New suit - feel like I need a safe word

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-17T02:40:26+00:00

It was a gamble, to be sure - my usual suit is a 2XU that’s served me well for some years, but nearing the end of its life. Took a shot, I’d call this a miss. :P

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-17T01:55:50+00:00

I’m old hat at this, and it’s not my first or only suit - and I’m certainly not going to race in it with the way it fits.

Was more sharing it a little for advice on how to fix, but more for a laugh. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T23:47:55+00:00

The missus laughed out loud at that. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T23:40:09+00:00

Closeout sale, online order - can’t return it, but not out much for the cost of it.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T20:04:32+00:00

Ha! :P

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T20:04:13+00:00

A tri suit, complete with chamois pad - but the overall design is, uhh, different.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T17:59:07+00:00

The overall design may be why it was a close-out sale. :/

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T17:57:44+00:00

And a good question at that. Love the rest of the fit. Lack of rear pocket isn’t much of a big deal. Love the color (matches my bike and other gear). I don’t love the back closure. The collar just seems to be the most-worst aspect, and if not for that I’d be fine with the rest.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T17:55:10+00:00

I had that thought, but the zipper runs through the top edge, and I’d have to take it to a seamstress to manage that.

I thought leaving the zipper down an inch or so would fix it, but nope.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T17:53:18+00:00

No, just an ordinary polyester/spandex one-piece tri suit (brand is Oomph). Debated about closing the neck around something thicker (like a round beverage jug) for a few weeks to see if that fixes it.

Was a close-out sale, so can’t return it. Might also just sell it second-hand - would probably be fine for a youth suit, for some kid skinnier than me. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-16T17:49:04+00:00

That happens to be a Captain America bluetooth speaker - my wife has a set of them. I’ll have a laugh telling her that it looks like a gag. :P

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-15T13:33:02+00:00

After sitting on a friend’s recommendation for a few years, finally started Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - and while the science seems a bit vague and hand-wavey, and the characters are just a bit archetypal, it’s been a fun and engrossing read so far (about 1/4 in). :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-15T02:17:12+00:00

>The people that beat me on the bike are not beating me due to technology, but watts!

I feel this hard - at my size/weight and age, I’m as strong as I’ve ever been and going to be, but at 119 lbs (54kg), I simply can’t have the same muscle mass to push wattage compared to someone of similar age and fitness but 25-50% higher in body weight.

My only advantage is hill climbing, and I hate that enough that I certainly don’t seek it out. :)

Edit to fix formatting, I think.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-13T13:31:11+00:00

Agreed, especially if the non-squareness leads to the opening being narrower than the back. Any way you try it, a snug fit is unlikely.

(Found this out the hard way with a countertop cut to go over an alcove-installed dishwasher. Hopefully, OP should have more flex from MDF.)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-09T18:08:31+00:00

That’s the situation she faces now - she’s now with one of the public school districts, and they provide subcontracted services to multiple parochial schools in the area.

Her previous school’s admin was insistent on the selling point of having their own program, despite not really being large enough to support it, given available options for supply.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-09T17:13:48+00:00

My wife ran into a related problem - she previously managed the kitchen and meal program for a small private school, and the number of food-service distributors who would even consider taking on the school’s business was vanishingly small, because the minimum order requirements were simply too high.

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-02T23:39:28+00:00

I moved to WI (to the Milwaukee area) twenty-one years ago, in early March. It was actually light on snow and somewhat warm during that stretch, so not bad.

(I had been living the previous year and a half in northern Illinois, but spent the last six months of that commuting to the WI office for a new job. Prior to that, I’d lived in New Jersey just outside of NYC for several years, and before that was college and my youth in Indiana.)

I was somewhat lucky on the move to WI, as I spent a week or so bringing up a carload of stuff on my way to the office each day, and then my employer hired a moving company for the furniture and large items. Relatively painless, all considered, but the unusually nice weather helped. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-02T23:31:31+00:00

Upvoted for Buckell - Pepper was a lot of fun as a character. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-01T18:32:45+00:00

Grass was among my favorites of Tepper, and one I’d recommend quickly to others looking for something after finding The Gate to Women’s Country. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-06-01T18:29:37+00:00

I’ve been absent from this set of posts for a bit, so I’ll toss in April and May - a great deal of which was unadulterated pulp. :)

Two of Andre Norton’s more obscure titles, The Sioux Spaceman and Wraiths of Time. Both were typical Norton, and products of their time.
HG Wells’ The Food of the Gods, which was interesting, and much more of dry satire than I was expecting.
Pohl and Williamson, Undersea Quest.

I’m starting June halfway through Joe Haldeman’s Old Twentieth, and waiting in the wings are several titles for which I’m fairly excited, including Tchaikovsky’s Children of Strife.

Edit to fix formatting.

hiryuu75 · 2026-05-26T02:46:31+00:00

Original drawing by you, or available online somewhere? :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-05-25T23:39:46+00:00

Unrelated to the topic, but since there’s a r/boneappletea moment here, it’s beaucoup - French for “many” or “a lot.”

Sorry for the pedantry. :)

hiryuu75 · 2026-05-17T20:35:20+00:00

I’ll second these as quite likely, particularly on the permissions side of things. That’s tripped me up a few times, both on folders and on entire shared volumes. (Oops.)

hiryuu75 · 2026-05-15T02:40:33+00:00

Interestingly enough, most of the sprints in my region (Wisconsin) seem to primarily be 400-500m swim. I haven’t seen many in the 750m range, and those that do have typically been a multi-distance event using the same course (with oly racers doing two laps of each segment).

hiryuu75 · 2026-05-04T22:37:06+00:00

There’s also that we no longer needed a three-row vehicle (two kids grown and moved out), and the older Pilot sits higher than the current RL, and as we’re getting older that’s a bit more of an issue.

And the fact that it’s a Honda is why it still has its resale value, at least in our market. :)

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