Long-ish mountain bike ride today...

So I decided to take the day off today and go for a mountain bike ride. Initially I planned on just out and back from my house to the top of the Millcreek Pipeline tail. When I got to the top I decided to keep going up the canyon and then rode up to Dog Lake. From there I rode Big Water to Mill D North Fork, and then down Big Cottonwood Canyon and back to my house. I think it was between 30-32 miles total. Not too bad, I never really stopped other than to eat. Overall it took me about 4.5 hours, overall almost 7 miles an hour. I'd like to get to where I could average 10. I felt pretty weak today in comparison to how I felt earlier this week, so I think that a 10 MPH average is doable.

I HATE COMCAST

So today I come home and my wife asks if I changed our cable TV package because HBO is missing (I hadn't). So I call up Comcast to ask. They indicate to me that they have been generously giving us this for free and that we should have been getting charged $17.50 a month for HBO. I indicated that when I signed up that HBO was and has been part of the basic cable package for the last 14 years that I have been a cable customer, and that over that time the only thing that I have had from Comcast was to have my rate go up, and the service stay the same. Now the service has gone down, and I think they are done. I am now shopping for a TV, Internet package to replace my current so I can be done with Comcast once and forever. It as sure nice that they would run small advertisements on TV showing that this upcoming change was coming. I am betting that they were hoping that we wouldn't notice. There is no such thing customer support anymore. I can't say that I watch much HBO, but to have them remove it and then not reduce the cost is idiotic at best.

The Beacon!

So for four years I have been riding little beacon, and for four years I have been unable to "clean" the beacon (ride it without stopping). Today I finally did it! It has been a personal goal to clean the beacon, and it made my day to finally do it.

Greatest comic book hero movie ever...

Walk, no run to see The Darkest Night, but leave the kids at home.