Dec 2008
New Year website change
Dec. 30, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Time for another website re-design. I thought with the new year, it’d be nice to give the site a new look. So, the holiday theme is now gone and I’ve got this new theme on the site.
Hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s and I’ll chat with you all again in 2009!
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Another holiday week
Dec. 29, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Another holiday week and it was a long, lazy weekend. It was rather nice actually. The chilly weather in the mornings has made me wimp out and I’ve been sitting on my wind trainer quite a bit over the past week. It’s kinda like two weeks of extreme cold and then it starts to gradually warm up. Just like Summer where there’s two weeks of unbearable heat. I’m gonna start to try and crawl out of bed in the mornings to get out and ride cause, quite frankly, the wind trainer is boring as all hell. And, I’ve got a nice layer of fitness that I don’t want to go to waste. I think I’ve been doing pretty good this off-season (for me that is) and am looking forward to warmer weather and maybe even racing this season!
What'd you get?!
Dec. 26, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Happy Post Christmas to everyone! Hope you all got the day off today. I did and am enjoying a lazy day while it’s still a little chilly and windy outside. Did you get everything you wanted from Santa? I had a great time with my family and very much missed my friend who went up North to visit her Aunt and best friend. It’s been 4 days since the last blog post so thought I’d better put something up before people thought I gave up on the whole ‘blogging’ thing. Have a great day everyone!
Christmas week is here!
Dec. 22, 2008 Filed in: Personal
I mean, come on...
Dec. 19, 2008 Filed in: Personal
How many times have you gone to a bicycle race and witnessed something like the picture above? Exactly. If you haven’t heard, there was a fight that damaged alot of expensive bikes and the reputation of bicycle races everywhere at the Kansas City CycloCross Nationals recently (Story here on VeloNews). Behavior like this just doesn’t happen at cycling events. I’m not saying we’re all perfect. We’re far from it. Sure, the aggression gets high during the race and, I’ve been told that as we’re whizzing by during the race, spectators can hear us sometimes exchanging not so nice words from within the peleton. Racers are jockeying for postion, trying to grab a line...it happens. But an all out brawl after a race from a heckler is just crazy and wrong.
Hopefully we’ll all learn a little something from this and people who go to bike races will exhibit better behavior so our sport doesn’t sink to a new level. I mean, don’t we have enough problems from all the doping already?
Brrr!!!
Dec. 18, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Okay, I know there are parts of the US that get real winter seasons where it rains all the time and even snows but here in Orange County, California, we’re just not used this cold weather. A day of rain is a very traumatic experience and we all go on Storm Watch and our newscasts are filled for the hour with reports of impeding rain and freezing cold temperatures. Yes, we’re wimps.
At least once a year, Saddleback mountain gets a layer of snow that quickly melts but this morning, after a very chilly night with rain, the mountain had the most snow I’ve seen in a long time. I tried to snap a few pictures of it but there was still a cloud cover hovering over the top. Anyway, here’s a pic and there are a couple others in my Flickr account. Enjoy!
No more Apple at MacWorld
Dec. 17, 2008 Filed in: Technology
All the buzz on the internet yesterday was that Apple will withdraw from MacWorld after the upcoming show this January. And, to top it off, Steve Jobs will not even be delivering the keynote for one last time! Sad news to see but trade shows seem to be losing momentum and the economy doesn’t seem to be helping things.
So, do you think MacWorld will be a bust now that Apple is no longer there? Seems like the end of an era but hopefully, the show will carry on and allow vendors and visitors to experience new technology.
Cyclists on Twitter
Dec. 16, 2008 Filed in: Personal
I’ve found it interesting to see alot of cyclists using Twitter out there. Thought I’d throw up a little post with some of the more popular cyclists out there. If you’re using Twitter and want to check out what your favorite pro-cyclists or cycling personalities are up to, here you go! Know of any others...please share!
George Hincapie (@ghincapie)
Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong)
Dave Zabriskie (@dzabriskie)
Johan Bruyneel (@johanbruyneel)
Ivan Basso (@ivanbasso)
Taylor Phinney (@taylorphinney)
Some other cool cycling related Twitters to follow:
SoCalCycling (@SoCalCycling)
FredCast (@FredCast)
Rich Kelly (@Interbike)
Rock Racing (@RockRacing)
Slipstream (@TeamSlipstream)
Amgen Tour of California (AmgenTourofCali)
VeloNews (@Velonews)
Have you Elf'ed Yourself lately?
