About to head out on a rental bike for the morning, the saddle appears to be an ass hatchet and the rear tyre has a bald spot.
Bodes well for a 70 mile road ride...
Bodes well for a 70 mile road ride...
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up derping around. ate bacon and waffles. doing chores. might sneak in a quick ride while the 13yo is at rex kwon do later this morning.
Accomplished much yard work yesterday, so how does so much remain?
Sounds like a missed N+1 opportunity.
Freaking taxes half done. Now brunch with wifey in a picturesque coastal town. Gonna ride in the evening as the new tires won't shred themselves.
Saturday...my Friday...yay...almost motivated.
Dump run, pushing money around in prep for a big tax payment, still fighting with trail access politics, going slightly crazy. On the positive side, it's warming...
#bowelmonkey
hiking with the girls today, then yard work, then bike ride. cooties are getting better. band practice mañana.
quick ride done. 3 in a week is good for me. beer procured. online results show the 9yo won gold in the first round of his jiu jitsu tournament. dude’s a beast. now to see what the afternoon holds...
Picked up the extra, non-ugly wheels for the Land Cruiser from my former neighbor who has bad wheel taste (he preferred Rockstars). Acquired kare pan. My section chief and his wife are coming over in a bit to drive the Tesla and meet the baby, respectively. 
Made the mistake of having a local computer repair store fix the headphone jack on my fancy phone...now it is FUBAR-ed, and I had to buy a new phone.
Grumble.
Grumble.
Next time take a needle or tooth pick and dig the pocket lint out of the phone jack and charge port. I've had this happen a couple times.
70 freedumz today means bike ride right? Nope, doing yard work before I pick the wife up at airport from her 2 week ‘girls’ Costa Rica yoga retreat. Ride tomorrow in the cards
Glad to see I am not the only one doing yard work. Also 60km ride at a good pace.
That wasn’t the problem, it needed a new jack installed.
(I used that method, and a compressor)
Now the jack works, but all sorts of other stuff went haywire, like now it has no gps.
Ah, I see, your smart phone has dementia.
That is an accurate description.
It was super annoying on a 3000 mile road trip where every day, a few times a day, I needed directions to someplace I had never been.
I did a lot of it the old fashioned way, using maps and asking gas station attendants, who now also have no idea where anything is without a device.
Not in Kansas anymore though and I already have two road bikes at home.
Ride accomplished, undercarriage not happy with me.
Does the recoil fire you backwards?
That was one of the big metal signs that hung of the front facade of my families restaurant on the beach front in Santa Monica. I took it down before we demolished it in 1976
Y U NO TRAVEL WITH SADDLE?
Ran another race today. A 6.55 mile "quarter marathon." I wasn't planning on racing today but the race director gave me a free entry ($55) so I sort of had to. I kept the effort dialed way back and finished 6th place overall (out of around 380). I won my age group which was really all I wanted to do since it won me a nice winter hat that MBC had requested I win for her. This was my third time doing this race and it's one of my favorites because the post-race food is all baked goods. Burn 600 calories then eat 2000 calories of sugar!
Ouch. I'm outta shape and now my heinie is sore. I gotta get a new saddle. The stock model must have been designed by the Marquis de Sade.Sure does! BRB.
Corn harvest with the oldest boy today. Was nice out.
found this cool blog about the restaurant. Pretty much describes where and how I grew up:
http://drice.us/?p=230
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That was some good, succinct writing.
Placed a bid on eBay for a Mar-Dec 1976 collection of Playboy magazines. If I win, I’m going to have the seller ship them directly to a friend who’s going through chemo, battling Hodgkin’s disease. He’s the type of dude who’s spirits will he lifted by the arrival of some vintage smut... not that he’s into smut but more that he really enjoys random funny things. I plan on never telling him I sent them.
used my rei dividend and 20% on a yakima roof box. because now 2 dogs and skiing and camping. still not cheap even with $ off. come into the garage and the rugrats are playing “boat” in it. one key broken off in lock. 
took me half an hour and two beers but finally got it out. hrmffffff.
took me half an hour and two beers but finally got it out. hrmffffff.
Oh the absurdity of what transpired tonight is off the charts.
After a long day of driving we pull into a rest area, the wife is grumpy and we just wanna eat quesadillas. So I open the fridge and see a mystery red substance that has dripped all over. Weird, the salsa jar which I am holding in my hand appears perfectly fine and intact. Until of course the bottom falls out and dumps a 95% full jar all over everything.
So I clean up while wifey cooks dinner. Two bites in and I get a nice cruuuunch. Yup, turns out this guy just ate a piece of glass.
After a long day of driving we pull into a rest area, the wife is grumpy and we just wanna eat quesadillas. So I open the fridge and see a mystery red substance that has dripped all over. Weird, the salsa jar which I am holding in my hand appears perfectly fine and intact. Until of course the bottom falls out and dumps a 95% full jar all over everything.
So I clean up while wifey cooks dinner. Two bites in and I get a nice cruuuunch. Yup, turns out this guy just ate a piece of glass.