Evening at home
red 2 red race
( bike)
March 3rd, 2012
March 3rd, 2012
Ingrid and I raced at the Red 2 Red race over in Echo. There were hundreds of people, two of which were out of shape. I knew it was going to be a hard day as the only thing I’ve practiced on my mountain bike was crashing on Skyline. It was worse as we got pounded by 20-30 mph winds. We both finished without mechanicals or cramps or losing our water bottles, which was the case for a lot of people. I had a new tricksy backpack that shoots water instead of having to suck on the nozzle. I thought it was crap until about 3 miles from the end when I saw what I was doing wrong. Next time.
Hamilton Mountain
( fun)
February 27th, 2012
February 27th, 2012
We had one sunny day this week, so I played hookey from work and went up the snow on Hamilton Mountain.
Cleanup
( house)
January 26th, 2012
January 26th, 2012
Removed hot tub with sawzall, chainsaw, boots and an ax. Finally finishing the wall by front door. Dropboxes are your friend, rat crap and worms are not.
Dog Mountain
( fun)
November 25th, 2011
November 25th, 2011
I went up Dog Mountain to work off Thanksgiving food. I think last year Ingrid and I did it in 1:20, today I made it up in 1:00:10, just missing under an hour. My average heart rate was 158, just about my anaerobic threshold, for the whole time. It was nice and snowy and cold up top, sometimes bad weather makes it more exciting.
Turkey Day
( fun)
November 24th, 2011
November 24th, 2011
Thanksgiving with Ingrid’s mom and brother, no turkeys were harmed but some pumpkins were taken out.
Books
( geek)
November 13th, 2011
November 13th, 2011
I have been working on various incarnations of a page for listing my books for a few years now. It started off as a way for me to see what books I had so I wouldn’t buy double, so it was a .wml page as my first phones were old. It eventually got to be a page that was only usable by me as a result of horrible design. One weekend I even spent both days scanning the covers for each of my books so I could show the covers. (That set of photos is lost in the ether.)
I just revamped the books page to be searchable by author or title. The author page has two views of the books, the traditional list and a coverflow view, with a icon to switch between the two. Hopefully it’s intuitive enough.
I used a few web services to cobble together images; books.google.com for book covers, and wikipedia for author photos (which sometimes is the wrong person.)
Plus now the books link is up top next to photos link