| Subcribe via RSS
Today I went for a ride at Sherman Branch. Today, it was quite muddy, but they still opened the park. I had a good ride. It took me 1:11 to do the ride. Here is a link to the GPS data:
Every Trail Sherman Branch Ride
Now it is off to the pool with the wife and kids!
I haven’t blogged again in a while. Things have been crazy busy here! Back in september, we put our house on the market. We wanted to puchase a new house, and as the economy went downhill, we watched. By January, we finally decided to buy a new house, without selling the current home. We ended purchasing a home from Simonini Builders and couldn’t be happier. Finally, we sold our first home, and closed on it on May 27th. Now, we only have one home! Here is a quick pic of the house:
If you want to see what it looks link on the inside, the builder has a gallery here. Yes, we bought the exact same house as the model. This one is call the Fairmont.
Now that the boys are out of school things are slowing down. The pool is open and the boys are enjoying that! Now we need to get some more neighbors for the boys to play with!
I ran across this interesting graphic today:
I call it soda or pop and some times I say “get me a diet”. My parents *always* called it coke.
I do! Today I rotated the tires. I use the rearward cross method outlined in this pic.
That’s right, we finally moved to our new house. Things are pretty busy right now getting things organized, and getting used to our new location. The boys love the new house since they each get their own room. We hope to get our old house sold soon!
Could it be that this current down turn in the local US economy is from God? The bible has plenty to talk about in regards to this, and you may want to watch this video. If you don’t want the video, you can read the text.
What do you think?
It seems that the last few weeks have been quite a crazy ride for the economy. Unless you have been living under a rock, you will know that some companies have made poor decisions in allowing some people to have mortgages that shouldn’t. When those mortgages started defaulting, an economic downward spiral began. On the way down, some major names in business went along with it. Who knows what is to come in the next month. Just check the news.
Let’s look to the bible to see. How about Job 42:2:
“I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.”
Or how about PSALM 115:3:
“Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.”
These verses speak to the sovereignty of God. There is nothing that happens that is not already known by God, so there will be no surprise to him. One more verse, Amos 3:6:
“When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?”
These verses help me experience comfort in knowing that God is in control, and he can’t be surprised by any calamity that comes into my life. He is there, reigning supreme, and has complete control of all things. I trust in Him for my salvation. I know that he has a plan for me, even in the calamity of all that is going on around me.
Today, I came across an article that makes me wonder if people really believe this. I understand his idea and his cause, but is it really empowered by a technology? Before Web 2.0 (however you define that) were we really missing something? Hardly. That is what causes him to come across as technically challenged. Don’t be fooled, web technology and getting a power grid or cleaner power online aren’t directly related as he would want you to believe.
Today I took the first ride on the new tires. It was a noticeable difference from the Bontrager Jones tires. The ride was smoother. I could tell the difference in volume. They rolled fine too! They seem to grip in the turns and I felt that I attacked the downhills even more since they inspired confidence. I am pleased with them!
Today we went for an after work ride. I did the normal bike check over; air pressure, chain tension, dust the dirt off… You know the drill. I happened to notice that the rear tire had a pretty good scuff on the sidewall, and I mentioned to my buddy that I may need to start looking at some tires. I was half serious, but took a mental note to check out the reviews and see what I could get locally. We saddled up and started tear’n up the trail. 10 minutes in I was going along a straight section on the trail and POP! Psssshhhhhhh! I didn’t wreck but I was instantly riding on metal. I stopped and thought ‘what did I hit?’. I checked along the trail and there wasn’t anything obvious that would have caused any damage. I then checked out my front tire. A giant sidewall rip! The sidewall had failed, and then I probably hit something small to pop the tube, which made quite the sound. I still had a ways to go, so I decided to put in a new tube, and air it up low, and limp out. Here is what it looked like when I got back to the car:
It was still early enough that I could get to my local bike shop, SouthPark Cycles to get some new tires. When I got there, they didn’t have exactly what I wanted on the shelf, however, some new bikes on the showroom floor did. The guys at the shop were nice enough to sell me the tires off a new bike! How cool is that? I was quite happy to get some new WTB Exiwolfs 2.3 29ers. The old tires I had were Bontrager Jones ACX 29 that came on the 2007 Gary Fisher Rig. Here is a quick nite pic after I got the new treads on:
Tomorrow I will taking them out for a test ride after work. It should be a better day for tires 