Chain Ring Cowboy

The trip yesterday to Home Depot was awesome. We loaded up the plastic box so we could add some more flowers to the garden. There is still room for more. The ride though, is what it's all about.

Lance is doing one of the things he does best, get out of the saddle and take a mountain. Of course he does many things well, like raise cancer awareness. The dude broke his collar bone, got it welded back together and is riding like a mad man up and down the Colorado mountains. This to me is such an awesome thing, I am trying to follow him as much as possible as he works his way towards the Tour De France. Just moments ago Lance posted this on his Twitter about DR Chris O'Brien ,Please Read

The department I am working for is moving across the street in a brand new building. We all have to take our personal stuff home, leaving our cubes and offices with only work related items. I’ve done this before, and it is only a matter of time before all the personal stuff gets brought back to work. I like the idea because it gives me a chance to pull my trailer, just like when I brought a box a day to the UPS Store to get me moved from Austin to El Paso.

Maybe you’ve seen the video of the cyclist up north who loads himself with video cameras. He puts one on his helmet, then one on his handle bars, then tools around town filming the dangerous situations he gets himself into. When another vehicle comes close to killing him he has it on film complete with sound to where you can hear him cursing at the car or eighteen wheeler. To me that part is funny because I bet the drivers can’t hear him, but he has it on camera. It reminds me of when a dog chases a car and barks all the while. Is he barking at the car or the driver? Some of my friends have said that this guy is my long lost twin. Surely they jest. Or perhaps not. I don’t think I am that radical, but I do get vocal and animated when I feel crossed or threatened or find myself in a dangerous situation. I am not posting said video on my blog because maybe that guy is my twin. This leads me to now, this time in my life since moving from Austin Texas to El Paso Texas, still commuting to wo

The pre-dawn comfortably cool 54 degrees is very pleasant to ride in. Fridays seem to have less traffic, especially today because it’s Good Friday. I am not used to having to work on Good Friday, but that’s what I’m doing on this one. Mother Natures seems to me to swing to the extreme. The wind, the dry and stuff like that all are like accentuated. The spring flowers in bloom send out the aroma as like what happens all over the world at springtime. But there is something about the nectar that floats on the molecules that makeup air. It’s like if you breathe enough of it you might get a buzz. On this day last year I was living in Austin and working for the State. I flew to El Paso to be with my family as I did most weekends. Good Friday is a holiday for the state. We walked up Mount Cristo Rey . This year that isn’t happening, maybe next year.

Kurt and I went on our first organized ride, a 60 miler in very heavy wind.