black ice at high speed this morning.
Yes, yes, I am a dumbass.
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corpusjuris
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:51 pm
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You know what is fucking aggravating and annoying? Trying to book a cheap flight from Taipei to Hong Kong when you have no idea how conditions will change when you're actually in those places.
Fuck this noise, I'm just going to give up and ride bikes idiots and fools one last time tonight. In five!
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heydanno
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:56 pm
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Yo everyone. New soul here, but I'd sure like to ride and imbibe. Where is this meeting place? Red square?
vaticdart
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:59 pm
Joined: 02 Aug 2007Posts: 649Location: Inside a Bell
btm wrote:
GingerMac wrote:
I support the shortish ride ending in hot food and beer though.
What's up with all this short ride shit? It's fucking spring outside.
Seattle Office of the NWS wrote:
.SHORT TERM...LATEST RADAR LOOP AND OBS INDICATE LIGHT RAIN IS
CONFINED TO THE NORTH COAST AND FAR NORTH INTERIOR THIS MORNING. THE
APPROACHING SYSTEM CAN BE SEEN ON IR SATELLITE IMAGERY DEVELOPING
OFF THE WA COAST OUT NEAR 140 W AND STARTING TO CURVE TO THE NE. AS
THE FLOW LIFTS NORTH...SO WILL THE DEEPER MOISTURE LEAVING MOST OF
THE AREA MAINLY DRY TODAY EXCEPT FOR THE FAR NORTH. WILL ISSUE AN
UPDATE THIS MORNING TO REDUCE OR REMOVE POPS FOR TODAY. MODELS TAKE
A ROUGHLY 980 MB SURFACE LOW INTO QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND BY 06Z THIS
EVENING WITH A STRONG TRAILING FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH WESTERN
WASHINGTON. THE 00Z MM5WRF INDICATES SLY SURFACE WINDS PICKING UP TO
AROUND 25-35 MPH ACROSS THE INTERIOR ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT
TONIGHT. WINDS WILL EXCEED THAT ON THE COAST...WITH GUSTS UP TO 60
MPH LIKELY THERE. RAIN WILL INCREASE WITH THE WIND THIS EVENING AND
FALL AS SNOW DOWN IN THE MOUNTAINS.
It's sunny and pretty now, but it's supposed to be rainy and windy tonight. I'm down for a longer ride too, as long as there is hot food and beer to be had along the way.
We ride in
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vaticdart
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:11 pm
Joined: 02 Aug 2007Posts: 649Location: Inside a Bell
heydanno wrote:
Yo everyone. New soul here, but I'd sure like to ride and imbibe. Where is this meeting place? Red square?
Yep, and the prefunk is at College Inn Pub, Google Map, which has good grinders, veggie chili, and a surly waitress.
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surlykat
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:52 pm
Joined: 05 Jul 2007Posts: 658Location: in the CD
I have too many social commitments on my calendar for this week to make it to this. On the other hand, it is likely that I will be at the Elysian this evening; if the ride wants to make Ye Olde Vitamine E a ride stop, let me know and I'll stick around and wait for you fools.
I also wouldn't mind our first stop being Pies n' Pints. I haven't been there for years and I wouldn't have to scramble to make dinner before I got to red square.
I'm in. I passed my fluids, dynamics and operations final exams, so the skipper sent me on a break until Friday.
Also, stopping by Elysian before finishing at Pies and Pints sounds good. Lots of short little rides make for one big ride. And indoors stops on rainy nights++
kalen
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:40 pm
Joined: 10 Apr 2007Posts: 342Location: Olympia, on the farm
Agreed that Pies and Pints is delicious, and also more expensive than our usual fare. However, they have happy hour 10:30 to close every day. Yo-yo down to Cap Hill, then back up to Roosevelt, with many a distraction in between?
pete jr
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:53 pm
Joined: 13 Dec 2005Posts: 1930Location: balls deepx
swing through cap hill and i'll be at the monk for most of tonight. tasty!
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Seattle Office of the NWS wrote:
THE 00Z MM5WRF INDICATES SLY SURFACE WINDS PICKING UP TO AROUND 25-35 MPH ACROSS THE INTERIOR ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT. WINDS WILL EXCEED THAT ON THE COAST.WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH LIKELY THERE.
I just got an corporate warning about high winds, I hadn't see this part.
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quuxman
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:19 pm
Joined: 26 Jul 2005Posts: 82
I'm in, though we better not stop at pies & pints. That would be stupid.
Alex
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:48 pm
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
1) Drink a bottle of wine with a nice dinner
2) Go grocery shopping
3) Stop by pies and pints and notice that there are no bikes
4) Walk home and have a beer
Sometimes you just don't feel like riding in the rain... Hope you guys are having fun.
alex
vaticdart
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:14 pm
Joined: 02 Aug 2007Posts: 649Location: Inside a Bell
Success! We made it to Pies and Pints after hitting up Elysian in Capitol Hill. Waiting for my steak and potato pie now.
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lantius
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:24 am
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man, a ride that did what it said on the internet. what is this group coming to?
still, nice to get beer & pie with potato topper and catch up with the group. kalen's alfine-equipped 700c kogswell is pretty sweet too, even if he has the handlebars set up fully preposterously.
vaticdart
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:26 am
Joined: 02 Aug 2007Posts: 649Location: Inside a Bell
lantius wrote:
man, a ride that did what it said on the internet. what is this group coming to?
I think the weather dampened people's adventurous sides, but then Pies and Pints was a great place to end the ride.
First time this winter the rain has made it through my gloves.
Getting up this morning sucked.
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btm
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:32 am
Joined: 02 Jul 2008Posts: 493Location: Rural Maine
vaticdart wrote:
I think the weather dampened people's adventurous sides, but then Pies and Pints was a great place to end the ride.
Hooking down to Capitol Hill still made it 9 or 10 miles. I'd say 10 miles in the rain is still a bit adventurous.
vaticdart wrote:
Getting up this morning sucked.
Oi. I had to get up first thing and go to the DMV with my mother to prove she is who she says she is so they'd give her a State ID. Double lame.
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