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Some stupid cow in a Rustang tried to pass the car in front of her this morning, and she just whipped into the oncoming lane without looking down the oncoming lane... Unfortunately the oncoming lane was occupied by yours truly. I'm sure she could have peeked down the lane without coming out all the way, but whatever. There was simply no chance could have even made even half of that pass. I angrily waved her back into her lane, then pointed right at her as we passed, like; "I'm watching you, moron!" Seriously, she whipped out so quick that if I'd have been 200 yards further forward my wife would have been typing my obit on here. We were both going about 55-60.

Where would you bail on a normal country road? Into the drainage ditch?

Still cleaning up. Big van turned left in front of bike. Rider transported already, condition unknown. Black/white harley. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2

I can't even imagine how comforting it must have been for him to have his loving family all around him. I'm sure his last thoughts were nothing but love and admiration for you all.

V65 Sabres are pretty sought after still. Are there ANY parts still good? If it was me I'd ebay the individual parts. You might be surprised at what prices they could fetch, even in not-so-great condition.

This dog is a trip. When she was a puppy we nicknamed her Houbeanie (like Houdini) becuase she kept escaping from the kitchen when we left the house despite us putting a baby gate up. This caused some long debates about how she could be escaping, so finally we left her in the kitchen and "went out" (actually went out and looked in the window) She was squeezing between the tiny gaps between the bars of the baby gate like an octopus. Well, looked more like toothpaste squeezing out a tube. Then there was the time when Amy and I were sat watching TV and bean jumped up onto the arm of the chair next to Amy. We were so engrossed in the show we didn't notice that the dog was perched precariously on the arm of the chair with her butt pointing at the side my wife's face, taking a dump. Yes, you read that right. Little brown play-doh fun factory style. I noticed the smell and looked over right as that little slice of heaven was about to drop and land on Amy's shoulder. My eyes must have been as big as dinner plates because Amy asked me what was wrong, and I answered by yelling "BEAN!!", diving out of my chair, grabbing the dog and pulling her away from the sofa. Yes, I saved my wife's shoulder from being befouled. No, my gallantry didn't earn me any nookie that night.

These four long-legged forest rats made sure I kept my adrenaline up this morning... The smaller image... The guy in the left lane looked at me funny when I was braking for no apparent reason. The deer ran towards the road the changed his mind and ran in circles right next to the road. The car to my left blasted through like he never saw anything.

Trust me to take this kind of thing and make it into a speadsheet. It's how I deal with shit - I break it down into logic and attack it head on. Anyway, I made up an excel that my wife and I can both list observations in. Tracking how well she climbs stairs, jumps on the sofa, her appetite, how she greets us etc. I'm hoping that we'll find that bad days like today are rare. This time last year: Sofa: Jumps to with no hesitation Appetite: Eats quickly Stairs: Runs Sleeping: 50% of day Hearing: Normal Vision: Normal Pupils: Normal Reaction to food prep: Excited, runs around, jumps, spins counter-clockwise a lot Greeting: Jumping Movement: Runs everywhere Today: Sofa: Hesitates, a few false starts but jumps up eventually most of the time Appetite: Eats raw quickly, slow on dry Stairs: Struggles with some steps Sleeping: Most of the day Hearing: Responds to loud claps only Vision: Cloudy eyes, but no signs of loss of vision Pupils: Fixed/nonreactive, wide dilation Reaction to food prep: Spins, walks around Greeting: Usually walks to door Movement: Usually walks, runs when excited Arthritis: Jumping is difficult

Uh, no, can't say I've ever done that. I've turned into my gravel driveway too fast and realized I hadn't enough traction to had to straighten out and ride into the grass once or twice in 8 years, but never grabbed brake instead of clutch...

We're going to see a vet about the fixed wide dilation - worried it might be glaucoma, not symptom of a neurological problem. Being bilateral I'm not as worried about detached retina, but I'd like to help her keep her sight as long as she can. Will ask about pain while we are there. (Amy just reminded me that Bean has arthritis in her spine) I'm going to start recording observations and share that with my vet. That will give us something to compare with as time goes on to see if thing really are declining. Things like "can she jump up onto the sofa", "is she eating a normal portion of food" and ". There was a time she could jump from the floor to the top of the back of the sofa - nowadays she's less than 50/50 on even attempting to jump up to the seat. There are good days and bad days. She spends most of her time sleeping wherever my wife is. Whenever I see her around she can be actually pretty lively (nothing like when she was young). She no longer does her frenzies - but she always recognizes me and is always good about eating her food. Someone once told me to list the 4 things your dog likes to do the most, then when it can't do 3 of them any more due to old age/poor health then it's time to think about if the quality of life is still there. My dog likes to eat, shit, piss and bark. She shows no signs of slowing down on either of those fronts.

