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.
The Trek Century Challenge
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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...
Reflecting on my age, and my mortality, makes me sad when a realization hits me in the gut
In the last installment of bread making, a new hobby, I was just beginning on the adventure of making sourdough bread.
I followed the “sure bet” recipe for Rustic Sourdough from the fine people at King Arthur Flour, and it came out well. However there were two deficiencies:
Music has long been a big part of my life, beyond just my (admittedly waning) guitar playing, I have been an avid collector of music. From my early days of buying LP’s (and kicking myself when several moves in the 1990’s caused me to donate my vinyl collection) to being an early adopter of the CD format while I was still in high school, my collection, while not huge by some standards...