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Skriven 2008-02-21 12:05:00 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: BICYCLES  80219
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 Glen Jamieson said to Bob Gearhart at 02-19-08  23:09
 Subject: BICYCLES  80219<Glen Jamieson>

 -=> Quoting Bob Gearhart to Glen Jamieson <=-
 
 BG> I couldn't be too angry as it was as much my fault as his.  Had I
 BG> used a bit of smarts I would have crossed the intersection on the same
 BG> side of the cut through as the oncoming traffic.   Had I done that I
 BG> would not have been in his path as he sped through trying to beat the
 BG> traffic. 

 GJ> Admitting some responsibility for your own actions?!!  Gee, you must
 GJ> be old!  No one does that any more.  They phone their lawyer and sue!
 
 Darn it, another chance to live off someone elses labors wasted.  Guess
 I just don't think well enough for modern society.

 BG> I love biking, but then I like to go where few others have gone.  And
 BG> so far as being harmed on a bike, I've done much more serious damage
 BG> to myself through my own foolishness than I could reasonably blame on
 BG> others.

 GJ> Same here.  I have also been incredibly lucky at times.

 Yep, like last year when I decided to ride my bike down a cement stairs
 and missed seeing the big hole full of soft gravel at the bottom for
 putting in a new sidewalk.  Ending up in crumpled heap with parts of me
 and my bike sticking out of the gravel, I told the others to get my
 camera out and take a picture.  You will never see this again.  That
 was last year in my younger days, now that I'm older (72) I don't think
 I'll make those kinds of mistakes again.
 
 BG> prefer to sit on motors to get about.  On the island, they even have a
 BG> horse drawn street sweeper, which I found rather neat.

 GJ> That would be a favourite target for tourist photographs!  No one here
 GJ> would know what to do when dealing with ice or snow - unless they had
 GJ> lived in a country where such climatic conditions occurred.

 Gosh yes on the photographs.  Plug 45.51.50.32N - 84.37.37.41W into
 your Google Earth and turn on Panoramio under the Geographic tab.
 I don't think there are any winter pictures there as most tourist head
 for the Florida sun during winter.  Had the youngest grandson not come
 along, I would have been among them.

 I did just take a series of cold weather images about 5 miles away and
 post them on my web site.  http://qsabe.com/whimsy/winterice.html with
 a link to a second page at the bottom.   I didn't ride my bike for
 these. :-)

 BG> Maybe a roller bearing arrangement at the bottom of the board holder
 BG> to enable twisting it to form a sort of sail.. :-)  Maybe we should
 BG> start a company now with all these great ideas and get rich in
 BG> Southern California.   I get the Hawaiian branch office of course.

 GJ> I bet someone would beat us to it!  I have seen a doco of a
 GJ> Scandinavian device which is basically a wind surfer, but on ice skate
 GJ> runners.  Very fast indeed.

 Yes, ice racing is a popular sport here in the winter.  Three skates
 and a sailboard sail.  Those things get close to 100mph on the Lake St
 Clair ice.
 
 GJ> There are quite a few Morton Bay fig trees on the island, and at
 GJ> times, when the fruit is ripe it drops and ferments on the ground.  The
 GJ> quokkas love it, but it makes them drunk and careless, so when cycling
 GJ> in the evenings, drunken quokkas on the road are a hazard.
 BG> 
 BG> Hum, are quokkas large enough to cook.  They would be already
 BG> pickled. 

 GJ> Although protected now, tradition says they taste delicious.  One
 GJ> would make a meal for a large family.  If a quokka got knocked over and
 GJ> killed by a cyclist, late at night, the rider would be tempted to
 GJ> destroy the evidence...

 So I looked up quokkas.  Big critters the size of a large red squirrel.
 Looked like they would make a great stew using the same recipe.

 GJ> As a quokka is a small, plump variety of wallaby:

 Darn, I don't have access to any wallaby's.  Watching the Travel
 Channel last night they said there is a place in Pennsylvania where I
 could get hamburgers from kangaroos.  Think I would rather get one in
 your neighborhood.  Maybe next year.    I'm losing weight as I
 understand airplanes are going to start charging by the pound.  You
 never know what the ticket will cost until you step on the scales at
 the ticket counter.

 Bob


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