If you didn't ride, what did you do today? [Archive]

Newstar

11-09-2008, 02:40 PM

jdmetzger

11-09-2008, 02:43 PM

It's been cold and raining on and off all day, today. I rode yesterday when it was cold, and just didn't feel like riding today in the rain soo...

- I slept in after being out and about late last night (or early this morning)
- Caught up on paying bills
- Caught up on web forums and emails (even work related ones)
- Did a small amount of cleaning and laundry
- Harassed the dog for a while... or did she harass me?
- Going to my parents at 4:15pm to celebrate my dad's recent birthday (he's getting riding gear from me)

Yeah, I have an unbelievably exciting life, sometimes. :p

Gilly

11-09-2008, 02:59 PM

Had to work today, after some flurries and rain yesterday. Was "supposed to" (operative words) warm up to a balmy 37 and sunny today. View out the window was a dry street and 32ish, so "w.t.h." rode in. 2 blocks from house notice wet-looking areas and and started to flurry. Ugggh. All dressed up and someplace to go, so kept going. Stayed about the same all the way in (20 miles, in the dark, 430am). Gives a new meaning to the work "nervous", particularly those wet patches you wonder are black ice or not.
Ride home about the same, but no sun and still 32 degrees. But the road looked better by the natural overcast vs headlight lighting. So I rode, but can't really say I enjoyed it much, but beats driving the pickup, right?
Taking in the last of the Packers game now.

Gilly

scoobs

11-09-2008, 03:27 PM

I'm at work- 12 hour shift so dark before and after, although I did ride the "Blue Beast" to get here. Change-over day tomorrow so may go "chasing waitresses" this evening.

:bar
Cheers,
Ian.

ARValkguy

11-09-2008, 03:50 PM

Well I got up this evening to a brisk 58 degrees here in Taji. I looked at my big calender and I made one more X on it. 29 days and counting now. Took a shower and walked over here to the office. Thank goodness the PX finally got some RedBull. I continue to keep on doing what I do. Here in a couple weeks our replacements will arrive and we will begin the left seat right seat ride training. Of course I see all this as incredible waste of time. The incoming units are going to do it the way they want to and usually the way we do it is not the way they do it. The Military is such a fine tuned well oiled machine. If I had the option of riding today it was a beautiful day and I would have riden all day in the sunshine. NW AR is seriously calling my name these last few days. Still planning my big trip for the rally. So far I am looking at 21 states to get there.

Kelly

Belquar

11-09-2008, 04:14 PM

Woke up at my leisure this morning.

Had to drive to get my daughter back from her Grandparent's house. Actually....my Mom met me sorta in the middle. We had lunch at the Cracker Barrel and then turned around and came home. Bout 300 miles round trip in the minivan. Hardly any traffic going south. Plenty coming north.

Home now. Enjoying my little girl's company. Haven't seen here since last weekend.

Wife and the other daughter are still away in Florida. They come home on Wednesday.

sudani

11-09-2008, 04:31 PM

Woke up early and enjoyed a tasty cup of coffee.

Made banana nut bread to take to work tomorrow.

Made a fabulous pot roast (first cold weekend comfort food) yesterday. It's always better the second day. :yum Mom came over this afternoon to have some dinner with me.

Now, I'll sit back and have a lazy evening and watch TV and be ready to start the work week.

Isn't this exciting??!! :rolleyes

aka Raevyn

bobh41

11-09-2008, 07:41 PM

Moved all my power equipment to the barn for the winter.
Mulched trees.
Dumped half-a-ton of vegetation into the compost pit.
Moved potted plants into the sun room.
Took dogs for a long walk in the woods.
Cleaned up garage - ready to do maintenance on the R90.
Read most of a book online (Questia).
Prepared and organized materials for a Monday committee meeting.
Relaxing here on BMWMOA.

GSTom

11-09-2008, 08:17 PM

I spent the day with an elderly friend and his family. The family had made the decision to remove the elderly friend from life support. It was emotionally draining to wait and watch a dear one die a slow death, but at least his problems and suffering are over. Don't mean to be a "debbie Downer", the weekend turned out drastically different than what I envisioned when I left work on Friday. Life throws some awesome curve balls from time to time.

SheRidesABeemer

11-09-2008, 08:34 PM

Walked in the woods today, after a day of riding yesterday
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/3017928004_924c4ce0ba.jpg

Tread carefully
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/3017095585_346650f72a.jpg

All the leaves were under our feet
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3017928416_fdf6040d69.jpg

Gilly

11-09-2008, 08:38 PM

COOL ya find any unexploded ordinance? I wouldn't be reporting it to security if I did, I'd be chucking rocks at it, but hey, that's just me.......

Gilly

glennhendricks

11-09-2008, 08:41 PM

Pretty chilly here at 8,500 feet and I can't figure out how to get the snow chains on the RT.

It's put away for the winter. Watched my wife installed as Rector at our church. Had cake. Visited with friends.

