The Oracle of Apollo Snippets from the life of Apollo Lee

Posts from October 2006

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Oct 31, 2006 - 16:10

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Time Marches On

I’m sitting here right now, between jobs, pondering my life, where I’m going, what I’m doing, and what it means. This is a dangerous thing to do when you have nothing to do, you’re limerent over somebody momentarily inaccessible, and you’re down from your usual swagger. The idea of destiny has come up a lot […]


Pinnacles National Monument

So, today, I decided to get out of my house and take a road trip. The original itinerary was as follows: Half Moon Bay, Pigeon Point, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, San Juan Bautista, Hollister, Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and home to Sunnyvale. After a short IM conversation with Eric Rice, I decided to reverse […]


One Year

One year ago today, I broke my face on the last metric century I attempted. Today, at Hollenbeck & Torrington in Sunnyvale, I crossed my 18,000th mile. I’m still trying to figure out how much more I want to ride. I have no goal this year. I’m really not feeling it that much this year.


On the Ground Again

Trying to muster my mileage again, after long periods of distraction and no desire to ride. Today, I thought I was in line to getting my 18,000th mile this week. The ride was mostly uneventful, all pathetically slow fifteen miles of it. Well, that is until my left cleat failed to hold my foot as […]


Home At Last

50 weeks ago today, I landed on my face in Menlo Park. A few days ago, I got a call from Bicycle Outfitter to let me know that the repairs on the bike I crashed, my beautiful Trek 520. It’s taken them a while. First, they had a shipping issue with the distributor of the […]