Monochromatic Outlook

Set­ting up the new bike, and I’m real curi­ous to see how it rides.

It’s a big­ger frame than I’m used to—a 55cm frame, where my rac­ing bike is a 53cm frame. Hope­ful­ly I won’t have to make any rapid dis­mounts (!!!!). The fel­low who set up the bike rec­om­mend­ed the 55cm, as he said “most peo­ple ride frames that are too small.” Interesting.

Well, very very inter­est­ing, actu­al­ly. the frame geom­e­try of this bike is so very … Read the rest

I’ve been look­ing for an entry-lev­el tour­ing bicy­cle for a lit­tle while. My rac­ing bike is total­ly inap­pro­pri­ate for any­thing more than a sin­gle day trip with all sup­plies pur­chased on the road, and real­ly not appro­pri­ate for com­mut­ing either. My hybrid got trashed out at Burn­ing Man and has been retired to the sta­tus of “Playa Bike.”

I’d been think­ing of replac­ing the hybrid with anoth­er hybrid, but I got this oppor­tu­ni­ty to pick up a used rental bike. … Read the rest

Russ­ian Min­ers Emerge From Flood­ed Mine

If I ever com­plain about my job, some­body slap me sil­ly and remind me that there is absolute­ly no chance that an under­ground lake will flood my office, OK?… Read the rest

Noth­ing cor­rects a foul mood in the morn­ing like a ride on the cable­car with Tom Jones cranked up on the iPod. Weather.com says it’s 65 in SF right now, but it feels more like 75. It’s prob­a­bly going to be a scorcher today, but it was just about per­fect rid­ing in to work.

This morn­ing I was feel­ing sor­ry for myself because there’s no one shar­ing my bed. Well, you know what? Peo­ple are hav­ing sex all over the … Read the rest

A bicy­clist rode past the bus shel­ter as I wait­ed for the #43 to come and take me to a meet­ing I’m attend­ing before I go to the office this morn­ing. He stood up on his ped­als as he acceller­at­ed past, strands and cables of mus­cle at taut atten­tion on his lean calves and thighs. As he glid­ed past effi­cient­ly, his eyes scanned the street, tar­get­ing obsta­cles and threats to avoid, then mov­ing to the next as he read … Read the rest

Pro­tein pow­der in my oat­meal is not an exper­i­ment I’ll be try­ing again.… Read the rest

Fol­low­ing ‘s lead:

480 address records
0 Date­book records
48 memo pad items
6 note pad items
2 to-do list records

(all my date­book/­to-do records were wiped out thanks to Apple’s iSync. Thanks, Apple.)

Aba­ball, a fan­cy Break­out game
Agen­dus Pro, a date­book, to-do list, and con­tact add-on with email
All­Time, for track­ing time and billing. Don’t use this much any­more, since I’m on salary
Avant­Go, for no rea­son oth­er than running 
BART sched­ule and planner
BibleRead­er+
Pock­etChess Deluxe
Crypt­In­fo… Read the rest

So actu­al­ly I only went up Twin Peaks and then came back straight down O’Shaugh­nessy. It’s OK, I hit my pri­ma­ry goal. You think it’s easy rid­ing a bicy­cle up Twin Peaks? And it was beau­ti­ful up there. tru­ly gorgeous.

Do I live in a cool place or what?

Came home and and made a smooth­ie. Very yum.… Read the rest

Today I want to climb Twin Peaks on my bicy­cle. I will take the direct approach and climb O’Shaugh­nessy. It’s about 2 miles as the crow flies. After­wards I’ll ride down to the ocean and then maybe around Lake Merced or maybe just back Ocean Ave. I have a par­ty to go to this after­noon, so I can’t be gone too long. Also haven’t been cycling that much, so an ambi­tious climb like that might be about all I have … Read the rest