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Author: Daniel
next recreate, then recreation
Cute little guy…
This says a lot about the concept
…with a touch of this
Shiny and clean. The bolt kit is already installed. The parts are waiting to be reinstalled. Allez!
Closer and closer…
More rebuild bits have arrived…
In an unrelated note… this years Chanuka treats. Both were keepers!
The above is based on these, but I used 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chips from Ghirardelli despite this being a first time, we almost always think these things are too sweet. I might go even darker next time. I also sprinkled Heath bits English Toffee Chips and left the lovely pecans whole. Squares were cut around the pecans. Changes for next time: We’ll take some of the sugar out of the dough, bake it a bit more, and flatten it more. I also put them in the fridge, since the chocolate seemed a touch excessive and wasn’t setting up (fast enough for me and the late hour when I made these). After I chucked it in the fridge the chocolate set up in a few minutes. Then they sliced up nicely.
Goethe
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
Some of the feast from Thanksgiving 2010
I got up early and did 30 fairly chilly miles with Gerry. He’ll soon torture me with tales of 80 degree days in Florida, but he was thankful to note that I was riding on fat 33’s while he ridin’ skinnies. I believe I pedaled twice as much as he to cover the same distance. Then, like most of the US it seems, the pilgrims living at Circumstance Manor turned to the kitchen and produced a scrumptious feast. You can see some of it below…
The abundant feast could well be the item lowest on the “thankful” list. We are overwhelmingly blessed. “Better than I deserve” is how I feel most of the time.
Renewal of all sorts
It is with small bits that many projects start. Beautifully machined little critters are they not? More on these later…
Recycled cotton, and touch of stretchy stuff. Not made to match, plenty of colors. Joy.
No pics from today’s ride. It was cold and brief. I lacked motivation today… too much to do off the bike. I did clean my mountain bike, and gave it a spin. Changed the saddle too. Tried to change the gears out, but the alt gears hit the spokes and I don’t have an appropriately sized spacer. Added to the todo list. I have to trim the steerer tube as well. Noted.
Hinge on mailbox door breaks. I think about just sticking a pin in there and calling it a day. Second hinge is on its last legs, lots of rust everywhere as well. Ah well. Oh look, the post is loose and leaning over. Naturally, there isn’t a lick of concrete pier anywhere to be seen. Post is rotting. Track down a new mailbox (wow, mailboxen are ‘spensive). Magazine holder and new post also. Since winter is coming, I’m not getting involved in a pier, plus, I’d really like to move the darn thing. It was placed with this stupid assumption about stopping with the car hanging half into the street while you hop out and get the mail… if I did it it would be a great way to get the car totaled or myself killed. Box should be moved to the non-existent front walk. Why no walk? Easy. Who would ever do anything but get into their car? Walking? What am I nuts? At this point I’m simply hoping not to annoy the postal folk… bolting, mounting, temp plywood, and some stones are in order.
Can’t believe how many bulbs I’ve been replacing lately. Considering I try *not* to use incandescent bulbs this is getting very expensive. And some of the fixtures are a pain to change. Noted for the next remodel project if or when…
A reply straight from the hip
From the incomparable Richard Sachs:
make what you use.
use what you know.
know what you use.
sell what you use.
and never look up to see what anyone else is doing.
no matter how wide the net is cast, all that matters is what you think.
if you ever second guess yourself, pause until you don’t atmo.
Hill Climb Sundays (Nov 14th 2010 Edition)
Waaaaay to much climbing today. What was I thinking? No regrets! Much better glove choice today, besides it was warmer. Still, that was a midsummer climbing route… time to ease off a bit thinks I. Felt OK though. Allez!
Route notes: Out the door to Camp Hill Road up and over to Call Hallow Road. Left onto Willow Grove. Right on Blanchard (Co Rd 98). Right on Gate Hill Road (Rockland County 106), Left onto Cedar Flats Road, Left onto Mott Farm Road. Sharp Left onto Liberty Drive down to 9W. left on 9W. Slight left onto S Entrance Road (7 Lakes Drive), past Perkins down to the Route 6 interchange and circle, keep going on 7 Seven Lakes Drive (another long climb), switch sides of the road to avoid the crazed racoon. Left up Tiorati Brook Road which becomes Cedar Pond Road. Loop around onto Lake Welch Parkway and slog back up to Lake Welch, squeeze by the closure, and enjoy the empty Lake. Jump on the double track that leads to the boat launch or stay on the road as you wish (just guess which choice I took?). Hang a left on Gate Hill Road (RC106 again, now from the other side) and bomb down Gate Hill Road. Now reverse the beginning of the ride, up Call Hallow, up Camp Hill, and shortly you’re back.
Variations, you can stay on 7 Lakes Drive and climb up and over from Kanawauke Circle. You can continue even further up 7LD turn left on Lake Welch Pkwy and make a right on Johnstown Road past the Church in the Woods. I have an even more epic version planned for the summer… let me know if you want in… should be a fun day.
Publishing has moved on
I’m going to talk about “content” for a minute. I’m going to define it as stuff I read. And what I realized is that going back to my earliest days of the web, I don’t consume content. I use it to support my writing, which is really an ongoing conversation with my friends.
In the final analysis we’re all media outlets now.
So my writing and thoughts (and yours as well) move from friend to friend through the social network, far from the original source of the story. Sources of stories that are shareable are preferable because I can weave them into my thoughts, display the context of my thinking, and minimize, in a shorthand kind of way, how much writing I need to do. And because linking is so important, a shareable amateur source is preferable to a professional source that requires me to pay, or worse, requires everyone to pay.
Someone who reports a car accident with a few cell snaps is doing a far better job than the person who picks up a report off the police blotter. Someone who visits the family and reports on how things are going is doing a far better job than someone who gets the “patient is stable” report from the hospital. What matters it turns out is not publishing, which has become easy at even a world wide level, but reporting, analysis, and story telling.
We should be talking about new models for employing reporters, photographers, authors, and story tellers of every sort, and not publishing. Publishing has already moved on…
Feel at risk on the road as a cyclist?
[Update: An explanation from the DA.
Given that he had a clean history, Mr. Erzinger would essentially have been able to write a check, and the case would then be dismissed. On top of that, while Dr. Milo was still probably recovering from his injuries, Mr. Erzinger would be able to say that he had no criminal history and even deny that anything had happened. That is not something I could stomach.
I therefore offered that Mr. Erzinger plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and careless driving causing serious bodily injury.
This means that for the rest of his life, Mr. Erzinger will have on his record that he carelessly drove, caused another human being serious bodily injury and left the scene. He will lose his driver’s license, face potential jail time as determined by the judge and still have to pay restitution, which as I said in the Vail Daily is important to us but not an overriding objective in the plea.
Not bad. +1]
This simply will not do. (Short version… guy gets bounced off his bike by Mercedes driving wealth manager who leaves the scene. Felony charges have been dropped for ugly reasons.)
Sound off here:
Judicial District Attorney’s Office
Mr. Mark Hurlbert, District Attorney
955 Chambers Rd.,
P.O. Box 295 Eagle, CO. 81631
(970) 328-694 7; (970) 328- 1016 fax
or here.
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