March 2009 Archives

I went on a little ride thru Lititz to see how long it would take me to get to the Clair shop.  Now I did take a not-so-shortcut thru the airport, but it was still a good ride.

I went 15.61 miles with and elevation gain of 827 feet in 1 hour 2 minutes, which is a moving pace of 3:59 mins/mi.

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Yet another ride thru the Owl Hill area. I like riding hilly areas, pushing hard on the hill and then you get the enjoyment of coasting down.

I went 15.13 miles with an elevation gain of 1240 feet in 1 hour 5 minutes, which is a moving pace of 4:18 mins/mi.

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I started out going to LCS, threw the bike in Jon's Festiva and rode home from Calvary from there.

I went 10.01 miles with an elevation gain of 761 feet, in 46:58 minutes, which is a moving pace of 4:41.

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Today when I got home from school, the weather was beautiful. 60 and sunny! So, naturally, I had to hop on the bike and head out. Hopefully this is the last ride I'll have to take on the Schwinn as I am hoping to get my Raleigh back on the road tomorrow. Trailguru was having some signal issues, so the map is not complete, but the mileage is accurate.

I went 16.01 miles with an elevation gain of 988 feet in 1 hour, 13 minutes, which is an average moving pace of 4:37 mins/mi.

I expanded the Owl Hill loop a bit, going up Lititz Pike and eventually coming down Oregon. Today was a great day for a ride (considering recent weather) it was about 46 degrees and sunny at the beginning of the ride, but got significantly colder as the sun started setting.

I went 16.24 miles with an elevation gain of 1414 feet in 1 hour, 22 minutes which is an average moving pace of 5:03 mins/mi.

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Have you ever wanted to get up in the morning and go to work? Is there something you do all the time, but never get tired of? Those of you who do what they love to do for a profession know what I am talking about.

I love my job. I love audio, every aspect of it. I may not be that great, but I still love it and am learning new things everyday. It's one of those things that I never get tired of doing. The awesome power that an incredible sound system has and knowing that you have control over that system is quite a rush. The problem solving, interaction with others and just the overall experience is amazing. Another privilege I have working at Calvary is that I get to do all this and I get to do it for the Lord. Doing what you love to do and serving the Lord, it's a winning combination.

Now it's not all smooth sailing, there are days where I don't necessarily want to be there, if I am having a bad day or my mix sounds bad, etc.

I guess the point of this post is to tell everyone to do what you love and pursue it. It's not always all about the money. I would rather do what I love and make pennies than to hate my job everyday and make millions.

Plus, who gets an office like this?

So, thanks to the surprise snow day yesterday, a few of the guys from school and I decided to head up to Ski Roundtop (http://skiroundtop.com) for an evening of some great skiing.

After working in the morning over at LFF, and snow blowing ours and the neighbors driveway, we piled in the Wrangler and headed off.

Here is a picture of us on 83 on the way... unfortunately the battery in my phone died shortly after, so this is the only shot I got.

So after getting the lift tickets and getting all geared up, we hit the slopes. Now, it had been a little while since any of us had ski, so of course we had to warm up on the bunny hill. One run and we were ready to go. The mountain was pretty much completely empty the conditions were great, a tad cold and icy, but it was all good. We hit up every trail and slope there, even the double black diamonds. As we were skiing, we couldn't help but think about the ski resorts like Killington or other resorts and how their bunny hills are probably the equivalent to a double black at Roundtop, but either way we had a good time. Toward the end of the night, I would probably say our favorite thing to do was just go as fast as we could down the one trail called Minuteman. It was completely empty and we could just fly. No slalom, just tuck and go. Thankfully, there were no accidents during the day and everyone came out in-tact.

Our next trip? Sugarloaf...

Although I wish the cold weather and snow were gone, it was a nice surprise to wake up this morning and see some snow on the ground. It is even nicer that there is no school!! There is no rest for the weary, I guess, as I have to visit a client today and do some phone system work. Oh well, shouldn’t take too long and I’ll definitely make some time for sledding!

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I have been on the lookout recently for a linux or mac based media center to use for the TV in the living room.  After installing a whole bunch of distributions, including MythTV, Entertainer and a few others, I stumbled upon Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv/).  It's available on all platforms (Mac, Linux, and Windows) and has a very clean and sleek looking interface.  One of the great features is the way it can bring internet content directly to your TV.  Although Hulu is currently "blocking" content to Boxee, there are work arounds(http://lmgtfy.com/q=boxee+hulu+hack).  As soon as I installed Ubuntu on an old 2 GHz machine I had laying around, Boxee was a breeze to install and configure.  Within minutes, my music and movies were loading up and now all my content is in one place, controllable via my iPhone.  No more lugging the laptop or desktop down to the TV, connecting it, then lugging it back up stairs.

Even though the weather was a little crazy today, I decided to get on the old Schwinn and go for a little ride. I headed out 272 towards Lititz and cut across to the airport/Kissel Hill. This was the route that I had attempted to do on Saturday, slightly revised.

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wants to put at least 1000 miles on his bike in 2009.