Events of Normality

From what I gather people want to hear more of what goes on in my life, so here it is. I rode the Pescadero loop yesterday with Dad and Helen. Yes, that's the 30-mile loop that has sort of been my eventual goal in cycling. I didn't do too bad, although I wasn't going quite as fast as the others (partially because my bike is not brand new and doesn't use one of the lightest semi-mainstream frames, and partially because I'm just not as good at this point). My hill-climbing has improved though. I must say that I really enjoy riding with people for a change because I mostly just ride alone. It's more fun with other people. We caught on to a big peloton from the Alto Velo club for a while, but I really couldn't hold on for that long (it was after all the last 8-mile leg of the ride). In fact the ride was a race course for an Alto Velo race (Alto Velo Site). Of course they did this loop 3.7 times and they started in Pescadero, while we just looped from La Honda back to La Honda... once. Yes, I think once was enough for me. Then of course there was the usual massive power failure... in the middle of summer. Power was out all along the coast for most of yesterday. It went out when we had stopped for lunch in Pescadero and were looking in a furniture gallery; no blogging then.

Julien is coming back today. It's amazing how inactive the phone has been during his 3 weeks of being in Cayucos. I'm going to have to take it easy on him when I see him. He went to all of the trouble of bringing his G4 with him to Cayucos and he ordered a new video card, memory, and one of these violent strategy games which I think got shipped to him while he was down there. Unfortunately for him, they sent him the wrong version of the video card which didn't work on his G4. So he was distraught because I don't think his game (something like Warcraft III expansion, the throne of coldness, or something like that; I'm not up on the gaming community, but apparently it is quite the hit) worked either. It really is a rough life that these die-hard gamer/graphics neophytes live.

Actually, now that I'm on the topic of Macs, the G4 is old news. A while ago Apple announced the G5 (it's almost been a month... old news!), which is fiendishly cool, but probably ultra-overkill unless you do lots of development or play lots of taxing video games. The best part is the cooling system which makes Dad's 11 fans look low-tech. It's also 64-bit now, which is also pretty cool.

So yes. I'm obliging myself to stop before I provoke more unhappy negativity from the batch of disgruntled hypercritics who frequent this site. Adiaŭ! (I will not let these hawkish sorts deny me just one word!)