(for what ever you want to say...)

I'm just sayin' happy thanksgiving.

i need more hours in the day.

ditto to everything above.

I need to start going to Yoga classes again.

I don't know where else to post this, but for those of you old enough to remember the film "On Any Sunday" or the professional MX circuit of the '70s, I had Thanksgiving dinner at my brother's house. The guest of honor was none other than five time 500cc world champion Roger DeCoster. When my friends and I were in high school we all tried to ride our Schwinn Stingrays like Roger and his sometimes teammate, the chain-smoking Joel Robert, who smoked during the motos and flicked his cigarette butts at his closest rivals.
Those guys rode the early CZ, Maico, Husqvarna, Puch, and later Suzuki MX bikes with primitive suspension compared to modern MX Supercross rides. They had balls like churchbells.

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^HaHaHa! So true. The Douche Swoosh. Seriously. Why does the fact that the frame is carbon guarantee a horrible paint job? When did panels go out of style?

I have a hard time getting really enraged like I used to (my 19th year was the peak). I don't want to get mad, but I have nothing to say about anything that enrages most people (no matter how horrible).

It is just a little odd not to be upset about things that upset people around me.

today im starting a makeover of the store. it'll take me a few weeks to complete since i'll be buying and making a lot of displays.

I love the older Tom Waits stuff. In fact, I just started playing "Nighthawks at the diner" as my morning soundtrack here at work.... Thanks for the tip!

".. all upon a foggy night, an abandoned road..."

If you buy your kids a bike this Christmas, make sure you read the instructions or let a professional build it up... :face-smile:

I wondered what was going on in the store yesterday when I stopped in. Looks like some impressive fixture building you're setting up to do, Sky!

Yesterday, at the very end of my commute home, my odometer rolled over to 5000 miles. That was since October 19, 2008, when I bought the bicycle. I took a photo. It was the first time I'd seen that many miles on my odometer. Figuring that only 610 miles was during my tour in August, I've ridden a lot.

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Finally finished my Appeallant's Opening Brief for my appeal of my CVC 21202(a) case. It is hard to do legal stuff without the proper training! But now I can finally focus on some other important projects, like building up my grocery getter!

I saw George with Bootsy Collins on bass a few years ago at Street Scene. He was so much fun!

also on Tom Waits, he is playing The Devil in the new Terry Gilliam movie that's out later this month.

Shapps (Bryan):So the week before Thanksgiving marked my final week of having a commute to work. Starting Monday I will be working from home. I just want to say farewell to you,Genesee canyons.

I live at the top of the south end of Clairemont Drive. If anyone is familiar with the street, the hill section of that was a terrible ride for cyclists going up or down the hill to/from the 5. No bike lane, heavy traffic, lots of pot holes, curved so cars had a hard time seeing you, etc. The weekend before last the city took this hill from a two lane street to a single lane of traffic and added a bike lane on each side. Pretty cool to see this done in what most will perceive as a major inconvenience to automobiles for the benefit of those on bikes.

Lemon Grove did this a few years back (reduced number of lanes to 1 everywhere and put in bike lanes). The whole idea was to specifically slow down traffic. So it is slow going in a car through my town, but a butt load of bike lanes.

And ironic that they put in bike lanes on your commute when you no longer have to bike to work. But yay for sleeping in and working in your PJs!

Bryan, now I know whom to call when my Internet or 3G goes down! :face-monkey:

Ren and Stimpy?

It's good to read that Clairemont Drive was reconfigured. I haven't seen it yet. The hill Bryan writes about is on my commute route when I work in Clairemont. I take it the side streets stepwise up from Morena, turning right just after the 7-Eleven on Frankfort, ending up on Huxley St. (one of my all-time favorite authors - if you liked Cormac McCarthy's The Road, try reading Huxley's apocalyptic 1948 dystopia Ape and Essence about life in post-nuked LA, complete with grave-robbing at Forest Lawn and human sacrifice coupled with Satanic worship in the Coliseum - it's written as a screenplay, so it wouldn't be much of a jump to make it into a motion picture), then turning right on Clairemont Drive to complete the ride up the hill. I never liked riding past the apartments near the top of the hill, where parked cars narrowed the lane and drivers coming up the hill behind one wouldn't give this rider any room, especially in the dark. On my return trip, riding down the grade past the same spot rarely have I been menaced quite as evilly as by some of the Clairemont soccer-mom minivan drivers. I've been honked at, sworn at, flipped off, tailgated, and otherwise messed with practically every single time I've tried riding down that hill just for being in the right lane outside the door zone, always by members of the same demographic and usually with their snotty little nose-miners pressing their greasy Pugsley Addams faces and paws against the windows. Now that we evidently have a dedicated bike lane there, it should prevent that from happening.

This kinda sucks, after today, I'm pretty much done riding my bike for 2009.

Tomorrow my ship sails for Long beach and we'll be sitting there, me with no bike for a week. To be honest I'm really not a big fan of LA, so this is not a plus for me. Now it also happens that only one of the guys I hang out with on my ship has a bike (two of the others are saving up and shopping, and 3 people about limits how many actually cool people are allowed to be on Navy ships and). Then, right after we pull back in LA, I head home to the frozen midwest for christmas. Not really a terrible thing, but I'll have to actually drive places, something I'm not really looking forward to.

I've just got to say this, then get back to work:

Is Camden a place on the Klingon home world? K'plah!

ray333:Is Camden a place on the Klingon home world? K'plah!

Not sure if this was a serious question...but for those who don't know.

Camden, NJ is on the other side of the Delaware river. Practically a stone's throw away from Philly.

In 2009 Camden has the highest crime rate in the United States with 2,333 violent crime's per 100,000 people while the national average is 455 per 100,000.

One of my big thrills is riding through urban decay (Satan's Laundromat covers this via a photoblog that I absolutely LOVE). But Camden was another beast. Husband and I rode through Camden (I think twice) and it was just depressing and scary as hell. This was in around 2003-2004. It has since gentrified, but makes North Philly seem so tame in comparison.

<blockquote><cite> ray333:</cite>Cool! Someone else speaks basic Klingoni! On one of my tours down the West Coast I met a German tourist whose brother was graduating from UCSD. Juergen was touring from Canada to San Diego for the occasion. Jolie and I met him in the hiker/biker camp in Half Moon Bay. He had learned English by watching American TV programs. His favorites were the Star Trek series and he had a Klingoni lexicon.</blockquote>

So cute when you guys talk geek!

When I tried to log in at work on Thursday and Friday I discovered that my employer had installed a new internet filter. sdbikecommuter.com is now off-limits due to "adult language!" Ironically, I can still log on to sdfixed and other profanity-laden forums, so go figure! I'll just have to post when I get home from now on.

I probably shouldn't have made that joke, about nerds and all. I'm all about people being who they are and being accepted for it.