leonbaker

Yeah, I sold a painting recently. I took it to the client's house and almost couldn't bear to let it stay. They said they really loved it, so I guess it's ok. Still working on more. We'll see. Took a bike ride at work yesterday and it hurt like hell. I would say I am a lot out of shape. We rode less than 5 miles and it killed me. I guess I need to ride more. Just a couple years ago I would ride 40 miles a day and it was all cool. Next month I gotta teach a lot of guys how to ride, and how to teach others to ride. My work bike is a Specialized Rockhopper with disk brakes. It weighs about 50 pounds with stuff on it. My personal bikes are a Sp

I'm not sure how it happened, but that is how most epiphinanies happen, right? (how do you pluralize epiphiny, anyway? Has it ever been done? Should we ever do that? Is it pushing our luck?) I was playing around on the web, link, link, link, 5 degrees of seperation.  that's how it is when you really want something; only 5 degrees. Anyways, there is this car. Low, light, fast. CHEAP!!!!. A super car that costs the same as a base model Z-350. This car can do over 200mph. It can do 0-60 in less than 3 seconds. It can get you laid before you leave the parking lot. What can the Z-350 do? Less than that. The thing is, I am looking for a car to buil

Yesterday I found myself doing a little exploring in the desert. It was a nice day, about 71 degrees with a little breeze and plenty of sun. I had a full tank of gas, a new ride, water, snacks, and my cellphone. I followed one road to the end and followed another until it was also gone. There were some gates and cattle guards (those bridge things that cattle can't walk over because thier hooves get stuck) and kept going. I ran into a couple weathered Mexican ranch hands in a beat up pickup truck, hauling some sort of scrap metal. I had to pull my truck up onto the side of the little single lane dirt road so they could get by, and they just wa