Monthly Archives: September 2008

September is over….FINALLY!

At some point early in the month, I was thinking about how glad I would be to see October, because that would mean that I survived the end of September.
The week leading up the Addison Oaks Race was a blur of last minute activity, but in the end, everything came off PERFECTLY.  The race was [...]

LONG day finally over

Today, today was a very long day.
We starting out leaving the house a ~6:30AM to head to Addison Oaks for the CPS XC race that the Metro North chapter was holding.  Thanks to a bit of luck, great timing company and land manager, and a LOT of help from a ton of great volunteers, the [...]

New seat for my meat

Look what Marty found the other day at Macomb Cycle for me.

A exact replacement saddle for the one that I wrecked on my SS.

Unlike my old one, this one has straight rails.

Fat Tire: Gift from the West

Our friends Krisi and Erik have been vacationing out west that past couple of weeks.  Bouncing around and riding their bikes.  They are back in town, and were at our regular Wednesday night Stony Creek group ride.
While riding, Kristi told Marty that they had a present from out west for us, and “It’s Fat”  (Marty’s [...]

Chrome is losing it’s shine

I’ve been using Chrom at work since it came out a few weeks ago (not using it at home because there isn’t an official Mac version yet)  While I’m pretty happy with the overall features and feel of Chrome, it’s alpha software quirks are bad enough that I’ve went mostly back to FF3 for now.
I’ve [...]

The Sunday Ride

The Sunday Ride
Originally uploaded by netgeek

Heading out for a quick Sunday AM ride before the ick from Ike hit us. Rode to check out the new Mijier (opening Wednesday the 17th!) and the park they created next to the development. Rode the closed bridge and the old golf course bridges over the swollen Clinton River. [...]

Rain Delay

It’s raining..
It’s been raining since we got up this morning, and it hasn’t stopped yet.
We were going to ride out bikes today, but it’s raining.  We went out to Addison Oaks to discuss the course for next weeks race, and we stood in the rain the whole time.
We’ve done nothing since coming home from Addison [...]

Not Happening

I was really hoping to get out and ride this evening, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to be happening.  We’re are heading out the Addison Oaks in the morning for a quick meeting, and we’ve decided that unless it’s RAINING, we’ll be taking the bikes and trying to get at least a lap [...]

Wipeout at Lakeshore

Since I was working on the west side today, Marty and I brought out bikes and headed out to the Tree Farm for the Tuesday night ride.
We were there early, so we headed out of a quick mini-prelap, Marty and Kim took off with Justin and Tina, and Mike and I did 1/2 of the [...]

Holy Hemotoma!

Marty noticed this morning that Shinia has developed another hemotoma on one of her ears.  She’s 13 years old, and she get’s them from shaking her head and itching her ears (she has allergies, which affect her ears)..  Last time this happened, the hematoma was pretty bad, and it was ~$1500 all said and done, [...]