2011: A Year in ReviewIt's been a busy and full year. A number of times in the last month or two I've looked back over the last 12, and marveled that it has all happened just in 2011. Really? There are a whole bunch of pluses in the first column, too (well, at least: there are a bunch of rather big pluses, and most of the minuses are minor ( Read more... )

A lazy Victoria Day long weekend, and for the first time in forever and ever, I haven't had a thing to do. Got some long-overdue housework done, a bunch of lying around playing games on the iThing, and that's mostly it.

In my
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Oh, my poor bike. I hit a pothole at 60km/h a couple of weeks ago. I'm fine, but my front wheel will never be the same again, and needed to be replaced straight up.

Fortuitously, I happened upon a (hitherto unknown to me) bike store the other day advertising specializing in ten speeds. The proprietor is a curmudgeonly old fellow in his 60s or so ( Read more... )

I got back into Calgary two weeks ago this afternoon; it seems hard to imagine I've already been back for longer than I was in South America. Time has certainly flown by! (Aided by a large pile of "welcome back" material on my desk at work; today is the first day since my return that I haven't been at work all day. Finally getting started on my ( Read more... )

So for various reasons, I've decided against posting photos, bike journals, etc. to LJ.

Instead, they will be posted to my web site, here:
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Okay, so. Excitement: can has.

Why? Because in January, I'm taking off to bike across South America!

( Well, maybe. )

The Jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me

1992 (UAE/USA)

• The first time I actually listened to "American Pie" was at Pancho Villa's in Dubai ( Read more... )

On Thursday, June 3rd, the Alberta provincial government, after eight years of lobbying by AWA and other environmental groups, finally declared grizzly bears to be a threatened species. Champagne ( Read more... )

I regard that subject as reminiscent of the interstitials in The Shining:

"W E D N E S D A Y".

Anyway.

So last year, back when I was losing all ridiculous amounts of weight, I started-with an eye toward the facilitation of same-running again, something I hadn't done seriously for quite a few years. nickate had previously suggested doing a half-marathon ( Read more... )