Not Much Cycling

 Not much going on as far as bikes with the rain and holidays.  But getting my photo editing back up, been taking pics when I can.  

Working,  making money,  having fun, and more pics. Heck, job is so easy that I have to take pics at work as well ha ha ha.  

Sometimes pics heading to work seeing I travel east into the sunrise.  The pink sunrise pics are all unedited.  Amazing sunrises just about every day. 

Then a few Christmas eve pics of Gina just for fun. 

And of course,  4 days off for new years and three of the days are rain days  that sucks.

Freakin got a sty in my eye new years eve but that didn't stop me from having a corn dog. I  have one every few years. 

Solo 47

 Solo 47 16.1 average speed. Christmas eve day and I really didn't want to ride.  Felt like I'd rather spend the day with Gina but I have to ride.  4 days off from work.  Friday was a sleep late catching up day but Gina had to work.  So the day actually sucked so that's why I had to ride today. 

Figured I'd go ride SART since I haven't in a while.  But one of those days that Felt windy both ways.  And the detour I took at the last wooden bridge.  I took the left side, south side of the river from the bridge to the coast.  

At the coast   got somewhat verbally attacked by some homeless guy there. Drunk mofo. Dude calls me Turbo as I roll up. Then starts asking me if I have a Mercedes too along with my fancy bike. Dude, open your eyes, my bike is old and my truck is 22 years old if you must know.  

He starts asking me   yeah but do you surf? He'd been surfing and riding in boats since he was a teen.  No dude, we didn't have money for boats, I had a paper route when I was 12  working at 15, we didn't have money for that stuff. 

But now that you mention it, what kind of car do you drive? That's what I thought,  you don't have one and what do you do for work now? That's what I thought,  you don't have a job. 

He tries going off on me about me thinking im better than him. Uh yeah ok, that's why you started talking shit as soon as i rolled up. A  few other people around while I put him in his place.  Most with a little snicker on their face. 

so he ends up choking and stuttering looking for something to say. All he can think to say at this point is,  I like you man, I like you because you got some spanking, I Apologize for starting shit. Ha ha ha!

But otherwise,  a nice chilly ride. 

Did make my lunch with Gina that much nicer. 

Beanz Magic

 

Jimbo asked how I got my bike to stand up straight.  Beanz Magic. 😆😄😆

Solo  20. Much better without Apple pie 🥧 .

Much better! No apple pie and I was doing much much better right out of the gate vs Saturday.  

Saturday I was trying hard holding 11 at the start.  No pie and I was doing 15 ha ha ha.  No more pie for me the night before.  😄

Apple Pie Ala Mode......NO !!!!!

 Solo  40. Oh my goodness,  never apple pie Ala mode again the night before a ride.  Not sure if freezing my butt off at the start of the ride had anything to do with the pie but I  was freezing.  

Started out barely able to move.  Heck, I was pushing hard and going 11 mph ha ha ha 😂. 

Later during the ride, I felt much better.  Able to push hard and going somewhere.  Not sure what happened but starting out sucked.

Solo San Gabe 2 Beat da Rain

 Solo  35. Not much going on. Chatted with a couple guys at Encanto Park. Heading back I had a minute or so just chilling.  They caught me then Chatted for a bit.  Then they asked if I wanted to draft them back.  I said no thanks then I fell back about 50 yards along the dam. 

Hitting the trail,  they really picked it up taking turns.  I tried to keep up just to push myself.  They got about 150 yards ahead at one time. But by the end, I closed it up to about 20 seconds.  Most times riders push hard on the dh then fase on the flat.  These guys did good but hey, two of them. 

A little good news.  My photo computer has been in storage and I've missed my photography.  So I bought a couple of programs for real cheap   like $10 and put them on the laptop. 

One similar to my light room which was like $100.  The other I had but a difference between the two versions which are about 6 years different.  

So I've spent about 5 hours the last couple of days trying to figure them out.  Seeing I haven't used an editor in about a year, I remember but I don't remember much of the stuff. Worked on this one tonight,  think I've finally got it. 

As far as work,  still making them reports of dimensions from the parts we measure.  Out of 3,500 numbers   I've got to figure out how to filter  xcel files to enter on this page.  Looks much cooler on the computer but I printed one out to see what I actually do. 

Still enjoying the AC. Might even be a little too cool in here. 😄

Oh yeah, because it's medical,  we get free testing weekly and I'm still testing NEGATIVE. 👍