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The brain worked out very well from a "everything fit" standpoint but I'm not sure there's a backpack made (this size anyway) that is going to make carrying 25lbs of crap around feel great. But I like the pocket layout, it fit in the overhead bin well, even stuffed to the gills. I'll try to post a picture of it packed at some point. Now to take a quick drive up to the training site before finding dinner. Glad to hear the ankle is feeling better, Vicki, butlleasedont overdo it and set yourself back.

Just touched down in not so sunny Seattle. Time to hunt down luggage and a crappy rental car and decide how to get to the hotel.

nice. I'll be in San Diego the following week so no chance of me being there.

Well done, V.

Congrats, CJ, that's big.

What are you going to do, put them in a bubble? As if any school, pre or otherwise is going to be any different. I can and will admit that it is frustrating as hell to have a little one constantly getting sick but it is what it is. My house has been a sea of coughing, sneezing and puking since last Saturday. I haven't had to brief anyone higher than a Navy Captain and intend to keep it that way. I'll be out of the office when an Admiral visits which is just about perfect in my book. Now if he wasn't coming to look at a tangential project to one that I'm involved heavily with it'd be totally perfect.

Happy Birthday, Todd!

Happy birthday, Tom!

Brain arrived yesterday but I haven't had any time to look at it yet. Immediate first impression is that it's a very well made piece, not that I expected anything less.

Better late than never... Happy Birthday!

Todd, BBCode is turned on for me (links work, text options work) it's just the image dialog box that crashes. I'm going to chalk this up to being on what is largely considered to be an unsupported browser and just use the [img*] tags at work.

Leaving Luck on my bench was a bad choice. I'd have beaten you by 1 point if I'd ignored ESPN's stupid recommendations.

AWOLNATION - Megalithic Symphony

Jeff, If you like specialized shoes and are ok running spd pedals you might look at the higher-end mtb shoes which often use the same uppers as the road shoes but just have the modified sole to allow for running/walking on the trail. I run a pretty basic pair of specialized mtb shoes that are super comfy, very well ventilated and also very easy to walk in. The S-Works EVO or S-Works MTB shoes would fit the shiney requirement, work with your existing pedals and not rape your floors. [edit]I'll probably try to move up to something like the Pro MTB shoe this year. Two years on my shoes is probably enough stink to warrant a new pair. Hmmm, sounds like a good birthday idea...

If FedEx/UPS/USPS can't prove that you received the packagd (and leaving it in the wide fucking open doesn't seem like it'd stand up) I'd say you'd be in the clear. You, the receiver, are not on the hook to determine if the package should require a signature, the sender is. At least that's my Motel 6/Holiday Inn Express legal opinion. That said, if you leave a note for the shipping Co. (as I usually do) to put stuff in the shed or wherever be prepped to be the one on the hook.

Bummer, missed it by >< this much.

Thanks, Al, I'll try that.

Once again I'm the simpleton of the bunch. I run poopy $50 Shimano SPD MTB pedals on my road bike. I don't think I have issues with power transfer and I definitely appreciate that they're 2-sided. Double bonus is that I can run the same shoes on my road and MTB bikes.

Ok, I'm going to give this till the end of the week and then wrap things up and draw pairs before I leave for my trip for work. Any objections?

Probably a product of my super-crappy browser at work but as of this morning I can no longer post images. I click the little button and the screen greys out like normal but no pop up window appears. Other functions still seem to work fine (like links) but the image button is borked. I even tried a reboot to see if that might fix it.

#0000 steel wool is much finer than 1000 grit sandpaper. That isn't to say that 1000 grit can't be used but it may remove more material than you want and not provide the polish that Steve is referrinng to.

The mobile version of the site has a few bugs now too (after the update a few days ago). Nothing that can't be worked around.

At this point I just want to know if the show is ever going to come back on the air!?!?

Nice. It's sleeting and 36 here right now so my hopes of even a MTB ride today have been dashed.

Sweet, Jeff!