This afternoon should be interesting. I’m going for a trail ride right after work with a friend. We’re each going to load up our bikes and kit at lunch and bring it all to the office and then head out right when the “yabba dabba do” whistle blows. That in and of itself is [...]
Archive for October, 2009
I realized last night that I am definitely turning into a cyclist. I don’t watch that much television. Until a few months ago, I didn’t watch television at all, but a guy I work with got me hooked on Ghost Hunters. I’m not sure why I enjoy watching that show, but I do. Last [...]
I swear… my friends are all refuges from the short bus. It is no secret to anyone who has known me for more than 5 minutes that I am seriously accident prone because that is about all the time it takes for me to hurt myself. At times it seems that I have the [...]
I’m not completely sure, but I think I feel a cold coming on. That doesn’t make me happy obviously. It is still too early to tell though which means I still have a window of opportunity to kick it before it flourishes if I keep powering down the vitamins. I had intended to go [...]
I don’t remember his name, but there was a comedian from the Texas panhandle who once said something along the lines of, “One of the things about the Texas panhandle is that you can stand anywhere and see 20 miles in every direction. Stand on a tuna can and you can see 200 miles in [...]
The time comes for everyone and it finally came for me. I had my first spill today. As things go, I got lucky. I know that everyone falls from time to time. It is inevitable. Most people get hurt at least semi-seriously at least once on a bike. It is simply the one of the [...]
I came close to begging off last night. I’ve been talking on a different blog for a while now about that movie, Race across the Sky. It was only going to be a 1-time showing so I either went last night or I didn’t see it. I really wanted to see it, but I [...]