Enchanted Rock

Bunch of dumped pics from my bachelor party. Untraditional bachelor party. 4 dudes camping, climbing, drinking and not doing much of it till the last night, and no whores or strippers. Pretty fun though.

One of the most laid back climbing trips I've been on. Even more laid back than trips it rained cause your always itching when rain is keeping you off the rock. Start drinking and getting all sentimental about those long days, high up off the valley, on the rock. A majority of this was spent chilling on our asses, drinking a warm beer, shootin' the shit, and puffin' courage.

A picture of a problem not sent, but there was only one half harted try. A fall from it would actually mean a long roll down the dome or at least till you could stop yourself via friction.

Cave Crack, 5.6 splitter, old school 5.6, super esthetic line that even a hardman would enjoy, but probably sans rope, classic.

the everest guide scraping his way up a 5.8 crack.

petron and cubans. developed quite a taste for tequila since moving to tejas. big fan of the dirty mexican martini. that sounds real un pc but i mean dirty in that i like a bit of olive juice in there with the lime.

spent to much time hiking and getting lost in the dark. pretty funny since we had an everest guide with us. 4 guys including a professional mountain climbing guide are lost overnight on a trail frequented by overweight, bluejean and cowboy boot wearing, SUV driving, supersizing, Texans. Found dehydrated, disoriented, and hungry. One headlamp with dead batteries to blame. Moon not as dark as they thought.

What would Backpacker subscibers think?

Nothing like the frontcountry epic!

Saw Clinton and H.W. Bush speak at Tulane graduation this weekend. Pretty damn cool. But the jazz band was better. Somber music to celebration, classic. As a person who can begin to understand hydrogeologic situation New Orleans is in, all I can say is, "REBUILD!" Rebuild smart and make some tough decisions, decisions that mean ignoring politics and taking some holistic measures to manage the movement of the nations water through the delta. The cultural loss would be too great.

If any of you people who might read this have eaten at Crabby Jacks, rub that ole gut. There are places I've lived that I never though I would and never had the desire too live there. Those are the places I hold dearest in my experiences. My fondnest for New Oleans has grown fonder with every visit. The food, the flowers, the oak trees, the music, the people, is all wonderful and to be a part of New Oleans rebirth would be something unforgetable.

Peace, ya'll.

ljm

CVO, finally some more pics for you to check out

Got a great ride in yesterday. Rode with Tara, or should I say Mrs. Mason down to her improvisational dance class and headed out to the Greenbelt to get a little mtn biking in with my GB, rEy. Sweet riding. Especially since we've had so much rain since last Thursday. Tara and I went without power from Thursday through Sunday. Nice at first living by candle light, but by Friday evening we were like, "WTF!"

Riding was sweet. Nice having a trail that dries out so fast. Just a few puddles in low areas by the creek. Its cool though cause there is so little soil out there your not going to make ruts. Just as much dirt gets deposited during a rain in 'em that there's no net damage riding through. Problem is people ride around the puddles to the trail is wider in those parts.

Loving the two tubeless tires I bought. Ti Jones bar and the low pressure I can run with the tires are all the suspension I need. Felt the rocks on the rims in a few spots. Never could run 30 psi with tubes. I would've had more pinch flats than I could count, but these bad boys kept the air. Such good traction running the low psi. Unusually, rEy and I took the time to snap some photos. Both feeling tired from life, or at least for me, and him probably too much riding lately. Law of diminishing returns. Need to take some time off the bike, dude. But shit, what can you do. Ride it when you can.

Picked Tara up and rode home in a huge headwind. Tried teaching Tara the benefit of a draft. She was getting it but felt it was cheating. In fact she pulled me most of the way up Guadalupe. Thanks wifey, it ain't cheating to me, its the way forward.

Riding has been sparce since the wedding, but that's okay. Been having a blast when I've been getting out which is the imporant thing. Plus it feels like the skills are as good as they've been in a while. Just flying through the technical sections as fast as the gear on the bike will take me. Hell yeah, biatch!

Wedding Pics

Couple pics taken by my Uncle Chuck at the wedding and rehearsal dinner. The rehearsal dinner shot is of my dad pulling out the old hockey coach skills and giving a inspirational speech. It was an emotional weekend and the ceromony brought most to tears.

oh the party was pretty good too. A dj was spinning till about 5 in the morning out at the lake.

