What a beautiful day for a ride through the park Sunday was. Unfortunately I was hung over and tired as heck from geeking out on guitar hero till 4 AM. Kit and Brandon forced me to get out of bed and head out. The park was surprisingly dry and we made it to the 14th street parking lot where we saw the demo truck and rows of bikes. We signed the waivers and headed out on the trail.

I Started out on a hi-fi 29 inch dual suspension (blue below) and liked it. It is light and the rear really sucked up the bumps. That would of been the bike I would be rolling now if I had not decided to get my moots. Then I switched with Brandon and found myself on a 69′er. O that is a 29 inch front wheel and a 26 inch rear. There is reasoning behind that, but I think it is just a gimmick. The geometry is corrected so it felt pretty close to normal. Supposedly you can carve corners better, but I just was not all that impressed with it. We checked out some other bikes they had and talked with them for a hour or so. Nice guys who fed us and let us ride their bikes.

The guy pulled out his pearl white hardtail single speeded 69′r and it was set up really nice. The thing was beautiful. He says he loves it and I bet it would grow on me after a while. I am currently uber happy with my Moots and have two other bikes in the stable. Not looking for a new ride at all.

Felt really good to be back on the moots heading home. That trip through the park put the hurt on my all butt. I could feel it this morning on the ride in. I need to get back on top of my game.

That is one wore out puppy there. Jon T said the park was rideable so the Monkey crew headed out there for the tues ride. I showed up early and ran through a few miles with her. She was lucky enough to get to chase 4 deer two times. She took off out of my site and when she came back she was drooling like a garden hose. Not sure if she got a taste, but she apparently likes venison.

The park is about 90% there. No standing water, but some soft areas where you have to ride on the grass off the trail. Still it was good to see the guys again.

A morning dusting of snow did not keep the folks away. Hot chocolate, coffee, tools, and bundled up folks started loading my truck full of ballast and I backed down off the trail and dumped it under the Old Cheney bridge. Erosion had really messed the underpass up. Some folks dug new drainage while the others packed down the ballast. Took 4-5 truck loads to fill in the damage.

A bit of wilderness trail repair is gonna be going on this weekend. Sure you could go to the star city parade, or play in the dirt. My truck is gonna be the work horse this time.

Here is the last round of trail work

and info on the one this weekend.

Took the afternoon off and Fuggles and I hit wilderness. She loves it out there and snow was an added bonus.

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hat tip to FFL

This is so fricking lame on so many levels. I was in wilderness during that time. Think I am gonna have to wear a flak jacket out there. That is two shootings out there in less than a year.

Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputies took a report of a deer being shot from the road Sunday afternoon at Wilderness Park.

Two witnesses saw it happen shortly before 4:30 p.m. near First and Calvert streets. When deputies arrived, they saw a white-tailed deer, southeast of the intersection, trying to crawl away.

One of the deputies shot the deer.

Witnesses said they saw two men wearing orange hunting jackets in a green ’90s model, short-box Chevrolet truck at the intersection. The driver leaned out of the pickup window and shot the deer with a long rifle, according to an incident report.

Then the truck sped away.

The sheriff’s office has no suspects.

The work thing ruled, still buzzing off that. Got out into my church, wilderness park with my bud Kit. I had not been out in the park since mid August. We took it nice and easy since we both are a bit off our game. Was beautiful out there. All the leaves are down and the trail was packed. Defiantly gonna be getting out there a lot more often now.

Got the message board transfered over. Link on the right.

Theresa took a huge step and let me make her an oriental meal. I figured go easy and do a sesame chicken for her first try. Used this recipe and it was so so. I halved the vinegar, but it was still vinegar you smelled and tasted. She put a little bit of the sauce on her rice and made it through it. I enjoyed it, but it might be a while till I can get it into something she would like.

Cloe was so happy out in wilderness park that day. Tonight I share the intense joy she shows in the above pic.

