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Kim is a an accountant (soon to be CPA), and triathlete, currently training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene. Steve is a software engineer, photographer, and cyclist on the Platinum Performance Cycling Team. We live in paradise a.k.a. Santa Barbara. Read More
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Recent Comments
aham23 (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People)
i turn and walk, no run, the other way when at work or family functions and this topic comes up. run, ride, just move faaast!
Kim (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People)
I think of political leaning as 2 dimensional, not one dimensional. Instead of just an x-axis for left or right, there is an x-axis for …
Jason (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People)
Unfortunately both McCain and Obama are bought and paid for, corporate puppets -break your left and right paradigm and support someone who isn’t …
i love this pictures. just something freaky odd about seeing those screws in there. later.
Jon, I can’t feel the screws but I can feel the plate. Everything is still swollen and numb so it’s hard to tell what’s what …
cool image, mine were the old films. I wonder if I can scan them. Glad you’re feeling better
If you feel around your collar can you feel the screws through your skin?
Mike (Everest Challenge Day 2 Pictures)
Steve, Good luck with the clavicle surgery- I have had two of them! When you are recovered, I would like to order picture 114 and 115 …
I was back on the bike 3 days after surgery. 10 screws 1 plate and 2 pins later. The hardest part for me was the …
narcotic painkillers are not to be messed with. you are being smart in my opinion. good luck.
Oct 13, 03:39 PM by Steve | Echelon North County Ride Day 2 Pictures
Posted in Cycling & Pictures
Photos by Bill Lupo
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Oct 13, 03:28 PM by Steve | Echelon North County Ride Day 1 Pictures
Posted in Cycling & Pictures
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Oct 12, 01:23 AM by Kimberly | How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Posted in Miscellanea | Comments [3]
As election time draws closer, I hear more and more political comments by people I interact with. Some comments are mildly derisive towards Republicans, while others are downright insulting. Why do people think it’s ok to speak this way to people who they don’t know the political leaning of? Is the thought of actually talking to somebody that’s a Republican so alien to them that they assume everybody they talk to is a Democrat, and therefore it’s ok to insult Republicans? Are they saying “I’m talking to you, therefore you must be a Democrat. I mean, I can say this stuff because I wouldn’t be talking to you at all if you were a Republican.”? It sure seems like it. Somebody may say that they’re playing the odds, but they’re really not, because they think the odds of that person being a Republican is 0%.
If you want to lose freinds and alienate people this election season, show your intolerance for other views by either implying or saying outright that Republicans (or McCain supporters, this will work either way) are stupid/ unreasonable/ ignorant/ [insert derogative term here]. No matter that political leaning is as emotionally based as religion. You’d certainly lose freinds and alienate people if you walked around saying that all people that believe that Jesus is the son of God are stupid/ unreasonable/ ignorant/ [insert derogative term here], and it will work just as well for political leaning. Next time you’re talking to somebody whose world views you...
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Oct 6, 04:38 PM by Steve | Screwed
Posted in Health | Comments [4]
I had my post-op follow up today to get my dressings removed and get an x-ray (pictured above) of the fix. The doc said that the break was unusual, in that it was in a different plane than typically occurs. I don’t remember all the technical terms, but basically the break was sideways instead of up-and-down. The three screws in the middle are across the oblique fracture, compressing the two pieces together, and the other screws are holding the plate in place. The good news is that it should all be very stable and I already have a good amount of range of motion back, without much pain. The bad news is that now I can definitely feel that my ribs are hurt too…
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Oct 3, 02:33 PM by Steve | Clavicle Fixation
Posted in Health | Comments [4]
The “clavicle fixation” surgery went well and I am at home resting. There has been sufficient time for whatever anesthesia they gave me to wear off and there has not been any notable pain. They gave me percocet but I have no intention of taking any unless absolutely necessary. I just don’t like the concept of narcotic painkillers. Time will tell if I am an idiot or not, but I would rather be in pain and learn something about myself than wonder if it was really necessary. I found a cool diagram of the procedure
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Sep 28, 07:38 AM by Steve | Clavicle Update
Posted in Cycling & Accidents | Comments [11]
The clavicle (collar bone) is definitely broken. Doc said it is overlapped 4cm, and I need to have surgery to “fix” it. In other news, she looked at my ribs on the xray and said they appear fine.
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Sep 27, 04:20 PM by Steve | My name is Steve
Posted in Cycling & Accidents | Comments [4]
My name is Steve, and I have a problem…
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Sep 23, 07:42 PM by Kimberly | Everest Challenge Day 2 Pictures
Posted in Cycling & Pictures | Comments [5]
Descending Waucoba Canyon
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Sep 23, 07:39 PM by Kimberly | Everest Challenge Day 1 Pictures
Posted in Cycling & Pictures
Neutral start at Mill Pond
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Sep 21, 11:38 PM by Steve | Everest Challenge Day 2
Posted in Cycling & Race-Report | Comments [2]
Things started out well today but fell apart somewhere on the second climb. On the first climb up to Glacier Lodge I kept the tail end of the front group of 11 in sight and was only a few minutes off the front at the turnaround. Two of the riders stopped at the checkpoint and I was sitting in 10th for the the descent and was chasing down one guy through Big Pine to the start of the second climb, but we were both caught by a group of 4 other riders and the lot of us went up the climb. I figured the group would stay pretty much together but at one point another guy came up to our group and after a few minutes rest attacked us and the group shattered.
I had nothing to respond and continued at my own pace with a Sho-Air rider from the masters field. When I saw the front of the field coming back down, I timed myself to the same spot and clocked 9 minutes. I got to the bottom and begain the final 20 mile, 6,000+ foot climb with just over 3 hours on the clock. Last year the climb took me nearly 3 hours (2:52) and I thought I felt much better then, so I was figuring 3 hours, at least.
I fell in with a group of 3 other riders for much of the climb, although a few others from the 4/5 race came up to and passed...
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