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Surgical strike to walk Penny and see the Watson Twins. We'll go back later for more.

About sixteen hours after returning to California, we sauntered down to HSB in person for Corey Harris, a bit of Shawn Colvin, Margo Price, a tad bit of War and Treaty, and then Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats. Going to head back in later this morning for the Watson Twins...

And three more dead in a North Carolina mass shooting yesterday. Both the NC and Michigan shooters were former US Marines who served in Iraq. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/28/nx-s1-5556033/north-carolina-shooting-southport-american-fish-company

Hope you're having a good one Wayne! Cheers!

Do other people hear those McCartney quotes in a bad impression of his voice, or is it just me?

I haven't thought about Guster for awhile but I like their Massholes too!

Have a delicious birthday Jim! Cheers!

My suggestion is to ask your question somewhere that people are likely to know what a jaba jabra is and might care more than anyone here.

Claire kept looking on the bright side but later admitted to making the wrong decision to carry on. Oh well, we survived and we're taking it easy today.

Claire and I signed up for the 40th annual group ride put on by a large local cycling club. It was this morning and was supposed to be 38 miles. The weather forecast had a chance of rain starting at 2:00pm when we would be back home already. Thunder rumbled after the first few miles, however, and then it started pouring rain. We pulled off the road and stayed under trees but still got soaked. We were right next to an empty house where two other riders were sheltering under the eaves so we did the same on the front porch. It slacked a bit so we resumed but that was when the hail/sleet started. We pushed on stupidly to the first food stop instead of going back to the car, and we found 40+ people trying to get out of the rain under two 10x10 tent awnings. We called it at that point but still had to ride another five miles in hard rain to our car. Ironically, the rain stopped as we got to the car, but we were freezing, completely drenched and 19 miles of that mess was plenty. It took a couple of hours to warm up as it was.

Too much? Oh well, hope your birthday is awesome anyway! Cheers!

RIP to the legend. I loved The Sting as a 10 year old moviegoer, although it was eclipsed by Paper Moon which came out that year too because I kinda crushed on Tatum O'Neal who who was also 10 at the time.

Tonight I watched northern lights dancing over the lake

If you only rode the Creo around a parking lot or something, it isn't a realistic picture of using assist on a real ride. I thought I could cruise up to Stretch's place on my Turbo Vado SL peddling around the lot around the bike shop but didn't feel a anything like that after going up lesser hills. I don't know what assist level the Creo has but mine is only 2.5 X whereas lots of ebikes are much higher.

That sucks, but I do love the quote in that article that he died "a after a long struggle with life." My friends' band that I managed for a time used to play Sex Bomb as an encore, especially at parties. RIP Mr Loose

It was a good year to be born, if I do say so myself. Happy birthday Jimmy! Cheers!

Yikes. Beastly!

The Mavericks are annoying. The crocs are truly epic.

A couple of pies for dinner with friends from across the street. One with Mexican chorizo, red onion, corn and jalapeño, over cheddar, mozzarella and topped with grated cotija, which was the clear winner. The other with pepperoni, shaved fennel, mushrooms, and fresh basil grown by the neighbors over mozzarella, which was tasty but more basic. Working with a shitty oven and a pizza stone instead of a pizza steel was a handicap, but it worked out fine.

Have a good ride Nate!

That's the one I was assuming you would look at. Too much money but the S-Works Creo 2 looks sick.

I don't really know much about gravel bike, but is choosing a gravel bike more limiting or does it give you more options because they are equally good on the road? If it were my first bike when trying to get into it, I would definitely want it to be comfortable as a road bike. I'm assuming that local clubs are more likely to have road rides, but I also don't have a clue if that assumption is correct. Regardless, I can't see why you would buy anything without pedal assist. Speaking from experience, it will allow you to ride more and longer, but it also will encourage you to do it more often. It looks like the Diverge is as much or more than Specialized ebike options. Just a lazy man's two cents, fwiw.

Especially with the speaker wire camouflaged on the legs and the table.