I wondered if Livejournal still existed, and guess what? It does. But you already knew that if you are reading this. What is there to say? My last post was about bicycling, and this one could be too. Had a bike accident yesterday, in fact. Car turned left across my path. No contact, but the hard stop flipped the bike up, and I went over the bars ( ( Read more... )

I decided to let my paid account lapse. I'm not using it, I don't care that much about ads. I should probably just give up completely, but I still like LJ in principle. However, as long as it is blocked at work, I am unlikely to update regularly, even during political season.

So I've been riding my bike quite a bit. I completed my first (supported) century this weekend. 105.5 miles, including 7950 feet of vertical rise (not elevation, just climb -- elevation never rose much over 1500 feet, but there were two climbs of 1200 feet, and two of 500ish feet, plus the general rolling hills ( Read more... )

My loving family allowed me to choose my father's day activity, and I chose a trip to the national museum of the american indian and an early dinner at the shake shack. I enjoyed the museum quite a lot, and shake shack's burgers really are a cut above the ubiquitous and somewhat legendary five guys, but I do not expect to switch allegiance anytime ( Read more... )

I feel like I should feel guilty for neglecting good old LJ but it is tough to feel guilty about neglecting something you hardly remember. :-(

Nations of the world: you need to come up with a cooperative strategy to combat piracy. What you're doing? It isn't working. Escallation of the threat is movement in the wrong direction. How about hitting them where they live? Kill them. All of them. Use covert operations forces to hunt down and kill the leaders on land. Set them up by ( Read more... )

So fortunately I have my tunes (covenant~ ritual noise was the last track, now David Bowie~ china girl) but I'm at over an hour to get from union station to Rosslyn... and I have to get to west falls church ( Read more... )

A video for you. Sorry I can't embed it but I still don't get full functionality from the phone:

big wet jugs
Enjoy.

so the GOP's first priority is the wholesale repeal of the ACA? even though it is a pointless exercise in political theater? not going to even try for incremental improvements ( Read more... )

Merely comatose due to limited access. Thanks to new phone, though, that could change. Wish me luck.