The Tip

My kid (27) has been trading crypto for about two years. He got into these penny ones. Buys at .02, sells at .05. He did that until he could trade in bigger ones. He has a good bit of Ethereum now. He has taken a bit of a hit lately of course, but at one point he was up 100X from his initial investment. He has told me a lot of amazing "what if" misses too. "If I had held that," or, "bought that at that it would be worth this now." I laugh at him some saying hindsight is 20/20. I'm a bit of a gambler so I've set up a Coinbase account too. Just to play around some. But a news letter guy I read has big doubts about it. Governments have always controlled the people by controlling their money supply. They will figure out a way to control this too. Either directly or by heavy taxation somehow.

Well, after all, the guy IS a blogger/YouTube dude. He assumes that people want to hear him blogging away. Personally I prefer to watch trail videos where the rider is commenting on things. WAY more so over listening to someone's choice of music. Even music I like I don't like hearing on videos. My video watching preference in order: 1) Rider commenting on stuff, 2) Just an open mic with no talking, 3) Music (that I can mute and watch in silence) And next time I see Wes I will have him autograph my helmet. (Note to self; start carrying a sharpie in my camelback.)

That's exactly what happened with a group of properties along Lake Austin. I forget the details, but one guy bitched about not being exempt, "like my neighbors." They swooped in and started charging all of them. Pretty sure that guy wasn't invited to anymore neighborhood parties!

😄 Well yes and no. At the time of your riding it, the FIRST tunnel was clean. If you had ridden that one your bike wouldn't have looked like it wrestled John Candy in "Stripes." But, being the path finder that you are, your basic instinct (spidery sense?) proved to be correct. You chose the same tunnel that nature chose to keep the most clear. Nature just needed some help in fine tuning it. (shovel and squeegee!)

For you non-Facebook folks, here's some news. There is now a trail that goes from LaCrosse, close to the Veloway parking lot, to the north end of House Fire, utilizing a tunnel that goes under Mopac. You can now ride dirt, avoid cars on the street, and avoid the lights at Mopac and LaCrosse, to get to that point. https://www.strava.com/segments/27803515?filter=overall There are six tunnels side by side that go 150 yards under Mopac. Use the third tunnel from the north end. It has been cleaned up. The north half of that third tunnel is dirt/mud/rock free. The first tunnel was initially cleaned up to be used but the big rain event messed it up. That third tunnel was relatively clean after the rain event so I'm hoping that further rain events will just make it more clean. Any mud and rock that was on the north half of that tunnel was scraped to the south half of the tunnel

"Oh. It's bronze. I thought the ad said brass. Never mind."

I think you need to ride a little faster! "Although mosquitoes seem fast when you are trying to swat them, they are actually slow flyers. The average flight speed of a mosquito is 1 to 1.5 miles per hour, which is slower than butterflies, bees, and virtually every other flying insect."

I have solved the problem for myself. I designed "Carl's Cool Thing." It's a short section of a big pool noodle that holds the hydration pack off my back. It works very well. I cannot imagine going out in the heat without an adequate supply of water

"My" realtor...actually a golfing buddy that helped my son buy a house, sent me a comp from a house in my rent house's neighborhood. He wants me to sell it of course. Anyway, the comp house was sold at $483/square foot. Yes that's right, get your calculator out right now, I know you're doing it; putting in YOUR house's square footage. 😄 It really is crazy.

Or is holding your beer.

I am going to get one for my wife. We were riding some hills in East Texas and she was not having a good time with the climbing. She was LOVING the downhill runs though. Imagine that! I'm going to get one that is bigger than the perfect size for her. The reason is that I want to ride it too 😄. I'm going to take it to the Meridian Bowl and wear out that battery! I hoping to get one that has everything we want for around 5K. There was a very slightly used one on Craig's List for just under 5K (just below it's list price) a few weeks ago and I vacillated too long on pulling the trigger. I won't make that mistake again. It might be awhile before one that I want is available.

Ugh! Not another spaghetti factory! This town is going to shit.

Winner! We kept trying to come up with something. Done! 😄 But that is exactly what it is. It's a Crank and Drank that you don't have to go home from.

It was a smash success. Good weather, good trails, good ride leaders for the organized Saturday morning ride, good group of attendees. Everyone had a great time. Well maybe not Barry. Maybe he'll post a picture.

I'm sure that "who's vaccinated" will be a prevalent fire side conversation. I want to make sure folks know that you don't have to be a camper to come out to ride. We have a Saturday morning group ride planned. The Dana Peak Facebook group will have some volunteer ride leaders coming to show us around. Different distances and paces that they'll declare so you can choose who to follow. Meeting up at 9 am near the campground restroom. Roll out by 9:30. Community camp fire will be at site #8 going by 7 pm at the latest. Make a day of it. There is plenty of parking outside the park. I'm pretty sure that you don't have to pay to ride to the camping area.

My wife and I have a tandem that we enjoy. Our best experiences have been in East Texas State Parks. Around here, for camping and kayaking, we go to Inks Lake mostly. The only put in here and take out downstream float we have done is in Bastrop on the Colorado. That was fun. You have to check for the flow rate to make sure that's good.

Pretty good and a lovely setting for drinking it

My input: The first two pictures are riding uphill. I don't even think that the trail depicted is in the Flow Trails Area. There is an uphill, Return trail, but that's not it. This might confuse someone reading an article about a fun downhill Flow Trail. Also, AustinBike, in your write up you say "the city has done a nice job" This is a county park. The county deserves a lot of props for what they are doing out there. Even the nice new wood signage is being done by the people that work in that park. But the signs are installed by ARR's steward Ken Reed. He too deserves a lot of props as he's been working hard on trail maintenance and improving things.

The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round Round and round

Nope nope nope. I want "From my living room." I don't want to have to worry all night whether the picture was taken in their living room or recreation room. It's difficult to live with those sort of unknowns. 😉 AntonioGG, right, no one should say, "and here I am in (blank) where I'm not suppose to be." But they can state "don't ask where this is" so we know they remembered the grumpy old man rule.

I've debated posting this because I'll come off as a grumpy old man. BUT, being a grumpy old man I've decided that I don't care. So here goes; I am not going to "like" any more bike pictures, no matter how awesome they might be, if the post doesn't include WHERE THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN. Of course I could have just as easily posted, "Hey folks can y'all please post where you took your bike pictures?" But where's the fun in that?

About a week to go. Yipee! Weather is looking perfect. Hope the 10 day forecast holds. I still have an extra site reserved. Just PM me and it's yours. $24/night. It's an RV site but just tent camping on it is perfectly legal. It's site #7 right across from the bathroom. This could easily get to be a yearly thing. Don't miss out on the inaugural event.

I was shocked at how low my gas bill was. I was expecting much higher because of the cold, but also that I had just installed a gas log, that got a lot of use. Amazing how cheap gas is. Water bill was lower than normal too. Having it off for four days will do that I guess!

I thought you were suppose to take the head of the suspected animal in to be tested. Yes, I'm kidding. But just barely. Did the dog not have an owner with it? Just a rando dog out biting people? And I agree, dogs are great, it's people that suck.