Nice day out there. Slept in this morning, got up tooled around doing domestic crap - then eventually went out on a long 40 mile bike ride on the C & O Canal. Was a nice cool day for it. Came home and mowed the 2/3rd of the lawn - sweated like a pig, dodged a *few* yellow jackets (after mowing over their nest). Fixed dinner, sat out on the deck and watched the birds while drinking coffee until it began to rain. Just "watched Some Like It Hot" - neat old film. I'm in for the night.

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Yeee haw...tis the weekend now. Busy ass day at work. DId a short 30 mile bike ride, came home mowed the grass, fixed dinner, watched a documentary on Jim Jones (today is the anniversary) - now gonna work on that silly flash interface. Ho hum. Great weather out on the trail today - supposed to be a cool weekend - relaxing.

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Workin on a new flash interface for my regular website www.dscottgregory.com, here's a (non-functional) preview. I have not compressed the file - it's a work in progress. I need to also add a preloader. Much work to do. Basically, I will have a background image that will change. I want to keep it simple. Stay tuned. Speaking of Flash - at the request from a few, I have removed the background sound to the blog. So stop bugging me about it. :)

Only did a short 32 mile bike ride tonight - had other chores to attend to.

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I have a new bike I'm interested in (click on pic to see bigger in new window). Gee, a new bike?...Gee, anything other than biking? (I need to get a life - although biking has been a portal for me to meet people and to have a life outside the office - I have zero regrets, besides - my ass looks great..and I'm down to 140lbs). This is the Mercier 2005 SerpensLTD05. It's a sweet ride. SO is the price - just waiting for the price to go down.

Went on a short 30 mile bike ride tonight after work. Temperature was just right - because it had just rained, heavilly. Strangely unhumid like last night. A shifty breeze - the kind before a tornado (we in fact had a tornado warning). The sky was that bruised purple color, ready to storm again - but retreated and turned into a nice evening. I will now count how many animals/wildlife I see on the trails; tonight: grand total - 6 ground hogs, 11 rabbits, 2 deer, 1 snake, 2 turkeys, 2 turkey buzzards, 6 hawks, 3 chickmonks, tons of squirrels, birds, et al....I need to get a life...

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Busy day at work - and an early morning to start it off. But went well. Was worried that it was gonna rain during my bike ride, but decided to tough it out. I knew I was gonna get wet - hell, I'm usually soaked at the end of a ride anyways from sweating. I take off my helmet and a dam breaks it's like there's a gallon of sweat up there. Anyhoo. Three weird things happenned on the short 32 mile ride tonight.

First event - I almost hit a deer. Literally. this huge deer leaps out of the woods and onto the trail (they always do), with one or more friends. But this time - it jumped literally in front of me, turned it's head and froze. We made eye contact just as I hit my brakes and skidded about 10 feet and my front tire was about a foot from this deer right as it turned and ran. I suppose the sound of my skidding frightened the deer. Scared the shit out of me too.

The other event is actually a two part thing - let's just say it involves mature people, a liquid and a moment of pride - and then a moment of shame. I felt like I was gonna do a good thing. There's this woman who rides this rusty old bike near Vienna. I see her every night I bike that route (which has been for 7 months) - and I hear her rusty old bike with the rusty old chain (she's a little rusty herself - prolly in her sixties). But tonight, I decided that I was gonna pack some oil in the event I see her....and it happenned. I saw her - and explained that "I see you all the time and I was wondering if you wanted yer chain oiled - it sure is squeeky". She looked a little embarrassed - but obliged and said, yes "why thank you". I oiled up her chain and all the parts....made sure they made no sound. She was wildly impressed. I said "you need to do this once a month" she was like, really, I didn't know they needed to be oiled at all" we laffed and I said farewell. I felt great - like I had done a good deed. So this deed went great until I spoiled it later by doing a similar thing...I was almost to Vienna and I was taking a huge swig from my hydration bladder (camel pack water thang) and up ahead I spot this huge fat groundhog on the edge of the trail on the left. I always see these things...maybe about 20 of them per ride. They just sit there at the edge of the trail munching on grass n shit - looking dulled out by us bikers encroaching their food dish. SO I felt child-like and was thinking - I'll spit a little water over at him...he may just flinch...how silly...how harmless....."then as I pursed my lips and begun to spout towards this ground hog, I see (in slow motion) out of the corner of my eye - a bicyclist (trying to pass me) motioning ......not....to....spit....water..... Oh crap... Too late. I not only got caught doing such a silly stupid act - but the person who witnessed it got sprayed on. He looked VERY annoyed. I immediately apologized - but he sped on - he was also in his 60s.

The last event of the ride was amusing. There's this gymnastics club near where I get on and off the trail. It's this large warehouse full of equipment and foam pits. Lotta gymnists in there working out. They keep the huge back doors open - like loading dock bays. I reminince about my old gymnastucs days and doing my practices in such a place. Anyhoo, I overheard presumably the coach yelling at a few of her athletes "stop your bickering Ashley - Courtney does not have your lip gloss.....if you don't cut that crap out - you will both be doing 100 pushups each" I was laffing sooo hard.

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Long hard day at work and brutal bike ride afterwards in high humidity - a measly 34 miles. Tomorrow, early morning meeting to get to. Cannot stay up late. Not much to write.

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What a relaxing day. Too bad it's almost over and then work begins tomorrow. Went on a 42 mile bike ride this afternoon - the Annondale loop and the Mt Vernon Bike trail. It was hot as a mo fo out. Came home and made bratwurst for dinner - sourkraut & beans. Nice German dinner.

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