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Character meme from kahvi
1) Make a list of fourteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment. (That way you're not leading the questions asked to fit the characters ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Crazy inversion layer this morning - it was pea-soup all of the way up past the entrance to the Radio Tower Road, then it cleared away. It was totally clear at the top of the mountain, the fog lying down below like a blanket. Too bad I only had my cell phone for pics.
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Santa Cruz ride
We made it down to Santa Cruz before the end of 2011!
The Strava is hereThe pictures are below. :) I set the GoPro to shoot off pics every so often, so the pictures with a visor at the bottom are from that. The rest are from the point-and-shoots ( Read more... ) -
Dear Yuletide Santa
First of all - thank you for doing this! This is one of the loveliest parts of the season, to me ( Read more... ) -
My first century
aka 100-mile bike ride. I did it. That's about all I can say...!
I've done 60-70ish mile rides; I did a 65 a few weeks ago. So, I thought, what's another 35?
Rather a lot, it turns out. After about 65 miles, I was getting a bit tired. With 30 miles to go, I was dying a bit, and finding that I was having trouble visualizing finishing. With ( Read more... ) -
New shoes, best time (so far)
Depsite not getting enough sleep last night, I did my personal best on the Guadalupe Canyon and Radio Tower climbs this morning. I had a few changes that probably helped; I finally got some real road shoes and SPD-SL cleats to replace my SPD cleats and mountain shoes (well, perhaps 'complement' instead of 'replace;' I'm keeping the SPDs and ( Read more... ) -
TV show meme
Yoinked from kahvi.
Rules: Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Underline a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order), but you must delete one show for each one that you add.
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Hawaii trip
My manager had been bugging me to take a few days off, and as Neal is back to his Hawaii-every-month-for-work schedule - well, it seemed a simple enough plan to just buy an inexpensive Hawaiian Airlines ticket and go with him ( Read more... ) -
Strava and SBM
San Bruno Mountain, not Science-Based Medicine. :p ( Read more... ) -
Speculative Fiction Bookmeme
NPR survey for the top 100 Sci-fi/Fantasy books. Stolen from kahvi.
Bolded - have read
Underlined - read a book from a series or stopped reading a single book at some point
Italicize - ones you fully intend to read
( List 'o books. )