I am writing this as I sit waiting for my delayed flight to Boston from San Francisco. My younger sister decided to move from Boston to Portland and I am helping her move her car across the country. I’ve brought some toys to keep me connected and report my position along the way. Tomorrow there will be more photos of my setup as I get it installed in her car. My tracking site is located at the following URL: http://whereami.tomicles.com/ and if everything goes as planned it will update my position every 10 seconds or so while on the trip.

This afternoon in my spare time between opportunities I went for a bike ride.  While I was climbing I stopped once or twice to check on a sound that my rear wheel kept making, something to do with the spokes, but I couldn’t identify it.  After a little bit more riding, and climbing up Overlook Road in Los Gatos, I decided it was something I should have checked out.  I turned around and headed for Summit bikes which was literally all down hill from where I stopped.  There was no obvious problem with my wheel other than being out of true which means the spokes are giving uneven tension from one spoke to the next and it results in a slightly crooked wheel.  While fixing the truing on the wheel one of the spokes popped, and split the rim down the center.  Had I not gone in this probably would have happened while I was riding.  Good news is that it was all covered by the warranty as the wheels, and the bike are only about 4-5 months old.  There was also another spoke a few spokes away from the split where there evidence of more splitting.  Below is a photo of my split rim.  I am just happy this happened at the shop and not while I was on the road.  Summit bikes gave me a loaner wheel to ride home on and will work on getting my split wheel replaced under warranty. As always, Summit continues to impress.

here is my unedited stream of video from my helmet cam from the 2008 Los Gatos Turkey Ride.

I’ve posted a new blog entry over at Abrevity which talkes about some of the new issues with the recently ammended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and how they might make your text messages and other types of web communications available for e-discovery if your company gets sued, you know, the ones that you sent while you were at work.   Check it out.