BluepoofBikes Motorcycle Adventures

Where's Carolyn?

So Peter says to me a couple of months ago, "Carolyn," he says, "it's been like three years since we took a vacation that didn't involve motorcycles."

I had no problem with this logic, but apparently my cutie wanted to lounge around and get sunburned and drink too much and see way too many people with ill-fitting swimsuits.

Thus, because I am oh so accommodating, we're spending the week in Sarasota, Florida, on Siesta Key.

Though I'm already scoping out places to rent a bike or scooter for the day. ;)

(Isn't Peter the cutest ubernerd evaar? He says I can't poke fun, though, since I'm blogging from my hiptop ;) )

Alcatraz

Well, no bike content here, other than the tenuous connection that I know Paul through riding. ;) Anyway, I wanted to write something, so here's a write up of our Alcatraz tour last weekend, as posted on another message board.

Thanks again, Paul -- we had a really super fantabulous time. :)

Other news.

Warren Brooks Boyce
July 31, 1928 - December 16, 2005

I love you, dad.

Sorry, boys!

All right, I can finally make ONE announcement...

After seven and a half years of dating, Peter and I have finally accepted that we're just damn well stuck with each other.

He proposed at the Sharks game last night, after wooing me with a new jersey and three beers. :)(Forunately, the Sharks won the game)

I knew it was coming but he wouldn't let me announce it until we had the ring (which of course took FOREVER to get resized and have my great-grandmother's stone put in the setting). ;)

We're already arguing over how "no, Carolyn, we cannot base the wedding location SOLELY on whether there are good riding roads nearby"...(oh, but I just realized he never said anything about the *honeymoon* location.... )

[...and yes, Karl, you were right. ;) ]

I'm now officially a hockey widow :)

Nothing to do with motorcycles, but I had to share this picture. My boy is the cutest thing ever.

More ice photos

Yeah, yeah, I know, there's no bike content. But hey, I'm the one outside in 5 degree weather shooting pictures, and I pay for the web hosting, so you'll like those pictures of icy trees, dammit. :) (click on 'em to make 'em bigger)

White Christmas

This morning's view from Peter's folks' front door. The beauty almost makes up for the fact that it's 5 degrees outside. :)

VOTE!

That is all. :)

An unexpected vacation

Sorry to cause concern. Peter's grandfather fell ill last week and we flew to Florida unexpectedly. We just got back very late last night.

Bring on the grues!

Nothing bike-related, but I figure that some of you are also nerds in your late 20s/30s, and would therefore appreciate hearing about this.

Last night, while stumbling about on the world wide interweb, I found:

The Zoom interpreter
The Interactive Fiction archive
Home of the Underdogs game site

What does this mean?

It means that right now, on my laptop, I can play:

- Zork I
- Zork II
- Zork III
- Beyond Zork
- Enchanter
- Sorcerer
- Spellbreaker

and a whole mess of Scott Adams IF games (Mystery Fun House, Pirate Adventure, ....)

Words cannot say how happy I am. My "Lost Treasures of Infocom" box set was literally the reason that I held off on installing Mac OS X -- it only runs in Classic -- and now I have my games again!

I can make this marginally bike-related by saying that all of the games plus the interpreter take up a whopping 6MB of space, and can provide hours of entertainment on the ferry or in hotel rooms.