I nearly suffered heat stroke taking a bike ride in 105 degrees.

• heat - dee
  • This heat is unbearable in central Calif. Air quality is bad. I have never felt so unhealthy. - I wanna move
    • Don't come to Texas either - UGH - passing through
    • Don't come to Arizona - Live here
      • we are definitely overpopulated and that makes - it hotter I think
        • half an hour for 3 blocks?? Couldn't you walk? - curious
          • Would you walk three blocks in 110 degrees at 3 p.m. in Arizona - no trees, no breeze, no wet SM - Anon
          • In the heat??? - MQ Slave
            • I nearly suffered heat stroke taking a bike ride in 105 degrees. - Very dangerous
  • Where do you live? - MQ Slave
    • heat and animals - dee
    • hot here - dee
      • Same thing here - MQ Slave
    • gotta love your ID "MQ Slave" says it all. - Mainer
  • I'll trade with you :) - Mainer

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I'm sponsoring a 7-year-old boy (and his big sister) for Christmas.  The one thing the boy would love to see under the Christmas tree is a bicycle.  Having never had any kids and never seeing this boy before, I don't know what size or type of bike to get him.  The information I have says he wears children's size 7 shirts, size 7 pants, size 2 shoes, and size 8 underwear.  Should I get him a 16" or 20"?  If I got him the 20, then he could grow into it, but maybe it would be way too large for him for a long time.  He lives in a rural area, I think.  When shopping for bikes, I'm getting overwhelmed with all the different brands, handle-bar types, and different-tread tires.  Please help me, Moms 'n Dads!!  I never in all my life thought I'd have an opportunity to buy a child a bike for Christmas and am thrilled to be able to do this. 

I thought I could grab some clothes in his size and "reconstruct" him next to a bicycle, but there are just too many people shopping now.  I've no idea how long his little arms are.

Thanks! 

Was at a major company that I liked for a year, then they made some changes and it was a nightmare for the second year.  I went to a smaller company for awhile, they were great but I found it harder and harder to sit down and pull reports.  I got to the point I was only doing about 300 lines a day.  I made a change to a small company as IC, and chose one where so many minutes were dumped on me for the day.  I knew I had to finish those minutes, and before I knew it I was back to about 800 lines a day, six days a week.  That is all I can do without developing CT myself; I have learned this over the years.  Now I'm starting some editing part time, so I can earn more without losing the use of my hands.

If you already have CT, you might have to get into something different, like editing.  It doesn't seem realistic to keep working, knowing you're doing more damage and will shortly be unable to work anyway.  I'd be looking for a change.

Whatever you do, try to find the motivation that works.  I didn't find thinking about unpaid bills or setting a financial goal each month helped, it just made me depressed when I couldn't reach it.  I focused on the positive, like being able to do 50 lines more daily this week than last, adding minutes each week until I reached my goal.  I also make sure to take two weeks off at different times each year and go some place at least once, something I neglected for years.  I come back refreshed.

Best of luck to you; it's a difficult situation.

You can set it up so that you use just CTRL L or whatever combo you want.  If you do a lot of editing, this can save you one or two Keystrokes from placing the spaces in, deleting the first character of the next sentence and making it a capital.

Someone on here posted once that she has a macro that only saves her one total keystroke.  She's a QA editor, though, and she uses that macro hundreds of times a day.....................doing the math......................

Anything that saves you keystrokes = more productivity = more $$$.

I would think having your document look right would be more important than whether or not you had to strike one extra key.  After all, we use a lot of tools like ShortHand and get paid for the whole word even if we just use a 2-3 letter code. 

I guess I am just not getting what the big deal about hitting the space bar again would be even if you aren't paid to do so.

  This doc stutters, stammers, doesn't know how to use the reverse key to make corrections and ...corrects over himself all the time so I have no idea what he REALLY means...

Talks through his nose, buries the words up somewhere in his left sinus I think, drops off the ends of words, I think he EATS that last parts of words so they never get said....

and now tonight he will just say terms like ...Temperature 98.5....then a pause...then Temperature 98.6....then he says I'm sorry....then he just starts in talking about the spine.

It's like standard phrases are just falling out of his mouth as he sits there and he's not even knowing he's saying them and they have no connection to what he's doing. 

HE'S DRIVING ME NUTS.....ER than I am. 

I just read your story and she and the baby are so darned lucky!  It is downright creepy how people can get away with saying they are something, even provide legit-looking documentation, yet are completely corrupt.  I'd certainly be making a call to my Attorney General's office with her name, address, and all the info they have on her.

Please pass along my congratulations and hope mom is back on her feet and feeling better soon!

It you had it to do again (being a teen with a hooty of your choice) what ridge would you pimp out.  I am a child of the 70-80s so mine would be an 82 IROC camaro.   Rim it out and the sparkly black paint.  Mild tint.

If you have teens, young adults (especially boys) and be able to carry on a conversation with them on a subject they like.  The kids hanging around here are always talking about it.  So, I actually watched the show one day and it's wild what they can do to a regular car

I've decided to get my motorcycle license, already passed my permit test and am starting to learn to ride.  I don't know yet if I'm going to learn on a 350 or a 650, but am starting to get excited.  My state offers a weekend course where you go both days for instruction and training and give your license all in one weekend.  My dad loved motorcycles, my sons both have motorcycles, and now it's my turn.  So, satisfy my curiosity, anyone else have this interest?

On the other hand, my sister just let her daughter drive a 300 mile round trip with friends and no parental supervision.  My niece has had her license for less than 4 months and is only 15 years old.  The parent is trying to be the "friend" instead of enforcing rules.

FWIW, the only car accident I was involved in was with a girl who only had her license for three days.  She didn't use turn signals or her brakes, just geared down and decided to stop on a 55 mph two-lane right in front of me with oncoming traffic.