Category: N.O.S.
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Friends and Neighbors
Yesterday I took this picture of a Mourning Dove hanging out in the cacti on our porch. A bit ago the bird left, and my suspicions were confirmed. Hope the resident Road Runners don’t mess with them.
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Landis liked to say that there was no happy ending for him — regardless of whether he was declared innocent or found guilty. He would be relegated to a perpetual notoriety, a purgatorial treadmill. “Everybody wants me to look them in the eye and say I didn’t do it,” he told me. “I’m willing to…
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Evening news
High Gear got the freewheel off, so the Eno wheel is on the block. Going up on MTBR in the morning unless I hear otherwise. Sun Rhyno Lite XL rim, 32h 3x DT Champs, Eno flip/flop hub. Alloy nips, built by the fine folks of AZ Bikes in Flag. Rim has ~8 months of good…
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Thinking of snow
-Reading this. -Watching this. -Thinking of moving here: From mountainradio.org: Located at 9300 feet above sea level, our 100 watt LP signal only reaches the 500 or so residents of our isolated mountain town. Three mountain passes surround Silverton and sometimes act as blockades due to extreme snow levels and avalanche danger. We are literally…
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Broken
The doctor came by a little while ago and put the hurt on me, checking out and confirming a suspicion based on the X-rays. Based on the fact that point pressure caused me, delayed 15 seconds, to feel light headed and have to sit down, I think I may be focusing on trail running for…
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Vacation planning
We have over a fortnights worth of vacation coming up in the first week of September, most of it in a condo in Tahoe. On the way there, we’ll be checking this out, staying overnight in a tent cabin in the valley proper, loading up at the included buffet in the morning, and hiking back…
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And the fun continues
I posted this back in May. M took this 2 hours ago. This would be my opinion of (what I am told is) a moderately sprained wrist. Yes it hurt to extend that finger. Cloud on the way home from the hospital. The fixie bit again, and at the aforementioned bit of trail, went down…
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Lunch
Slow day at the office this morning. Lingering soreness, and heat we haven’t seen in over a month. What better to do than hide inside an turn on the oven? Turkey bacon and diced green pepper and tomato. My side has spinach and feta.
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Semi–intentional fashion upgrade
Old. And new. (but what the hell are those guys tugging against, anyway?) Faster? Absolutely. Had some good fun doing two laps of the Old-Fashioned Mtb Race course. Messed around on the first, finding trail junctures and letting my legs stretch out after yesterday. Then I changed bottle and put the hammer down, clocked a…
Bedrock & Paradox 