My friend Eric and I went out on a killer ride yesterday trying to get ready for our 24hr course next weekend. Eric put together a map outlining our route. If you have Google Earth (and you ALL have Google Earth don't you? :)
Anyways, if you are interested, feel free to check it out. Took us several (7) hours, but that included a nice lunch break, and some accidental bush whacking.
Click here to download it.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Learn how to speak Canadian eh?
Had a weird lost in translation moment today...
I wanted some tape to wrap around the chainstay on my mountain bike to protect it from the chain. The chainstay is the bike arm that runs from the front cranks to the back wheel, and the chain can hit it if it pops off your chain rings and scratch it up. I walked into Home Depot, grabbed the first person with an orange apron on and politely asked them to tell me where one would find hockey-tape. The blank stare I got was not that uncommon in our local Home-Depot, as they seem to have a lot of turn-over and there's new staff all the time who appear more lost than the customers. I thanked him, and immediately grabbed the next orange aproned help staff. 5 orange aprons later and I still hadn't found anyone who'd even heard of hockey-tape let alone could tell me where to find it. I described it in great detail and promptly got shown electrician's tape (nope), duct tape (nope), masking tape (nope) and scotch tape (really nope).
If I'd been at Crappy Tire, not only would I immediately been whisked to the hockey-tape section, but it would've been on sale and I could have probably bought 20 rolls on my Crappy Tire bucks.
Sigh...
To save some of you googling, click here to see what hockey tape is, and for a real laugh, click here to see Crappy Tire's ONLINE selection of hockey tape and that's only a subset of what they have. For the first time in my life I ALMOST feel the need for a Molson's or a Labatt's to drown my sorrows....this will have to do I guess. :)
I wanted some tape to wrap around the chainstay on my mountain bike to protect it from the chain. The chainstay is the bike arm that runs from the front cranks to the back wheel, and the chain can hit it if it pops off your chain rings and scratch it up. I walked into Home Depot, grabbed the first person with an orange apron on and politely asked them to tell me where one would find hockey-tape. The blank stare I got was not that uncommon in our local Home-Depot, as they seem to have a lot of turn-over and there's new staff all the time who appear more lost than the customers. I thanked him, and immediately grabbed the next orange aproned help staff. 5 orange aprons later and I still hadn't found anyone who'd even heard of hockey-tape let alone could tell me where to find it. I described it in great detail and promptly got shown electrician's tape (nope), duct tape (nope), masking tape (nope) and scotch tape (really nope).
If I'd been at Crappy Tire, not only would I immediately been whisked to the hockey-tape section, but it would've been on sale and I could have probably bought 20 rolls on my Crappy Tire bucks.
Sigh...
To save some of you googling, click here to see what hockey tape is, and for a real laugh, click here to see Crappy Tire's ONLINE selection of hockey tape and that's only a subset of what they have. For the first time in my life I ALMOST feel the need for a Molson's or a Labatt's to drown my sorrows....this will have to do I guess. :)
Friday, March 17, 2006
Just need a bit more lego
I just need a couple of extra bricks...I wonder if this guy can give me the destructions :)
Aircraft Carrier
Aircraft Carrier
Monday, March 13, 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
There's cold in them thar' hills...
A view from the street outside our house this afternoon. Yes that is snow! I've got a 24hr race up there in two weeks. Please be gone by then!
Friday, March 10, 2006
Vallarta Chamber Orchestra
Here is the orchestra that keeps me out of trouble during those winter months here in Puerto Vallarta. We are performing March 20 and 21 for anyone that wants to fly in for a little culture...
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Silly Virus Facts
So I've been keeping track of viruses that have been blocked by the mail server and thought people may find this interesting. Since Feb 12th (so 20 days or so) the mail server has blocked 115 viruses. Of the 115:
89 were sent to shannon (78%)
20 were sent to mary (17%)
5 were sent to dave (4%)
and 1 was sent to shelley (1%)
Interestingly, of the ones sent my way, 3 were sent to david, and 2 were sent to dave. I NEVER use david, so I'd be interested in knowing who has me as david in their address book.
About 50% of them came from somebody in Bahrain. Anybody know anyone in Bahrain? If so, please tell them that spewing out virus email is not cool. Friends don't let friends send viruses :-)
89 were sent to shannon (78%)
20 were sent to mary (17%)
5 were sent to dave (4%)
and 1 was sent to shelley (1%)
Interestingly, of the ones sent my way, 3 were sent to david, and 2 were sent to dave. I NEVER use david, so I'd be interested in knowing who has me as david in their address book.
About 50% of them came from somebody in Bahrain. Anybody know anyone in Bahrain? If so, please tell them that spewing out virus email is not cool. Friends don't let friends send viruses :-)
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Grandma's Birthday
Grandma Anderson recently celebrated her 90th birthday. Happy birthday, Mom, Grandma, and Great-Grandma! You look fabulous.
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