Back from Jamaica

Been awhile since I've been on a computer.

Lots of people in town last week. Over 10 people crashed out somewhere in the house. The wedding was sweet! Went off with no problems and was a great party. Having the cottages and cabins out there was rad. A dj was still spinning when Tara and I finally turned in about 4:30. Amazing how fast it was over.

Been chilling in Ocho Rios Jamaica at Couples resort. It was sweet not having to worry about a thing. All the food and booze you need. Had a sweet little limestone island on the resort that was clothing optional. Lot more chill than the main resort beach and they had a swim up bar. Don't know what I'm going to do now I can't drink rum punch and pina colodas all day.

Mrs. Mason and I brought back 2 liters of rum and I had to grab a liter of Bombay Saphire. It was so cheap. With the multiple leftover beer cases and case of wine from the wedding the party'll continue.

Bad to Good

Riding to Walnut Creek the other day my friend rEy and I cut in through private driveway of some condos to access the trails. We came in hot and two ladies in a BMW were on the left side of the road coming towards us. Both swerved and missed but we received the double bird. rEy reacted with a big FU. I stayed silent. Over the shoulder I saw the break lights and reverse lights come on. I got off my bike, hoped these ladies didn't have a gun and weighted. Sorry came out of my mouth, some yelling came out of rEy, and after starting to yell, sorry came out of the ladies mouth who earlier gave us the double bird. It was cool! What could have been real shitty turned out great. We were laughing together. They helped me refind the access and explained how there is a public access up the road and a lot of people come in here and wreck landscaping to get in the park. "sorry, I knew it was private and I know about the public access up the road, we'll use that next time." "oh, don't worry, our access trail is fine, we just want you to go down that." How cool is that. We were in the wrong. Afterall it is a privately maintained road.

As a result I've decided to be less confrontational with the vehicles and bad drivers. I'm taking the high road. I'll still let drivers know they cut me off or came pretty close, but I'll try and do it in a non-confrontational way. Maybe that way the drivers will modify their habits instead of being even more pissed of a bike is on their road.

I don't know. I am either getting soft or the heat and humidity are getting to me.

Am I fat?

No not really, but sometimes I wonder. Been thinking about this lately and was forced to think about it Tuesday when meeting some of those bike mojo folks. One of the older guys said to my buddy rEy and I, "Oh you guys look like the skinny fast type." How do you respond to that. I was tempted to say, "Well you may be fatter than me, but I bet I weigh as much as you." I weigh more than almost everyone I ride with, at 5'11" I will weight between 181.5 to 184 in a given week. I'll drop 2 lbs when I shit! Reading dirt rag yesterday looking at bike reviewers hieghts and weights they might be a inch shorter than me, but will have almost 20 less pounds of wieght. 20 pounds per inch? Maybe its the hair on my chest and back!

It'll be interesting to see if commuting 30 miles to and from work 3 days a week will help drop the lbs or add them as muscle mass. Maybe I can be a clydsedale by the end of the year.

Goals

Gotta love goals. At least when you're making 'em. Ride to work 3 days a week. One day of the week left and one day of riding needed to make the goal.

Its pretty sweet. I've been on the bike everyday since Saturday. Thought I was going to have yesterday off. Was cleaining the rear wheel cause I was going to pull apart the Surly hub and regrease the bearings. Actually I'm a little afraid to see what those balls look like. Locking up a wheel while riding fixed can't be too good for bearing life. Tara gave me a call and said, why don't you ride down town and ride home from dance class with me. Probably only 4-5 miles each way, but my ass was on the bike none the less.

Found a bbq place, Amigos BBQ about a 1-2 miles on the way in from the office. Killer breakfast tacos on fresh handmade tortillas. One of the benefits of Tejas is the copious amounts of fresh handmade tortillas.

Gonna ride through Walnut Creek Park on my way home to get the off-road fixxie fix in. Rode out there Tuesday night. A group called bike mojo was out there to celebrate daylight playtime. Guess they do a tuesday night ride and then drink. Tuesday will be a commute by bike day from now on and I'll ride with some of those folks on the way home. Hopefully fill the MWC ride void. Plus now that I've got a working freewheel and brakes on the 1x1 I don't get any fixxie dirt.

Ride on!

