Bedrock & Paradox

Not many things are working “properly” this evening; I never win fights with computers. Except today, after 20 minutes of leaping about, gesticulating, swearing, and setting things on fire (old road flare from Selma’s emergency first aid kit still works!). On that note, I present my current emergency kit. It goes in the pack (almost)…

M’s new ride has a home, check the sidebar. The saga continues……… p.s. AZ is the one state NOT on daylight savings time, but blogger is stupid. Er.

-Wynton Marsalais Walking down the street to Zax’s Saturday evening, I was shivering. Wearing capilene and two sweaters, hat, socks with sandals, looking with wonderment at passers-by in shorts and flipflops. Cause to realize I was not normal. It’s only recently that I’ve come to appreciate these opportunities. In retrospect, a hard day out without…

We’ll be here soon. Interesting what comes when you google “Moab”, apparantly it’s also “mother of all bombs”. This one was tested a couple years ago. Be there.

Sorry for the overuse of the wretched pun, but this is just a brilliant shot. It’s all in the eyes. (Not really sorry.) Well done, Dave. Another update in the saga of M and her car; the epic continues in the best American style: as of 1420 AZ time she was in eastern Mississippi, two…

Today in class we’re filling out college applications, protestations of the 12 year olds nonewithstanding. The highlight thus far has been the email addresses, and explaining the importance of appropriate and adultlike presentation. The highlight: skankasaurusrex@________.com. We’ve got some precocious ones.

Not a bad piece of work for three months. M made it to southern Georgia and got the car fine, then had a flat tire epic which is resolved. Looks like she’ll be buying some new tires tomorrow. I worry about her, but, if you’re gonna do something like this, it’s a damn good time…

Blogging is an interesting deal. Sometimes I’m inspired and have lots too say, but in the last few days my energy has been too low. M, work, riding, and assorted errands get priority over this. I do end up feeling bad about neglect; I write here for myself foremost, and secondly to give back to…

Good lines courtesy of 63xc. They’ve got a great article, Riding in the Smoking Section by Ainsley Wiles, up that’s worth a few minutes. My brain’s a bit fried from doing lots already this week, it feels like I’ve done a weeks worth of stuff in a day and a half, which from a paperwork…

Got the Race Face North Shore cranks in from across the pond. Gorgeous, machined, overkill. A very nice matte dark gray-purple finish. So nice, I may have to slap ’em on a try out 165’s on the SS, in the face of conventional wisdom. 3 hours later: In fact I just did. Very pretty. Slight…