So according to gmaps pedometer, I biked approximately 15.5 miles this morning, including nearly 300 vertical change (most of it several times) - Hillsborough is hilly. No wonder I'm tired ( Read more... )

Due to the aforementioned ridiculously nice weather, today was a day for biking adventures. Of course, leaving around noon and not getting back until 4pm may have been a bit much for my first outing of the season - I'm pretty much dead of dead now. But in terms of going new places and doing new things, this outing was a rollicking success ( Read more... )

Man, ScapBook has some interface issues. Aside from the fact that all the management options are poorly linked and laid-out, I could not for the life of me get it to show automatically generated tag-galleries at the top level, even when I explicitly told it to. I've made a dummy gallery and added some tags to it meanwhile... but you don't have to ( Read more... )

So I was out for a bike ride yesterday, and what's the first wildlife I come across other than a lot of Tiger Swallowtails and other butterflies? A blue mud-dauber wasp, exactly like the one Matt and Ian recently dealt with. No black widows around, but it was in the process of dragging off some other variety of large spider ( Read more... )

So... taking advantage of my new paid account stuff I have Things. Firstly, a bunch of new userpics. Secondly, I've dumped a bunch of pics of recent wanders from my cellphone into ScrapBook, which I'll explore embedding into the entry behind the cut. BTW, I don't suppose anyone knows of a way to make ScrapBook automagically just create galleries ( Read more... )

Another expedition; my plans were slightly derailed when it turned out - who knew? - that some of the development crews were actually working on Saturday. (Perhaps they're behind schedule?) Anyhow, I had to change directions and sneak around some activity, but I managed to explore a lot more of the north side of our local swamp ( Read more... )

...that being the big development going in to the south of us. Really, new road construction is the best playground ever. The main roads are flattened now but there's still a lot of odd side-tracks and cut-throughs for sewer lines and such. And who needs jungle-gyms when you've got dozen of six-foot-diameter concrete pipe sections just lying ( Read more... )

(Not in that order.) Exercise is always an adventure when you bike in the most ridiculously off-road directions you can find in order to banish boredom. (Well, it works ( Read more... )

Went out biking again to check out the new bulldozing-the-nearby-forest developments. They've been busy. A cut just a block away from my house now connects through the the huge development project area that lets out farther south on both 86 and Old 86. Aside from the fact that losing forest kind of sucks in principle, it's nice to be able to get ( Read more... )

...at least, it is when I'm picking the directions.

( In which our hero recounts various marginally interesting adventures at some length )