Auto repair – 30k tune-up
Since I last wrote about my car in late 2003, I’ve put another 14,000 miles on it. This means a couple of things. First, I’m (over)due for my 30,000 mile tune-up.
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Satellite/road map hybrids
The coolness of the satellite mapping continues. These folks built hooks into Google’s satellite maps, which now superimposes roads on top of the images, enabling one to create a basic route map. Mapping out my bike route to work took about five minutes. Here’s the result. Pretty cool stuff.
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Tour de Peaks 2005
Done this event?please rate it (2006 writeup) I last rode Tour de Peaks in 2003 as a warm-up for the 2003 RSVP. The only thing detracting from the pretty ride was the food stop running out of food. Fast forward to April, when Sue Beauvais, the ride organizer, contacted me to let me know of
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Gas versus Electric dryers
I still haven’t resolved my dryer issue. One technical detail has been annoying me for a while, until I finally worked on it tonight, is whether I should buy (another) gas dryer, or go with an electric. Conventional wisdom is a gas dryer will be cheaper to operate in the “long-term,” whatever that means. Unfortunately,
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Shoe shopping
If I walk into a store to buy a pair of jeans and I choose a pair labeled in my size, the odds are pretty good that they will fit. The style may be atrocious, like the baggy butt look, an idea that I hope goes away when the designers sober up, or the jeans
Kitchen Meme
I saw this earlier today — not sure where — and thought it might be kind of thematically appropriate. The question was originally “If you were a _____, what would you be?” but I think it works better as “What is your favorite ______?” Condiment – A-1 steak sauce. It’s crazy, but I love to
Back in Seattle
Back home! It’s warm, so no cookie for me. The weather cooperated Thursday morning, and I had a pleasant 25-ish mile morning ride. I had my helmet, but if I ever do a bike rental again, I’m going to bring a couple of tools to adjust things and change a flat. Thankfully, I didn’t have