Musings about life on two wheels

This is stream of consciousness. Spoilers ahead. So don’t read this if you plan to read the book. I like books where there’s a bit of mystery, something for me to puzzle through. Murakami really hits this right for me. I’ve read a lot of his stuff (Fiction & Non – both are great!). The…

This will be brief and incomplete, but I think has promise. The internet can be amazing. Especially so for those off frail health, who maybe cannot travel to see friends or meet on person due to health concerns. Like the Elderly. And, it can also be dangerous: Some elders I know have been tricked into…

In 1972, Johnathan Richmond wrote Pablo Picasso, with the famous lyric above. Today I Learned: Pablo owned a LOT of cars but never drove, and apparently never had an El Dorado. Even though I loved my Art History class in college (really, I learned a ton!), I somehow thought that Pablo Picasso was a Victorian…

I love my kids so much – they’re both hilarious. They will show up here many times I’m sure. One day we asked Kid1 what she’d learned in school that day. She said that they’d been watching movies in Spanish class. “Like what?” “Harry Potter.” “In Spanish?’ “Nope! It’s all… ¿Como yes llamas? You’re a…

Tl;Dr: etiquette is weird when ‘filling’ your car takes 1.5 hrs, maybe top off at home? High voltage chargers charge your car pretty fast, but much less fast than a tank of gas (which is why gasoline is so explosive and a key advantage of gas cars). If your lithium battery is below 80% charged,…

My wife & I have been married for 25 years! We had a nice evening out at Jazz Alley seeing the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Great show! This is an old story, but I suppose it needs to be written down at some point. We Eloped – a decision that worked out well. Our thinking goes:…

Once upon a time, I told a counselor I’d like to schedule extra sessions as I was going to be away from therapy for a while. She asked: why do you think more will help more? I think this is related to the hydraulic theory of mind – the idea that somehow emotions ‘build up’…

Friday and Saturday were very bad weather – rainy rain rain and very windy. But today has been lovely – clear skies, a bit of a headwind headed south, but really great ride with Bruce.

When you talk to physists about the future, you pretty quickly get to a couple inevitable distant future outcomes: (Apparently these are equivalent) These are based on physical processes that we know about. Which one the universe end up at depends on some fine details about the amount of mass in the universe. These processes…

Warning: I’m just figuring out what’s been obvious to most for… Well… For a really long time. Expect no novel thoughts. We started watching The Diplomat some time ago. It’s a pretty good show. The characters are interesting, there’s lots of tension between the main two characters (both acted well), and  it’s actually quite funny…