Pilot Road 3's

[angellr]

The only question I have is "how do you keep your suit from looking like something you slept in [or can I make this assumption ] all night out in your car while doing your money grubbing lawyerly duties?"

Actually, I generally run in "stealth mode" (no coat and tie) unless I am actually making an in-court appearance. The run yesterday was a probate matter in chambers and not requiring combat dress !. I was wearing the approved BMW Summer pants and a nice Coolmax polo shirt in the appropriate BMW Blue with some Sidi Air boots that pass for shoes. Altogether a great way to go to work

Gotta love stealth mode - black mock turtle/jeans/Sidi canyons here. I really don't do suits unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary! Sunday service, perhaps.

Since I am not into ambulance chasing, no night out in the car. The X5 diesel is not a bad vehicle to do that in, but I prefer watching submarine racing.

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Thought lawyers all started out in "Ambulance Chasing 101" in the first year of law school? Did you hear the one about the bus load of lawyers that careened off a cliff and killed all of them? Question is, why was everyone crying at the funeral?

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2 empty seats!
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BTW, some of my best friends are lawyers ... have endless material.

Got the PR3's mounted and rode home in the rain ... got to get the slippery stuff off of the tires before I start doing any new tricks. So far, they seem ok.

[ka5ysy]

Bob, I actually have a great supply of lawyer jokes and love em all, much to the chagrin of many of my fellow attorneys with no sense of humor (Humor-ectomy?). Some of them actually get aggravated with me about it. Damn lawyers !

[sarcasm on]
Thought lawyers all started out in "Ambulance Chasing 101" in the first year of law school?

Actually that is 3rd year stuff . First year is simply "Survivor" on steroids. And about 600 gallons of coffee. For reference get the movie "Paper Chase". The class stuff is quite realistic to the point that my contracts teacher actually was emulating John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield. Reminded me of being back in Army basic training again.



Doug

[angellr]

Bob, I actually have a great supply of lawyer jokes and love em all, much to the chagrin of many of my fellow attorneys with no sense of humor (Humor-ectomy?). Some of them actually get aggravated with me about it. Damn lawyers !

[sarcasm on]
Thought lawyers all started out in "Ambulance Chasing 101" in the first year of law school?

Actually that is 3rd year stuff . First year is simply "Survivor" on steroids. And about 600 gallons of coffee. For reference get the movie "Paper Chase". The class stuff is quite realistic to the point that my contracts teacher actually was emulating John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield. Reminded me of being back in Army basic training again.



Doug

Doug,

A good friend of mine is also a Lawyer with a great sense of humor. Most lawyers, however, somehow receive a humor-ectomy. My background is in the Medical Informatics area and have a ton of jokes (aside from all of the lawyer material) related to medicine, etc. Most require an empty bladder prior.

Have a cousin who recently went through law school ... what a grueling process. I love to read, however, could not imagine trying to digest/memorize 100-200 pages of material per day that for most is as dry as the Arizona desert. Probably is why many get the life sucked right out from underneath them!

BTW, what is your specialty?

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Now, keeping this thread about the PR3's ... got them mounted and installed at noon yesterday and rode home in a mild rain. Sort of paranoid about the slippery stuff on the sides, etc., so I did not ride too aggressively. Rode later in the day and hit a torrential down pour on the Interstate and they seemed to navigate the pooling water just fine. Late last night when riding home off the top of a mountain, had a bit of slipping probably still due to that film that will need to "ride off" the tires. So far, with about 50-60 miles or so on the tires, really am pleased.

BikeBandit.com is where I purchased ~$300 front/back with shipping. Mounting at dealer was $25/tire. Total: $350 for everything. Hopefully I can get some decent mileage out of these.

[ka5ysy]

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Have a cousin who recently went through law school ... what a grueling process. I love to read, however, could not imagine trying to digest/memorize 100-200 pages of material per day that for most is as dry as the Arizona desert. Probably is why many get the life sucked right out from underneath them!

BTW, what is your specialty?
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Law School is one of those things that is so intense that you essentially have no life, especially the first year. I generally got back to my house about 3pm at the latest, then hit the books until about 6 when mom served dinner, then back to the books and seldom finished much before midnight ever night. Had to get up at 5am to get ready for the first classes at 7:30. Three years of that ! My only social life was to have Friday dinner with my fiance who was also doing a professional internship in dietetics. We would also have Saturday afternoons after 3PM until 10 to ourselves, but that was it on dating until we both completed the schooling. After the surviving the first year the next two are as hard, but a lot easier as you have locked in the time-management routine, but still have no life particularly. Third year is interesting in the second semester because you are also having to start studying all the stuff learned in the first two and a half years and had forgotten in prep for the bar exams.

The interesting thing we noticed in the third year: most of us started needing glasses as we were all going blind from all the reading ! While I was studying for the bar exam, my eyes went nuts and I could not read for a couple of days because I was unable to focus on anything within 5 feet of me. Happily they settled down for the final push.

Just right now I am mostly doing probate and property law, but have some industrial commercial clients that I litigate for. I did a lot of family law, and bankruptcy work, but due to my mom having dementia I had to back off those areas to care for her. Besides, after 33 years, divorce law really got old despite making a very good income off it. One comes to learn that money is sometime not worth what you have to do to obtain it.

Glad to hear your tires are working well. I noticed that I needed a bit over 100 miles to run in mine so I could approach the edges gently before pressing the envelope too far on traction. I did a long ride earlier this week to file some paperwork at a mid-state courthouse, and gave the PR3's a good workout in all kinds of conditions, except rain. The only slippage I felt at all was some small loose gravel I came across in a curve. Had a minor step-out of the rear, but nothing exciting. Got out of the gravel and traction resumed easily.