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.

So this weekend I went to another small LAN. The cool thing about this LAN was that it was located in a private office of the KICU 36 Action 6 building in San Jose. The LAN seemed to be like much of the other LAN parties with this group, arguing and bitching about what game to play, nobody having any games installed to pay, and by the time someone is done installing it, everyone else decides to play something else. I played Gerry’s Mod for HL2 most of the time, trying to first make drivable vehicles, and then a flying vehicle. Both seem to be quite difficult, but i finnished with a hovering platform that was somewhat controllable. Danman was there, sporting his hacked Dell SC420 with nice ATI video card and new Dell 24″ Widescreen LCD (1920×1200), which is really the main reason I went I think, so I could check out his new screen.

On Sunday Dan and I woke up around 12:30 after going to bed around 3am. We went to Erik’s Deli for lunch and then he took off. After he was gone I went on yet another bikeride, in the rain. Tomorrow morning at 6am I have to leave for Irvine, to meet the rest of the company that I work for, and I wouldnt be able to ride again until wednesday. I had a good ride. I did the usual ride to the top of St. Joseph’s hill and then down to the launch ramp, then down the creek trail, arriving at home just before it started to get dark. I didnt make it to bed on time, instead I went to starbucks, worked on restyling my blog. I had to stay up until after 12:01am because thats when Soutwest Airlines lets you do early check-in online. I checked in to my flight at 12:08am and I was the 11th person to check-in. Aparently everyone likes to stay up late or wake up in the middle of the night just so they can do their early check-in to get a good seat on the plane. For those of you who dont know, southwest does not have assigned seating. Depending on when you sign in, you get an A, B, or C seat. A’s get to go on the plane first, then B’s and C’s. Its worth being an A because you can sit on the isle or window right in the front of the plane, so its much easier to get off when you land.