Hmm…I really need to blog more!

So I was talking to a friend today and I had stated that I blogged here more frequently then I do…DOH.  I will have to remedy that.

I need a topic to start on.  Maybe pictures?  More about wine?  How about my bicycling??

Lets go with cycling today.  I got in 20 miles today, and this is my 5th day in a row in the saddle.  My goal is to hopefully get in 60+ this weekend.  Over the last five days, I have gotten in 130 miles!  I have been riding a roadie “Giant”, if I had not already told you.  Gary (for those of you who do not know, is the name I gave my mountain bike) is in the garage just sitting there, waiting patiently for me to take him out to the trails, but jumping on the Giant for some road action is much easier and more spontaneous right now.  Also not to long ago, I got a Droid and installed RunKeeper on it.  It tracks my miles and calories burned.  I entered my weight when I started at 214 pounds, and now I am down to 199!!!  It has been diet and exercise.

I typically just ride two different trails, but am eagerly waiting to get on more.  The two that I have been riding are the ARBT (American River Bike Trail) & the Canal Trail.  The ARBT is about 32~36 miles long and runs from up in Folsom Lake all the way to Discovery Park in downtown Sacramento.  The ARBT is by far the better trail, as it has a nice canopy along the way as well as many small little ups and downs and lots of twists and turns.  And it runs along the American River the entire way, so the view is mostly non stop beautiful.  The Canal Trail that connects to the ARBT at Nimbus dam runs out towards Rancho Seco and side lines Sunrise a fair amount of the time.  It is very plain and dull…no trees and the view is exactly the same all the way along…concrete lined canal.  But it has been good to me, regardless of how dull it is.

Just recently, I have learned to call my rides journeys…I always knew they were, but it is now something I like to call them.

Well, I had better not give away the farm on this new journey of getting back to blogging again,

~Wavy

 

Sorry to my faithfull readers (I hear crickets)

Hello to you,

 

I have been away for awhile…not because I do not want to talk with you, but rather not that much going on or too much going on.

Work is VERY busy and my weekends have been busier then usual.  I was down in So-Cal a couple weeks back(hard labor) and last weekend I went to a house concert featuring Sony Holland.  What a blast it was!

 

Anyways, hi ya!

~Wavy

09-11-2001

Hello, tomorrow is an anniversary of the worst kind. Let us not forget what happened on that fateful day. Let us not get complacent in our hearts. Let us not stop believing that tomorrow can be better then yesterday and that only today can we make a difference.

Sadness in our hearts, love in our minds for those that perished that day.

No longer should we revenge, but rather we should continue to move on for tomorrow! The future is only what we make of it today.

~Wavy

Wow, what a long time…

Howdy,

I can not believe how long it has been since my last post.  This one is probably more of a sad song, since I have nothing exciting to post about.  I have not been up to that much.  Mountain Biking, on the asphalt, when I can.  Going to Frisco more then I ever had, but that is because I had a new excuse, family moved there.  Working harder and more then I want…but I got a new position so I need to work even harder to prove myself.  Drinking wine, but you probably already knew that one…hehe.

Apartment life has been a challenge, but I think I am winning.  My downstairs neighbor likes to smoke.  I usually do not care about the “smokers”, but when he smokes on his balcony it comes up right through my open windows like a vacuum..it so sucks.  Well, I guess you might say “Buyer Beware”, but the turkey moved in after me.  He was supposed to have signed a “No Smoking” agreement that I signed.  Last I heard from the apartment manager is that he is either going to move to another unit or out of the complex.  I feel a little bad, but when he smokes I can not open my windows, it is that bad.

My cat is getting older and meaner…and way more forgetful.  I will give him a bowl of wet food.  He does not finish it and then comes to me and howls at me like he is starving.  I go over and fiddle with his bowl and he starts eating again like he has never seen it before.  Very funny.

I have not stopped taking pics, but I have not been as creative as I have wanted to be.  I think I am going to try to bet back on the band wagon of taking pics of stairs again.  I just posted a new one on my Flickr site.

Well, enough for now…I have lots of interesting things that I would like to do and blog about,,.  I just have to do them and write about them.

~Wavy

Well, my third week living in Rancho Cordova

Good evening from the RC (Rancho Cordova)!  Well, if you did not know, I have moved from the house in Antelope to an apartment in RC.  A much smaller one bedroom, but it is cozy with a balcony that has some very beautiful sunsets for me to take pics of!  And what good would a balcony full of sunsets be without a good glass of wine!

