Resting before a 4 a.m. metric. Going on vacation in 24 hours so my nerves are on fire. Want to be done with work and on the rode to Austin. Now.

D:

On the bright side, how did you score a free derailleur?

Another rider I met through a local commuter group (SF2G) gave it to me in exchange for a 6-pack. So not exactly free :)

I really love the cycling community in SF / Bay Area.

man it sucks living in mountain view. nothing ever happens here

Hipster. Eating stuff before it's cool. Psh.
Not true. Chicago saw it, though I personally did not.

Today I worked and drank good beer. I have the next two days off and I intend to spend them both in the saddle.

The end of the pier was packed. Half my coworkers were out there too.

Today I was up early and we went on a 25km bomb through the river valley, hung out at the co-op for a bit, had a beer and a nap, did some shopping and then went out and saw Dictator with a friend who had some free passes.

Not true, I watched in Colorado.

The sun did not show its face in Seattle.

Yesterday, I hosted my son's angry-birds themed eighth birthday party. We had a four-foot tall slingshot and afterwords an all-out no-hold-barred half-hour game of calvinball with 6 autism spectrum disorder and/or adhd kids trying to tag the green pig (me) with angry birds that varied from rubber playground balls with birds faces painted on to water balloons. Good time.

Yesterday, I sprayed a carpenter bee nesting hole on my patio and watched a body fall out.

Today, I watched another one fly in. Not happy.

That sounds awesome. My kid brother is in the spectrum too, people severely underestimate those kids. ****ing geniuses if you ask me

Yeah, they are funny though. One of them got into my son's room and proceeded to dismantle all of his lego starwars ships and sort the pieces by size. I guess that is just another chance for my son to put them back together.

Calvin ball!

Yesterday, I:

Put in some gravel miles in preparation for this weekend's Gravel Metric. Not sure what's going on with my face, though.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...-32-18_591.jpg

wish i was building and riding this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...u/DSC_6985.jpg
instead of paying a bill my old roommate left in her name and didn't tell us was overdue.
blech.

Meanwhile, 180 miles south... They say it's gonna rain all week long. :(

still with that old roomate?!?!? FUUUUU

u wanna ride up to greenwood area for thai lunch with a buncha audio engineers?

Damn son! I want.

different old roommate. this one is in charge of bills for new hoose and didnt' pay because of not having the whole bill in from everyone here.

no lunch until i get this handled.

and yeah i know i want to build this thing like crazy

Calc final today at 5:15. 3 problems. 3 hours. Open book. Open notes.

The hard kind.

im finally enjoying being done with school, only to have the entire week rained out. not cool.

Today I had the day off because our office closed due to the NATO summit and protests. So I did this.

http://distilleryimage6.instagram.co...380fe523_7.jpg

Only 35ish miles, but was a lovely, lovely Monday. Much better than being in the office.

Has anyone used the IOS version of BF? I can't imagine that it's any good but if it is I'll check it out.

It's better than trying to navigate this site on a tiny mobile device screen, but that's not saying much. It took a while to figure out how to get to the SSFG forum, and you can't bookmark it so you automagically go there, as far as I can tell. Otherwise, it's okayish.

Thanks to the fact that the main page gives you the most recently updated threads, forum-wide, I did find out that somewhere there is a thread that is nothing but *****ing about hipsters. At which I just roll my eyes because come on, really?