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Did 3 of my normal path rides around the lake this week (6.2 mi). Only pulled a biscuit boy once when an old(er) guy's dog ran out in front of me. Managed to unclip and stop, but still fell over. No damage... unlike the biscuit [emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Completed another week. 8 more working days in Texas, then secret spy stuff for 11 days out of state, then come back, pack, load truck, head West for good!

Greek yogurt granola fruit bowl

Perhaps I should feel keister-wounded at not being welcomed here. Then again, I joined you secretly at 3:00 a.m. on November 2, 1709, and not everyone leers at the blackness of their screen through night vision goggles. Or to put it another way, hey!

“Brian Eno’s cat wants you to stick to the pre-agreed questions, please.”

Cinnamon & sugar crepe

Thanks, guys. Birthdays are always nice. Now that I'm 55, my full AARP benefits set it. So look out iHop, here I come with my discount card! All I need now is my walker and some tennis balls.

Impressive that you got through it already. Isn't it 18 hours total? I'm on episode 4, so it'll be awhile before I finish.

I finished the final episode last night. Wow, that was some powerful stuff. The discussion of the Vietnam Memorial in particular is as emotional as anything I've seen on TV in quite a while. Have the tissue-box ready. Bravo to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Really outstanding work. I especially enjoyed how personal the interviews were, particularly the interviews with the Vietnamese. A lot of the most poignant moments of the documentary are theirs, and the documentary is so much richer with their participation that it would have been without it. The other real standout for me is seeing the color video that accompanied the most iconic photographs of the war. It is often as shocking and unsettling to see the video for the first time as it was to see the photos in the first place. My parents, who were both born in 1955 and were old enough to remember but young enough to have not gone/protested tell me the documentary has been quite hard for them to watch.

Script! Fucking autocorrect. Scrypt! Biggest of welcomes. We have yet to figure out a pattern to Jack's attention to our forum, but if he didn't welcome you on the day of, then you probably weren't going to be welcomed, though I suspect he'd make an exception for you if he was aware of his oversight.

We should get together for a ride sometime. I am thinking about doing the werewolf ride out in Aurora next week. If my shop actually gets my new wheels with Dyno built by then. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy Birthday brother Wayne! 55 ain't so bad. 63 makes it look like a cakewalk.

Reznor and Ross' soundtrack to "The Vietnam War." It reminds me a lot of Ghosts I-IV, which feels appropriate given the subject matter.

Happy Birthday Wayne!

Managed to fit two rides into my busy work day today. The first was strictly MTB while this afternoon I did the gravel loop. The Jones does make for a capable allrounder bike. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And dessert: Pastel de Elote

Freud would have a lot to say about that.

I read that as 12”, dunno why. [emoji848]

Sorry for the late notice on this but I just read the email in my inbox and feel compelled to post this here for a family going through some tough medical issues. For Sam

FTFY

Bike shopping with Xavier today. He fits a medium Kona. I'm getting old. More than we want to spend since he isn't a huge mountain biker, but it's high on the list. If you think the bike looks cool, you'll ride it, right? **BRENT**