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I sure hope he doesn't lose 'em!!! :-O
For a while, I lived in an extended-stay room 2 blocks from a Popeyes. Bever got tired of going. That's some good, tasty food! Loved the beans and rice...
Has anyone noticed that the Popeyes sign appears to say "Pope Yes"? Catholic conspiracy? ;-P
Good day, and happy Sunday to everyone except ps1, to whom I say happy Monday! 65f and overcast in Austin, looking forward to beer shopping and tater chip buying today, along with a few small things.
Guitar sold, so on to selling the practice stool and cleaning up the table where the guitar and music keyboard were. Thank heavens for Swiffer, best invention in the past 50 years - keeping stuff clean is super easy.
Can't buy beer until Noon.. which I suppose prevents you from taking beer to church. Weird concept. There's already wine at church, why take beer? Or maybe people used to go to church drunk, which is a people issue. Need to research.
Need to clean up my system drive today. Tons of unused stuff to hunt down and delete. Fun times. :-|
Complaint: Ow, back is acting up again today. I felt it slipping a day or so ago but thought I was cautious enough to not aggravate it. Now I can hardly move without owies.
Cane is again at hand everywhere I go and I make yelping/grumbling utterances at random moments. Unfortunately I've promised to go to family Easter dinner this afternoon. Hours of sitting in unfriendly chairs and trying to be cheerful. Hoping nobody brings up politics, I'm not in the mood to be forgiving. 
Ugh, that blows. :-( Sitting for a long time with back pain is about as bad as it can get, especially in uncomfortable chairs. Wish I could send you my Icy Hoy patches, I keep them around for just such occasions. :-| U hope you can get some aspirin...
If someone brings up politics, wack them with your cane. It's justified.
I believe cane whacking should be permitted in many situations. Have I mentioned how I navigated the crowds at Universal Studios?
I never thought that being old could be so much fun!
...also useful for "accidentally"sticking into the spokes of a scofflaw cyclist on the sidewalk who nearly runs you down from behind without warning.
It has a few advantages.. sit at the front of the local bus, handicapped seats on Greyhound, cane is a valid legal weapon, cheap MdD's coffee. Bot too bad.
Oooh, that's a good one! I wack rear fenders, then when the cyclist stops whip out my pepper spray. Man, can those folks pedal fast.. hee hee hee!
Yaay! Beer in fridge, along with various food terible for me, chile limon and bbq tater chips, normal bean dip, and spicy bean dip. Takes a month off my life even with the meds, but I don't care! Gotta cut loose on occasion, if I die I'll go happy.
Modelo Negro in one hand, Italian cold cut sub in the other, startin Zombieland next. 11 beers left in the fridge, 5 Modelo Negro and 6 Dos Equis. The shelves at the store were half empty, either I missed the rush or there was no delivery yesterday... :-/
Dana
I don't know this as a fact, but I have a suspicion that it's because they'd just drink and not go to church!
Dana
Are you kidding me, snow Monday morning in NY
There was snow here (south of Buffalo) this morning. Just a dusting but it was new snow on bare ground.
When I lived in Florida after I became "semi-retired" (i.e. over 50 and unemployed) I rode bicycle to save on gas. It's easy to ride bicycle in Florida, it's all flat and there are good roads and lots of bike paths all over town. I'd ride 6 miles to Popeye's for lunch and then another 3 miles to the movie theater for the afternoon matinee and then the 9 miles back home. But Popeye's was almost always my stop for lunch. Somedays though, I'd decide to ride over the causeway to the beach instead, I'd usually end up at Wendy's. Hardest part about riding over to the beach side was the "hump" in the causeway bridge. Flat is easy, "humps" tucker an old man out.
But the coast down the other side of the hump was fun. Ringing my bell, hair blowing, sweat cooling, legs relaxing, the thrill of speed! 
But be sure that you are not the one guilty of bringing them up in the first place, because if you do, then you're probably guilty of assault and battery.
