I spend a lot of time in the car. I drive about 30,000 miles a year schlepping medical products across CT and western Massachusetts. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of listening to many a motivational speaker. One of the things that motivational speakers like to tell you is that despite the fact […]
A Sunday Ride in the Valley (Full Enduro)
The weather channel app on my iPhone had been indecisive at best about the forecast for the Vermont Mountain Bike Fest all week. My experience with New England weather has taught me to take forecasts with a grain of salt, but as I pulled up to Mt Ellen’s sloped parking lot, Pandora picked “A Hard […]
Bikepacking Shake Down
Prologue I’ve been casually interested in bikepacking for some time now. Earlier this year, I bought a new bike. Well, some of it was new, and some of it wasn’t. The frame is a 2017 Surly Karate Monkey. The Karate Monkey (KM), is a versatile and dependable bike that offers among other things, several places […]
Nembafest 2017
James Beckwourth was an American trapper and mountain man who had extraordinary adventures, which he famously chronicled in his book “The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians”. Among the tales of his adventures, some more true than others, he wrote about the […]
Car update
I decided to take some pictures of the car today to give a little update. I’d say it looks okay. It needs some tidying up. I would like to come up with some checklists to help make sure I’ve got all my supplies. I think there needs to be one list for things that stay […]
Key Performance Indicator (KPI): So, I’m a bit of a slob…
“A performance indicator or key performance indicator (KPI) is a type of performance measurement.[1] KPIs evaluate the success of an organization or of a particular activity (such as projects, programs, products and other initiatives) in which it engages. Often success is simply the repeated, periodic achievement of some levels of operational goal (e.g. zero defects, […]
The Group Ride
As I got my car packed up, I felt myself fighting off urges to make an excuse not to go. I ended up arriving to the unfamiliar parking lot super early and was feeling the butterflies as I waited for more riders to arrive. The feeling reminded me of the first time I went riding […]
Evernote
Remember the Palm Pilot? If you’re old like me and spent time in the corporate world at the turn of the century, you’ll remember how much people used to love those things. To me, it just looked like a Gameboy for adults. I remember guys wearing them on their belts and they looked like, well…dorks. […]
the blog
Sealed bearings rolling around an aluminum axle, spinning inside urethane skateboard wheels hum in a soft, low, and distinctive way. That sound saturates my memory of the “Gleaming the Cube” movie trailer which I used to wait through hours of TV to see when the movie debuted in 1989. I was 14 years old […]