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And bring money. Lots of it. I’ve just returned from 3 weeks in France, riding my bike and eating so well that despite riding 577 miles with 48,000 feet of climbing over two weeks, I still managed to bring a couple of extra pounds back though US Customs. Anything to declare? In Europe, gas stationsContinue reading “Fill ‘er Up…”

At least 5 people I follow on Facebook are posting photos of themselves touring colleges across the country with their high school senior children. It is so nice to see smiling young adults posing in front of university buildings and statues, with their proud parents on an adventure to see what campus would make theContinue reading “Advanced Studies Part 2”

I remember college courses like Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics, and a bunch of math courses for my major in that subject. I did take a ‘fun’ course called ‘Introduction to Wine and Wine Making’, which at UC Davis was actually a fairly serious and scientific class, since there is a world renown Viticulture and Enology DepartmentContinue reading “Advanced Studies”

Driving home yesterday I was listening to ‘Willie’s Roadhouse’ on Sirius XM, and a novelty song by C.W. McCall came on. It was one of those CB radio, long haul truck driving songs that were popular in the 1970’s, inspired by movie Smokey and the Bandit. Breaker, breaker… This particular song told of a pairContinue reading “Malaucène Memories”

Giving up something for Lent is a tradition for some Christians. Not eating meat used to be a common abstention, or no alcohol, or even no marital relations. If I had to choose among these three, I’d better get used to eating seafood and tofu. But now a Chicago area church has some new ideasContinue reading “On a Diet”

Most cycling training programs include something called a ‘recovery ride’ about once a week This is a ride where you keep your intensity and distance at a really easy level. The theory is that this is better rest than just staying off the bike entirely. Recovery rides are great fun. If you have been doingContinue reading “Recovery Riders”

President Biden promised that his first Supreme Court nominee would be an African American woman, and at first glance it seems he delivered on that promise. But things are not so simple… Most people start to really hate mathematics when they encounter Euclidean geometry. This is the first time they come face to face withContinue reading “Undefined Terms”

Stoker and I started going to France to ride a tandem way back in 2015. We did 5 rides that year, and things went so well that in 2016 we went back for a two week trip, staying in 4 different villages, with 12 tandem rides. On this trip we had a day off theContinue reading “La Maison Malfeasance”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argued Friday that global inflation “starts with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” but that increased U.S. government spending on domestic social programs would help decrease the national debt and bring down inflation at home.” Ms. Pelosi is a very smart woman. So she knows that what she said is complete nonsense.Continue reading “The I Word, Accelerated”

For years, this was part of every male annual physical examination, to check for prostate swelling, which could indicate prostate cancer, or the more common and less worrisome but still uncomfortable ‘benign prostatic hyperplasia’. Now I certainly have a few health issues, but the symptoms of BPH are not among them. So I can ignoreContinue reading “Giving Me the Finger”