Today was my second long bike ride of the season. Today’s ride was in the 25-30 mile range. I am purposely taking my old mountain style bike instead of my newer road bike on these first few rides. The old bike does not have the trip computer and therefore I am not subject to the [...]
Archive for April, 2007
I am sure that there are many scientific studies of the impact of sunshine on a person’s attitudes toward life. I am someone who takes interest in reading those studies when they present themselves. However, I will rarely seek them out. Especially when the correlation is easy to observe. The weather in Chicago has literally [...]
Awhile ago when I was lamenting that I was not having fun, I committed to listing what I liked to do and want to learn to do. Here they are. Like to Do Want to Be Better At Ride my bike Cooking well Be a Dad Tennis/basketball/softball Hang with Friends Massaging Write/Blog Writing Scuba Dive Creating/doing stuff with my [...]
I rarely think about bees except in August when they start appearing in droves and make going to the beach or having a picnic a miserable experience. Or when “killer ” bees were making their way north from Mexico. Or when I am putting honey in my tea or better yet trying to substitute honey [...]
I found out today that S is in intensive care after falling, hitting her head and causing the type of internal bleeding usually reserved for TV medical dramas. But this is not TV, this is real and happening to someone I care about. So my prayers are with her tonight. I do not pray often [...]
First of the spring. 20 miles, easy pace. Muscles ached, short of breadth. Normal first time reactions after a long Chicago winter. Beautiful day. Sunny, 70s, light wind. It was grand. Four years ago I rediscovered biking as an activity. It has become a major part of what I do and who I am. I missed [...]
I flew 5000 miles this week. It is virtually impossible to do that and have nothing go wrong. I did not achieve the impossible. Having said that, it could have been worse and this post’s title could have been more dramatic. A couple of quick stories showing that even airlines have multi-faceted personalities, though upon [...]
The raison d’etre of this blog is to highlight that most people have multiple facets to their personality. When most of us think of LeVar Burton, and you know that you do, either the characters of Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: Next Generation or Kunta Kinte from Roots comes to mind. To me that means enjoyable characters played [...]
I don’t know how to feel. Yes it was tragic . Yes my heartfelt sympathies go out to those who knew the now dead or were physically or psychologically wounded. Angry, saddened; sure. More confused then anything. I do not in any way comprehend a human being who can act this way. Who kills randomly and [...]
I spend too much time reading The Economist. No articles about JLo, Bradgelina or Lindsey. For fun this magazine publishes an article on how some anthropologist found the same collagen on both a T-Rex fossil and modern chickens proving a genetic link. Is this high brow gossip or what! So one caveman came upon another chomping on a T-Rex steak. [...]
