‎~ 50 training miles and 3 hilly, painful, hours later: My reward, nice, aaaaah!


~ But that was way less painful than many weeks of chemo/radiation treatments...

~ Who do you love lives with cancer every day, or who has passed away from cancer?
~ How much would you have given to be able to send them another birthday card?




~ Please help me Kick Cancer's Butt with my bicycle - just click on the link, and if this is as important to you as it is to me, share the link with all your friends: Bicycles Kicking Cancer's Butt

Thank You,

~ Hey look at me riding over the Queensboro bridge on Sunday, with no cars woo woo!
~ Too bad there's no pics of us all on the FDR - with more no cars Aaah Hahahahaha!
~ And here's what the vehicle drivers in NYC looked like on Sunday morning:

~ Fabulous!

Brutal test ride up Becket Rd. hill this evening, but the 20 yr old hardtail mountain bike is working just fine. With the fat, slick road tires it will be just the tool for 40 miles and 5 boros in NYC on Sunday!

I went on the local Tue night B ride this week, 35 mi. Kept right up with the group, passed some on the hills, pulled the pack for a while, then got dropped like a hot bag of cement at the begining of the 6 mile sprint back to the shop ! I guess I need to work on my leg speed!! The important part though is that there were plenty of PBRs left when I got there!



PS: Bicycles Battling Cancer is coming...

~ Interesting artwork. But then again, I love anything (except riots) in Spain!

Updated Sunday, 25 Mar

~ "Castle Laws" don't apply if one seeks out confrontation...
~ I don't hear anything but static in that CNN/Zimmerman recording. How about you?
~ I'm sorry for the family's loss. The incident saddens me on several levels.



Oh, and on a personal note, all four wisdom teeth yanked out tomorrow. I bought extra,organic, on-sale chocolate milk for smoothies...

~ Lucky me (?), they only yanked the top two. And let me just add that all that yanking and cracking was not fun... And then there was the next one...

~ Not for the squeamish:

~ I've been out this week with a borrowed 8 in reflector, enjoying Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, the Orion Nebula, and comet Garradd. Saturn, Mars and Venus are just larger, brighter dots with the telescope. On the other hand, I can see four of Jupiter's moons and three dim belts! It's very cool that thery're all out there and well visible to the naked eye! Orion's Nebula is bright but fuzzy, it's almost more satisfying with my binos. And while it's sort of exciting to say I saw a comet, I can only see Garradd as a dim fuzzy spot, and only if I use side vision.
~ So there's the 'Splicetronomy report for the week!


Comet Garradd

~ ‎30 miles on the bike this evening, down to Guido's and back. 33F when I got back, my new headlight is kick-ass! Hooah, good training, Yowza! Oh, and my lips are frozen...
(The lack of winter in the Berkshires is causing me to start hurting myself earlier this year... )
~ Do you do a sport(s) or something athletic?

~ Oh my, I almost peed myself!!

The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran

1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that's a war crime. War crimes must be punished.

2. My television says Iran has nukes. I'm sure it's true this time. Just like with North Korea. I'm sure they're next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.

3. Iraq didn't go so badly. Considering how lousy its government is, the place is better off with so many people having left or died. Really, that one couldn't have worked out better if we'd planned it.

4. When we threaten to cut off Iran's oil, Iran threatens to cut off Iran's oil, which is absolutely intolerable. What would we do without that oil? And what good is buying it if they want to sell it?

5. Iran was secretly behind 9-11. I read it online. And if it wasn't, that's worse. Iran hasn't attacked another nation in centuries, which means its next attack is guaranteed to be coming very soon.

6. Iranians are religious nuts, unlike Israelis and Americans. Most Israelis don't want to attack Iran, but the Holy Israeli government does. To oppose that decision would be to sin against God.

7. Iranians are so stupid that when we murder their scientists they try to hire a car dealer in Texas to hire a drug gang in Mexico to murder a Saudi ambassador in Washington, and then they don't do it -- just to make us look bad for catching them.

7. b. Oh, and stupid people should be bombed. They're not civilized.

8. War is good for the U.S. economy, and the Iranian economy too. Troops stationed in Iran would buy stuff. And women who survived the war would have more rights. Like in Virginia. We owe Iranians this after that little mishap in 1953.

9. This is the only way to unite the region. Either we bomb Iran and it swears its eternal love to us. Or, if necessary, we occupy Iran to liberate it like its neighbors. Which shouldn't take long. Look how well Afghanistan is going already.

10. They won't give our drone back. Enough said.

~ Perspire, perspire, perspire.
~ "This is good for me, this is good for me, this is good for me..."