4 months with the Trek FX Sport 6, a solid fitness/hybrid bike that makes cycling fun again.
Review: 2019 Trek FX Sport 6
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4 months with the Trek FX Sport 6, a solid fitness/hybrid bike that makes cycling fun again.
If you are looking to an example of 20th century consumerism excess, print and slide photography should be high on your list...
Observations of the cost of a dozen bagels from a local shop.
I enjoy cycling, but I am pretty far from elite. I did make the 100 miles, but my mind boggles at those who can ride more than three thousand motherfucking miles in 4 weeks.
Some extra cash (earned with ample blood sweat and tears as trustee for my stepfather's estate) launched a refresh of my technology.
I have been pretty quiet about it, but the last 8 months I have been playing the role of trustee of my step father’s estate. It has been an enormous quantity of work, and one of the perks is that I get to pay myself.
(My other blog that is…) When I began my journey on the internet back in the 1990’s, I signed up with a small-ish ISP at the time, Best Communications. One of the “benefits” of their ISDN service was the inclusion of a domain for my email. At the time, I had an English Mastiff, a giant of a dog, named Astro – from The Jetsons, and of course that domain was gone...
As I age, I am increasingly finding it less and less comfortable to fold myself into my current car, a Honda S2000. I wouldn’t have noticed this if I hadn’t spent a few months with the use of my Step Father’s Jeep Cherokee after he passed. A compact SUV, it was comfortable to drive, and I found that I enjoyed that.
Way back, in September 2017, I was happy using Google Drive to put some of my documents. It was reliable, and if not as feature rich as Dropbox, my go-to solution for syncing between computers, I did get a block of storage free with my Google Suite account.
54 down, ? to go… Today marks the completion of my 54th trip ’round Sol, a time for reflection, celebration, and looking to the future. Not to wax philosophically, but with what is certainly the greater fraction of my life gone by, it is a bit of an eye opener. There are good things to be thankful for. My health remains good (even though I could stand to lose some weight,) I am doing...