Fresh and Clean

As you can see, I am playing around with the look of my blog, trying to freshin' it up for the summer.

In other news Katie and I have started our search to buy our first home. Yesterday we came across a house we both really liked. We are not going to rush into buying it yet, because we have only seen a handful of homes on the market, but seeing a home we liked was very encouraging and has created a sense of urgency to get out and see as many homes as we can. This way we will can be confident when we see the right home.

And for you viewing enjoyment, here are a few more pics from my trip to Seattle. All of the pictures are from an overnight trip we took to visit some family in Portland. We spent the day driving to Mount Hood and checking out the scenery along the Columbus river on our way.
Mount Hood had a record amount of snow fall this year. You can see in some of the pictures the amount of snow that fell on the roads and piled up around the homes in the area.

Multnohma Falls (600+ drop)/ Mt. Hood

Snow cut away from the road on top of Mt. Hood/ 3 story home surrounded by snow

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Flannel Anyone?

Like i said in my last post, I was on vacation in the home of Puget Sound, Pike Place Market, and Pearl Jam

It is also the new home of my brother, which was the main reason I went to Seattle.

He is new to living in areas that are bike friendly, so I needed to teach him the ways of the bike commuter.

Seattle is not the home of Guinness, but we did learn a little something about drinking on my trip.

We did more than ride bikes and drink beer on my trip. I will share more in the next post.

Now playing: Queens Of The Stone Age - Song For The Dead

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Away from home

I'm on vacation visiting my brother in Seattle.
I will post some pictures of my trip when I get back.

It's Alive

After two sessions in the basement, my new bike is alive. Mixing a new frame, fork, wheel set and brakes with old parts off of two other existing bikes my new single speed is now ready to ride. As the pictures show, the bike is a 2008 Salsa El Mariachi with 29" DT Swiss rims and 240 hubs, old Race Face Turbine cranks, Thomson stem and post, King headset, 160mm Avid BB7 mechanical brakes, Jagwire Ripcord cables, and XT levers on a Salsa pro moto 11 degree bar. For those or you who name your bikes and want know the name of my new steel steed; Sorry I don't name me bikes.

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Hold your Horses...

it ain't spring yet. But this weekend it sure felt like it. Both Saturday and Sunday were in the mid 30's and the sun was shining. It is on days like these when I start dreaming of warm weather, then someone like my next door neighbor has to remind me March is typically the snowiest month of the year. What a buzz kill. Anyway, I took full advantage of the sunny weather on Sunday and took the cross bike out for a ride.

Picture from our ride of Lake Minnetonka.

Joe and I took the bikes west towards Wayzata where we ended up getting turned around near Orano and Medina. After finding our way out of cougar country, we head back towards our safe haven in Murderapolis, finishing our ride at CRC coffee. All in all we rode for about 3 and a half hours. The ride felt great and now I can't wait for spring to ride dirt again. To make things worse, I started putting together a new bike tonight but I more than likely wont be able to ride it for while. For those of you who care, there will be pictures coming soon.


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Uncle Sam let me down...

But Mother Nature sure did not. Last night the US Navy launched a big-ass SM-3 missile (reaching speeds of 17,000 mph) from the USS Lake Erie in an attempt to blow up some sort satellite roughly 133 miles over the Pacific Ocean. Coincidentally at 8:45pm last night, astronomers were forecasting a lunar eclipse.


In an attempt to see some sort of explosion and watch the moon go dark all at the same time, Katie, Frank, Merckx the super pooch, and I went out on Lake Hiawatha to view all of the action and drink a few beers. Unfortunately we didn't see any sort of explosion. I guess the missile wasn't big enough to create any visible carnage thousands of miles away . We did however get to watch the eclipse and were able to see the moon change colors as Earth's shadow passed in front of it. Pretty Cool.


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Super Bummer

No posts lately, I am really busy getting ready for Frostbike. For those of you who are unaware, Frostbike is an annual bike trade show QBP hosts every February. It is my job to coordinate this massive undertaking. I like the work, but lately it has been sucking the life out of me.

So here is a quick update with me. My frostbite is better. It kinda acted like a sun burn; stung for awhile, looked kinda bad, dried up, and peeled away. I have been Commuting a lot and enjoying the mild weather, but haven't skied in awhile. Thinking about Sea Otter but for now I am looking forward to Snow Balls Chance in Hell. Someone reminded me yesterday it was Super Tuesday, I went to Best Buy to get a smoking deal on flat screen but no one in the store knew of any deals going on. Isn't that what Super Tuesday is all about, getting up really early and getting sick deals on electronics and shit?

Thats all for now, good night everyone.


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