Commuting

Funny. When you ride your bike to work most everyone notices and is pretty suprised. When you don't ride your bike into work everyone notices too. Oh, decided to take modern transport today.

Needed to drive. Going riding for fun tonight. A group called Bike Mojo is having a keg out a Walnut Creek. Should be fun. Going to go ride with my buddy rEy and then do some drinking. Wont be as fun as a monkey wrench ride, but at least the dirt is dry down here.

The bike wins again

Cool article in this months mother jones. sorry, my blog ain't uploading direct links so you'll have to cut and paste this if you want to read it.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/03/street_samaritans.html

Its about how medics in New Orleans were using bikes to get around post Katrina. With all the traffic jams and what not with evacuations leading up to hurricanes this year. One could have definately made better time on a bike than in a car. Will fat Americans ever learn?

Another day commuting to work on a bike. Bosses wife let me in on a good way to aviod the I-35 frontage road. Adds probably a mile or so on the ride, but after 13 or so miles, what's another mile?

Finally stopped being a loser

and rode the ole' bike to work. Didn't ride at all to work last week. Doing an office move and had be able to run things to and fro. Didn't work monday and parts of town got up to 3.5 inches of rain tues. Wednesday there were still scattered thunderstorms and well thursday, they were calling for rain and i was feeling lazy. excuses are like ass holes, everyones got 'em.

rode today and had to do one of the CPO style glamour shots.



think its time to get some new bar tape? funny thing, the blue side is recycled off of tara's mustache bars.



and you think riding in city traffic is scary. how about riding on an interstate frontage road with cars traveling at 60mph+. you gotta love the shoulder.

Bachelor Boot

Welp, a few good buddies came down to Austin this weekend. An old roommate from Cali who is now a high powered lawyer in NYC, a climbing buddy who lives in Santa Monica, and my roommate from undergrad who stores his truck in Seattle, but is usually down in Patagonia, up in Alaska, or over in the Himalaya guiding rich folks up big mountains. He's got a website if any of you are thinking about the big mountains:



Went to Enchanted rock to do some climbing. Well we didn't do too much climbing since none of us have been spending too much time on the rock lately, but it was real good to get some time to hang out and eat lots of bacon. 2.5 lbs. in 2 days between 4 people. Is that a lot?

The last night we cleared out of the E-rock and headed to Perdenales State Park. Even though the park was full we scored a camp site.

The Petron was so good for a while. Must have been that first shot I took, it was probably a triple shot or a mouthful. That stuff is so good. Getting pulled up of my crash pad and shaken didn't help too much either. Oh well. Those are the remnants of Texas Chili Cheese fries!

Fuckin Sweetness

Finally did it. Managed to wake up early enough and throw the leg over the bike and ride to work. Mostly the delay was I'd never really explored the back roads between my house and office. Kinda hard to do when you just want to get home or to work as fast as possible. Finally saw one non-highway road up towards work the other weekend when I had to come back down south by ways other than the highway and came down Metric. Had the bed of the truck loaded with river gravel and anything over 50 felt real sketchy cause the front tires were unwieghted. Then the road my buddy rEy and I took to Walnut Creek was super sweet with a bike lane ran into Metric.

Sweet ride. Cool enough for knee and arm warmers. Super mellow, bike lane almost the entire way. Little crushed stone greenbelt trail action through Wells Branch. Finally a country road without a shoulder, but no traffic to an office park. Then came the sketchy part. Last probably 1/2 mile was all I-35 frontage road. Goddamn. A bit scary and some goddamn Dell employee came within about 4 inches of my leg. Fucker. These Dell people piss me off. Mostly cause their campus is so big it creates most of the traffic. They also seem like pretty idoitic and uncourteous driver, ya' know the type, the ones that are in a turning lane and pull up to block your left hand turn even though they got a red light. Oh sorry, didn't see you there I was on my cell phone, putting on lipstick, reading the paper.... Guess odds are if you employ a few thousand people odds are your going to get few jackasses.

