| First Semester out of the way |
[Dec. 10th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
Well, I just did the final presentation for my second class of the semester, which wraps it up for me. I think I've done well in both classes I've taken, and I'm on my way to finally getting my degree. I'll know for sure in a few weeks when grades come out.
There is still one more class for me to attend in this second class, but I just have to be there to watch the remainder of presentations from my classmates, then we all go out with the professor to get wings at BW3 afterward.
Woo hoo!
(And now that I'm finally done with that project, I can catch up on the posts here) |
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| derelict raccoon |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|01:40 pm] |
For the myriads that follow my LJ, I apologize for being out of touch. I've been kinda busy the past few weeks. I owe you all updates on a number of subjects:
PentaCon XXV
Midwest FurFest 2009
Cheese Quest 2009
The Syracuse University Basketball game I attended
Leonard's Rules of the Road
End of year summary from bike riding (and maybe another ride or two if the weather holds out)
Poke/bother me if you don't start seeing these show up in the near future. |
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| Improvised cooking 2 |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|01:49 pm] |
Last night, after my bike ride, I got hungry. very hungry.
But since Payday is this upcoming Wednesday, my cupboard is a little bit bare. I had to get creative. This is what I came up with:
1 7oz package of pasta (I had shells in the cupboard)
1/2 bottle of Caesar Dressing (in the fridge)
1-2 tbsp of shredded parmesan cheese (also in the fridge)
I prepared the pasta with a bit of salt, cooked it al dente. I drained it, and put it in a bowl.
Added the dressing and the cheese and mixed thoroughly. It came out quite tasty.
If I had it available, i think the recipe would have benefited from some bacon pieces. I don't
think BaconSalt would be the right texture.
Any suggestions for a name? |
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| Mister Leonard's hateful bike ride of hate. |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|05:01 am] |
Map of ride here
The temperature was 51, and the wind was coming out of the North-northwest at 11 mph, but I figured it wouldn't be too bad. There was also a 30% chance of rain, but it looked like it was holding off, so I figured I'd be ok with that too.
I was pretty much wrong about everything.
Miles Ridden: 49.17
Top Speed: 31.5 mph
Average Speed: 10.7 mph
Year to date: 1455.6
Goal: 1300 miles (112.0%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (97.0%) |
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| Cairo Cemetery Ride 11/14/2009 |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|10:40 pm] |
Map of ride here
Second Saturday of November, so that means the temp has dropped to... 69?? Well heck, let's go for a bike ride.
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Miles Ridden: 29.72
Top Speed: 28.0 mph
Average Speed: 12,9 mph
Year to date: 1406.3
Goal: 1300 miles (108.2%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (93.8%) |
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| Fickle winds |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|10:15 am] |
Map of ride here
This ride was taken on Sunday, October 25. I've just been too busy/tired to post it before then.
It was a beautiful day, sunny and 66 degrees, so I definitely felt like doing a bike ride. I'd been looking at the weekend weather all week, so I was looking forward to this one. Unfortunately I neglected to set my alarm, so I slept in til 12:30. Various types of dithering about made it so that I didn't get out of the house until around 2:20... really rather late for starting a ride of this length, doubly so because there was somewhere i wanted to be at 8:00. Nonetheless, I started riding.
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Miles Ridden: 57.59
Top Speed: 30.0 mph
Average Speed: 11.1 mph
Year to date: 1376.4
Goal: 1300 miles (105.9%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (91.8%) |
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| One Word Meme |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|04:16 pm] |
I copied this from something my sister put in Facebook. Figured it'd be an intersting LJ meme too.
Let's see how honest LJ friends are...Leave a ONE WORD comment that you think describes me. It can only be one word. No more. Then copy and paste this on your LJ so that I may leave a word about you. This should be interesting... |
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| Userpic Meme |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|12:39 am] |
Meme time. This came from snobahr
If you comment here, I'll choose five of your icons to ask you about. (Or, if you have fewer than five icons, I'll just choose one.) Then you do might a post explaining the significance of those icons.
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| Mister Leonard's Dual-cyclic Jaunt of Herpetological Wonder |
[Oct. 22nd, 2009|11:16 am] |
AKA: Leonard takes a bike ride and sees lots of snakes.
On Tuesday, it was beautiful weather, 72 and sunny when I got home from work. I've met my goal for the year, but there's no reason to stop riding when it's this nice out. Was a bit breezy, though, 10 mph winds out of the SSW, gusting to around 17 mph. This would be a minor factor later.
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Miles Ridden: 18.96
Top Speed: 22.5 mph
Average Speed: 12.6 mph
Year to date: 1318.9
Goal: 1300 miles (101.5%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (87.9%)
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| Jasper-Pulaski ride |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|02:54 pm] |
Map of ride here.
A few weeks ago, Joe started arranging for a group of us to go up to the Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Refuge, to use the shooting range up there. Always one to get some practice with my Mosin-Nagant, I opted in.
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Miles Ridden: 53.38
Top Speed: 25.0 mph
Average Speed: 12.0 mph
Year to date: 1300.0
Goal: 1300 miles (100.0%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (86.7%)
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| I sometimes hate livejournal |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|02:57 am] |
Don't you just love it when you work on a post for a couple hours, adding pictures with comments explaining them, then accidentally hit the back button instead of switching to the tab your photos are in, and send all of your work down the toilet?
Yeah.
