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13 May 2012

Bicycle Sunday

I did nothing today except go for a short ride with Shelley. We took our single speed town bikes to check out our new house and see what progress has been made and then took advantage of Bicycle Sunday. Thanks you Cascade Bicycle Club for putting this on.

It was incredible outside. And everyone was out. Lake WA Blvd was so full of strollers, in-line skaters and recreational cyclists that Lycra-clad racers looked very out of place.

It was also incredibly leisurely feeling to just cruise along with NO agenda and chat with Shelley. It seems all of our rides lately have been on a tandem and this was kind of fun.

Sleep	6
Waking HR
Body Weight
Body Fat
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Workout Food	water
Injuries
Therapy
Time of Day	11:00 AM
Workout Type	if I had to give this a label it would be active recovery
Weather	70, sunny, dry, light wind
Course
Results
Time
Distance
Pace
Equipment	Town Bike
Clothing

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17 January 2011

Band of Horses–Our Swords

Too short!

Who knew this was one of Shelley's favorite songs...?! I love it.

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24 October 2010

Best Coast "When I'm With You"

In a country as young as ours there aren't many things that we can legitimately claim we invented instead of just borrowed or stole or simply altered. Surf music is one of those things. I love it.

This song goes out to Shelley.

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03 July 2010

back of the bike

Thanks to Shelley for being much more creative than me and for taking the time to splice together this compilation from our ride at the Travessia de Portugal and for finding the perfect song to accompany all the images.

back of the bike

The song is: LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

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09 February 2009

Guinness cupcake

Wow... Shelley and her friend Kari were hanging out today and you the know the expression, idle hands and all that. So they went to the store and made some Guinness cupcakes:

Yes, it contains real Guinness beer! And the cheesecake frosting? Need you really ask?

This was just a hurried photo taken with my phone, getting my camera and posing the cupcake would have meant too much waiting around and I needed to shove this into my mouth pronto. God was it good. It had a dense flavor and cohesive quality that all those 'pudding in the mix' cupcakes and brownies just can't match. Made from scratch and to die for.

I made the mistake of walking upstairs and seeing that there were about 15 more on the cooling rack. Give me strength!

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23 September 2008

fruit fly trap

Shelley rules.

We have had a fruit fly 'bloom' lately and it got to the point of being pretty gross. They were in your face in the kitchen, in the upstairs bathroom, in the living room, everywhere. Well a few days ago she looked up a recipe for a trap and it's been HUGELY successful. Check out the results:

Apple cider vinegar, sugar and a little bit of liquid dish soap. Who would have thought.

She placed three of these around the house and they all filled up TWICE. The other day I caught Shelley staring at one intently coaxing a fruit fly to jump in... this has become her passion.

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03 December 2007

Shelley runs the Zappos.com Las Vegas Half Marathon

Shelley just sent me her results from this race today:

http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=29165020&rsID=50503&pubID=3

I am so impressed! She has not had much time to train at all what with work and her heinous commute and trying to schedule stuff for us to do together around my constant exercising so to only be a couple of seconds slower than the Iron Girl 10 km pace she ran earlier this fall is awesome. Way to go.

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