Where did it say he was drunk?

It'll be tough. We've had her since she was a puppy and she had become such a huge part of our lives and the source of many of our inside jokes. We have this one thing between us which is that no matter what she has done or how mad i have been at her, if i lie on my left side on the floor and pat my chest then this means "all is forgiven, i'm not mad any more" she always responds by running over and flopping down with her back to my chest expecting, and getting, belly rubs. She's done thins since she was 6mo, and it is 100% effective. I guess when the time comes that she can't do that any more then i know she's really badly off.

Has anyone ever had a blind and deaf dog? I struggle to see what kind of quality if life there is there, but it may be that dogs adapt easily.

Seriously? I'm talking about my dog being sick and probably needing to be put to sleep soon and you're taking the opportunity to get a dig in?

We have a dog, a toy poodle called Bean. She's 14 and her health has been declining remarkably this last year. She's have liver enzyme problems for a few years and that's controlled by medication. She's suddenly started developing warts which indicates an immune system problem. She'd almost completely deaf, and just today my wife noticed that Bean's pupils no longer dilate. Her eyes are cloudy but still look ok using an otoscope, except that the pupils are completely non-reactive to light. She's very sluggish. She's already been refused tooth cleaning by the vet because of concerns that she wouldn't survive being put under. She no longer runs around, can't react to verbal commands so we're trying to retrain her using purely sign language. Most websites I checked list the upper end of the life expectancy of a toy poodle at 14 years. So the situation is this: I know she's in decline and it's time to start talking with my wife about how much medical intervention we are willing to put her through and how we will decide when it's her time. I know she's ok right now and it's probably going to be a while before we have to make that decision, but that time will come and we have to be ready for it. So how do you go about judging a dog's quality of life? Any how do your determine when it's time to put her to sleep?

Any one of the cameras can read license plates to a reasonable distance in the same lane - and can often read plates in the adjacent lane. In the original videos I have here I can read all the plates in the cars involved.

http://youtu.be/lKo-gRGTq8w Total of $400 in. I can do a writeup on the individual cameras and how they are mounted if anyone cares.

That would be a safer passing zone than going past woods or open fields. No deer are going to jump out in front of you unless the fuckers snorkel up the side of the bridge.

Depends. When you order a leather jacket do they have to kill 5 cows? If so, the cover that crap up.

I'm in two minds about that... Firstly, the road markings and passing zones are not always intelligently marked. Some areas are marked as OK when they are dangerous, and some are marked as no-passing despite being perfectly safe. No passing here despite being dead straight with no sidestreets or elevation changes: About a mile further down the road, passing here is legal despite the upcoming double-bend with dip in the road. I will only pass on a double-yellow if the vehicle I'm passing is doing less than half the speed limit. In that case, passing is legal. In the UK they do a much better job of using appropriate road markings in areas where it is safe to pass and ares where it is not. There are 3 types of road markings for the centerline in the UK - Long dashes mean passing is allowed if safe and there are no static hazards nearby. Short dashes mean that passing is still legal but you are approaching a static hazard (usually an intersection). Double-lines mean no passing if your side is solid (just like here)

New rule, once I become president... The more skin you have, then less you are allowed to show.

"Yeah baby, show me more thigh! I got 16 megapixels, let's use 'em all!" What she thinks will happen to this pic: What will really happen to this pic: Wanna sic dirty pic son? Sure Pops!

My Knox Aegis is really not a pain to put on. It takes 5 seconds to put on and the same to take off. It's pretty much irrelevant to me. Plus I have two jackets - both textile dayglo but one is an air jacket that it has to be above 50 (ideally above 60) to be comfortable in, and the other is a cold weather jacket good down to the mid 20s (haven't tried riding colder than that). it would be much more of a pain to switch the back protector from jacket to jacket. Takes me 2 minutes to get geared up for a ride and 2 minutes to remove and put away the gear. I wear boots, textile overpants, back protector, textile dayglo jacket, armored knuckle gloves and a shoei modular helmet.

I added a laser sight to my shotgun. Paid $2 on ebay for it, free shipping. Had to cut slots in the mag tube to mount it, but it sighted up perfectly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YepDZNq6viY I love lasers. Can you tell?

100' slide? Must have been bookin'.