Well, took about an hour with some stopping to look at the map along the way. Its about 13 miles by highway so its about that by the back streets. We'll see if I can manage 3 days a week. 2 hours everyday might make me neglect the home duties too much. Also see if work can manage a sweaty biker in their midst. No shower, but there is always the sponge bath in the office bathroom!

link working

okay, the rocky hill ranch link is working. put the whole http:// thing in dere twice. oops. its a pretty cool website though. after riding there I felt pretty grateful to the people who opened up their land and made such kick ass trails.

god dangit

tried to put a link up on the sidebar. kept coming up to microsoft. but if you like show tunes you should turn up the volume and paste this up top:

www.boomersrockyhill.com

Rocky Hill Ranch

After a late Saturday night headed to Rocky Hill Ranch to do some riding. Private ranch in Smithville that allows biking, camping, and has a great saloon. Good climbing to get in and out of the trails. Super fun single track in the lost pines. In and out of dry washes that probably only have water during a big rain. As you can see the camera didn't come out much. Once at some coolers they had set out on the trail before heading back into the pines and once at the end of the ride, packing up. Had a couple of beers, a huge burger, a couple of bites of a way too hot halapeno, and fries. Pretty good for a lazy Sunday.

Project Free Weekend

Pretty awesome weekend here. Feels like summer to me, but I guess this is still considered early spring. 80's and 90's with humidity is early spring I guess.

Tara's up in Arkansas with her friend Yvette. Schools on spring break and it was a little break from resposibilities for me. Lots of guilt free riding. Started with a short 3-5 miler with the mutts and my buddy Hector up at Walnut Creek. It was already hot and humid and Carmen was dragging so Hector rode on and I rode back to the car with the mutts. A couple of stops at some water holes got Carmen refreshed and ready to carry on. Only twice did she run off to a creek to go fishing. This dog is fascinated by the small fish that occupy these creeks. She can spend hours, oblivious to everything, trying to catch these fish. Bit easier getting her back that day. Maybe it was allowing for longer stops so she could get her fix. Rango on the other hand is always on the back wheel ready for when you try and put the hammer down.

Back home by noon. Cooking and then eating pancakes with my buddy rEy. Took out an Austin map and figured out a way to ride up to Walnut. Sweet ride. Better than I thought. The roads get pretty sketchy up north, but I knew there had to be a chill way. Bike lanes pretty much the whole way after we crossed 183. The sketchiest frontage road in Austin. Almost hit once by a guy pulling into a parking lot. Parkfield though brings you through some neighborhoods lined with live oaks and small hills through the drainages.

Dropped us into the loops at the southeast end. Did a few laps out on the back. Finally used my camera effectively. Saw a little side trail at a powerline that we were pointed at and decided to ride it. Its a trail that I don't really ride to often and couldn't remember it. Dropped us down this steep chute in the trees.

Rode on to the burm and the camera came out again. Usually when I ride I don't like stopping to set up pictures, but for some reason it felt like the thing to do. Maybe had to do with riding to the trail.

Used to be afraid to go high on the fixxie, always afraid I ride off the top into the woods, but its super fun on a freewheel. Coming down feels pretty steep when your on top of it.

Rey had a little trouble with the timing of the camera. He's a photographer, too.


By the end of that ride, that jersey was toast. Caught my inside pocket on a piece of tree branch going around a turn. Ripped open the pockets and one side to just under my armpit. All my tools flew out halfway down a cliff into the creek. Sweet. Thanks for the jersey, Carp. It was sweet while it lasted.

fixed gear

new issue of 63xc is out. for some reason i really like bikes like this. probably the dirt bag mentality in me that likes things pieced together into functionality. for some reason links aren't showing up lately when i post 'em but here's a try



some good stuff to check out. how to reverse, a skill i haven't even tried to learn yet. author makes a point for its practicality on the trail. stop, stall, reverse, re-aim, go. 90rpm cadence, wha?

how to braze your own track ends. i'll leave that for the skilled like wills to learn.

oh yeah, i almost forgot. steve potts is in there and matt chester reviews the midge bars.

Louis Armstrong

Check it out. On Best of Public radio tomorrow morning NPR is playing a program called Louis Armstrong's New Orleans. I know it on at 11 am on Austin's KUT. Maybe playing on other NPR stations, but if not you can alway check it out online:

Trips for Kids

Talked to some folks at Trips for Kids tonight. i am signed up to help tutor students at the school tara is working at as prep for the state of texas exams. its a charter school for kids on their last chance to get a highschool diploma. throught it would be a good idea to find a way to get some bikes and see if any of these kids are interested in going for a ride. trips for kids is totally set up for helping get a program started at a school like this. the founder, maryln is sending me some info to help get me started. pretty big work to do that, talk to principle, get school to put program on insurance, sign copyright laywer jargon, find the interest, get some help, and plan two trips. that's the easy part. planning trips. there are a bunch of great rides we could do super close to town. stoked.

gityer pod cast on

I love public radio. Pacifica Radio on the west coast was pretty good. lots of good music and programs, not just the occasional jazz program and classical music. KUT here in Austin is sweet. Lots of news in the morning and afternoon followed by Market Place, but in the evening and weekends they have great music programs. Lots of jazz, blues, soul, and on Saturday its American Roots and folkways. Listen online or gityer pod cast on

just filling out wedding invites. yahoo!