Feels so good to have the 4 month work nightmare done and over with. Tonights work could of sucked, we prepared to take down around 120 servers for the final fix. The HP guy said it was not necessary and we were done at 6:30. I am so gonna ride my bike tomorrow. Just a bit of moving stuff around and cleaning up in the next few weeks and I can get back to normal work.

tech dork stuff splaining the whole situation below:

We had SAN which housed around 20 LUN’s, the majority being VMware ESX VM’s. While trying to provision two blades to be W2k3 SQL servers we used alteris to image the servers which were still presented and FC attached to the SAN (bad). The LUN that was still presented got overwritten by alteris and wiped the partition table, the VM’s lived in limbo. That LUN was our production environment which contained 60+ VM’s. A few mis fortunate moves wiped them all off and we had to restore all from a very mis configured data protector tape backup system. Right before the incident we were planning on upgrading our EVA 3000 to a EVA 6000 and we decided to just turn on the EVA 6000 to assist with the restore to the EVA 3000. Many VM’s were lost which needed to be created from scratch and many clients needed new SAN space during the clean up month that followed. We placed them on the EVA 3000 since it had the FC switches and got an loaner FC switch from our reseller for the 6000. It took a couple months to get everything on the 3000 to the 6000 which is not easy cuz it involved continuous access licenses between the two SAN’s which actually expired during the transfer time (that sucked big time). We got more temp licenses to achieve it all. There were many bumps in the road going from a basic MPIO driver to a full featured MPIO driver which killed some switchover LUN’s and other assorted nightmares.

Tonight we are all back on one SAN which would be an EVA6000 and all is right with the world. The severe amount of overtime spent by so many of my coworkers, but mostly me and my NA at the Legislature were insane. Downtime cannot happen during regular work hours. I am glowing and will have amazing sleep. Severe kudos to the team I work with and their amazing effort to make things right.

hat tip to Mr. Wilson of Lincolnite

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Hmmmm….. My happy place is wilderness park. I spend lots of time in there. I call it my church, which is kind of ironic given the above story.

Thing is I am riding my bike in there. I wanna hook up in the tight corners (my tires), I hope to grab (the dirt) some tight single track, I don’t wanna go down, but sometimes it happens. My goal is to have my behind wore out when I leave.

Thing is I have not once come upon any guys there doing inappropriate acts. Butt (he he), I see them in the parking lot all the time. Specially by the fitness loop and north hiking trail parking lots. Backing your vehicle into the parking spot is the “foot tap” signal.

Only time I have noticed anything strange going on was 12 years or so ago I came upon a guy in his tighty whities on a very narrow bridge. I had to get off and reach around him just to get by (seriously these puns are horrible I know). he wanted to talk to me and I just wanted to get away from him.

Thing is wilderness is filled with plants you do not want to get near. I am almost immune to nettles on my legs cuz they get it so bad when the trail is overgrown. Also the woodland creatures, ticks, and misquotes are horrible during times of the year. I could not imagine wanting to actually “perform” out there.

Last year I got pert near 2,000 miles out there in 20 mile increments, this year about 500 so far. And mostly I am deep in the park and only see other bikers on the bike side. You see the backed in vehicles on the way in, yet I never see questionable folks on the trails.

Still it is a bummer that it is happening out there. Bike officer Martai rides out there a bunch. I have chatted with him a few times.

Good Problem

that is purdy darn cool. Choose link to this page and there is now a second box with the embed code.
My gmapped biker side trail through wilderness.

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I call wilderness park my church. Nothing beats the meditative powers of some dirt singletrack. I was permagrinnin the entire time. Brandon and I rocked through to the EP bridge while a few measly drops tried to bring us down. Was not gonna happen. The trail was stellar and rocking.

I am recharged, relieved, and ready to smile through any crap that might come my way. Thanks wilderness

I got some vid, but am holding off making vids till I have enough to make some cool ones.

yeah dreamhost is having some network issues. Lots of my fav sites are slooooow or down. I have lost a few posts and pretty much give up for today. I am amazed Mo_feezy got a post in. Pretty cool BTW.

I know I am not gonna be here late tonight, and prob get some time in the saddle. All good.

That would be 4th street. It used to have train tracks down the middle but it got tore out a few years back. There are still two other train tracks that surround my house. So when they have train tracks the road is rock on either side. Well 4th street is getting paved and the northern end of the Jamacia North trail will run along the side of it.

The trains do not bother me, but the dust from the limestone roads gets old. Plus the maintenance on them is insane. Around 4 times a year new rock has to be put down and the surface grated. Just a huge mess. I am gonna use the heck out of that trail when it is done. A straight line to wilderness.

The construction has been going on for a month or so. Big equipment beep beep, but it will all be worth it. They started by replacing all the sewer and water lines under the road which is pretty cool since we have had a few water main breaks recently. Looks like they are only doing 1/2 the road at a time. I bet it will be going on for quite some time.

Amazing what a little rain can do. I took my time pedaling in to work.
Man remember in school when sometimes the teacher would let you have class outside, that so ruled.
I am gonna go ask the boss right now. We do have wireless.

Oh and wilderness needed a little moistening as well. It was horribly dusty out there tuesday night. I was picking mud boogers wed morning.