We had a great weekend down in Mt Gilead, North Carolina with Amanda’s folks and two of their close friends!

We got to boat around Lake Tillery all day Saturday, seeing two of the hydroelectric damns that created the reservoir, hang out with everyone, watch some football, eat poorly and just relax. More on that all after a night of sleep. My only weekend regrets – not bringing my bike for some nice scenic rides (though my body did need a few days rest… 4 days oughta do it.. back to the bike commute tomorrow morning) and the fact that the weekend is over.

Part II of my iPhone applications writeup coming tomorrow!

So I’m out of town this weekend, relaxing. But what that means is part two of my iPhone apps writeup is going to be delayed for all the reasons/limitations I wrote about regarding the WordPress app - I have a draft on the site, but this app can only see local drafts. I also have no desire to do that much writing on the iPhone keyboard. More posts soon.

Like the majority of iPhone and iPod Touch users, I’ve used the iTunes App Store a ton, downloading and installing a ton of applications.

Most stayed on my iPhone only a few days, or in some cases, only a few minutes. There are a ton of apps available from the store – both free and pay. A big bit of them are junk. Below is my list of applications still on my phone – the ones I use regularly, and a quick review of their utility and/or amusement.

All in all, I’ve got 14 applications installed on my iPhone presently. Below are the first 7:

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This is a cool little way to visualize a given page, concept, etc. The image to the left is the Keefer Madness home page as of this morning.

I can see wasting some time and making some pretty neat visualizations for your web site, for making wallpapers, etc. I also decided to make one up with the text of my resume for a little visual flair on that page.

Go to wordle.net to make your own text visualizations.

Edit: I’ve been addicted to this all day. Check out a few more I’ve added to their gallery.

Congrats to my friend, Bret and the rest of the Centerline crew. Today, the Flash-based web site is being they designed for the Hurricanes – ourteam.hurricanes.com, is being featured on Adobe’s Site of the Day It’s a pretty big honor, bigger recognition, and wonderful promotion and publicity for Centerline. Congrats. Check out the site, if you hadn’t already checked it out after I posted previously about it.

Tonight’s sunset was 6:50 – just over 10 minutes earlier than the previous Tuesday. As I rode out for the final Gyros Tuesday night ride (which has had an earlier start time the past few weeks cause of the earlier sunsets), my knees and arms ached a bit. As I rode over solo to meet up for the group ride, I questioned whether or not to even ride with the group. But with it being the final Tuesday night ride till the Spring, I powered through.

As it turned out, the ride for the most part was pretty leisurely and my pain and discomfort quickly faded away.

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This time a week ago, I had returned from my final crit of the 2008 season in Jacksonville, NC, satisfied with my results on the year. I’ve kind of relaxed and have put in less training in the past week – a little sore from a lot of miles in 2008 – substantially more than 2007.

Anyway, I’m in the position to do a free fitness assessment at the private gym in the same building I work in. I’m going to do that to setup some goals and training for the offseason. Here’s my preliminary plan for ways to make 2009’s bike racing even more successful than 2008 (possibly upgrading to Cat4 racing):

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So we had our friends JC and Andrea over for dinner and then some Rock Band World Tour, complete with some new content. I’m getting excited about the content that’s now starting to churn out – first the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” which I bought today and have an even higher respect for guitarist John Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith.

Mid October, they’re releasing Motley Crue’s best album, Dr. Feelgood as downloadable content, and also a couple of good tracks from The Offspring this coming week (and also George Therogood’s “Bad to the Bone”). Granted, they’re all old tracks (the RHCP and Motley Crue came out when I was in middle school for Christ’s sake!), but they’re really starting to add some real replay value to Rock Band (and eventually Rock Band 2 when I get it). Kudos to all involved with Rock Band and the great content that they are pumping.