New Toy

Boardman Team Carbon Road Bike. Hot damn!
Upgraded Shimano bits and bobs.
Computer training doohickey.
First time I've been road riding in twenty years. Ten miles to the orifice. Starting out at half-an-hour each way; average 20mph. That's gotta improve.
The thing weighs about as much as a rice cracker. Fuck, it's fast on a good road.

Yes, I know it's in my living room and not my garage. It's my new baby and I want to cuddle it and talk to it.
And no, I do NOT wear lycra (sheesh).

At Last!

Sheesh! It's been hanging there in my sidebar for months (even longer than I've been suffering blogger's block), but at last, the splendidly literate Altadena Hiker (hi, Karin) of Petrea's Pasadena (and thereabouts) Posse has solved the Sidebar Quote Quiz.

Yes, "A way a lone a lost a last a loved a long the riverrun …" is indeed Joyce, being the end and beginning of the everly oroborosness that is Finnegans Wake (no apostrophe).

So now I'd better set another one …