… and because it goes well with my website.

It just dawned on me that I’ve now gone 10 years and some change without cable TV. Overall this is a good thing, besides being one less bill to pay it keeps me focused on other hobbies.  The only time I wish I had TV is during the Olympics, the Tour, and some big football games.  But for those I can just crash in at my neighbor’s house.

FYI – This site is undergoing some construction.  I have been working on a new theme/design for this website as well as building in some new content and features.

The design may intermittently seem incomplete and certain content may appear broken until I get everything ironed out.

Stay tuned…

I forgot to post up this one.  From a MBM ride earlier in July on the Ginny Trail with Ryan and Dave:

The last couple times we attempted this trail we started late forcing us to descend early due to lack of daylight.  We were again pushing it this time for daylight, yet crested the top just in time to catch the sunset.

BTW, other MBM postings are over at our still in progress project site: cotw.

Our garden has not only made a come-back from hail damage this season, but has started to produce! Here’s what we picked just this morning:

We have been enjoying mini-strawberries, banana peppers, zucchini, squash, cucumber, and various herbs.  Tomatoes and tomatillos are on their way. Don’t think the broccoli survived.  The watermelon plant is growing, but I don’t see any watermelon yet.

Woot!

Two summers ago JJ and I went for a mountain bike ride up the Old Flowers jeep road.  The highlight of this ride was that on the way down we were flying along when all of a sudden J’s tire rear blew out with a vengeance.  Upon inspection we found a full utility razor blade lodged in his rear tire.  Somehow a razor blade was on the trail, probably falling off some jeep or truck, and J happened to ride over it just so that it sliced the tire wide open.

Fortunately at the time we were close to the bottom, made a crude repair with a new tube and my handy athletic tape to patch the sidewall… good enough to get back to the car.

We laughed about the event saying “Man, that’ll never happen again!”  What are the odds of picking up a razor blade!?!

Yesterday was bike to work day in Fort Collins.  Yes, I biked to work…. took the road bike for speed (I’m always late).  On my way home, I was heading west on Drake between Timberline and Lemay.  I was heads down and cruising at a good ~20mph pace.  I caught the glimpse of two razor blades for a split second before POW, CLANK, Pah-CHING …  and quickly came to a stop.  A razor blade lodged in my back tire, hit the rear brake caliper and shot out the sided.  My sidewall was slashed wide open and it nicked the tube.  Fortunately I was able to patch the tube, had CO2 with me, and used the ‘ol dollar bill trick to patch the sidewall.  It was good enough to get home.

The amount of broken glass and goat-heads are bad enough in the Fort, now watch out for razor blades!

This weekend is our neighborhood’s annual communtiy garage sale.  Just scored myself a mint condition phil wood bottom bracket including the tool, and an ultegra rear derailleur for $2 each.  We have some cool neighbors!  K8 and Tamar of course bought a bunch of clothes…