I'm currently deployed to Gaithersburg, MD. My commute consists of little two-lane country back roads. It's an hour each way, but at least there's little traffic.
Obama was in Leesburg the other day for rally at Ida Lee Park. Wish I could have gone, but I got into Leesburg just as it was ending.
They repaved our street. No parking in front of the house until tomorrow.
Mom's staying over tonight, flying out of Dulles tomorrow morning for vacation. I get to drive her to the airport. I should probably go to bed instead of procrastinating all over the internet.
Supposedly it's going to rain tomorrow, so I probably won't be going biking. Blah. But possibly getting together for gaming in the evening.
OH NOES! The Sarah Palin Action Figure!
I'm back from Lynchburg, where I was happily serving my corporate masters.
Idea: Xydexx Pronks The Planet. Yay! Get pronky!
I've been updating my biking blog at Milepost 38 with various bike rides I've been taking this month. By the beginning of September I had only logged 542 miles YTD, which gave me two months to make up the remaining 458. Proposal work was keeping me busy, however, as I was working seven days a week and missing opportunities to go biking, I had to ride whenever I had free time.
On September 2, I rode out to the Route 28 bridge and back, bringing me up to 562 miles YTD. I didn't have a chance to go biking again until September 20, when I made a trip out to Purse Of Evil and back, bringing me to 588 miles YTD. On September 22, I combined my two previous trips and rode out to Purse Of Evil, out to Route 28, and then back---a respectable 40-something mile trip that brought my YTD mileage to 633.
September 23 found me in Herndon, making a stop at the former Hard Times Cafe and getting a picture of Misha the macaw at Fox Mill Pets for Bennie, bringing total mileage to 663. September 24 was a shorter ride, a mere 20-something miles, bringing total mileage to 688.
Weather is likely to be rainy the next few days, though I'm hoping it will clear up for the Lovettsville Oktoberfest ride.
My next goal is PiaNoWriMo in October; see if you can push 100,000 pianos into the Grand Canyon in one month.
Idle hands beget the devil's work, as the saying goes. So I was browsing some random website and saw this ad, and I thought it said eating babies helped fight heart disease.
Alas, it didn't. But I thought it should anyway. And hey, we can solve the overpopulation problem and fight heart disease in one shot. Awesome!
And now, another sprawling tract of internet real estate to develop and promptly abandon: Encyclopedia Llamatica
There is no real purpose to the site. It is based largely on a
babelfished translation of another, less funny site known as
Encyclopedia Dumbatica. Scientists have discovered by taking
Encyclopedia Dumbatica's unfunny content and cycling it through
Babelfish we've discovered it can actually be made funny. This is
considered by many to be a great technological breakthrough because
being funny is something Encyclopedia Dumbatica has never been able to
do.
Because lulz is what's left after all the humor has been sucked out of a joke.
But don't take my word for it. I sold my sense of humor for some MAGIC BEANS.
Xydexx's Pronk-Powered Webpage
Everyone wants a pronk-powered springbok! Or a reindeer. Or a robotic pony, because those are the best. I need to get my office clutter more organized. My stock is up to $110/share again, so I think I'll sell it off today (more funding for the robotic ponies, y'know). We've been having nice weather lately, so I've been going biking a bit. Here's a picture of the abandoned farmhouse ruins out by Ashburn.