Frio

Cold ass weekend in Austin. Freezing rain Saturday night. Ice in bowls Sunday morning. My parents were visiting from New York. Bummer for them. One good day of temps in the 80's, but cool the rest of the visit.

Dropped 'em off this morning for their 6:45 flight. Decided to go ride Walnut Creek. It was sweet. Don't know if was the early hour or the cold temps, but had the place to myself. Wool long sleeve, short sleeve, wool arm warmers, leg warmers, wool cap under the helmet, and carhart knickers. Perfect amount of clothes, light shells over my cycling gloves. Bottles had ice in them by the end of the ride and there was a thin layer of ice on the windward parts of the bike. Coldest ride of the year. Purdy good though and I'll take it cause I am sure to have a lot of hot ass rides the rest of this year.

DICK

So, accident or divesion tactic to take America's attention off the domestic spying program? You decide.

Late Night Blog

4:3o AM. Went and saw Grupo Fantasma at the Parish. Young group of guys, latin type jazz. Good music to dance to, salsa and more. Parish gets a bit crowded and its hard to dance amongst people standing still.



After Tara and I went to our friends Nick's and Pete's birthday. Kegs, dj's, and people making music come out of Mac's. Pretty sweet. Some dude's rappin' on top of the beats. Too bad the mike kept on cutting out.

Sweet Ass Bike

My feelings for the cross-check were reaffirmed Thursday. Wanted to ride some dirt, but the front tire on the 1x1 is giving me problems. Damned stan's tubless. Guess that isn't really the problem. Air is coming out of the valve stem and having trouble sealing. I think its because the shop installed a regular liner when they should have installed a Sun Rhyno Lite specific strip, which they didn't have. Love it when mechanics err, makes me not feel so bad when I screw up wrenching my own bikes.

While Tara was getting a haircut I took a ride towards downtown to meet up with her later and grab dinner at Whole Foods. Rode down Congress, dodging and passing traffic at rush hour. Definately a rush on a bike, splitting lanes and making a hell of a lot more progress than the cars. Eventually made it on the Greenbelt about dusk and that's where my love of the cross-check came to light again. For a trail where the standard is a fs rig, that thing hammers. Maybe its the steeper gear, 42x16 (versus the 34x16 or 34x14 on the 1x1 free or fixxed), but it felt like I was flying through the rock gardens and around turns. The 38c tires fit through the rocks better and bumps just feel smoother on that ride for some reason. The bigger wheels, longer wheel base, and more streched out position don't make it as quick handling as a mtn bike, but its pretty damn good. The speed is definately real slow through real technical rock gardens, but real low speed through obsticles with your peddles just barely coming around is pretty radical on a fixxie. If you ride fixed but haven't tried it on your most technical local trail, you don't know what your missing. Granted, you may think it sucks once you try it, but now you know. You also know the feeling of riding and worrying about your peddles smaking everything. But odds are is on that first ride, you'll have that small moment of clarity, where you're just hammering, your bike seeming to maintain momentum on its own, and nailing those slight cadence stalls combined with a lean that allows the peddles to somehow snake their way through the rocks clean. Then reality strikes as your peddle smacks a rock at the lowpoint as your front tire nails a tombstone. One foot unclipped swinging out wildly as you try to hold on and keep the rubber down.

And back to the cross-check. The do everything bike. I take this on road rides with buddies. Granted since its fixxed they lose me on the downhills and I usually have to catch them going up if I want to continue to ride. Off-road, not as good as a mtn bike, but a different style ride that offers variety to your everyday trail. Gravel, and all day road rides. Around town. Tours. The only thing this bike might not be great for is racing. Jack of all trades, master of none? Don't know, probably depends on whose peddling the bike. Put the right rider in the cockpit and I sure its a master of all trades.

