bits and pieces

Friday, I passed someone who was wearing special bike clothing. I think it's a milestone of sorts.

Thursday's miles: 2.1
Friday's miles: 12.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1243.1
Miles out of Rivendell: 778.1
Miles out of Lothlórien: 323.1
Miles to Rauros Falls: 85.9

I covered the 10 miles that are Burke-Gilman Trail in 35 minutes, for 3.5 minutes per mile, or just over 17mph, or just a bit under 28kph. To wit: I'm now, um, speeding most if not all if the time. OFFICA PLZ DON'T HURT ME.

I'm thinking of biking down to see the air show today. So far, the interest here at MurkNorth is notable in its absense, so I'm not so sure about that.

Also, I installed GimpShop, which is the open-source image editor Gimp, only with an interface rearranged to be more like that of Photoshop. This makes it about a zillion times easier to use if you're like me and mostly use Photoshop for, um, everything.

Flowers now. Politics later.


Many Tiny Blue

Once upon a time...

...there was a little computer generated short with a bunch of computer chips as characters inside a computer system. The main character was named Spider Chip 68000, and it used to show on KBTC between episodes of Doctor Who occasionally, along with other odd little CGI shorts. I miss it. I wrote them once asking where they got it, but I never got an answer. If this sounds at all familiar to you, reply with details. I'd love to get a copy.

Saturday's miles: 9.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1252.7
Miles out of Rivendell: 787.7
Miles out of Lothlórien: 332.7
Miles to Rauros Falls: 76.3

Mostly today I biked over to kathrynt and llachglin's house and planned out a new front yard and garden for them. (That's how I got the 9.6 miles on a Saturday.) There's a bit of hardscaping, a bunch of plant moving, and a little platform (née deck) and a fairly major revision to how they would be looking at their yard overall. The goals were to de-emphasise the garage/bring the main house forward (not an easy task, the way the house is situated on the property makes the garage extremely prominent and everything else secondary) and make the garden easier to maintain and use it - or, at least, to make it so they're more likely to maintain it. I think it's a pretty good design and should make some pretty significant inroads in doing both, but I haven't really done any significant garden design before, so hopefully if they build it, they won't hate it to death. ^_^;