Month: March 2007

  • Back on the bike!

    I rode about 78 miles today, to Nicasio and back from my house. It was a beautiful day in Marin and everybody seemed to have a good time. I got a flat tire outside of Fairfax only to realize that I'd left all my tools at home. D'oh! Luckily I was close enough to a bike shop so I used their stuff. But the bike shop in Fairfax was pretty much the most expensive bike shop I've ever been to and a tube and a CO2 cartridge came to almost $10. I'm going to avoid that place going forward. I spent about an hour and a half at the first turn off in San Geronimo valley. It was beautiful.

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    Here's a pic of my friend Tai who I first met way back in 2002 when we did the Paradise Ride together.

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    Here's a pic of out trusty ride organizer Ben who could most certainly benefit from a little leg hair waxing because he kind of looks like the missing link.

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    Today was very hard for me because I'm still getting over being sick and it was a long, hilly day but I had a lot of fun and am looking forward to quite a bit more riding. I'm going to try to ride after work every day next week because I feel like I've got some catching up to do.

    When I got back we took Sofi to the dog park one last time before Chris came to get her. I really liked having her. She's such a sweet dog and we had so much fun. At the dog park, there was this little white dog who was going nuts over a soccer ball almost as large as he was

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    He was so cute and watching him play with the ball was hilarious.

  • We've been dogsitting my friends Chris and David's Portugese Water Dog Sofi. She's about six months old and is perfect in just about every way.

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    Needless to say Mimi hates her. Well, hate is a prettty strong word. Mimi just wants her dead. But she's slowly been wanting her dead less and less and I finally was able to get them both on the same piece of furniture at the same time.

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    My training is a little behind. Basically, I was sick for two weeks. I came down with the flu almost immediately after getting home from Florida. Blissfully, my parents didn't get sick so that's good. But Jeff did and we were quite a pair. And as soon as I got over the flu I got tonsilitis which meant another weekend of 101 degree fevers. Yuck. I missed two training rides and that's in addition to the one I missed because I was in Florida. Luckily, my friend Wilfredo subbed for me the whole time and I think I must owe him a kidney or something for that. But finally we're all feeling better and eating again. I took Jeff out to dinner at Brothers II Korean restaurant last night and it was delicious. Jeff's dinner consisted of more pork than he could eat, something I've never before witnessed with him in a restaurant before. In addition, he dreamed about his dinner all night. Good eatin'!

    We're biking out to Nicasio tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to it. It's about time!

  • The Blonding of Joseph

    Checkout my seriously overgrown big southern hair/mullet about to be tamed by Anthony Poon.

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    I've affixed the tin foil to my skull but the alien mind control rays can still get through..

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    I left out the photos of me under a hairdryer for an hour because they were horrible! horrible! horriible! Here I am rinsed.

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    My beauty is restored! Check out my awful farmers tan I got in Orlando...

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    After: SuperModel or Big Queen. You be the judge.

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  • Requiem for Ashley Poodle

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    2006 was not a good year for Jeff and I.  We lost two of our three dogs due to old age.  In April, Bubba my Border Collie suddenly took ill and had to be put down.  And, two days after Christmas, after a long, heartbreaking, and urine filled decline, I put down Ashley my beloved poodle who I’d owned for seventeen years.  I’ve been very depressed about it and I apologize if I haven’t been in touch.  But I’ve been too exhausted to pretend to be happy and too sad to talk about it.  It's been completely overwhelming.  But, I’m slowly working through my funk mostly through biking and there’s going to be the pitter patter of little paws in our house as soon as the lifecycle is over.  Our surviving dog, Mimi, as all who know here will attest, is likely protected under the Geneva conventions.  I'm keeping his collar and his hawaiian "Magnum PI" shirt at work and finally, when I look at them, they make me smile.

     



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    Ashley and Bubba before we got Mimi

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    Ashley at age 8 at home at my place in Santa Fe

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    Mimi the terrible

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    Doesn't she know that horizontal stripes aren't for big girls??

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    Ashley in his "Magnum PI" shirt