KGT1200

11-09-2008, 08:45 PM

Leaves and more leaves, leaves on the ground, leaves half frozen in the gutters-I hate leaves!

walked the puppy, cleaned horse stalls

chain sawed and split up most of an old maple, still still standing in the woods

played on the BMWMOA forum

read a few chapters from "Zen and Now"

Lit a huge fire (thank you old maple) tonight

Warmed my body by the fire and surfed on the laptop..

shoeman

11-09-2008, 09:02 PM

Had a birthday party for my 87 year old mother-in-law. She rides in my sons Ural sidecar and looks 70. She loves to travel and read.

Fritzc

11-09-2008, 09:11 PM

38 degrees, rain spitting snow. Went to church where the folks said they were glad to see me back!! After church I went down and finished the clean-up job at our County Democratic Headquarters from the celebratory reveling. Then went home and started to dig out my deer hunting stuff for next weekend. Ho hum!
Can't even force myself to watch the Lions anymore. How bad did they get beat today?:whistle
:bolt

darcym

11-09-2008, 09:22 PM

Was cold and blustery in America's Finest City today. I had lots of chores to do, so no time to ride, anyway. After a liesurely breakfast and newspaper, I made short work of some money that was burning a hole in my pocket. Stop at Kragen Auto Parts, stop at Home Depot, stop at Anderson nursery, Petco, Bed & Bath, Sears, then home.

Had time to install a new patio light at the front door.

Planted two trees. The rest will have to wait till tomorrow. Got cold so I wrapped up in a blanket and set down in front of the computer for a spell.
:type

glurkus

11-10-2008, 06:44 AM

Cold and snow flurries all day Sunday. Watched a disappointing Packers game. The 7 day forecast looks like I might be done riding until next spring. Did 9700 miles this year.

KGT1200

11-10-2008, 07:26 AM

Cold and snow flurries all day Sunday. Watched a disappointing Packers game. The 7 day forecast looks like I might be done riding until next spring. Did 9700 miles this year.

Minnesota sports guys on the boob tube act like they just won the supebowl; not a lucky game win by one point! Gimme a break! First place tie by default me thinks!

I could of warned em about Gus; his throwing arm is twisted where ever he has gone! Think Broncos!

manicmechanic

11-10-2008, 07:41 AM

Got home from work @0630. Had something to eat, read some paper, watched some news, went to bed. Got up, showered, puttered around the house until time to go to work. Had dinner before going to work. Rode the Airhead in last night, 30F and snow flurries then, 26F on the way home this morning. Time for bed now.

From MARS

11-10-2008, 08:02 AM

Out here in the middle of nowhere: took an early morning hot air balloon ride, stood up the walls on a new shed I'm building, and then chased the balloon while others flew. It was a beautiful day in the nations heartland.

Tom

einnar

11-10-2008, 02:45 PM

hondarider

11-10-2008, 03:36 PM

Two days of laying hardwood flooring...I would have rather been riding

JanMiller

11-10-2008, 03:39 PM

It's a beautiful sunny day and I would have loved to been out riding. Instead, we got up early to take my step-mom to her sisters an hour and a half away. Arriving back home around 1:00, we spent the remainder of the day gathering up leaves through various means. (leaf blower, vacuum, sweeper) Once again, the sucky part is that they aren't my leaves!!! :violin

Sometimes life gets in the way.

If you didn't ride, what did you do today?

Watched the Packers loose to the Vikings. Cleaned house. Watched snow fly. Wished I was riding. Wondered how I'll make it through the next few months until the snow melts and it warms up... thought I should pull the batteries and bring them in the house for their winter migration, but then thought I'll ride again yet...

Gilly

11-10-2008, 03:46 PM

Are you a cheesehead, or one of those "way up north WI" Vikings fans I've heard about???
Gilly

sundaeman

11-10-2008, 04:58 PM

Residing part of my house and found some bonus electric work after I took a chunk of old siding off.

Newstar

11-10-2008, 05:53 PM

I'm sad to say I haven't ridden since February. I had a nice record of riding in every month the last few years, but that has been put on hiatus.

Instead of riding, I spent the day working as an MP in Iraq. I think my decision making process needs work.. :scratch

Sorry to hear you haven't ridden in so long but as Veteran's Day rolls around in a few hours, let me just say one thing...

THANK YOU!!!!

crazydrummerdude

11-10-2008, 05:57 PM

If you didn't ride, what did you do today?

Since "today" was really yesterday by now, I spent yesterday at my last class of Commercial Pyrotechnic Operations. It's one of several required classes for my explosives engineering minor.

(I might remove this link after a few days, but here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUcEcvb8_ew)'s someones video of our final project. Note the 4" shell at the end that malfunctions at 2:28; it was literally right above me.)

It's over, now I can focus on my "real" classes (I'm an aerospace engineering major).

Rich

11-10-2008, 07:11 PM

As already mentioned, I did something I don't get to do very often: watch the Vikings win. After that is was the evening deer hunt, it was opening weekend in ND.

nhbmw

11-11-2008, 07:02 PM

Tread carefully
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/3017095585_346650f72a.jpg

I ride over Chestnut Hill past NBAS every weekday on the way to Manchvegas. The unexploded ordnance is a leftover from WW2, when it was a bombing practice range for Army Air Corps trainees (predecessor of the USAF) based at Grenier Field (now Manchester airport). Joe English Hill, on the west side of NBAS is an impressive (for southern NH) rock face. Good views of it from Meadow Road, off Route 13.