New pad!

Friday, June 17th, 2005

We scored. After searching a little over a year in the insanity of the Bay Area housing market, we finally went into a contract on a new home. I am too psyched about this. The place itself is around 2000 square feet, more or less depending on if you count the ...

Stargazing

Thursday, February 20th, 2003

I had a quite awesome ride this evening on my mountain bike. I ride almost every night after work, but this ride seemed almost transcendental for some reason - I can't explain the feeling exactly, but maybe you'll get it. The air was crisp and perfectly still after a rain, ...

The world looks different at night

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

Switching back and forth between daylight savings time and standard time is always a disruption. This time I was really getting in to my after-work mountain bike riding, only to have it suddenly go dark on me by 6 PM after they changed the clocks on us again last Sunday. ...

Life is good…

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002

So, more bike upgrades today. I slapped on some new lightweight toe-clip style pedals because I decided that after a year trying them, clipless pedals just don't work for the kind of extreme mountain biking I like to do. It's not so much the clip vs. the pedal, ...

The Bike

Thursday, May 16th, 2002

I have a new set of tires on my bike, some new bar ends, and cleaned off all the dirt and crap that has been collecting on the chain and wheels over the past year. Gave it a general tune up and still have some work to do on ...