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The clouds were so pink to the east this morning! It was a joy to be up and out.

And I nailed two caches, two! Who rocks? I do!

I might need to buy a new pair of gloves. Why is it always the left one? I'm right handed, I use my right-hand to wipe the tires.



The Schwinn trip odometer is just over fifty miles for the week.

How is the Jamis fixer-uppering going? Zip has happened, the chainwheel has not yet been received. I probably should have checked out some other shops before ordering it. Oh, well!

Perhaps I could be cleaning the sludge off the jockey wheels, eh?

electric bro (waiting)

Another cache found in the dancerly light. It was a piece of cake.

Speaking of, came across this yummy-looking dainty.



Nothing interesting happened on the way home.

I have just over thirty miles on the Schwinn trip odometer for the week.

I hope you check out the bicycling blogs I've link to. Most of them have some pretty darn interesting stuff pretty darn often.

Over at Bicycling.com they have 109 Bicycling Rites Of Passage which may amuse you. My favorites are: #20 and #38.

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Found a geocache this morning that I've been searching for, off and on, for several YEARS. It was pretty much right where it was supposed to be. How about that?

It is a little odd riding to work in the near daylight, and riding home in the near sunset, but there you go.

Observe the aerial image below (Thank you, Google Maps, for being there!). Note the red, pink, and green paths. I came upon a fellow traveling the red path. He ran the light in the upper left-hand corner, and I fell in behind him. We traveled along for a while, then he turned off into the shopping center. I traveled to the corner (pink path) and turned right.

We met again when he exited the shopping center, turning right. He rode on the sidewalk until the light, where he pushed the button and crossed the street in the crosswalk. I wonder why he doesn't take the green path. It is much shorter, and more direct, and puts him right in line to cross the street. I've seen him before, he does this every time.

I, on the other hand, am TRYING to ride a bit farther, which ends up being further, as well.

That image looked MUCH nicer before I uploaded it!

I seem to have accumulated twenty-two miles on the Schwinn trip meter!

I forgot to mention the other day, and by now I forget where it happened, but I came upon a young lady engrossed in her texting who crossed the street without looking. She nearly jumped out of her, well, pants, when I dinged my bell at her!

What fun!

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I got up at five, which was REALLY six, and left by six, which was REALLY seven.

There was a lot of candy wrappers, and even candy, on some of the streets. You can tell which neighborhoods have a lot of kids! I only saw one smashed pumpkin, though.

Picked up this little witch on Jefferson Ave., eventually on my way to Candy & Lemon.



Found this little lady over on Gregory St. She talks!



She says things rather like, "Don't feel bad honey, I forgot it was our Anniversary too!" and "Don't worry about taking the trash out. I can use the exercise." It's Ms. Wonderful!

She is going on the bike!

I had some success finding geocaches this morning. There were very few people out, although the few that were seemed to show up at the most inopportune times!

I found six caches, two of them were reseeks, a term I just made up. I did not find three caches, two of which were reseeks, a term I may need to rethink.

One of the caches was exactly in the four square-foot area I had searched five times before. A very excellent camouflage! I doff my beanie to you, sir!

I left my bike resting on a bush for a minute, it fell into the bush. I guess it pushed on the odometer button, because the trip odometer was reset to zero. I'm pretty sure it was up to sixty-five miles for the week, so adding the four miles after, that would almost bring it up at seventy miles for the week. At any rate, the odometer on the Schwinn is now at 7,933 miles. Sadly, that is not for the year! Nor anywhere NEAR my meager annual mileage!

The dryer and warsher are covered with bike-related junk. I shall have to move it or there will not be any clean clothes to wear next week!

TODAY'S CAT PICTURE

Cat wants to come in. NOW!

TODAY'S PLANT PICTURE

The plumeria has a few more leaves this year. What does the flower look like? Who knows?

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I made a plan last night, and I followed it through.

The plan was to go geocaching on the bike.

The sun was not quite up yet, it was chilly, I headed over to Grossmont Center to sign the log on a cache I had spotted the other day, but could not retrieve because high muggleility, and to look for another one. I found the one I was looking for, and signed the log on the other.

I saw this Altoids box and thought the searched-for cache had been muggled, but then I remembered it was not in an Altoids box.



