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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:43:02 -0500
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On 2/6/2025 8:11 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 22:13:25 -0500, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/4/2025 9:37 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>
>>> Had he followed the rules, he'd be dead.
>>
>> We've been through all this before, of course. And we all know you,
>> Andrew, are the master at finding links to truly rare negative events.
>>
>> But (again) if a person were to make their life decisions based on the
>> assumption that rare events would be happening to them, they'd be living
>> a weird life indeed.
>>
>> Stay out of houses! People have died in them!
>> https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man-hospitalized-serious-condition-car-crash-pasco-county/67-20eb0233-763f-42de-a617-a5db70dd1c1a
> 
> I've lived sort of an out of ordinary (not weird) life with several
> rare events happening. Some, I was prepared to deal with, others, not
> so much. At any rate, I've enjoyed my life immensely and wouldn't
> change anything I've done. I'm still enjoying my life.
> 
> One thing I would absolutely not have done is to go into a life style
> and profession where "rare events" where unlikely to occur. Being a
> teacher or spending time in group think meetings is not for me.
> 
> I found classrooms to be colorless and monotonous as a student.
> Although my mother and grandmother were teachers and encouraged me to
> try it, the thought sickened me. I tried furthering my education in
> things that interested me, but I simply couldn't tolerate the slow
> moving classroom environment.
> 
> I preferred to work where I had to respond to things happening and was
> judged every day, indeed, every minute by my performance. I did thirty
> years moving up through that environment and then, perceiving that any
> further upward movement would be colorless and monotonous, I went off
> looking for more stimulation. Among other things, I sold my home and
> sold or gave away most everything I owned, traveled, wrote a book,
> learned to scuba dive, bought a 36 foot boat and went sailing.

:-)  Or so you claim!  Documentation? :-)

And you've still given no specifics on your "every minute" performance.

Short order cooks are judged minute by minute.


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- Frank Krygowski