To sum it up in one word, “grim.”  The movie was good, it was graphic and true to the book.  But I’ve decided the movie just can’t relay the poetic beauty of the book.  You leave the book touched, whereas I left the movie theater depressed or slightly disturbed.

… and because it goes well with my website.

Kate and I are anxious to see “The Road” that is just now hitting certain theaters.  We both read the book over the summer (Cormac McCarthy) and it was fantastically dark and beautiful. The movie looks good too:

by Jeff Lindsay. Listened to this one as an audio book.  Meh.

A bit later I netflicked one of the TV series DVD’s, meh…

It just dawned on me that I’ve now gone 10 years and some change without cable TV. Overall this is a good thing, besides being one less bill to pay it keeps me focused on other hobbies.  The only time I wish I had TV is during the Olympics, the Tour, and some big football games.  But for those I can just crash in at my neighbor’s house.

My new favorite trail. With two feet of snow in the Fort, we found a relatively dry ride for our ANNUAL BIG ASS RIDE. Last minute plans brought us to do the Heil to Hall connector. Awesome ride! Here are some of my pics (you can click through to see the rest on flickr):

Most chainrings are not perfectly round. Some are worse then others.

For singlespeeders this can sometimes make achieving correct chain tension a trick. To do this you approximate the tension, then rotate the crank to find the “tight” spot, then set tension from that position.

However, this assumes you didn’t forget to center the chainring in the first place! I learned the hard way and didn’t think about it when I originally threw on the chainring (sort of a SS noob). The variance was too much, either it was too loose and bounced off, or too tight and would bind some with each revolution.

I dropped a chain again recently… finally got off my butt and took the time to better center the chain ring on the crank spider/mounts. Maybe its just Salsa rings, but the fit is quite loose and it took some trial and error to get it fairly center.

Good to go now though:

Just found an awesome video detailing a rebuild of a FOX RP23… this is great:

In this case “rebuild” meaning replacing the air-sleeve seals and new lube.