So today I went on a bike ride with my brother for the first time, it was fun, but he slowed me down a lot, and all my new bike wants to do is go downhill really fast. Before we left I was cleaning up the chain on my old bike for my brother, and he was trying out my new bike, and just about kills himself and breaks my new bike. Luckily neither happened, but he was riding about 5mph just trying it out, decides to pull the front break, and flips over the handlebars. He was lucky because he wasn’t wearing a helmet, and he didn’t land on his head. He got a few scratches on his elbow, but was alright. The bike was OK too, it needed a little tune up as the gear shifters got hit out of wack a little bit, but that was an easy fix. Tomorrow I think I’ll ride in Santa Cruz, at wilder ranch, since I may have to go work on some stuff at the beach house :(. I wish I had someone to ride with that was at my skill level. Riding with a beginner kinda sucks because i don’t really get a workout, but hell, everyone has to start somewhere.

My comcrap (comcast) is still broken at home. It usually goes out at night and I get about 50% packet loss for several hours, then randomly it works again. Also while the internet is broken, i also cant get any HD or high number digital channels either. Comcast needs to fix their shit on my street and give me free service. I think they have already credited my account more than $80 for the month, its free until they fix their shit and I stop calling. It being broken is also costing them a lot, since I’ve had a service call every other day for the past 2 weeks or so. I’m also pissed that my dsl is not going to work, they came back after 4 weeks of figuring shit out and said that my line is 17,000+ feet away from the CO, which i actually already knew, but they convinced me otherwise when I ordered it. We’ll see how long it takes for them to ask for the modem back.

I need to move out of the house now so i can finally have good internet again. I’m at Starbucks right now because my crap is broken at home and its pissing me off. Hopefully when I get kicked out of here at 12 I can go hang out with Jenn for a while.

so the bike i ordered thats listed below is not availale, everyone and their whole family wants that bike and its backordered until the end of may at the earliest. So i spent a few hundred dollars more and moved up to a 5″ travel bike.

So Friday I took the day off work since I’ve been so busy. It was nice to have the time off, but I still had to answer my phone and help out clients if they needed it. Friday was also Payday, and it was my first paycheck with my raise, but what do ya know… my raise didn’t show up on the direct deposit. Luckily my boss rules and they were able to cut me an advance for my next paycheck which was the difference that I was supposed to get paid on this paycheck. It was finally time to go to the bike shop with intent to buy. After visiting many bike shops over the past few months, I decided that Summit Bicycles was the best place to buy because they offer free service and a lifetime warranty for any bike you buy from them. They are a Trek dealer so thats the type of bike I ended up getting. There were two bikes I was choosing from, and the main differences were that the nicer one had lockable shocks, and it had ball barrings instead of bushings on the rear shocks joints. The price tag was about $400 more, but it will be worth it in the long run to have a bike that will last longer, and the lockable shocks help out a lot while climbing up the hill, since you want to put your energy into climbing up the hill instead of making the shocks compress. It also had hydraulic disc breaks instead of mechanical ones. When all was said and done, I walked out of there empty handed, because they didn’t have what I purchased in stock, they had to order it. Next weekend I should be riding on my new bike, a Trek Fuel EX7 seen below. I cant wait. In the mean time, they are letting me use one of their rental bikes, since I couldn’t walk out of there with the bike I have purchased.

Today I woke up around 11am and my grandparents, and my mom’s sister, plus one of my cousins were here along with their kids. My sister Amanda and her Husband were there too with Alex, so there was a decent number of people there and it was just about time for lunch. For lunch we had cooked salmon and bbq’d steaks, along with fried rice, salad and plenty of appetizers. I wasn’t very hungry by the time we were done eating, yet there was still so much candy to eat. My mom always has us do an easter egg hunt, and it isn’t so awkward anymore because there are again little kids to go do it with, instead of just the adults. But for the adults there is always a well hidden ‘golden egg’ which has at least $20 in it. I guess thats what motivates us to go look for the eggs, and today I didn’t pick up any eggs unless it was the golden one, which I didn’t find.

After the relatives left I went on my bike ride. It was a really windy day, and I took my poncho in my camel back just in case, and it was a good thing too, because just as I was taking some pictures of the Vassona dam, it started to rain decently hard. I put on my poncho and continued on. It was difficult riding into the wind, but I knew the whole time that it would just make my ride home that much easier. It would have been a crazy insane day to sail, but something bad would have probably happened if we did go. As you can see I got some pictures of the spillway up at Lexington. Contrary to what the Santa Clara county water website says, it seems like there are less than 2 feet before the lake spills. The website says there are roughly 4.5 feet. I also added some banner pictures today at the top of the site, If you click on the ‘header’ link at the top and scroll to the bottom, you will see the new ones.