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@Steve O 165001 wrote:

If paypal.me/steveoffutt does not work, my email is steve [at] offuttemail dot youknowwhat

For whatever reason, paypal.me did not work. [looks quizzically] “dot youknowwhat”?

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Steve-O,

What is your email address? For payment of 2 tickets to the Nationals game, i.e., Bobco’s farewell.

Sue for
Bill Fuchs

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Payment for Sue et moi coming…

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@baiskeli 164819 wrote:

I put one of these together and had several screws and bolts left over.

Sorry, can’t believe I’m the first in with an Ikea joke.

How could this be? :confused:

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@Steve O 164720 wrote:

Calling Bobco…Calling Bobco…

Seems a good video of the detour(s) would be a wildly useful thing.

Quickly! While he’s still around…

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@TwoWheelsDC 164696 wrote:

omg.

Um, yeah. SO comforting. Right through our path of travel.

As often as I’ve driven that ramp… Yours truly with the motorsports background will say it is easy to miss your braking point, blow the entry into a downhill right hander, overcorrect, break the rear loose, and away you go. A spin to the inside of a turn is actually pretty common. One more *unprotected* part of the MVT to fear.

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Sue and I will do our best. Very dependent on quickly I can finish up my workday.

This had better go longer than an hour…

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@bobco85 164450 wrote:

Yep. I’m doing the JetBlue JetPaws program (I love the name!) https://www.jetblue.com/travel/pets/, so my feline friend will be in a carry-on pet carrier under the seat, absolutely miserable that she’s stuck in a weird, new environment in a carrier. I was really worried about the prospect of having her in the cargo hold of each flight, so this option was a huge relief.

Good. The temp and cabin pressure you both need.

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@esquiver 164270 wrote:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/08/16/white-house-removed-capital-bikeshare-station-inside-perimeter/

Posted without comment. :rolleyes:

[sigh] You expected different of *this* President?

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Just talked to John. He was just back from the Doctor- follow up visit. Scraped elbow, and very bruised ribs. Hurts like hell to take a deep breath. He says hi… Yuki says hi, too.

His mishap was on Monday night, on the Pike, near Bob & Edith’s. John wasn’t sure if he was hit directly or brushed- he remembers a car way-too-close, going down, then standing up, going, “WTF?” The vehicle didn’t stop. He then checked into an Emergency Room the next morning.

Of the other mishaps, 2 were on Columbia Pike, I think in the Bob & Edith’s area again, and the other on South Courthouse Road, a block north, which is still the Columbia Pike corridor. Customers hurt in all of those. Both of us have *major* concerns about riding safety on this road, and there aren’t safe options that don’t take you well out of your way. I have been using the Pike past the new Freedman’s Bridge for my Monuments At Night Rides because I still don’t have another option that allows me to use Lady Bird Johnson Park as an enroute meetup point. The bike boulevards are good only as far as Arlington’s famed “in many disconnected segments” streets allow. And there is the speed and density of this major car & bus corridor to consider. Even if you or I are *fit, fast, and fearless/foolish*, there is still considerable risk. Yet look at how many ride there, because they must.

I’m pissed. I live on the Pike. My fave bike shop is on the Pike. And now a friend has been hurt riding it. My wife worries about me on that road, and WILL NOT ride it. That should not be. It is time to make some change happen.

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Saw the article. Not happy with the assumption of guilt thrown at the cyclist.

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@Judd 164282 wrote:

Hope John is not permanently damaged and that he recovers quickly.

Bailey Garfield indicates no, but I’m waiting to hear from John.

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70-30 pour moi. I will run this by Sue to gauge interest. Should know in the next day or two.

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@KWL 164182 wrote:

See you tomorrow morning.

Oats, chocolate, and coffee. Wow. ALL the favored additions to stout, all at once!

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@Judd 163901 wrote:

Made a Cuban Friendship Urn visit. First I pretended that it was a trophy to my bike for doing so many HP laps.

It has a nice depiction of the sinking of the Maine on the back.

It’s also been poorly repaired. Looked like someone went to Home Depot and got a bag of Quickcrete. I can’t imagine it lasting too many more years if it remains outdoors.

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I know where it is now! Thanks again to our emerging historian bobco85 for reminding us!

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