What, you’ve got nothing better to do than surf the web and check once again if I’ve posted an update to my blog? Well, I haven’t. Off my back – I’ve been working. Well, not exactly working, but working on working (or working on….oh, you know what I mean). Getting settled up here in LA, catching up on my PHP and MySQL, getting started on the big open source project I’ve been muttering about for so many years (yes, that was what I was muttering about – “…dogs…pope, no fault of mine…”)
In any case, I’ve also started bike riding again – traded the 18 year old (I think! My Quicken file doesn’t go back that far, and it’s not worth digging in the Excel file to find it, but I believe it was in college) Specialized Rock Combo road/mountain combo for a Specialized Sirrus “flat bar road bike” – a lot skinner tires, somewhat lighter, clean indexed shifting, and doesn’t make a bunch of crunching noises when I shift gears. And for some reason I’m a lot more inclined to ride here in LA – no hills unless I seek them out, nice long empty bike paths, and so far very nice weather. About a mile from my house there are two routes out to the beach – the Ballona Creek Bike Path that goes from here to Marina Del Rey (where the bike path goes north and south along the ocean) and Venice Blvd which is a “Bike Route” – it’s got a nice wide margin for biking. Culver City has another bike path between lanes that I’ve used, as well. So far the longest I’ve gone is about 26 miles, mostly averaging about 18 miles every three or four days.
And tomorrow I’m going up for a refresher flight lesson. It’s been about nine years since I’ve been up, even longer since I’ve solo’d – it’ll take me a while before I’m comfortable again I’m sure. But it’s something I enjoyed and really don’t like to be so out of practice on. And it should be especially fun here in LA; I’m hoping to work up to some cross-country flights down to San Diego, and perhaps an instrument rating.
So yeah, I’ve got more important things to do than be your trained monkey websurfing entertainment – for the moment at least.