Listen Up, People.

Now that I'm 6 months old, things are going to change around here...

6 month stats: 19 lbs 13 ozs (p80), 27.25" (p75), 47cm head circ. (p95).

People's Republic of Park City

Socialism appears to be alive and well in Park City, where the people expect the city to clean up after their comrade-doggies. 

Fido needs to poop? Bring him to the people's park. The only thing missing is some Gulag time for the owners where the only meat served is reputed to be lucky if consumed at new years.

Peace out.

Ice Breaker

Winter in the 801 can be challenging to those who wish to ride year round. While a mountain bike is good choice for slick roads, there are few things as annoying as riding a single speed mountain bike on the road when it's geared for the mountains. To get ready for hard core winter riding, I re-geared my bike, going with a 44 up front and a 19 on the back.

After gearing is taken care of, tires are important. I've running a single studded tire up front works pretty well in the Wasatch. The Nokian I run has some deep grooves for clearing snow, with some studs that provide a decent bite on ice.

At this point, I think the bike is ready to roll.

Book Cataloging the Mac Way

My wife has long desired to have a catalog of all the books we've accumulated over the years. There have been a few attempts to create one, such as writing titles and authors on paper, then entering the information into spreadsheets, i.e. bear skins and stone knifes.

Recently, she showed me something called Library Thing, which improves the situation somewhat in that you can peruse amazon and indicate which items are in your personal collection. Better for sure, but still labor intensive.

Fortunately, a better solution exists for Mac users - Delicious Library

To catalog books, simple use the iSight camera built into the MacBook to scan your books barcode, and it's entered into your catalog. With goodies such as export to the iPhone or iWeb, it combines ease of use with accessibility.

Time to Put Up the Lights

Family man... with your Christmas lights already up. You're such a man when you're putting up your Christmas lights. First on the block. Family man.

Out With a Wimper

My cross season ended in disappointment -- I was forced to miss the last race of the series, double points and all, due to illness. I've raced the week before with a cold that had me running on half a lung, and ended up coming down with an intestinal virus that kept me out of work three days and left me in too sad a shape to contemplate starting the race.

As a result, I ended up slipping a place in the overall standings, with Lew Rollins moving into 4th place by a mere 5 points.

Now, before you weep for me, keep the following in mind:

1. On those occasions where I have finished ahead of Lew, it was not by substantial margins. My dreams are haunted by the sound of his free wheel...
2. On those occasions where he's beat me, it's been by a pretty substantial margin.
3. Lew likes to warm up prior to the Master's 45+ by killing it in the 55+ race where he demonstrates his national championship form by passing 50 or 60 guys in the C field who had a one minute head start.
4. Lew's an retired marine, who would have came out and raced missing a limb, and certainly would not let a little liquid $%#* stop him.

So, if you believe in a just world, then it's hard to argue with the way things turned out. Here's wishing Lew a repeat victory at National's again this year!