Blue laws are still on the books in many states and counties.
I get your sentiment, but if you cause an accident where an innocent person gets badly hurt, you could be liable for charges or a civil suit. I know somebody who fractured facial and spinal bones in a simple bicycle fall. In that case, the person only collided with the ground, but if it had been an accident caused by the actions of another person, she would have had to sue in a civil case. You see, her surgery and rehab is probably going to approach a half million dollars before all is said and done. Insurance only pays for some of that, so she'll be in debt for years, not to mention that she's going to have jaw and spine problems for the rest of her life.
She would not be the person doing what you're saying, KK, but it's just an example of the damage that can be done to the human body in a simple bike crash. If the accident is a chain-reaction caused by the actions of another, such as an angry fella wacking somebody or jamming their spokes with a cane, well...the results won't be fun for anybody.
Now, if I see somebody hit you on their bike, I'll stand in court as a witness for you. But I don't live where you do, so hopefully the people where you live have just as much of a conscience.
...well after an extremely beautiful day yesterday (66° and sunny) a slap from winter again today with 46° and heavy icy cold rain all afternoon. Low again in the 30s tonight. Was no fun having to go out today, glad I'm home where it's warm and dry..
Having the rest of the Gen. Tso's chicken tonight, that will warm me up from within.
...after being brushed and nearly hit more times than I can count on my fingers and toes by cyclists from behind on the sidewalk who, when I would kindly ask if they would give a warning next time, often give me the middle finger salute or an insult to my genetic heritage, it is just a bit more than infuriating. On a number of occasions, there was even a bike lane in the adjacent roadway or a parallel designated bike route on a side street only a block way, yet often cyclists still use the sidewalks (many which are narrow in the inner neighbourhoods) as their personal bike freeways.
At my age being hit by a careless cyclist doing 15 mph could also cause very serious injury that would be very difficult to recover from (possibly even crippling), and I'd be lucky if Medicare would cover even half the bills. These people appear oblivious to the fact that they yes, seriously hurt someone and because of how "bike friendly" the city is, feel they have some kind of special privilege that laws don't apply to them. Filing a civil suit in court most likely will result in little to nothing as unlike motorists, cyclists do not need to carry liability insurance and most don't (though there has been talk of mandatory insurance here from time to time which I support even though I also ride a bike). There are also specific rules for riding on the sidewalks spelled out in city ordinances here (such as slowing down when pedestrians are present and giving ample warning when approaching from behind) but in the nearly 30 years I've been here, I had just a couple cyclists ever do so.
Complications from injuries after being hit by a cyclist can and in a few cases actually have resulted in the deaths of elderly people.
Oh, and the likelihood of even being able to insert a cane into the spokes of a fast moving bike are ridiculously low, particularly when the cyclist is coming up from behind as you can't hear them, and by the time you realise they are there, they have have already brushed passed you and are several feet ahead. At best, it would be like NVIATWAS mentioned, I'd hit their rear fender or carrier (and even that would be a "lucky" hit).
The real solution would be to simply prohibit adult cyclists from riding on the sidewalk, period, like other cities do (such a ban is in effect but only in the downtown area). When I was 10 years old I always rode in the street, of course usually on side streets that were not busy. I also knew to stop at stop signs, treat uncontrolled intersection like it was a 4-way stop, wait for red lights, and not ride in the middle of the traffic lane obstructing traffic. As a teenager I'd do the same whether cycling to school or my summer jobs. Back then there was no sense of "bike consciousness" like we have today so you had to "ride defensively" as well as "courteously". Nearly five and a half decades later, I still ride that way, I just with those other cyclists would do the same.
There is that distinct possibility...
Why would I want to salt a battery? Dude, that's just weird. :-|
OMG FROZEN WATER FROM THE SKY!!!!! :-O
5:52am in Austin, went to bed too early and look where I ended up. :-| Pitch black outside and not even the gas station convienence store is open. Ugh. Don't feel like going back to bed but can't work in my room too loud as everyone else is sensibly asleep!