So if your in the market for a new bike and not looking for a bike to handle a specific task. You should think about going to your lbs and look at the cross-check. Such a fun bike to ride in almost all situations your other bikes might get to feeling a little neglected.

Wow, have times changed.

My uncle sent me this quote. Something to think about when you throw a leg over that 27 speed cadence micro-manager that you call a bike.

Paul DeVivie invented the first derailleur gears in 1905, but Henri Desgrange (founder of TdF and bicycle racer) said they're "fine for invalids or district nurses, but not for true champions."

Elaina Ozitte Carpenter

Some of you may have heard, Carp and Allison are parents! Elaina came into this world on Jan 29 or 30th. Carp didn't give me the exact date only how many days old she was so it would put here being born on the 30th

PUMPING IRON

We took the keg over to our house for a little after party. My new buddy Moshu isn't too into dogs. Bit of a different culture in Saudi I guess. There is the universal language of beer though. Interesting talking to a person from a place where beer is illegal. Fuck that. Fuck religo-fascist states. I'm not into it, but it's probably not too PC.

http://www.hydeparkgym.com/

Pumping Iron. What a funny movie. If I had seen that movie before Arnold became Gov. of Cali-fuckin-fornia, I wouldn't have been so suprised he was elected. What a funny mother fucker. Hyde Park Gym. They have a website. Check it. Pump up pussy.

Another day in paradise

Got cold last night, but today its another toasty day and blue skies. Too much honey dews to ride, but shits gotta get done. Going by a place to get a couple of rings too. Unfortunately Tara ain't into me getting a 44T stainless steel ring for the wedding.

A gb recently purchased Hyde Park Gym. Its a big muscle head place, but there is a lot of normal people that work out there. Last Friday night we tore down a bunch of walls and opened that back of the place up. Tonight he's having kegs, a bbq, and showing Pumping Iron on the wall beside the parking lot.

Austin Fixxie

Thad put up a link on the Monkey Butt blob about a fixed unit 29er. Pretty cool looking bike. Saw a classy looking stead from Austin built up by Neno's pro cycles off of Anderson Lane. Haven't been into that shop but I hear is butter if you're into the super expensive road bike thing. Suprised to see this bike from there after the shop being described to me, but then again the bikes got some bling so maybe not.

Its raining. We need it.

W

I wonder how hard Cheney gives it to Bush in the old arse in this one?

Nice billboards

Saw some pretty cool billboards on my way from Wichita to Garden City, KS. They were all in a small town whose name escapes me. Put up by an artist who makes sculptures out of old signs and farm machinary parts. Tried to stop by the atrist's studio shed, but it was closed.

I imagine this is a pretty popular person in this small conservative Kansas town. Looks like this person has it out for a hypocritical Christian entrepreneur. My favorite is the Support Gay Marrige. I feel pretty passionate about that issue. If two consenting adults want to marry they should be able to. Lots more this country needs to worry about then gay people receiving legal protection that straight folk do. Plus if you ask me the sanctity of marrige was destroyed a long time ago. What's the percentage of straight Americans who are divorced. Shit I guess its time we let gay people start tying the not and see if they can't do better than us straight folk. Just my two cents.

Saw some other interesting signs in farm fields too. Lots of signs about abortion. My favorite was calling abortion the American Holocaust. My guess is there's no Jewish people in that little rural town.

Tara's New Bars

Put the old bars from my 1x1 on Tara's Dew. She really likes the risers. Lot more comfy for her than the mustache bars. Ridings been sweet down here. Two mtn bike rides since I've been back. With a freewheel. Coasting is sweet. Amazing how fast you can go through rock gardens coasting. Rode about 20 miles with Tara today to check out the route to her job.

Lincoln

As you can see, the house has been coming along nicely. We are actually at a point now where I feel like I can ride on the weekends. The New Year has started out well. 3 rides in the first two days and no butts. The garage is the last thin finished. Made the bench outta scrap in the shed the previous owners left with the new power tools Tara's dad gave me. Still got 10 fingers and toes.

Shit, I got to get the airport. I'll be in Omaha tonight and hopefully I see a bunch of you Lincolnites this weekend. Depending on timing I may even be able to get through Lincoln at a time I might catch some of you on Thursday as I'm heading to Giligins Island.