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Just decided to cash in my stock-pile of Apple store gift certificates and bought a quad-core i7 Mac mini. It will be here on Monday I guess!

Ok, here it goes … I plan on starting to cycle after a 16 year absence. To do so I am starting by re-habilitating a Circa 1989 GT Karakoram for which I have ordered a bunch of parts from Performance Bike. Besides enjoying cycling a lot I hope it helps me get of this weight plateau I am in, have been stuck at about 235 lbs (down from 298) for a while and walking 22 - 25 miles a week while dieting is not doing it. So my goal beside starting to cycle again is to do 1,500 - 2,000 miles in 2013, a far cry of the 5,000 miles I used to ride while living in Chattanooga but a lot of fun should be had.

Darn this would be fun, the last two meets in Atlanta that I attended were a blast with lots of nice people. My family lives in Atlanta and my nephew graduates from HS in late May … perhaps, just perhaps.

You don't need to say anymore than that, Dusty. Losing pets sucks. Having caring friends doesn't. As for me, I got hosed by a federal governmental entity today but will work around their cavalier schedule-changing. I got to have lunch with my law partner with whom I have worked since my second year of law school who moved to D.C. for a year to work in our office there. Then, I went to see Mark Ribot and David Hidalgo with a 4-piece band play an amazing 2.5 hours of "border music" that was rockin' and raucus. To top it off, Claire and I got to go backstage and meet those guys, which was awesome. Between us, we have seen Los Lobos around 20 times so meeting David Hidalgo was pretty huge. He was as cool and gracious and down to earth as you would imagine. He even remembered a show we saw with them and the Blasters where it was way hot in the club and people were passing out and Dave Alvin threw up. I highly reccomend checking out Border Music if you can make it to the L2 Arts Center in Denver tomorrow night, or the Flynn Center in Burlington Vermont on January 26!