65f right now, supposed to rain but we'll see about that. Need to reload on wodka and diet soda, maybe more beer - it's supposed to rain tomorrow, too. Low on beer, sigh, may be shopping in the rain. I DO have six bees left, though.
Laundry today, as well as closet cleaning and re-running electric plugs to consolidate power. Not looking forward to that as it's tons of crawling on the floor. Then, more hard drive cleanup. Urk! :-|
Breakfast? Noodle soup, two kinds of tater chips, red hot bean burrito, 2 cookable drumsticks.. let's have drumsticks for breakfast!!! :-) With tater chips... :-/
Don't let them buzz too loud if others are asleep.
Ooooops! Well, I let them out to pollinate flowers... ;-P
Lol
That is good!
I agree with all the above. When I rode my bike in the Melbourne, Florida area I would always ring my bell and yell "on your left (or right)" as necessary and slow down as I passed. Melbourne has some wonderful bike paths too, along the beach road, nearly 50 miles of it. But yes, I also rode on the sidewalks, along the main roads in town. Primarily because traffic on the main roads was insane because everybody was in their cars and hardly anybody ever walks on the sidewalks in Florida unless they want to get sweaty. And in the actual city center a cyclist can navigate through parking lots, and alleys and vacant lots quite easily. However, I remember one particular incident where I gave my usual warning, actually a couple times, to a well-to-do youngish pedestrian female wearing pearl earrings and designer track-suit while jogging past the mansions along that road. I rode to the side she had opened up for me, but as I passed she proceeded to give me a yelling lecture about how "sidewalks are for people" as I receeded in the distance. I stopped, turned around and rode back to her, asked her if she had anything more she wanted to say. I listened to her rant for a moment then explained the meaning of the painted sign in the pavement that indicated "Bike Path", and rode on. Muttering "bi%%h, it ain't your road!"
In Sunnyvale and most of Silicon Valley, every road except highways had marked bike lanes. Rarely did I have to get on the sidewalk, and I had this electronic bell that literally went "meep meep DING" when pressed. The only times I rode the sidewalks were during real heavy rain, with no pedesterians (only idiots like me rode in the rain with my heavy raingear and goggles). Since it was a Trek mountain bike, when needed I'm jump the bike on to the sidewalk, then back to the bike lane, to avoid blocks like parked cars (parking in the bike lane was illegal, I'd usually call to have 'em towed, the buggers). 90% of Valley cyclists were cool, but up in The City (SF) they were raging a-holes, holding block-traffic protest rides whenever a cyclist got hit - before anyone determined whose fault it was!!!! The whole 'Critical Mass' movement ruined it for everyone. :-|
In Austin, there are damn few bike lanes, lots of big trucks and vans, and mindless dips*** drivers. The sidewalk is the only semi-safe path, several people are killed annually in accidents and hit-and-runs. There are a lot of illegals with cars and no license or training, which makes it worse! The smart thing to do is ride to the bus, bus to destionation, and ride the rest of the way.
The general high level of inebriation doesn't help any. College kids, tourists, foreigners all party and drive. It's stupid. If they just killed themselves, it'd be ok, but it never works out that way. :-(
OMFG OUT OF COFFEE!!!! ":-O Had to make an emergency trip to the Valero for coffee and breakfast food, my last 2 drumsticks shrank in the cooker.. damn water-loaded chicken.. to about 2/3 of uncooked size. Also grabbed diet Coke to go with my wodka later! Yum, breakfast blend coffee...
Booze store doesn't open until 11AM, but they cancelled the rain forecast and now it's just cool and mostly cloudy. Excellent walking weather, slight breeze, now in the low 60f's, window parly open, grackles crackling and arguing.
The charge of extra caffiene from the coffee should help me get things moved around and out! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!