On the way into work this morning I had my biannual wipeout on my bike. I was going downhill and took a curve too wide. I hit a patch of autumn humus and Physics Happened. I was able to continue to work and bike home. Damage to self:minor. Momentarily stunned; gash on my right leg […]
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(*Inasmuch as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is only three books.)
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Since September 3rd, a bot at Yahoo (68.142.195.81) has been repeatedly, as in 45,266 times and still counting, polling my web site. I’ve finally added the magic line in .htaccess, but it’s annoying that there’s no way to contact a human being at yahoo to kick this thing in the pants. Their bot is requesting
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Best T-shirt slogan seen all day: Does “anal retentive” have a hyphen? This year’s Ride Around Washington was a loop around the peninsula: Day Start Miles Time Calories Ascent* Comments 0 To Bellingham – – – 1 Bellingham to Port Townsend 80.1 6:50 5,126 3,860 Three flats just past Chuckanut. Whidbey Island has some hills
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Just got back from the Ride Around Washington. It’s going to take a while to digest, but I can summarize the week: wow. The quick numbers: 431 miles biked, 10 miles walked, 3 miles kayaked 19,454 calories burned Over 16,000′ of climbing* 12 Bumblebars consumed 7 nights tent camping, a different location each night 4
When I was in my late 20s, travel seemed glamourous. I took every trip I could get. By using the pedestrian “Saturday Night Stay” tactic, I could easily finagle planning trips from point A to point B with time to actually see point B. Adventures in Point B were, of course, fully-funded by saving the
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This weekend was uncomfortably warm around the house. Saturday, I finished the major stuff on my car, and am glad I did it myself versus shelling out the $560. Knock on wood. The only tricky part was accessing the spark plugs because I had to remove some funky plastic ducting and the windshield cleaning fluid