Someone once told me: never pickup calls with the caller id BLOCKED; it's hard to break old habits. Today my phone showed several incoming calls like this; why hadn't I heard them? I've got lousy cellphone service here at home,…
I’ve had another dream…
Last month I wrote about my interview with the City Council regarding my application for the Newport Beach Bike Safety Committee; read “Listen In”. The gist of that post was that my interview hadn’t happened yet, but I wrote as if it had — I can report back to you that my actual interview this past Wednesday was amazingly on-script. It was like I knew the answers to all their questions…
This capability of predicting the future, I think I’m increasingly prone to ESP, or call it intuition, because starting around the holidays I got Apple TV and since then I sit mesmerized by the TV show Medium. Yes, it’s low-brow culture and part of me is reluctant to admit I love the show, but the whodunit aspect of each episode really grabs me. As a result I’m already into Season 5, which is a big investment of time on the couch. Is the intuition Allison Dubois is famous for rubbing off on me? You be the judge. I’m not seeing dead people, but I do seem to have a knack for predicting the future of the new Bike Safety Committee.
On a cold night, most people consider a well-tended fire to be one of the more wholesome pleasures that humanity has produced. A fire, burning safely within the confines of a fireplace or a woodstove, is a visible and tangible…
Most days I sit at my desk for too many hours. Sound familiar? But his week was different; I was ahead of schedule on my projects. That gave me time to ride.
My goal would be to ride 100 miles this week. Most people would add a little variety to their rides, but lately I keep heading in the same direction — across the ferry to the peninsula, the pier and on to Huntington and Sunset Beach. I’m not stuck in a rut; it’s just so beautiful. And it’s fun to ride off-road where there’s lots of people.
Then, here it comes — I love to see the ferry sans autos!
Soon I’m on the peninsula where I notice a new facade to Back Alley Bicycles; I go closer. The peninsula has the highest mode-share, which means more people ride bikes here than anywhere else in Newport Beach. There are many bike rental stores here, so the competition keeps prices low. The flat terrain is ideal for riding a beach cruiser.
There were a few things I wasn't prepared for on last week's 10-day Erie Canal ride. My riding companion Kent and I prepared for months; we'd shipped our bikes ahead and carefully packed only the essentials. We were ready for…