Yehuda Moon Trapped In A Shipping Container

Rick Smith and Brian Griggs are taking a break leaving us with this:

Whatever is going on, my prayers  go out to them.
I thank them for providing all the great comics so far.

Stripped Axle Nut

Last week we went on a short family bike ride down the bike trail. Our bike trailer is usually attached to my wife's Hercules. On the return trip my wife who is very pregnant, was very tired, so I put the trailer on my bike and when I was tightening the axle nut I stripped it. This really sucks now. I don't have a spare bike, and I need my bike for transportation. I would just use the million other axle nuts that I have lying around here but it's Sturmey-Archer and the threads are different.

Post/Present Flood

I have come out of hibernation even if it is short lived to show some crappy cellphone pics

This is not a lake! or the Mississippi it is Schoharie Crossing in  Fort  Hunter

This is a pic of the lock doors(not where the boats go through)

Water going over the lock doors (Where the boats go through)

This is what woke me up at 3:46 AM on Monday morning( A line of traffic spanning over 15 miles)

This the Schoharie Creek after going down over 10 feet (the trees  were just plowed over)

Over all a lot of damage in the area 

I Think I Am Done

I think I am done with this blog, and blogging in general. I have a lack-of-interest in blogging right now.
I think it is a combination of my own deepening depression, lack of proper coping skills, and lack of audience.
If anything extremely interesting pops up I might post it, as for now.
So long, lukeofny

Yearly Gains & Loses

I have been commuting by bike for a little over a year now, so I thought I would post a few numbers.

I pointed my internet-browsing-machine towards http://www.bikecommuters.com/gas-saving-calculator/

and entered my information. I am glad somebody else did the work so I don't have to break out my abacus.

My daily gas savings is $0.81 dollars and lbs of CO2 will NOT be added to the atmosphere

My weekly gas savings is $3.25 dollars and 16.50 lbs of CO2 will NOT be added to the atmosphere

My monthly gas savings is $13.00 dollars and 66.00 lbs of CO2 will NOT be added to the atmosphere

My yearly gas savings is $169.00 dollars and 858.00 lbs of CO2 will NOT be added to the atmosphere

That's the facts I guess. The fat I have lost is about 20 pounds or 0.384615385 pounds a week.

This would be a lot more if I controlled my eating habits, but I haven't and I have eaten everything I want.

One Year Anniversary

One year.
Yes, today is my one year bicycle commuting anniversary. Yay for me, I guess, check out my first post here. I think I may have gotten a little more interesting, maybe not.
I really have better things I could be doing with my time, well no not really.

Bikes Made In Taiwan

Warning: this is a no photo post.

I seem to see a lot of craigslists postings about older bikes made in the U.S.A.
bragging about it not being made China or Taiwan.
Wait a minute, I like bikes made in Taiwan in fact all the bikes I own are made in Taiwan.
I gave my Raleigh DL-1 Tourist to my daughter, the others two Free Spirits and a Schwinn.
Ahh, but Schwinn that is a U.S. bike, no mine is not, probably yours isn't either.
I don't understand why having a sticker that says Made In Taiwan makes my bike any less than any other bike. Maybe the Taiwanese don't know how to build bikes, well they did a fine job on mine.
A well-built bike is a well-built bike no matter what the sticker of origin says, and a BSO is a BSO, whether built in China or the USA. I don't associate being of Taiwanese origin with inferior quality.
I have come to the conclusion that we Americans have a superiority complex, and anybody that is not American is inferior. 
In short don't judge a bike or a person by the origin, that is the forgotten American way. 

Sorry for the rant.

I am proud to own bikes made in Taiwan, lukeofny