Virtual crayola

Experimenting with spicing this thing up a bit colorwise.
It's dangerously easy to alter the blog color scheme.

The I95 corridor snow has been well reported. About 12inches in my area. I lifted not one shovel full, the community crew beat me to my 20yds of sidewalk.

Thanks Mom, for that nifty pic from 1970. I've been looking for a pic for my blog profile and it will do nicely. That is indeed one killer lid warming my not-so-fuzzy young melon. Pretty sweet get up all together.
So. You started me on my hat habbit, eh?


Let's really drive that age thing home with a quick and snarky look back at 1970.

• IBM introduces the floppy disk.
  
• The Beatles break up.
  
• Bar codes introduced for retail and industrial use in England.
• Wimbledon: Margaret Court d. B.J. King (14-12 11-9); John Newcombe d. K. Rosewall (5-7 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-1)
  

And, more in the vein of self-indulgent lists...

Blame it on endurance sport:

• seeing sunrise over the DC mall
• making note of portajohns spied when driving locally
• biking in weather cold enough to freeze both of my water bottles before I've had a second sip
• getting my legs painfully worked over by an attractive, black belt holding, massage therapist named Robyn
• learning the art of donning mayo (okay, chamois creme) filled spandex cycling shorts without having the stuff end up all over my legs
• observing the following multitasking wonder while on the road: woman on roller blades (shorts, sleeveless tee, no helmet/pads) moving at a good clip downhill on a neighborhood artery street, left arm fully extended grasping the handle of an apparently occupied Hummer-sized baby stroller, right hand holding a lighter and she's trying to light a "100" sized (er, supersized) cigarette as she cruises along. Yes, I'm holding back on the redneck/darwin at work line of jokes.

Worn out phrases: thrown under the bus operational details Hummer-sized

Recent memorable quote:
"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad." Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for the majority, Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, et al.