I went on my first bicycle ride of 2010 straight from the apartment…that was pretty cool!  It was not going mountain biking, but it was getting out on the bike none the less!  I am contemplating buying a road bike so I can have the best of both worlds.  It is much easier to be able to just get on the road and ride without having to drive somewhere.  Yes, I know I can ride the MB on the road, but it not really meant for long term riding in the same position, as a good road bike would be.

If you want to know what the wine is in the pic, then it is a 2005 Salice Salentino by epicuro!  Really good stuff coming in at $4.99 at TJ’s.

It has been good chatting with you,

~Wavy

12:32 AM Sunday 10/11/2009

So it is 12:32 AM on a Sunday morning…what am I doing?  I am listening to ABC and drinking a glass or two of wine .  What do the two have in common…nothing.  Why am I telling you this?  I dunno.

Maybe these luxuries can…only compensate.

~Wavy

PS. the wine is very good, and I can see why.  They know that the best way to make a good Zin is to source some or most of the grapes from Amador!

What a time

Well, as some of you may know, there is a lot going on in my life.  But some of the good things are that I have been doing are a bunch of exercising and mountain biking.  I have made several trips to Granite Bay @ Folsom Lake and this weekend I pushed myself to 17 miles.  I have currently dropped to 202 pounds, from 227, and my goal is 195 before Turkey Day and then hopefully 175 around April or May.  Not a fad diet, but trying to change my lifestyle.  I used to be on the see-food diet, but found that I was really good at that one.  Too good in fact.  So now I am counting calories and trying to exercise as much as possible.  I have a friend at work that has been helping out too, we walk 1.33 miles every morning.  If you head over to my Flickr site, you will see that I have been able to ride the bike and take pictures.  It has only been with my enV camera phone, but still I have been able to take pictures.  One day I will take the Rebel out there, but that will be a lot to ride with.

On the beer front, I have found a very cheap wheat beer that is not to bad.  BL Golden Wheat.  I know what you are going to say, but I am on a diet (in more ways then one) and this fits the bill.  It is not Blue Moon or even my new favorite Sunset Wheat, but I think that for what it is, it is good.

On the wine front, I was craving a Napa Cab today, but did not want to spend any big dollars.  I was over at Belair and they had a 2006 Castle Rock Cabernet Sauvignon on sale for 7.99.  So I picked up a bottle.  I do recommend this one!  When it comes to a good cab, there is always a difference between Napa and everything else.

If you are interested in Mountain Biking with me, then drop me a line.  I have been going on Sunday’s at 9:00 AM.  I am also looking to go somewhere different.  I do not want to get burnt out on Granite Bay.  Hopefully I will be able to ride this weekend.  My left arm has been hurting real bad today, and in fact it has hurt just to write this out.  I know TMI.

Good night,

~Wavy

Cool Web Cam @ Nepenthe (Big Sur)

So, here I go dreaming again of Big Sur.  I was looking at one of my favorite Big Sur restaurant sites, because I wanted to find out how they fared after the big fires.  I then stumbled across their live web cam.  Thought I would post it here.  Hope they do not get mad.  I made the picture a link that will take you to their site. Enjoy!

~Wavy

Airplane ride around the Sacramento area.

So I was invited to go on an airplane ride today.  It was very cool.  My next door neighbor, Rich, has an airplane that he keeps over at the Rio Linda air field.  We took off and headed out out towards Folsom lake, then back out to Lincoln.  In Lincoln, we did a touch and go landing, which was cool.  A fairly nice size air strip.  From there we headed over to McClellan AFB and did the same thing there.  I took a few pics, and posted some on Flickr.  It was very cool, we got to see the new bridge and road in front of the dam.  I got to see Folsom prison, which I have never seen before.  Took some pics of a really big house in the Granite Bay area.  Got to see the construction on the Thunder Valley casino.  It was so cool to be not too far up, as compared when you get on a big jet.

~Wavy

Happy Thanksgiving!

Gobble, Gobble…oops I am not a turkey (shush, I do not wanna hear it).  Hope everyone is has a wonderful day planned ahead.  For me, my daughter is in town, my mom & step dad are coming over and they are bringing a visitor from So-Cal.  We are cooking up fresh bread, turkey, ham (for Ne’), a punkin pie! and a whole load of other goodies.  I do not think that we are heading out anywhere after dinner, so that is good.  Just a long half lazy day around the house, at least for me anyways(I’m not cooking).

~Wavy