You all will just have to wait another day for my post about sunday's bike ride. I'm going to bed. |
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| Group Meeting in Battleground |
[Oct. 13th, 2009|10:49 pm] |
Since my class wasn't meeting today due to fall break, the group I have been working with all semester decided to meet. Since a couple of the group members live north of town (in Monticello), we arranged to meet in Battleground, at a restaurant called TC's at 5:30. I opted to ride my bike up there.
I must have lost track of time in getting ready to leave. I didn't note specifically when I left, but I had been planning on about a 30-35 minute ride up there, and thought I was leaving at around 5pm. I arrived at 5:50, however, much to my consternation. My group mates were all there, wondering if I had traffic problems. I apologized for being late, and we got down to business (and dinner).
After the meeting, I headed out. One of my partners offered to give me a ride back, but I declined. It turns out, however, that I had miscalculated a couple things. I figured that sunset was around 7:45, and that leaving Battleground at 7:15 wouldn't put me in the dark for long. I also figured the temp wouldn't have dropped much. In reality, full dark came on at about 7:35, and even though the wind was at my back it was notably chilly (about 48 degrees, 4 degrees cooler than when I rode out).
It would seem that evening rides after work may well be done for the year, unless I can get RIGHT home after work, and it is an unseasonably warm day.
I still have weekends to meet my goal. Steve has a proposal for a crazy-ass ride for this weekend that is still an option.
Miles Ridden: 15.19
Top Speed: 23.0 mph
Average Speed: 11.9 mph
Year to date: 1243.6
Goal: 1300 miles (95.7%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (82.9%) |
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| Feast of the Hunter's Moon 2009 |
[Oct. 12th, 2009|10:10 pm] |
Feast of the Hunter's Moon, our local 18th Century reenactment festival (that hosts about 40000 people) was this past weekend. I opted to go again.
Like I did last year, I rode my bike. It costs nothing to chain it to a fence, I can get in and out faster, and considering that we had two solid days of rain before the Feast, I wouldn't have to park in the mudbog that the fields for parking had become. To make the trip worth it, I went by way of Battleground.
Map of ride here.
( Lots and lots of pictures... )
Miles Ridden: 23.50
Top Speed: 23.0 mph
Average Speed: 11.1 mph
Year to date: 1228.4
Goal: 1300 miles (94.5%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (81.9%)
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| No flat tire this time |
[Oct. 8th, 2009|12:37 am] |
Map of ride here
So I was determined to finish the ride that got crapped on last week by a flat tire. Since I didn't have to figure out the route, I was able to get an earlier start, and I didn't stop for cemetery pictures this time. I had my camera, but the only non-traffic related pause was a brief one to tighten my shoe laces.
Got started at 5:20 pm. Temp was about 60 degrees with a west wind about 9 mph. It was rather brisk.
Went south on 18th, cut over on Wea School Road to Concord Road. Took that south through the town of Concord, then continued down to 1000S. Endured the mile and a half of gravel, and kept going to 100E. Turned north and took that road home. Had to take a little detour through a church parking lot because the road was completely torn up for some construction project that wasn't there last week. Got home as twilight was starting, but with plenty of light left.
Passed 1200 miles on this ride. Less than 100 miles to go for my goal.
Miles Ridden: 26.04
Top Speed: 31.0 mph
Average Speed: 12.1 mph
Year to date: 1204.9
Goal: 1300 miles (92.7%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (80.3%)
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| First Class is almost over. |
[Oct. 6th, 2009|09:26 pm] |
It's week 7 of my 8 week class. Just got done with a bear of a quiz.
I think I'm doing ok overall, but about half our grade is dependent on
the final group presentation, and 'leadership guide' that we have to
put together, as well as a 5 page paper based off personal assessments
that we've been doing all semester. I've been keeping up on the assessments
and just have to put all the data into written form.
Our teacher is out on a conference for the rest of the week, so we don't have
class on Thursday, and Tuesday is the university's Fall Break, so there
isn't class then either. All we have left is next Thursday, which is the last
day the class meets, when we all do our final presentations. Then we go
out to Buffalo Wild Wings as a class for dinner. (The teacher goes out
with the class after the finish of each 'semester'. Since the class is 8 weeks
long, we're going at the end of this one... And I have her in another class for
the second 8 weeks, so I can do it again in December!)
I'm a bit nervous about the final presentation, but my group is a very solid
bunch, and we've hit it out of the ball park with our previous presentations.
They're big concern is coming up with something that's going to top our
last presentation. We're going to meet on Thursday in lieu of class to try to
put together the presentation. |
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| Last Slushies of the Season |
[Oct. 4th, 2009|05:24 pm] |
Map of Ride here.
So I saw Joe, Steve and Greg last night, and asked if they would be up for a run to get the Last Slushies of the Season from the Dugout in Otterbein. I proposed starting from Harrison High School north of town, and riding on a county road that while not completely flat, had shallow enough slopes that they wouldn't be too much of a challenge. Steve and Greg was for it, and after pondering a moment, Joe decided to join in too. Weather was supposed to be sunny with temps in the lower to middle 60s, and a 5-10 mph wind out of the west. I told them we would meet up at the school at noon.
( Read more... )
Miles Ridden: 42.92
Top Speed: 28.5 mph
Average Speed: 10.6 mph
Year to date: 1178.9
Goal: 1300 miles (90.7%)
Challenge: 1500 miles (78.6%)
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