The Lancaster Bike Club had their 30th annual Covered Bridge Metric Century on Sunday and I made it! Whehoo! I have to admit that I was a bit nervous, but 63 miles after starting the ride I pulled into the finish line with my family there cheering me on. Pretty cool indeed. I LOVED riding with a group of other riders… it certainly keeps you motivated to keep going.
I on one of the hills I was heading down doing about 35 miles an hour a bee got stuck under my glasses and stung my forehead. There were cars behind me as well as a whole slew of riders and I probably looked like an idiot going that fast downhill with one hand on the handle bars and the other swatting off my glasses trying to get this bee to go away.
I wanted to get to the point where I could comfortably ride bike to work and I was able to this morning. I was REALLY worried about the hills, because there are some massive ones, but it actually wasn’t nearly as bad as many of the Q-Ville rides I have been doing. Here’s the route…
Went for a nice ride today. The weather was amazing and the views were awesome. I think this is the reason I love riding so much. I can’t wait until my cardio endurance kicks in to the point where I don’t feel like I’m dieing at the top of large hills. Prior to today there were two hills that I was unable to climb (I have done some pretty major ones). I am going to go back in a few weeks and try to conquer them all. Here’s the route:
A passion from long ago has “come back” to me. I used to bike A LOT and have decided that for stress relief and for fitness that I am going to start again. I have gone on about 10 rides now and am going to link to the routes that I take here so I have a record of them in the future. I rode to my mom and dad’s and back to Quarryville (about 20 miles) yesterday. I am hoping to go 30 miles at some point this weekend. We’ll see how the weather holds up. Here’s the route I took:
Update: A few have asked what bike I’m riding… I picked this one… after much thought and research…
Ya know… I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how quickly GetMyHomesValue.com has grown. I remember how excited we were when GetMyHomesValue.com was mentioned in Business Week. We had so much traffic it shut us down.
Well, now we are officially in The Inc 500. The announcement will be made on August 20, 2008 and we have no idea which “slot” we’re going to be in… but we know that we’re there.
We’ll actually be heading to Washington DC for the Event as well. I will be updating when the announcement is made and don’t forget to pick up the September Issue of Inc when it comes out.
Many are wondering if I have died… I have not (at least not as of this writting). I have been updating ConklinImages.com regulary, and it doesn’t seem to make sense to update both sites.
So here’s the deal… below you will find all my latest posts from ConklinImages… just click on the titles to see the posts…
OK… So, yet again I sit here completely frustrated because some code that I have implemented on a site doesn’t work with Internet Explorer. For those of you who don’t know, Internet Explorer is the program that you use to browse the internet. Microsoft has it automatically installed on every computer that has windows. And, well… to be blunt… it is hated by about 95% of all tech people.
There are 6 people (including myself) that deal with web development in different ways at work. I am going to estimate that I deal with an IE problem at least once a week. Once I find one, it usually takes about an hour to fix. Sometimes it takes much longer.
Anyway, if my tech team deals with the same problem, that’s 6 hours per week that we’re dealing with crap that Microsoft has blessed us with.
OK, so 6 hours times 52 weeks = 312 hours of wasted time. Let’s say the average tech person makes $14 per hour.
Microsoft, please send a check, payable to Dave Conklin in the amount of $4,368. I’ll send a bill for next year.
OK… so here’s the deal. I am going to continue to update things here. However, all of my posts that include photography that I have shot will be appearing on ConklinImages.com. To make things easy for you, whenever an updated post is on ConklinImages.com, it will appear to the right under “The Latest Photos”.
I am hoping to get a bit more serious about my photography hobby. It’s a great stress reliever for me. For more details on that, stay tuned to ConklinImages.com.
I know you’ve been waiting a long long time for a computer powered greenhouse to grow your plants in. But until now it just hasn’t been available on the market. I have insanely incredible news for you. Gizmodo.com has announced the availability of the USB computer powered greenhouse. You can actually pick one up yourself for just $19.99.
not only does a calm with an adjustable light but it’s all powered completely from your computer. You can monitor statistics on your plants the growth of your plants and more
