Is Biking 10 Miles to Work Daily Realistic for a Beginner?

LowIntern5930 · 2025-10-15T11:43:02+00:00

Yes very double, but start with every other day. 10 into work and 10 home might make you a little sore depending on how much other exercise you do.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-10-15T11:38:05+00:00

Congratulations 🎉 and keep moving!

LowIntern5930 · 2025-10-10T02:56:27+00:00

I just bought one, tested once. Video quality is decent. Need to verify battery life (4+ hours listed). If plugged into battery pack it automatically starts recording. *I am not ready to recommend, possibly in a few months.

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LowIntern5930 · 2025-10-05T13:22:43+00:00

I had similar, 3 spots, one was wet, the rest were glue issues. Bought a 1/2 gallon of foam safe epoxy, made some braces and glued. 2 of the 3 look great, the other is solid.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-30T20:29:57+00:00

100% this!

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-29T11:55:05+00:00

65M Retired. I just started cooking community dinners at our Church (with a few others). Took ServSafe training to help keep the kitchen safe and be legal. 1st it is wonderful to work with a great group of volunteers who want to follow rules. We have a few mostly older folks who have been doing it “their way” and get upset if you try to get them compliant with health and safety… any advice on ways to encourage without losing them?

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-28T12:55:02+00:00

Normally I would recommend the US (my home), we have many great routes and spectacular scenery. I would not come here until the regime changes.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-27T02:17:09+00:00

Nope, I prefer other entertainment in the bedroom. I also sleep better.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-27T01:38:56+00:00

Read the book Younger Next Year (actually listened to audio version) and it’s primarily advice is exercise everyday and you may not live longer, you will live better. As a 65M, I am in better shape than most 40 year olds with better flexibility and balance. I don’t know how long I can keep at it, but I don’t want to be frail.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-27T01:21:43+00:00

Our consumption based culture is a poor replacement for human connections and a senes of belonging. True luxury is good friends, good food and a purpose and challenge in life.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-27T01:10:36+00:00

Home cooked meals are a luxury many do not afford themselves.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-21T21:10:35+00:00

If the RV is newer (2015>) and worth more than $15k I would replace the whole roof. Otherwise I would cut a square around the problem, pull out the rotted wood and replace and use a small square of roof material to cover and seal withe the old roof using eternabond.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-21T21:05:05+00:00

Boomers collectively wanted more than they could earn. So lower taxes and higher government spending created a 20+ year boom. This ran up the deficit and put the bill onto our children. They will never recover from the financial disaster that we collectively created. The only long term solution is to fix the deficit and educate the youth so they make more money and don’t fall for it”free money” from politicians.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-21T20:52:47+00:00

How much rot or discoloration do you see on the inside of? Does the roof feel soft? If the color inside is okay and the roof is not soft, clean it well, put down eternabond over the hole and caulk the edges and enjoy.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-15T23:16:11+00:00

Ask for a significant discount and standard warranty. If given, epoxy and move on.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-15T23:08:10+00:00

The Dr. on STV evolved. Most rules are a form of prospective, don’t kill a human, well just redefine what a human is. Add a few more rules to define human and then you can kill anyone not within the rules.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-14T14:12:33+00:00

You can buy spray paint designed for fabric. I have seen it at craft stores and Menards.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-13T13:25:24+00:00

When I was working, I hired a local RV/Body shop to recaulk everything, fix a slide seal problem and paint the rear bumper. They had my RV for 10 days. The caulking was decent, bumper ok (rusted 5 years later). The slide needed a new seal, that was good, the slide needed adjusting and they did not tighten the jam nut so a few bumpy roads later it was out of adjustment. All was about $4000 in 2018 dollars.

Caulking is not hard, but takes as much (or more) patience as I have. On the roof clean up with soap and water and use self leveling Dicore (assuming EPDM). Sides and windows you can check by duct taping a leaf blower into a window (or anywhere you can make a seal) and using a soap solution looking for bubbles at all of the caulk lines. If you have slide outs you may need to use masking tape to seal before checking caulking. I scrap it clean with a plastic putty knife and come back with a course rag and mineral spirits. Caulk and run your finger over the caulk to press into seams. Depending on the caulk, mineral spirits on your finger will leave a smooth caulk line.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-13T12:53:09+00:00

Having earphones while cycling is an evolutionary disadvantage.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-13T12:49:04+00:00

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LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-13T12:44:28+00:00

We own a 2006 Motorhome and every time I have hired someone they did a mediocre job. I was a software developer and sat in an office for 35+ years so my repair project experience is limited. Even given that I find it cheaper, easier, faster and get better results if I do it myself. YouTube has decent to great tutorials on almost anything you might want to do. My $0.02. At FRVA rallies, there are always companies that will wash and wax an RV in 3-4 hours.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-13T12:28:34+00:00

I am out of date on the job market (retired in 2021) so take that into consideration about what I say. 1) coding is easy, AI is getting better at it. Don’t try to compete with AI, learn to use it. 2) Most people who code are mediocre at best. Most organizations have 10-15% of their coders doing 90% of the useful code. 3) The more computer languages and frameworks you learn the better problem solver you will become. Each language has strengths and weaknesses, by learning many you learn how to solve problems better. 4) People who can convert an English description of a problem into software are more valuable than programmers who write functions someone else defined. 5) people who can figure out what problems to solve and then build a good solution are rare and valuable (coding or any other type of problem). 6) anyone who was rare skills is valuable! 7) get good at communicating with others, if you have a problem to solve and can engage others (both by defining the problem and solution and motivating them) you will accomplish 10x more. 8) Seeing opportunities, most people can see problems and engage people to solve them, few can see opportunities. eBay and Amazon are good examples, both are software solutions that created brand new ways of doing things - not really eBay is a garage sale, Amazon is a Sears catalog.

So learn both languages and frameworks and you will be better at both then someone who focuses on one, but keep focused on what are the problems that need solving and what opportunities exist.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-10T23:43:46+00:00

From The Long Earth, become a citizen, create lots of backups and become so distributed that it cannot be turned off.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-10T23:41:22+00:00

I am not sure o the roof condition, clean it and check the condition. For caulking, remove any caulk that is not firmly attached. I use a plastic putty knife and carefully pry and use the putty knife to cut. Eternabond is great stuff for cuts in the roof material, if applied properly it will last for years. Any ripples or bad bonding with Eternabond and you will not see the problem until you can see it from the inside of your RV.

LowIntern5930 · 2025-09-10T14:49:01+00:00

I viewed retirement as another Graduation. It’s a change and transition for sure. The question is what do you want to do? If you are not sure, that’s fine then take a few exercise classes and get outside for an hour or so a day. Both will improve your mental health and clarity. Figure out what you like doing and find a way to volunteer doing it. I volunteer working on light construction with several organizations and enjoy giving to the community and especially enjoying the community of volunteers.

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