I headed over to Alvarado Road, totally ignoring this sign, which comes a little late, as one is already over the bridge. I wanna get way over there, to Alvarado Road, on the left. There USED to be a left turn here, but not more. So one has to go around the clover-leafy to the mini-intersection... oh, just trust me, it works if there isn't any traffic. I would NEVER go this way during the regular day!



Found this still useful screwdriver on Alvarado Road. Used it later to pry apart the recalcitrant chain on Jamis.



There are a two more images of these interesting rocks and layers I saw at the 70th Street Trolley Station over on my zooomr place, and the pics are much larger, too! Just click an image to go there. Do it!



After finding and not finding some caches, and tromping the the weeds at Alvarado Creek, I headed over to where Aztec Bowl used to be. I graduated from high school there, sometime in the previous century. I grannyed up the hill towards Scripps Cottage, near which is a geocache. My daughter found it back in 2003, I thought I had better do it, too. And I did.



That was the last cache of the day, and I headed home up El Cajon Blvd. Oh, I tell a lie, I DID search for a cache along Montezuma. I did not have the coordinates, but I thought had an idea where it was. I was wrong, and upon leaving I noticed a couple in a parked car staring at me.

And going up the Boulevard, near The Tubs, you will notice, TT, I was perplexed by this. And it has dealer plates, too, to add to the perplexity.



I think the odometer is on fifty-five miles for the week, so far.

Here is a cat picture.



I have decided the cat will be named Hairy Sack Of Pestilence. I shall call it Cat, for short.

Here I am eating a Halloween Cookie.



And, not lastly, here I am shining the bar code reader laser into my eyes.



Oooohhh, scary!

Oh, and I almost forgotted, here is the chain I finally broke!



That link ain't never gonna link again!

And that shirt, from my first century, ain't never gonna be worn agin!

Ok, we're finished here, you can go now!

domini (waiting for the electrician).

The (hopefully) last day to ride the Schwinn to work, as Jamis OUGHT to be fixed by Monday. Of course, by Monday, we will be on Daylight Saving Times, right? So it will be plenty light out, I won't need the lights on Jamis, so I should just ride the Schwinn.

Did I mention it was chilly? Forty-six degrees, Fahrenheit. Chilly!

The Schwinn feels so much faster, it being lighter and all. Although it was a bit wobbly riding home today, carrying a bag of STUFF. I forgot to pack some bungee cords. But, even loaded so, I rode up the Short Hill Of Death (Grossmont Center Dr.) ! to Center Drive, hung a west, and located a geocache.

The Short Hill Of Death

No bike lane, cars in a big hurry, lots of traffic, bridge. I love it!

Steve the M. is gonna loan me his GIANT (and expensive!) Park Chain Tool. My little one that I carry just won't do the job. So I INTEND to get that Jamis going, fer sure!

So far this week, I've got 43 miles ridden. Tomorrow I am driving, as I have a little Report Card Party to attend. I was invited to a much larger Halloween Party, but I had to decline as it would have lasted much longer and created difficulties. Noblesse oblige and all that, if you know what I'm talkin' 'bout.

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Yesterday it was very warm, ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit. And very clear.

I rode the Schwinn. It is so much easier to ride than Jamis. And much quieter!

I found two bucks in the gutter in front of Starbucks. I picked it up and waved it at the patrons sitting at the outside tables. My spouse suggests it might have been a tip that blew over to the street. Too bad for you, says I!

Finding the bills did not give me a profit for the day, as I had to spent two buck on a bowl of chicken soup for lunch, because the cook did not make me a sandwich, and I am helpless.

In the evening I worked up my courage, removed the rear wheel from Jamis, and popped the cassette off with my new cassette tool, my old, previously unused, chainwhips, and my pretty-darn-big Craftsmen breaker bar. Darn thing came right off, no problemo! Greasy gears all over the place! Then I went to loosen the bolt on the crank. Oh, oh, without the rear wheel, I can't hold it! Gotta put everything back together, put the bike on the ground, you know, for a bit of traction. NOW I've got it!

What a breaker bar might look like:



Then I went in for dinner. That was enough excitement for the day.

Today, Tuesday (Garbage Day), is rather cooler, sixty-seven degrees (F.), cloudy, with a twenty-percent chance of rain. Speaking of, looks like I got home just before the sprinkles!

Some guy emailed me today, asking for advice in finding a geocache he was searching for. Me, Mr. Blind-as-a-bat! I felt so proud!