Archive for August, 2004

RacePhotos.net (Their site could use some work, but my picture is on it.)

Okay, so their site could use a lot of work. RacePhotos.net is an IE-only (try to browse their photos with Firefox), screwed-up-background, in-need-of-some-optimizing website. Maybe I should offer my services.
Regardless, here is a picture of me, halfway up a very steep hill. If there is a slight smile on my face, it [...]

Cycle Me Blue

Cycle me blue.
Sky blue like an early morning stretch.
Cycle me silver…
Quick like a wet downhill tragedy.
Cycle me green.
Feel the pine-scented descent into happiness.
Cycle me white.
Puffy cumulus, sleek stratus, moments before the rain.
Cycle me grey.
Showers shiver my bone.
Cycle me black.
Eyes closed to dark sleep in preparation
Cycle me blue.

Completing My First Century and Living to Tell About It

I made it… well… kinda. What should have been my first century (100 mile) ride in the Mt. Hood Challenge ended with both a sense of accomplishment and mild confusion. An incredible amount of rain forced a change in the course. The race organizers failed to properly announce the course change before [...]

Second Day at New Job

Well, I have nothing better to do than update my blog at this point. It is the second day at Pacific and I don’t have a username or password to log in.
I don’t hold it against them–HR warned me yesterday that it would take 24 hours for things to get into the system–I haven’t quite [...]

Launching a New Design and Leaving… In the Same Week

Concordia University - Portland, Oregon
The new website design is up and running on the Concordia website. I launched it on Tuesday, spent the last two days finding the bugs and responding to the insane requests that come from launching a new design. (”What we have a website? This is great… but…”)
I’m [...]