A box of Dougness

Taken from eleri

"So, say you were meeting a new person--blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words. Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to look at/read/listen to/taste/whatever. "What would you put in the box? And a copy of your journal or a link to your LJ would be the same thing as just telling them directly, yourself, so that's not allowed."

1. Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (the book)
2. A plush penguin
3. A six-pack of Coke
4. Several issues of Bicycling Magazine
5. A DVD of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
6. San Francisco Giants cap
7. A copy of GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces
8. A live Grateful Dead CD
9. SF Convention program book
10. Black t-shirt
11. VTA bus schedules
12. Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

Ya think maybe somebody is mad?

As if lightning hitting various crew members wasn't enough, the power in the Bay Area failed just as the first showings of The Passion of the Christ began rolling.

It's almost enough to make a believer of me.

Riding journal

The storm passed so I got some bike work in

Distance: .991 miles
Maximum Speed: 17.8 mph
Average Speed: 11.1 mph
Time Riding: 5m, 23s

I hit that max speed while in 4th gear. . . I can't wait to see what I can do in 5th or 6th!