On Tuesday night we were hooked up to Verizon's new FiOS internet service. Man is it impressive. Way faster than our old satellite hookup, and it's also faster than DSL and cable. It was quite an adventure getting the service installed. First they had us scheduled wrong, no big deal. Then they were a little surprised when they saw the length of out driveway, about 1/2 a mile. When the guy started trenching and putting in the conduit he hit the power lines. Turns out they were marked wrong. Finally the Verizon people come out to hook us up. They send 2 guys to pull the fiber through 1850' of pipe. I ended up helping them pull the freakin' fiber in. And at last we are hooked up. I have to tell you it was a pain in the ass, but worth it. Plus, within a year we will be able to get our TV through the FiOS service. Watch Out, Comcast.
Last night I went out to do the Victory ride. Much to my surprise the trails were muck better, still tough in spots but overall a bunch of fun. Then of course the beer and food after. Nothing like a good ride with good people and then having a few good beers.
Rock On,
Buddy
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Fun Filled Weekend...
This was indeed a busy weekend, but it was all fun. It all started Saturday morning with an early solo ride at White Clay and Middle Run. The trails at White Clay were very icy but I rode them anyway, Middle Run was a lot better but they started to thaw out on me.
Saturday night was filled with Partying, first on the agenda was Amy's parents open house. This was our third one and as always it was a lot of fun. Plenty of food and Thanks to Matt (run Forrest) plenty of good beer. It was good to see Ted and Gwen out as well. Just watching Teague and Hunter interact with each other was a blast. After a few beers and some very good food, Rachael and I headed to another party.
Slick Rick and his girlfriend Jen put on a very nice shindig. We got see lots of folk
s I hadn't seen in a while.
Paul and Todd were Spoted Whoring around at Rick's party.
After a a late night of partying Todd and I met for a very early ride this morning. We hooked up at 7:30am to ride Middle Run. The trails were in pretty good shape, nice and frozen with only a few patches of ice. We ere enjoying a nice ride when we came upon a guy running. He stopped and asked us if we had seen anybody else out running. Turns out there was an event going on. Apparently there is a group of people that enjoy running a lot. They were taking part in the Delaware 100. A cross country 100 mile trail run. I personally think that is insane, but what do I know. They were trying to round up the last couple of runners, who had been running since 7:00am Saturday. Now, we saw this guy at 8:30, so that means these last few had been running for 25 hours.
We hadn't seen anyone, but at the end of our very good ride, we saw the last guy out. He was nearing the end of his 100 mile journey. I just hope he pushed himself and finished.
Rock On ,
Buddy
Saturday night was filled with Partying, first on the agenda was Amy's parents open house. This was our third one and as always it was a lot of fun. Plenty of food and Thanks to Matt (run Forrest) plenty of good beer. It was good to see Ted and Gwen out as well. Just watching Teague and Hunter interact with each other was a blast. After a few beers and some very good food, Rachael and I headed to another party.
Slick Rick and his girlfriend Jen put on a very nice shindig. We got see lots of folk
s I hadn't seen in a while.Paul and Todd were Spoted Whoring around at Rick's party.
After a a late night of partying Todd and I met for a very early ride this morning. We hooked up at 7:30am to ride Middle Run. The trails were in pretty good shape, nice and frozen with only a few patches of ice. We ere enjoying a nice ride when we came upon a guy running. He stopped and asked us if we had seen anybody else out running. Turns out there was an event going on. Apparently there is a group of people that enjoy running a lot. They were taking part in the Delaware 100. A cross country 100 mile trail run. I personally think that is insane, but what do I know. They were trying to round up the last couple of runners, who had been running since 7:00am Saturday. Now, we saw this guy at 8:30, so that means these last few had been running for 25 hours.
We hadn't seen anyone, but at the end of our very good ride, we saw the last guy out. He was nearing the end of his 100 mile journey. I just hope he pushed himself and finished.
Rock On ,
Buddy
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