With all the storms that buffeted California this month, especially the week before last, I wanted desperately to get my miles done. There were days when I couldn’t ride because of high winds. There were days when I couldn’t ride because it was raining cats and dogs. And there was one day when I broke [...]
Congratulations, Kirsti. My favorite person in all of Colorado has been officially accepted to study at Naropa. Big heartfelt congratulations. I’m proud of you.
Yesterday, a few hours after I finished my bus ride home from Forward, my brother called me. Grandma had been on her treadmill and had falled off, shattering her right shoulder. She spent the next two hours getting to the phone to call someone. Today, I called my uncle and talked to him for a [...]
Last Friday, I went to the UNEAQ party in San Francisco. Since the members of band are friends of mine, I headed south for their shindig in San José at The Bamboo Lounge. After today’s fifty mile bike ride, I wasn’t really much in a mood to dance (primarily because I was pretty sore), but [...]
The storms spared me for most of this week, failing only on Monday to ride my miles. Despite the lack of rain, it was chilly all week—chilly enough that I had to wear my shell on the commute home every day. The cycling shell acts as a parachute on fast rides home—my average speed tends [...]
Lately, I’ve had a routine for my Saturday rides on which I almost always ride exactly the same route every time. Usually, that’s because I’ve stayed up late on Friday night, gotten up about 10 or 11 in the morning, and eaten lunch late enough that I have to push to complete my mileage by [...]
For the first time in five years, I’ve been to 1015, the San Francisco superclub on every tourist’s clubbing list—but also on every local househead’s avoid list. Last night’s party, Forward, featured an astonishing lineup that simply could not be missed. I received a $10 pass from Adnan and jumped on the Caltrain to check [...]
Playing around with WordPress 1.5 on my local and work machines convinced me that it was about time to upgrade. So, this morning, before you got up, I did. It took almost ten minutes (my pipe must have been slow this morning). WordPress 1.5 has lots of nifty new features, including managing non-post pages in [...]
Today was the first day since Thursday, the tenth, that I commuted the full ride both to and from work. The low-pressure system now moving toward Mexico parked off the California coast for more than a week, slinging storm after storm through the Bay Area. I caught a short break in the constant downpours last [...]
I decided, a little over a week ago, to listen to every playlist in my iPod (I have the original five gig iPod without the dock connector). There are 63 playlists. I’m listening to them in order and, so far, I’m down to Freak Gardening Accident. There are, in alphabetical order (* denotes artists or [...]
Ofoto fires DeCanio over web sites A bicycle racer gets fired for the contents of his weblog and his refusal to take “questionable” content offline before he signed the contract. Is it another case of an employer trying to silence and employee for making statements that do not reflect the way the employer prefers to [...]
What a disastrous cycling week. On Monday, I was rained out. On Tuesday, I was rained out. On Wednesday, I salvaged 25 miles out of the end of the day, after getting rained out in the morning. On Thursday, I rode to work in the morning, but got rained out in the afternoon and rode [...]
If you’re a friend of mine and you’d like to add my feed to your LiveJournal friends page, Emmett hooked all you up. The feed lives there as “apollo_snippets”. Thanks, Emmett! You rule.
On Monday, I got rained out of my morning commute—a pouring rain that seemed to slack off just as soon as I climbed out of my car at work and started up again as soon as I got off work. On Tuesday, it was even worse. The forecast today predicted the same. As a six-day-a-week [...]
It’s raining. It’s pouring. I want to be on my bike. Damn. Hopefully, the rains let up enough this week for me not to have to shame myself with my first weekly mileage under 75 miles since my accident in July. It’s pouring, pouring, pouring. Combined with my mechanical day on Friday, I’ve had nearly [...]
A year and five days ago, I shuffled some things around to streamline the way I was doing some things around here. The more I dealt with integrated content management systems, the more I disliked updating this site. You see, I’m a luddite. I’m actually a web developer by trade, but spending five minutes to [...]
Tonight’s party was a small party to help Uneaq raise funds to get to the Winter Music Conference in Miami. Andrew called me up earlier in the week to see if I was planning to go after I posted the latest of their gigs. Unfortunately, his requirement to do a sound check really early precluded [...]
This morning, I got up, looking forward to flipping my cyclometer’s odometer over from 9999.9 to 0000.0 after work today. The forecast called for a high temperature in the mid-60s (18°C) and it would be a magnificent day to ride. Unfortunately, I got up really late, having forgotten to turn my alarm clock on last [...]
Google Maps is spectacular. It scrolls around with keyboard commands and zooms in and out with ease. It also has the most beautiful maps I’ve seen online. Of all Microsoft’s dizzyingly vast array of software, the only one I ever used on a regular basis was MSN Maps. Those are also beautiful maps, but they [...]
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