So we had a unique, yet enjoyable Thanksgiving this year — dining at a campground off of Lake Greenwood in South Carolina. I say unique, but there were a bunch of RV's, so while having our Thanksgiving feast outdoors in a big white tent, surrounded by trees and RV's was a new experience for us, there [...]
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So tonight, I was playing the orginal Legend of Zelda from the old NES days. The Nintendo Wii's virtual console allows you to buy games from their old consoles including, but not limited to NES and SNES titles. We've only endulged in two retro games thus far: the original Zelda and Super Mario Brothers 3. Between the [...] So tonight, and this weekend in general, we're trying to have Tyler sleep in his crib in the nursery for the first time since he's come home from the hospital. Up until now, he's slept in a basinet at the side of our bed. Despite having a redundant monitor system (a speaker on both sides of [...] So with the birth of Tyler seven weeks ago and then Amanda's two subsequent surgeries, it's been difficult to get into the old routine, or even establish a new routine. We're still not there yet. Amanda's two surgeries were pretty damn scary, but in the last two weeks she's made a wonderful recovery. But then this afternoon, [...]
The roots of my current obsession love of cycling started on the very mountain bike I hopped back on last night. It's a pretty low-end machine — a dual suspension Mongoose D70, sporting a blue and yellow color scheme that would be at home on a Subaru Impreza WRX. Getting more and more miles on my bike in the Woodcroft neighborhood area of Southern Durham, I spent countless hours speeding up and down the American Tobacco Trail — both the paved greenway miles that headed downtown, terminating at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, but also in the other direction beyond Southpoint mall, where the trails are unpaved and ungroomed. That was my real experience on the dual suspension mountain bike. Eventually my mileage increased, and after completing a 100K ride on a hot 4th of July, I converted to a roadie, now on my third road bike, never looking back. Grrr! Just need a moment to vent. I was just on my cell phone in the hospital's hallway and the nurse told me to turn it off because they've got patients on heart monitoring equipment. I thought this sounded like a lot of BS as the whole Rex Hospital has wireless Internet hotspots throughout, all the [...] So the wost part of this whole hospitalization of Amanda, besides the fact that she's in so much pain is little Tyler. Sure, at a little over two weeks, Tyler doesn't understand or comprehend where his parents are, but we still want to be there as much as possible and do as much as possible for him. But [...] So it's been quite the day. Amanda's been struggling a but since Tyler's birth with some pain. It kinda hit its peak last night. I ended up alternating tending to Tyler and Amanda. Very little sleep was had by all. This morning, Amanda's pain really hit it's peak. We insisted on getting her in for a doctor's [...]
It's nice to see some things never change, even as the connection speeds continue to rise. My most recent example of this comes from one of the many mailing lists I'm on related to cycling. I sent a message Wednesday night telling them 1) why I hadn't been on any group rides in awhile and 2) that a new cyclist had been born. I then provided a link to the gallery for our new little bundle of joy and future owner of this as his first bike. A few hours later the listmom sent a generic message about people complaining about off topic messages to the mailing list. The timing made it pretty obvious that my posting was at least partially a catalyst for his scolding post. Eventually the posts on Keefer Madness will swing back towards cycling, but for now, our lives are all about Tyler, and Keefer Madness is as well. Apologies for no posts for a few days, but I think I get a pass, with my son being born. It's been a whirlwind — amazing, tiring and pretty much [...] |
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So after a bit of riding lockout in the Keefer household, I've netted two bike rides this week (so far). One was my standard 16.5 mile loop from the house out and back. The second one consisted of a little singletrack riding with a co-worker well-versed in the ways of root hopping, nubby tired dark creeping in riding, surrounded by trees — all almost completely foreign to my smooth-tire tarmac riding ways.
One of the first posts from back in 2001 when I initially started blogging, back when my blog was just a small portion of Keefer Madness (and it was called KeefLog) was about
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