Cold Starting Problem...

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Originally Posted by Skiz

You guys are gluttons for punishment. :O

I have a tough week ahead of me as well. November in Texas is just brutal. :no:

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Jeez, that looks like heaven.

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Originally Posted by brightsid

My daughter is dreaming for snow like that for 3 years now. I'll print your pics

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I don't mind dreaming about snow, it's walking outside and shoveling it that I object to.

It's still raining here.

it's hot right here..

You are probably right clocker although never experienced a situation like that.

I love a cryptic post.
Unlike Kev, you managed complete opacity using easily understood words...quite a feat.

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Originally Posted by j2k4

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Originally Posted by lynx

Thank god we won't be getting any of that for a while (hopefully).

I have to sit in the forest tomorrow, tracking rally cars. It's going to be bad enough in the (predicted) rain.

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Done that, and in pouring rain, to boot.

It can be very exciting in the rain.

Have you done it before?

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I've been doing this sort of thing for over 30 years, on and off. Competing was best, also warmest and driest, but that's probably what ruined my back. I've been away from the sport for a few years but I've come back to it this year.

Now I'm doing radio tracking. Mobile radios need lots of power and have to be kept dry which means I get to go into the stages with my vehicle and generally stay fairly warm and dry. The down side to that is that I'm sometimes allocated to a stage start or finish, which means I don't get to see any action.

But that's balanced when something goes wrong. You can be the first to know if you are at the stage finish and a car hasn't turned up or, as happened recently, positioned at the start and getting the rescue services moving before official notification of an incident has come through. There's a lot of satisfaction knowing you've made a difference.

Just got very wet today though. Horizontal rain. :cry:

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Originally Posted by lynx

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Originally Posted by j2k4

Done that, and in pouring rain, to boot.

It can be very exciting in the rain.

Have you done it before?

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I've been doing this sort of thing for over 30 years, on and off. Competing was best, also warmest and driest, but that's probably what ruined my back. I've been away from the sport for a few years but I've come back to it this year.

Now I'm doing radio tracking. Mobile radios need lots of power and have to be kept dry which means I get to go into the stages with my vehicle and generally stay fairly warm and dry. The down side to that is that I'm sometimes allocated to a stage start or finish, which means I don't get to see any action.

But that's balanced when something goes wrong. You can be the first to know if you are at the stage finish and a car hasn't turned up or, as happened recently, positioned at the start and getting the rescue services moving before official notification of an incident has come through. There's a lot of satisfaction knowing you've made a difference.

Just got very wet today though. Horizontal rain. :cry:

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I heard that, but watching 'em in the messy stuff was great fun.

Never did enduros or rallying (never drove, I mean) but did checkpoints, timekeeping, flagging, etc.

After doing the dirt bike thing, I lost the compulsion to do much of the, um, berserk stuff off-road.

Keeping them out of trouble is pretty rewarding...been about eight years since I last did it.

Liked this, btw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzX9lRb8xYk

Oh, you rugged, rural types.
All my racing involved proper asphalt (well, at least in theory) but I've spectated the Pikes Peak Race to the Clouds three times.

All motorsport involves risk but few types add in the added danger of falling off a fucking mountain.

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Originally Posted by clocker

Jeez, that looks like heaven.

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It is. I really love Austin.

We have the perfect combination of hippy and cowboy that it just... works. :happy:

(Plus the beautiful weather, obviousment)

If more of Texas was like Austin, the state's outsized opinion of itself would be deserved.

Well, you have to have an inside knowledge of the state to understand where that opinion comes from. It's so big you have vastly different lifestyles, accents, scenery, etc all in the same state. The opinion is a humble one nonetheless.

I could go on and on but, I can't be arsed right now and you probably can't be either.

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Originally Posted by Skiz

Well, you have to have an inside knowledge of the state to understand where that opinion comes from. It's so big you have vastly different lifestyles, accents, scenery, etc all in the same state. The opinion is a humble one nonetheless.

I could go on and on but, I can't be arsed right now and you probably can't be either.

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Thanks for that.


-doobs

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Originally Posted by j2k4

Liked this, btw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzX9lRb8xYk

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That's how I got my back problems.

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Originally Posted by clocker

I love a cryptic post.
Unlike Kev, you managed complete opacity using easily understood words...quite a feat.

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Am I the one with that skill? :O
Probably it's just my poor English vocabulary cause I didn't try to be cryptic at all.

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Originally Posted by lynx

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Liked this, btw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzX9lRb8xYk

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That's how I got my back problems.

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Figured that.

Well done, sir...that's why I stopped jumping off roofs and stuff.

Amazing, really, that I wasn't dead before my fifteenth birthday.

If I had a buck for every time I said "Watch this"...

...you'd have two bucks?

/rimshot

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Originally Posted by clocker

...you'd have two bucks?

/rimshot

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I'd be quite well-off.

Reckoning interest, of course.