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Squirt turned 2000 miles on the ride home tonight. The new hub, which has been converted to oil lubrication, is significantly awesomer than the old one which was just greased.

Thanks guys. The buyer hasn't bothered me to pick up the tubulars. I may just leave it and hope he forgot. Gains about 0.7 lbs compared to the tubulars. 15.74 lbs. Also ordered a new fork with lawyer tabs after Calfee gave me a significant discount.

Damn that's hot!

Blacked out and ready to roll. Too bad it is too bloody cold and I have work to do.

We saw Colin Meloy solo at the Fillmore last night. Alden's first Fillmore show, probably around the age I was for my first Fillmore show. We checked out the posters and Claire pointed out a bunch she attended, including the Stone Roses about 3 weeks before Sophie was born. I didn't recall her being so super pregnant at a show until she said it. That got some funny looks now that I remember it, especially when she started slamming tequila poppers. Anyway, the show was good and he played mostly old Decemberists stuff of course, although also a couple of new songs and a mix of covers. Someone called out Overkill and he laughed pretty hard and then did a short version that would have made Colin Hay proud. Meloy records a few songs from another songwriter whenever he does these solo tours -- the first was Morrissey and this one was Ray Davies and the Kinks. He only played one Kinks song, which left me wanting more. His final encore song was introduced as a sea shanty sung in old San Francisco while the fisherman brought in their daily catch: Trudging slowly over wet sand Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen This is the coastal town That they forgot to close down Armageddon - come armageddon! Come, armageddon! come! Everyday is like sunday Everyday is silent and grey Hide on the promenade Etch a postcard : "how I dearly wish I was not here" In the seaside town ...that they forgot to bomb Come, come, come - nuclear bomb Fun show and Alden loved it because he knows every Decemberist song ever and particularly liked guessing songs based on the first notes he played on the guitar.

Lobster ravioli with vodka cream sauce

Not sure what I did wrong, but the Crisco didn't work so well for me. It was too thick and chunks came off when I rinsed it with hot water after its first use. I removed it and tried again with flax oil, and that worked really well. I did a pan seared chicken breast with a shallot wine sauce this week and it came out really nicely. First time I actually deglazed a pan and it actually felt like I did it right! Looking forward to getting more experience with it, but first impression is really great.

they don't want scots breeding. Then there'd be more of them.

Yes Mad Fibers. Could not turn down $1500 for unused Carbon wheels.