The "Right" Bicycle
posted about 1 month ago | 3 comments
In every publication that I have read on bicycling, it always makes a huge difficult choice out of choosing the correct bicycle for yourself. There are super lightweight racing bicycles for the go fast crowd, the mountain bicycles for the thrill s...
Business Sense
posted 2 months ago | 5 comments
I decided to go looking for a business I can start with next to nothing, then build it up over the years until I have built it up to where I have nothing......and then retire!
Social Security
posted 2 months ago | 9 comments
The name itself says what it is....... a governmental program to ensure adequate income to allow people to be able to retire. It, in itself was originated as a program to help one retire, and do so gracefully and without worry. Now that I am a rec...
Oklahoma Earthquakes
posted 3 months ago, updated about 1 month later | 4 comments
Well now, for the last three nights, I have been awakened by bed shaking, glasses and picture rattling, cat claws in my leg, and noise like a chain saw coming after me at full tilt! Normal for California, right? Probably.....except this isn't Cali...
Soylent Green
posted 7 months ago | 6 comments
You know, I keep reading almost every day about how much trouble and expense us old folks are....... we're running the country out of money, with Medicare, and Social Security both going broke. Of course, I read an article in a 1953 Herald Examine...
Uncertainty
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 3 hours later | 0 comments
Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
From "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner"
By Samuel Tayl...
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
From "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner"
By Samuel Tayl...
Saturday Breakfast ride 10-30-10
posted about 1 year ago | 4 comments
It was a blustery day Christopher Robin! Started out with a twenty mile per hour wind directly out of the south with the temperatures at 48 degrees when I left the house at 7am. At 7am, it is still quite dark as well.....c'mon Standard Time! With ...
Why?
posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
There are times, when I decide at the last minute to do a 70 mile bicycle ride in the rain that I question my sanity. Why would a normal, intelligent human being wish to subject himself to being cold, wet, uncomfortable, and seeking his physical l...
