Settling into Culver City after the road trip.
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. 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.
I’ve also started bike riding again. Traded the 18-year-old Specialized Rock Combo road/mountain combo for a Specialized Sirrus flat-bar road bike — a lot skinnier tires, somewhat lighter, clean indexed shifting, and doesn’t make a bunch of crunching noises when I shift gears. 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, nice weather. About a mile from my house there are two routes out to the beach: the Ballona Creek Bike Path that goes to Marina Del Rey, and Venice Blvd, which has a nice wide margin for biking. Culver City has another bike path between lanes. 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. But it’s something I enjoyed and really don’t like to be so out of practice on. 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.