Latest Rides Tue, Aug 12. 2014
Punching Through Fri, Jul 13. 2012
Driving again! Yay!
Kayaking again! Yay!
Kayak Tour
Biking again! Yay!
It's is true - you never forget how to ride a bike
It's pretty awesome - I'm driving again, I'm kayaking again, I'm biking again, and while I do wear the black wrist brace for these "high risk" activities, it's doing effin' great. I am so happy right now! and active! Doing the best I can to pick up where I left off in terms of fitness.
I can't wait to go skiing this winter...
Oh - and do you live downtown/H'Burg/W'Boro? I looking for partners to go biking/blading with - Please get in touch!)
Out riding with Sean and Leigh
Friday the 13th! Biking around Stanley Park, UFie meet - Day 3 Sat, Jul 14. 2007
After quick breakfast at Joe's Grill, we walked down to Spokes at Denman at W. Georgia where we rented some bikes for the day, they weren't the greatest...
Despite the threat of rain, we rode into Stanley Park - yes, it was mostly open and quite a wonderful ride. The weather cleared up as the afternoon wore on too.
(don't forget to follow along using my handy Google Map!)
I suspect by this point I was very close to heat- or sun-stroke, and I'd already fixed one customer's Tomcat failure, so we called it an afternoon and headed back to the hotel to cool off and get ready for the UFie meet. (Felt 100% better after getting out of the sun and taking a shower. I'm sure I smelled 100% better too
Grabbed a Hybrid cab with Yohimbe as we headed for Vietnamese Noodle to meet up with Dark, Tatertots, Shminux and the infamous Illiad.
Since Tanya (Tatertots) and Andre (Dark) were getting married the next day (ostensively the reason for the whole trip), and the owner of the restaurant knew them, he was passing out 'poppers' for good luck and celebration.
We had a lot of fun, the food was great, stories were told. Well, attempted to be told... There was a moment when conversation slowed, so I recalled that Illiad had mentioned (on #SPORKS) that he had a story to tell us, we all sat there for a moment trying to remember what it was. Since no one could remember, I had to go log diving, but the pertinent log of that moment wasn't on my laptop, so I would have to SSH into my desktop machine; there wasn't any open WiFi, and I haven't yet setup my Treo to work with my MacBrook Pro, so I sought André's Moto Razr and commenced swapping SIM while JD narrated...
"If there was anything to be known as geek sex", as he nodded towards Andre and I eviscerating our various mobile phone and exchange SIMs, "this is what it would be like; but the sound, it'd be more like..." He then proceeded to make a sound, an emanation that I believe no human has produced, or ever even heard before that moment... And I lost it:
About two minutes later, I managed to come back up for air and asked, "Do we really need to find those logs anymore?"
Too bad for Sarah, she was in the bathroom for the whole scene. Somehow, I kinda wish I'd been there too.
Afterwards, Shminux kindly drove us back to our hotel. Along the way, I pointed out that the 'Defrost' setting in his Pontiac Vibe enagages the air-conditioning, and perhaps this explains his poor fuel-economy. (Days later he confirmed that his mileage is getting better.)
At this point, I'd thought were we done for the evening, but apparently Sean was getting tired of the impracticality of lugging around his Olympus (E500?) DSLR and all it's associated glass, and that he really wanted a pocketable camera. So at about 10:30PM we head for the nearby London Drugs (pharmacy cum Walmart.) For the next hour I pitched the Canon SD800IS to Sean and some random guy from Egypt. (I'd given my mother one for her birthday after extensive research. It is an excellent pocket camera but it does have a $450 pricetag.) More than once, the salesgirl, Pamela IIRC, offered me a job hawking cameras. T'was rather amusing, and I was all warmed up for geeking from the UFie meet. Sean did end up picking up the camera, and since then has been quite happy with it.
We apparently weren't done yet - we got some dessert at Mom's over on Denman.
Finally, around midnight, we called it a day. And what a day it was!
Photo credits/post-processing to Shminux and Stef
Sean's bike is being awesome (again.)
Despite the threat of rain, we rode into Stanley Park - yes, it was mostly open and quite a wonderful ride. The weather cleared up as the afternoon wore on too.
(don't forget to follow along using my handy Google Map!)
Bikes - the new mechanical horse?
Beaver Lake - Can you spot the turtle?
That tree has over 1800 rings - Sarah has just one...
I suspect by this point I was very close to heat- or sun-stroke, and I'd already fixed one customer's Tomcat failure, so we called it an afternoon and headed back to the hotel to cool off and get ready for the UFie meet. (Felt 100% better after getting out of the sun and taking a shower. I'm sure I smelled 100% better too
Grabbed a Hybrid cab with Yohimbe as we headed for Vietnamese Noodle to meet up with Dark, Tatertots, Shminux and the infamous Illiad.
Since Tanya (Tatertots) and Andre (Dark) were getting married the next day (ostensively the reason for the whole trip), and the owner of the restaurant knew them, he was passing out 'poppers' for good luck and celebration.
How to use a popper...
Less than 24 hours until these two are married!
The Missing Transcript
"If there was anything to be known as geek sex", as he nodded towards Andre and I eviscerating our various mobile phone and exchange SIMs, "this is what it would be like; but the sound, it'd be more like..." He then proceeded to make a sound, an emanation that I believe no human has produced, or ever even heard before that moment... And I lost it:
Myke: Now available in Red.
About two minutes later, I managed to come back up for air and asked, "Do we really need to find those logs anymore?"
Too bad for Sarah, she was in the bathroom for the whole scene. Somehow, I kinda wish I'd been there too.
Afterwards, Shminux kindly drove us back to our hotel. Along the way, I pointed out that the 'Defrost' setting in his Pontiac Vibe enagages the air-conditioning, and perhaps this explains his poor fuel-economy. (Days later he confirmed that his mileage is getting better.)
At this point, I'd thought were we done for the evening, but apparently Sean was getting tired of the impracticality of lugging around his Olympus (E500?) DSLR and all it's associated glass, and that he really wanted a pocketable camera. So at about 10:30PM we head for the nearby London Drugs (pharmacy cum Walmart.) For the next hour I pitched the Canon SD800IS to Sean and some random guy from Egypt. (I'd given my mother one for her birthday after extensive research. It is an excellent pocket camera but it does have a $450 pricetag.) More than once, the salesgirl, Pamela IIRC, offered me a job hawking cameras. T'was rather amusing, and I was all warmed up for geeking from the UFie meet. Sean did end up picking up the camera, and since then has been quite happy with it.
We apparently weren't done yet - we got some dessert at Mom's over on Denman.
Finally, around midnight, we called it a day. And what a day it was!
Photo credits/post-processing to Shminux and Stef
First bike ride of 2007 (... And more fire) Mon, May 7. 2007
Short post!
Went biking this afternoon, 23KMs; saw a red tree and a few other things. Check out the Google Map (I really have to figure out how to embed these) and the photo gallery.
'Round dinner there was a grass fire in the field I'd ridden through just hours before. Took some photos of that too.
Here's a cool photo I took, unrelated to the above. Be sure to click on it to see it nice & big:
Went biking this afternoon, 23KMs; saw a red tree and a few other things. Check out the Google Map (I really have to figure out how to embed these) and the photo gallery.
'Round dinner there was a grass fire in the field I'd ridden through just hours before. Took some photos of that too.
Here's a cool photo I took, unrelated to the above. Be sure to click on it to see it nice & big:
