Wheel sucking a Segeway

On my way home yesterday I ran into a lady on one of these things. I was intrigued as I've never seen one up close so I tailed her for awhile as she took a couple corners along the park sidewalk I was on. Then we chatted for a second. She said she could only go 10 mph, so she let me pass. 10 mph? What's the point? I knew simply walking somewhere has been out of vogue for awhile, but c'mon people.

Rough Weekend

I had quite the weekend. On Friday afternoon I rode up with a couple of other musicians to rehearse and play a show with Joe Piscopo. We stopped at the Thai Spice in Omaha for lunch (108th and Maple, best Thai food in Nebraska), then headed to the venue for a 2 1/2 hour rehearsal. Joe showed up for the last 45 minutes or so - nice guy, BTW, and a real pro. He sang, played about 5 different instruments, did comedy bits and impressions, interacted with the audience, auctioned off chances to dance with him, and generally brought a lot of Vegas energy to a room of about 200 (I kind of felt sorry for him - it seems kind of a tough way to make a living for a guy who had made it to the big time. Maybe he knew somebody on the board of the charity we were raising money for - or knew somebody who benefits from the charity). Here he is (sorry for the blurry pic) auctioning off a chance to dance with him after the show.


Anyway, we had about 2 hours or so to kill after the rehearsal before the show, so we headed to Old Chicago to have a beer - on the way I get a text message from my wife to call her - it seems my son snapped his ankle playing ultimate frisbee down at Cook Pavilion. She later sent me a picture message of his ankle before the doctors reset it (WARNING - don't click if you have a weak stomach) you can see the pic here if you want. It was pretty horrifying to see that and not be able to be at the hospital with my wife and kid. The gig went until about 11 pm, so I didn't get home in time to head to the hospital until the next day.

On Saturday instead of going on the Wilderness Perk ride, I went to the hospital where he was having surgery to fix his ankle. He came home Saturday afternoon, and we spent the rest of the weekend taking turns taking care of him.

So, no rides for me this weekend.

Hope that the FAC was fun, and that you all had a better weekend than I (or my kid).

FAC on Friday

Where: Marz (12th & O street or thereabouts)
When: Friday (duh)
Who: the cool people
Time: 4:30-5-ish or whenever you can get there
How: Because we live in a free society
Why: Occasional chuckles and the slight possibility of seeing me turn Marz into a raging disco

Interesting Gig this Friday

Fun ride and post-ride hang last night. I'm going to miss those little gatherings when the weather and daylight preclude any evening group rides. We'll have to keep it going with FACs.

I won't make tomorrow's FAC as I have a gig in Omaha Friday night backing up Joe Piscopo (of SNL fame). Should be a fun gig - I would imagine we'll be playing a lot of Frank Sinatra arrangements for him to sing to in between comedy bits. We won't get the music until the run-through on Friday afternoon, so I'll find out how the show will work then. I'll keep you all posted on how it goes.

For those of you youngsters who were too young to stay up that late to watch when he was a part of the SNL cast - here is a video of Eddie Murphy as Stevie Wonder with Joe doing his Frank Sinatra impression:

kew the music

I just wanted to be the first to say that...

So... whatever happened to our kew? Anniversaries and birthdays obligations got yer tongue?

Limbo Stick, part deux

After reading Nicol's Limbo Stick post on her blog, I remembered that we also got to play limbo with a construction truck on Saturday. Somewhere between Princeton and Cortland, the right lane of 77 is closed. There was a truck in the closed off lane, with a large hose running from the truck to the ditch over the shoulder of the road - about chest high to a cyclist. The nice construction dude saw us coming and lifted the hose for us to go under - with kind of a pained look on his face. I'm guessing he had done that for a number of cyclists that morning.

There - two updates in less than 24 hours. Nyaa, Nyaa, Nyaa. Time now for me to go teach kids how to make sounds on their instruments that will scare their dogs and horrify their families.

:)

Updating the Blog

Adrian thinks this blog needs to be updated. I thought I'd wait until there was something moderately interesting to write about, but I guess that's never stopped me from posting before. On Saturday it was a pretty routine ride out to Hallam, except for the two flats (Kim and Paul). We need to show Paul the miracles of the quick release system, he pulled the whole skewer out of his front wheel before anybody could say not to.

I did try to get hit by a car coming up 77 as Roca road merges going north. The other four in the group at this point went ahead of the car as it was coming down the on ramp, but I waited. The car then slowed, making me think she was waiting for me, so I waved my thanks, which evidently was mistaken for me signaling the car through. The car then sped up, I stopped - accident avoided. I hate it when drivers try to give us the right of way when we shouldn't have it - causes too much confusion. They seem to do that a lot on that crossing on Old Cheney - I always just wave them through. You never know what the car in the far lane is going to do.

So, in lieu of anything else interesting to report, here is a picture of a bicycle with a fair amount of saddle to bar drop. I'm guessing the owner either has really long legs and a short torso, is really flexible, or bought a bike that may have been a tad too small :)


Credit to G60 from Bike Forums for the photochop job.