filling the tank for today

breakfast,snack, lunch, snack... getting to work under your own power requires a lot of food.

check another off the list

finally, b and i got her custom painted (by us) bike assembled. she took it on the maiden voyage around the driveway.

puttin humpty dumpty back together

finally getting around to reassembling b's bike sfter the paint job. here it is partially done. a few more cables in place and fine tune adjustments and she'll be rolling along. she's going to a movie with t, so i'm setting the bike tools down to get the deere ready for spring duty.

the last sunset of the trip

the trip ends midday tomorrow when we get on different flights home. here's a great sunset through the sheers on our hotel room window. t reminded me that te curtain did a good job of filtering out the dirt spots on the outside of our windows!

random night scenes from san diego

t and i went out for an evening in san diego. a number of things caught my eye. i did my best to capture them with the camera on my centro. there's really no explanation for the photos, just things that caught my eye.

ok... well these, they have a little bit of a story. well... a story that's yet to be written.

this building was across the street from where we ate dinner. i had to get a pic of it. i see it as a great setting for a story about an eccentric character. throwback comes to mind... anyway, i see it as a building that stands out in the gaslamp's already unique, unmatched architecture. if my crazy (yet-to-be-written) story were made into a screenplay, this would be the location for filming.

after that, on our way back to the hotel a number of other sights jumped out and caught my eye, so i snapped 'em. these first two are in reverse order. they align perfectly showing them in reverse order, but, in honesty, i was attracted to the texture of the palm's trunk as it was lit from below. t demanded that i also capture the fronds in part of the picture. it worked very well, she has quite an eye for composition. the two pictures in this blog knitted well together as the trunks are almost perfectly aligned, creating a continuity flow from one pic to the other.

here's a random public sculpture and t jumps in for scale to show its ginormousness.

a couple of other night scenes along the way that tripped me up. here's where our walking path went across a pond/water sculpture.

this one, weird as it is, has a ton of texture, but you have to look hard to see it.

we sat out by the a small bonfire by our pool and i was struck by the stark lines of our "lit" hotel against the night sky. it reminded me of georgia o'keefe's city night painting. not that i'm truly channeling her creativity here, but i couldn't help but snap an image, hoping to capture what i saw.

then, the fire. i couldn't resist...

it wasn't just the beer...

that car was at an angle

afternoon beers

arrogant bastard ale. yum, much like a surly furious.

worth the wait

flight was a little annoying as intrepid, know-it-all san diego traveler told girl behind us about every attraction in town, but the view from the hotel room is worth it.

if you were a bike cop

you'd lock your bike up with your handcuffs too. c'mon, admit it.

umm... are any of those eggs...

for me?

here's fred watching us hide eggs.

does this scream...

does this scream steal me, or what? this guy parks his bike like this on fair-weather days (he doesn't ride otherwise). it's bad enough that he's so stupid to think that locking your frame to your quick-release wheel THROUGH (but not attached to) the bike rack is somehow secure. he takes it to a whole new level (LITERALLY) by perching it on its back wheel like a puppy begging to be lifted over the fence. luckily for this guy, st. paul os more like mayberry than nyc when it comes to bike theft.

i've considered taking the same approach as "security researchers" in the technology world and move it the other end of the rack, so he'll learn about the vulnerability while i'd just be "compromising security" instead of participating in outright theft. heh...

mmm... lunch

i took the day off, so after our friend's naturalization ceremony (on the U's west bank), we stopped and had lunch at town hall brewery. a cask-conditioned ipa paired nicely with a walleye sandwich and fries.

pretty sure...

it's 30 degrees and i'm going for a run. i'm pretty sure the dog's not coming with me.

sneaky

a dog in kid's shoes.

fish in a net

a bright little ball caught up in a tree.

that new chain smell

did some spring cleaning on the commuter bike this weekend. here's how you clean a chain you've been riding all winter: cut it off with a pair of pliers or something destructive (don't bother to dirty your chain tool), throw it away, and put on a new one.

now, if it could only stay this clean.

whiteaprilshowers?

ok, i should be bitching about snow on palm sunday, but, quite frankly, it was beautiful enough to get me over my disappointment.

chess

a little friday night fun.

don't hate me for my sandwich

skillz, my sandwich skillz!

two smart dogs, peppers, avocado, mayo, provolone cheese, tomato, and a dash of italian dressing on a warm baguette.

some kind of april fool's prank

somebody put a bunch of white stuff on my front lawn! hey! there's more in the back yard too. bah. i should just go back to sleep.