Links to some of the latest posts I’ve put on the upgraded That Which Rolls. We’re still working on a few things and it’s not always happening at light speed due to other exciting jobs and responsibilities, but I’ve still been writing, because I can’t help it.
So we’re still doing some blog transitioning. When it’s all done you may have to update your rss feeds but I’m not sure yet. I’ve been forgetting to post links across over here so here’s a big lump of update.
I think the main things left are moving my dad’s blog and then for me to do a massive link check and relink all the old pictures from the gallery when we shut the old server down.
I went and broke my new blog. I didn’t mean to do it. It was really happy with it too.
Hopefully I’ll be able to resurrect it without too much difficulty. I guess I shouldn’t have added that google buzz widget. It worked for a little while though, so maybe it’s unrelated.
I’m moving my blog. It’s likely to move around a bit but because I was having trouble moving all the comments I’m trying not to double post.
For you can find this post at http://new.pixilateddesign.com/jodycb/2010/06/bike-was-borked-now-better/.
A friend of ours told us about ‘Bigger Stronger Faster’ a long time ago. We watched it and really liked it. I meant to write about it way back then… but I didn’t.
It’s a documentary about performance enhancing drugs (primarily anabolic steroids) that is attempting to approach the whole issue from a balanced angle. It’s hard to have any kind of real dialog about any kind of drug in our drug crazed country. All drugs are either very very bad or the secret to our salvation. TV commercials are dominated by ‘ask your doctor for this drug’ messages and PSAs are dominated by ‘drugs will ruin your life’.
The Tour de France is fast approaching and there’s always talk about performance enhancement woven in to the fabric of that event. When Floyd Landis made the news recently with his finger pointing confession I decided to watch ‘Bigger Stronger Faster’ again. Floyd even makes and appearance in there. It was back from when he was still claiming innocence but I don’t think his change of position adversely effects the movie.
It’s a really interesting exploration of the vast gray areas between the black and the white when it comes to performance enhancing drugs. Definitely worth watching.
And it’s on instant netflix so you can watch it right now. Unless you’re at work. Then you could get in trouble.
I went for a nice bike ride today, just 11 miles but it was perfect riding weather. There’s one really steep long hill on the loop I took. I was going really slow up that hill and there were deer flies there. I couldn’t outrun them. I got symmetrical bites one on each hand between my pinky knuckle and my ring finger knuckle. The right one hurt and itched and bled worse that the left one… so I guess they weren’t perfectly symmetrical.
The ride was just nice. Nothing really went wrong so I don’t have much to say about the riding itself. As I was going down a road close to home their peacocks started making a ruckus and startled me. I feel bad for the people that live between the peacocks and our cows. They must never sleep.
After the ride, my whole right hand was swollen and itchy. I was even itching half way down my pinky & ring fingers. Now it’s a little less swollen and not itchy but when I try to close my hand it hurts like crazy. It feels like I have a fracture or something. It’s REALLY REALLY weird. It’s just a bug bite and only one hand reacted. The other hand is completely back to normal.
It’s just weird.