Send your own ElfYourself eCards
Today starts the week before Christmas. Have you done all your shopping? I’ve barely started. But I am one of those last minute shoppers so this is pretty typical.
If you haven’t seen ElfYourself, I suggest checking it out. I seem to remember it being around last year but they’ve improved the site since and it’s alot of fun.
Traffic and LA on a Friday
Dec. 12, 2008 Filed in: Personal
So I had to go to Woodland Hills today for a site survey at a customer site. I left at 6am to get a jump start on the traffic. Wasn’t completely lucky though. When I hit downtown LA, I found the 101 south completely closed. It was a pretty unusual site to see the southbound freeway empty at 7am on a Friday. But, I did have a nice visit with our new client and some heavy traffic on the way back as well. But such is life. Hope you all have a great weekend!
I got nothing.
Dec. 10, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Nothing new to report today. Which makes me wonder... I try and blog once a day but should I blog if I have nothing to blog about? Hmmm. If I post something, people at least know I’m still around and haven’t forgotten about my website. But on the other hand, who wants to read a blog post like this?
Oh Subaru...
Dec. 09, 2008 Filed in: Personal
So here I sit again in the waiting area of my Subaru dealer. You know, for all this talk I hear about Subaru’s being excellent cars, I sure have had some questionable experiences with mine so far. Seems like I’m in here all the time. You know, when people at work notice you’re always taking your car in for service, I don’t think that’s a good sign.
I do love my car. Really I do! I think what annoys me with Subaru is the lack of options for service. I have one dealer that’s close to me. The next closest dealer is almost double the distance and then it just gets worse. My dealership is nice but I used to go have a VW and their waiting area and dealership was very nice. Wi-fi, nice lounge area. My dealership is seriously lacking in amenities. No wi-fi and a lounge area that looks like it was build in the early 80’s.
I think if the dealership was in better condition, it might not make me so pissy about the whole experience. Plus, if my dealership sucks or does something I don’t like, what are my options? I’d have to drive further to get my car serviced.
Sorry, I’m just ranting. This place just gives me the willies.
Lions and tigers and polar bears...oh my!
Dec. 08, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Hey everybody out there in cyberworld. Hope you all had a nice weekend. Mine was pretty fun. On Saturday, we went down to San Diego for Snow Day at the zoo. It’s when they put real snow in the polar bear exhibit. The three polar bears are supposed to play and frolic in the snow and us viewers should get a fun show. Well, when we got there, two of them were hardly visible in the back sleeping and the third was in view up front...sleeping. Oh well. We walked around and visited our other favorites and then went back to the polar bears to see what they were up to. This time at least one was digging in the snow and I got some nice photos of polar bear butt. After we left the zoo, we had dinner in Old Towne which was very nice. Lots of people out and about for a Saturday night. The weather was great too!
An interesting idea for flight travel
Dec. 05, 2008 Filed in: Technology
Here’s an interesting idea for your next flight; Take that barf-bag and turn it into something useful...a holder for your media player! Now why didn’t I think of that? Seriously, someone could start modding barf-bags and selling them online. I bet people would buy them!
Story courtesy of Engadget.
Dancing kitties
Dec. 04, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Winter training
Dec. 03, 2008 Filed in: Personal
I’m trying to get back into my training habits this winter rather than being lazy, which is my normal routine during the chilly months. As my friend says, I stay in the cubby getting chubby. So, this week I’m trying to start out right by going out every day and putting some time in on the wind trainer when I get home from work.
So far, so good. I’m off to a good start and the new Garmin 705 is keeping my interest on the bike. I’ve enjoyed using their website for uploading my workouts. Pretty neat stuff. Check it out here.
Welcome back!
Dec. 01, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Hey all, welcome back from the holiday break. Did you all have a good Thanksgiving? Get in on any good Black Friday deals or are you at work doing a little Cyber Monday shopping right now?
Only 24 more shopping days till Saint Nick arrives! For some that’s either no big deal or the start of some very stressful shopping days. I know people that have done all their shopping, while I on the other hand, have yet to begin. I’m usually like that though...oh well.
The website underwent a little holiday makeover. Hope everyone likes it. My holiday spirit varies from year to year. This year, I’m feeling quite jolly about Christmas so it was fun making changes to the site.
My holiday break was excellent. Got some much needed rest in and had a very nice Thanksgiving. Now it’s back to the grindstone and time to count down the days till Christmas!
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