Snow!

Snowpocalypse in full effect. First picture is looking south down 14th St from Clifton. Notice the stragglers wandering through the roads and the line of buried cars to the left. Pretend its ash falling and one of the men is Viggo Mortensen. Second picture is looking up 18th St in Adams Morgan. Right after I took this a cab tried to pull out and got stuck sideways in the middle of the road, blocking a plow. Fail. Third pic was on the walk over towards Dupont. There are trees down all over the place. Lastly, the Real World house is looking ever so cold, lifeless, and empty, yet still haunted by the throbbing ghost of Andrew's sexual frustration.

Hain's Point

Bought some new tools last week and got the fleet back up running strong. They weather has been good for riding. Nice and cool. Did some laps down at Hain's Point on Wednesday. That place is funny. It attracts the see-and-be-seen types as well as the POWER CYCLISTS! which are often an overlapping category. The weird thing is that so many people drive there to ride their bike. Wtf? Just bike there you lazy asses. You're going to do like 90 laps anyways, so the distance can't be the problem. Anyways it's still always fun, and a great place to watch the sunset on the water after a ride.

biking walking dc

I think I need to rename this blog to 'walking DC' since that has been my only mode of transport the past few days.

Equipment Failure

Alas, my bicycle is broken. Actually several of my bikes are broken, and I've lent my only working one out to a friend who crashed and broke his in half after hitting a divet in the road left by construction work. Anyways, I somehow lost a nut that holds the crank to the bottom bracket, producing the crippling effect of my crank falling off while I was riding. I didn't exactly see it coming, but I knew something was coming. I had that feeling of dread induced by the subtle, yet progressively worrying change in how it was handling.

At least the rain stopped, so my walk down New Hampshire will be a dry one tomorrow morning.

Rain.

Is this rain ever going to stop? It's been raining about four days straight now, and it's supposed to rain tomorrow as well. Walking around with a wet ass from the water flicking off my wheel is getting old quickly.

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Rad Cyclist

Wow, more big news this morning. Congrats to Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Price, you know, no big deal. Pic HIGHLY related.

RIP Ben

I just heard Ben Ali died last night. I was in Ben's Chili Bowl last night too, and nothing seemed amiss. They probably didn't even know yet.

Bummer.