batjerk Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 And those who are not. Just for the sake of clarity, that title was written tongue firmly planted in cheek... I hail from the great State of Denial, erm, I mean, Minnesota. Of course, "great" is a wholly subjective term. Well, here I am. Not entirely sure why, but I think it has something directly to do with boredom. I'd spent some time at FAIR, some time on LDSchat, at least for a couple days until their little Java deal decided it hated Windows XP. I am fairly active at MORC, and I was even a guest mod at Traxxas. Discussion fora are not new to me, but this one is. Not as if that's terribly important, but I wrote it anyway. I am a currently active member of the Shoreview Ward of the Saint Paul, Minnesota Stake. I currently serve as an Elders' Quorum teacher. I tend to be a bit pedantic, but I try not to take it to extremes. I spend lots of time on my bicycle, at least when I'm not avoiding work at work, like right now. If I'm not doing that, I'm on the X-Box, or the Internet, or wasting lots of time in some other extremely efficient way. I used to like driving, but my distaste for paying more than $3 for a gallon of gas kinda took that away. Now, I try to bicycle everywhere. Unfortunately, it's winter and it's cold. I hate the cold. What's worse, is it'll get all nice and warm on Saturday, and I'll head for our lovely, snow encrusted singletrack, and have a great ride. Think to myself, I gotta ride to work on Monday, but invariably, the bottom falls out of the thermometer on Sunday afternoon, making for a miserable ride with cold feet. Thankfully, February is quickly sliding into history and it will be spring soon.) I think that's a long enough post for the moment. I may post other stuff if there are any threads that spark my interest enough to pipe up. Oh yeah, my name is Trevor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmilingRedhead Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hi Trevor Nice to make your acquaintance. Hope you like it here. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havejoy Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hi! Fellow bike rider here. I live in south Texas though so I only get to ride from November until April. Then it gets way too hot and I have to give it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentina84 Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hey welcome to LDS. NET! Hope you enjoy it here. I was an LDSCHAT user, too... (but not very often, I don't have much free time ) Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr T Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Welcome Bat :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pushka Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hi Bat/Trevor, welcome to the site, hope you stick around and find plenty to post about :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxz72 Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 What does pedantic mean? and how do people already know your "real" name?! :) Welcome to the site...hope you have as much fun here as I do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havejoy Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Pedantic means to be overly picky about details. As far as knowing his real name.....look at the last line in his opening post. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havejoy Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 HEY! How did he know we are crazy??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentina84 Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 HEY! How did he know we are crazy??!!hahaha :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maya Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Ok all those mormons that are crazy say yee......... OOOK YOU CAN STOP NOW! :eek:Gee I almost lost my herring and I am living on the other side of the pool.... 3 $ agallon!!! We have 2,6$ a liter!!! Even the disel is there about ...so that would be about ... 3,3 a gallon!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batjerk Posted February 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Now, in your calculations, did you take exchange rate into account? Also, there are 3.7something litres in a U.S. Gallon. I know we have cheap fuel here, comparatively, but it still bugs me.I hate that our culture is so dependent on cars. I really hate that our cities are laid out so as to discourage other modes of transportation. And, I really don't like that so many motorists are so ignorant of traffic laws, who mistakenly think they have a right to use the public roads, when, in reality, it is they who are only privileged to do so.I guess this'll cause some thread creep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maya Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I used the transmittor for the currency... we do sometimes... every friday, usually, get some REALLY cheep gasoline/disel it is now going a whole krowner cheeper, than on week days, sometimes it may be 2nkr difference a liter! That is a LOT I thinks... Here too the public transport is... hmm...almost non excistent with no connections that work... If there is a speedlimit of 80km/h the usual speed is 100km/h and that is the limit of looingthe license too.... In Finland the speed limit is on highways 120km/h and that is ok..no need to drive faster...except at 5 aclock in the morning when you are about to miss the ferry to Sweden ... when you have made a mistake about the date.... My husband drowe and I sat beside and prayed..no moose, no police... empty roads ... the ab. 5 hour drive took us 3 and we just made on board. As we had driven in the boat closed the doors.... and a few miles before we were driving on a very winding road behind a big lorry filled with IRON... it drove 30km/h.... We passed it in the ONLY possible place in miles! What a ride! he drove 140 most of the way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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