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Nice Brent! Me - got up at 5:30 to hit the road a little before 6 for a 50 mile tour of the seacoast. I gamed the system this time and checked the forecast last night to make sure that I wouldn't be headed dead into the wind along the coast. I'm happy to report that the weatherperson had it right so I got a nice ~5mph push on that section of the ride. I rode the whole loop without stopping so no pics for me.

I took Xavier on his first trail ride today. 2 hours total, 4 miles, lots of mud, but the driest it has been in a month. A couple tricky sections, but he handled himself like a champ, and only one big wipeout for him. We walked a bit of the really rooty sections, and the 29er wheels roll a good bit better than the 20" ones. So proud today! **BRENT**

Raffy, I have found the Red Iridium Polarized to work well in both bright and cloudy rides. I bought some Persimmon lenses yesterday for the really cloudy / nighttime rides and mountain biking but I have not been able to try that lens out yet. Chris, for me to be able to drop you I will probably need both of your tires to flat at the same time.

I say we should Plasti-Dip it rainbow colored. **BRENT**

Nice, peoples. I got in a 32-mile ride with a co-worker today. We were slow, and by slow I mean about 12 mph. It was even hard to go that slow, but my friend hasn't been riding at all, or lubing his chain (was squeaking the whole way), and was struggling. Maybe what I needed, though. The humidity has been getting to my ankle, so keeping it in the easiest gear and just spinning was probably a good idea for today. The Aliante is not going to work out. It's almost exactly like the Vitesse, which is fine for short rides. I'd ridden it enough this past week to be raw, so not happening. I switched up to the Terry Butterfly again, which felt much better. I'd like to find the identical saddle with a little less padding. The search continues........

I made the worst smoothy ever (trying to create a V8 like drink): 2 small tomatoes 1 celery stalk 1 leaf of kale 1 carrot Sriracha sauce Worsteshire sauce some water Talk about gagging, I had to dump most of it. I guess that it why they put a whole lot of salt in V8 and a much larger ratio of tomatoes to the other stuff. I'll stick with the sweetish smoothies for now.

I survived a 16 hour day involving Taylor Swift, 50,000 screaming tween girls, and a thunderstorm.

I have had a breakthrough. The best way to cover up the dirt flavor of the Kale is to use little to no Kale. Real cutting edge stuff here. Apple Strawberries Bunch of Ice Almond Milk Small Handful of Kale Chia / Flax mix Pretty damn good.

Very impressive Nate. 50 miles on the bike non-stop seems pretty tough. Glad to see Xavier has less crashes per mile than his dad typically sees. Went on another awesome ride with Chris this morning. This one was his hill climb down by Mt. Vernon. Started out a bit rough when I hit the longest, steepest climb of the ride and found it pretty damn difficult. Got to the top and realized I had once again left the bike in the big ring in the upper middle of the cassette. After that it was a nice route with some decent climbs but nothing serious. Amounted to about 670' of climbing over the 20 mile ride. Not much for the real riders but dramatically better than I could do this time last year.

About 2 wks on the MBA 11" i7, and I like it a lot better than the i5. It just feels more responsive, with no more frustrating pauses. The i5 wasn't particularly slow, but it wasn't responsive - it had to 'think' on a regular basis. Slight pauses - nothing awful, but enough that I'd wonder if I had clicked the trackpad or not, then just as I went to click again, it would respond. Just a little annoying. The i7 just doesn't do that. I won't say the i7 is a speed demon, but it's a lot more responsive, and I've never felt that I needed more speed. Battery power has been perfectly fine, as well. I haven't worn the battery down to zero, but I've used it for routine computing (no video viewing, lots of surfing, word processing, large spreadsheet and database manipulation, virtual XP on Parallels) for several hours at a time and still was well over 60%. I think it'd hit 10 hours for sure doing what I'm doing. So Mavericks is supposed to fine tune power saving further, and maybe that will improve system responsiveness with the i5. Or maybe it's just the i5. Time will tell. In the meantime, I'm really happy with this one and don't feel any need to change things. For now, I would definitely recommend the Haswell i7 over i5 at least for the portable sets that I've tried.

worked on this: It may not be pretty - but at least it is done (for now) and working... Better than this:

Grilled a couple of USDA Prime New York strips and baked potatoes. Delish!

Thanks for the advice. I'll pick up some apples. I usually don't eat them raw because they are a bit boring but they are probably good in a smoothie. Did a little better today, more green, less brown, thinner, sweeter and smoother. It was very good! I love the peanut butter and bananas together! The peanut butter cleaned up very nicely with the usual cleaning procedure (although I didn't use much and tried to keep it from touching the container before blending. 1 banana 4 strawberries 1 leaf of kale scoop of peanut butter Rice milk