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But when I’m out on my bike
It’s a different mood
I leave my brain at home
Get up on the sattle
No hanging around
I don’t diddle-daddle

Got out for a ride today and I feel much better for it. :-)

Another birthday has come and gone. I’m anther full year older, and just a little bigger.

This year, I celebrated my birthday up north at my Mom’s house. I realized that even though I miss the snow and hills, my life is easier without being burried under 200-300″ a season. What I do need more of (besides cowbell) is regular snowboarding. I’ve used my current board less than a handful of times, and iirc, I bought it in spring of 2006. Needless to say, I can hear it crying in the closet sometimes.

And I was thinkin’ ‘bout myself and there she was.
In platform double suede, yeah there she was.
Like a disco lemonade…
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NOTE TO SELF: When tethering on your laptop, save your work more often than usual. Trust me, I’m you.

Now, let’s start again…

It’s a deceptively beautiful day out today. The sun is shining, it has been all day and cloud cover is only now starting to appear. The sky was a bright blue, the kind that makes you want to go outside and revel in the outdoors and all of nature’s glory, no matter what you’re activity of choice is. The deceptive part is that it’s –12 deg C outside and there’s a good breeze goin’ on too.

Aside from that, it’s been months since last I posted anything of significance, so I’ll try to fill in the gap because there were some bigger events in there.

…and I’m stumblin’ in again.

It’s a B E A utiful Friday outside, I know because I can see it through the window. This past week, in spite of it being shortened thanks to Memorial Day, has felt like it’s been dragging on. Now that today is here, however, I feel physically refreshed. Of course this could be entirely due to the fact that I was able to get some extra sleep this morning.

Not really.

I’m in Ashland for the weekend for commencement. Jackie’s walking.
Missed the lengerie party because I’m old and fell asleep after a glass of Bulberry Blackberry wine (which was absolutely delicious).

Went beach and park walking and taking pictures yesterday with Jackie. I took hundreds of pictures, and I think some of them will atcutally look good too! I’ll go through them and put them up on flickr somethime this week if I can. I had fun. and now it’s time to go to breakfast.

Hey Mambo!

*Warning* My thoughts were kind of jumbled when writing this. I jump around a little.

Went for a ride to chocolate fest yesterday. It was such a gorgeous day, I could have ridden for hours. Of course Chocolatefest was also clogged with so many people not paying attention to the world around them, that I could have also clubbed people over the head for hours. M’eh.

Now if I could just fall asleep for more than an hour at a time…

Anyhoo. My last ride was 3 weeks ago, as I’ve been out of town the last two weekends.

Travel time: 1:51:42
Total distance: 23.77mi
Average speed: 12.8mph
Max Speed: 31.3mph

I don’t remember most of the ride (since it’s been so long) except that I broke a spoke on my rear wheel while I was on the trail. The rear wheel wasn’t too terribly off true, but I don’t own the tools to take off my rear cassette. I made some minor adjustments to keep it from rubbing and called Glenview Cycle to check the hours and potential cost of the repair. I liked it, and I’ve been doing all my cycle business there lately, so I set out. Long story shorter, the repair man fixed my spoke and informed me that the spokes on that wheel were pretty tight. He advised that if it happens again this season I should replace the wheel now, but if not, do it at least before next season. I agreed, since it was the 3rd spoke to break on that wheel this year.

This past weekend I ventured up to Northern WI

Today seemed to drag on like no one remembered to feed the Hamster that keeps time moving along. I had to split my time between two clients today which allowed me to be out driving in the beautiful sun more than usual. However, problems at my first clients office kept me there until such a time that Chupacabra’s was packed and I had to drive while the Stupids were out in force.

m’eh, I got over it.

In other news, my new wheel for my bike (from Cambria Bicycle Outfitters ) will be here on the 8th. Hooray for new wheel! Boo for taking so long!

Jackie’s coming down for Independence Day! Less than 48hrs until I can giver her a hug for real!!!! I’m excited! And we’re going to get to hang out and do things! HOORAY Jackie!! I just wish that my wheel was here and she could bring her bike. Oh well, we’ll just have to be sure to go to Chicago for fun instead. We’ll be going to the Garfield Park Conservatory (I hope) on Sunday. That will be nice. I hope I can borrow a camera from someone so that I can take pictures too. My camera sucks, and I need all the help I can get if I don’t want my pictures to look like total crap next to Jackie’s pictures. 

and on that note…*disappears to bed*…