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6-29 Things did not work out with Argen, the girl I had been dating. Those of you who read this and believe in prayer might pray for me. We all have our crosses to carry and they are heavier some days than on others. I am very weary, and I do not know what to do.
For those of you that do not believe that God listens to our prayers, well, it is very possible that I am praying for you already.
6-8 I am finally back in Albuquerque, after some time visiting the folks in TX. It was really hot for a few days when I was over there, and the squirrel in my moms backyard got so hot that it just draped itself over a tree branch and rested. I have never seem this behavour before, though my aunt in Roswell told my mom she had seen squirrels doing this. By the way I am organizing the Ben Hall Epic agian, which should be cool. Radioblogclub.com is shut down so I put up some streams through imeem.com.
Driving back I saw this herd of antelope in the shade of an isolated tree. I wish I had a better zoom on my camera. There were a few more animals lying down that you cannot see in the pic.
Here are a few other recent pix.
5/1 A really scary photo of Heikki Kovalainen's McLaren after blowing a tire at 145mph and then plowing straight into the tires at about 80. Fortunately he is ok, no broken anything. That carbon is pretty tough, looks like it is maybe 1" thick on the walls of his cockpit. For a so-so video click here. The onboard shot is pretty scary. It did not appear to be his fault at all.
4/11 Isn't this is nice photo? Iit is by Anabelle Soto, who is on photoblog. Click on it if you want to see others.
By the church calendar last week was the third Sunday in Easter. It is like in church, time is different, and it is still Easter; they still close the service saying "Christ is risen"/"He is risen indeed."
By the way I am doing the Tuesday night bike "race" series again starting 4-22.
It seems like everybody around campus is riding a fixie. I ride errands on my old Giant CX bike with platform pedals and 1X9 gear setup. It has 46cm drops, not bullhorns. The two red KHS CX bikes (visible farther down the page) are saved for racing. So these are my reasons I am not on a fixie, chic as they seem to be at present:
1. I can put 30lbs of groceries in the panniers and ride up hills without stressing.
2. I can stop pedaling and rail around corners. I can even do one foot out MX style corners if I feel so inclined.
3. Bicycle brakes were a good invention.
4. Coasting is underrated.
5. I can do the occasional bit of off-roading.
6. I do not need a fixie to do trackstands.
7. There is not a usable velodrome for 300 miles.
8. I can fit my comfy fat 28mm Tufo Diamond tread tubular tires on the frame.
9. I can ride in the brake hoods because I actually have brake hoods, cool Cane Creek ones that are shaped like Campagnolos.
10. I can do graceful step-inside CX dismounts at the bikerack.
3-21 Today is Good Friday or as the Latins say, Holy Friday, which is much better, considering this is the day in which our Lord was killed. Rick Seaborn off the bike-racers list sent me this link. It is pretty cool. It is a CX how-to from 1921. This picture is great. I have spent a lot of time doing this, trying to find a trail that I only imagine is there, or could be there with a little time with the machete and maybe my limb saw. I am over the flu and have started riding regularly. I FINALLY got my MTB together, I am planning on testing it out maņana.
3-6 I have the killer flu that has been going around for about t weeks now, though it has been getting better since Monday. Apparently as bad as it was, others have had it worse.
I remember seeing a sign (in front of Anchor Blue at the mall, I think) last fall that said: "ALL GUYS HOODIES $14.99 and up. That means that we have lots of hoodies but none of them cost less than $14.99, and most could cost more or less anything, but some might be as cheap as $14.99, so you should come check it out. The ticket for ad copy is to say absolutely nothing. This also seems good for presidential campaign speeches, I have noticed.
The little pic below is from the ill-fated pig hunting expedition of last month. Ill-fated as we did not spot any of our diminutive porcine prey.
1-30 I guess I should just plan on monthly blog entries, as that is all that I seem to be able to do. I started back in school. Hopefully I have one year left. I sat in one of my first class sessions a week ago thinking, what am I doing here again, do I really feel up to going through another semester of this? But as a little time went by I realized that it was not really boring and I am good at languages anyway.
I bought some 9X11 envelopes at one of the office supply stores and found that the pack of five cost $3.79 (.76ea), the pack of 50 cost $7.49 (.15ea) and the pack of 100 cost $6.99 (.07ea). That is kind of crazy.
I am planning to go hunting Javelina (Collared Pecary in my Texas history book in junior high).
My dear old Cannon G2, my companion of recent years seems to have kicked the bucket, so pix on the blog may be thin for a while. Maybe I can fix it. Here are some of my recent Javelnia scouting trip.
A frozen creek in the Mimbres Mts, a possible cougar print on the Gila river, a rocky streambed, in a tributary of the San Francisco River, water in in the same creek, and one of the Javelinas I saw, this one was in the Gila northeast of Alma, NM. I wish I had gotten a bettter pic, but you can kind of see the little piggy, trotting along in his little piggy trot.
12-13 I just finished the last school project of the year. My calf is still pretty messed up. I hate being hurt. I like feeling all strong and invincible. Well that may be a while. I finally listened to the rest of Candide by Voltaire on CD. I had given up on it as to bitter and depressing a few years ago, but I thought I would give it another shot after discussing it in French class. It was ok, still pretty sad. The pic is not really flatering but it is still nice.
miscelaneous pix
