The Art on the Wall

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The Art on the Wall

Way back in August while visiting Arizona I bought an art print of a bicycle. The first thing I did was to get it framed, I picked it up this morning. That’s it on the left. On the right is a 11 x 17 frame I have and decided to use it to make my own bit of an art print of a bicycle.

The newly framed print has virtually the same width of the mat all around. The 11 x 17 one has a 1 1/2″ wide mat top and bottom, but the left/right combo is 2 1/2″ wide. This looks sort of uneven to my eye. So I did some mock-ups of what it would look like. 1) The mat shape that is stock. 2) 1 1/2″ all around and 3) 2 1/2″ all around.


The stock one doesn’t look as bad as I thought, but I kind of like the 2 1/2″ all around because it closely matches the new acquisition.

Out Of The Fog

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Out of the Fog

Put the bike rack on the GTI and went to see the fine folks at Gresham Bicycle Center. Turns out the tires aren’t tubeless, they are just sized so that it is extremely hard to get a tire lever in there to remove the tire from the rim. The reason I flatted was because the manufacturer somehow managed to twist the tube in a loop. New tube, and I was on my way. I think I need a set of tire levers that are strong and thin because I could not get under the bead with the plastic ones I had…off to Amazon.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

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As of Monday, November 2, 2026, at 10:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1973 BMW 2002tii 1998 Subaru Sambar 4WD 1956 Bentley S1 Saloon
This is what I’d like instead of the current GTI. The driving experience is so pure in these. I’ll admit that this is a flyer and not really an off-roader, but it is lifted and does have 4-wheel drive. The perfect touring car, now all I have to do is hire a a chauffeur to drive me around in it.

That Didn’t Take Long

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Happy Holidays Cup

Now that the time has fallen back, it is bright enough out not to need a headlight; the flasher will do. The temp was in the 40s, so I layered up. When I went to roll the bike out of the shed, it was instantly obvious I wasn’t riding the bike for the usual loop with breakfast at the end. The front tire was practically two-dimensional, AKA flat.

I went back inside and stripped the cycling togs off and put on some street clothes. I was still going to get my Stomping Grounds experience. I didn’t get in the car, though I decided to walk the 3-mile loop that had at its center a latte & muffin. That didn’t take long. My latte’s sleeve was red, not the usual green, and it had a bit of holly printed on it too.

I rode the bike just last Sunday, so it is not a slow leak. But the leak wasn’t big either, or I’d have heard it when I put the bike away then. I brought the bike inside and inspected the tire, looking for a puncture, and saw nothing. I filled the bathtub with several inches of water and found out the air was coming from right around the stem. In the 2-1/2 months I’ve had the bike, I’ve only ever topped off the pressure once in there somewhere. These are tubeless tires, so I have no way to patch anything. I think I’ll take the bike to the bike store and see what I need to be able to fix a flat on the road. It’s almost time for my first tune-up anyway.

I did run to the store this afternoon in the Miata to pick up a couple things I didn’t buy on Friday. Not long after pulling out on Sandy Blvd, I was passed by, in the opposite direction, a big Ford SUV. That didn’t take long. It was none other than Rudolph the Red-Nose Explorer with his fluffy crimson ball of yarn.

Cock-A-Doodle-Do

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Rooster Mask

Tonight was the community Halloween party. Kind of like a combination of the monthly potluck and Friday’s coffee in doughnuts. And all the usual suspects were there.

I came in a close second in the Halloween Costume Contest. That was okay because later I won almost half of the dozen BINGO games, including the last Black-Out game.

A Gummy From Another Mother

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I usually will listen to the NY Times Daily podcast on my walk or in the car to keep in the know news-wise, it is not always all Trump, unlike my daily watching of the late-night TV show monologues. Sunday past, the Daily covered Halloween and its “Tricks, Treats, and Trends.” In the treat section they mentioned that there has been a reimagining of some of the early 2000s candies. They’re mixing sweet with sour or sweet and tart. One that caught my attention was the Nerds Gummy Clusters. I went out and bought a bag of Halloween mixed candy that included the Nerds Gummy Clusters.

Nerds Gummy Clusters

Turns out those things are freakin’ good. I took that bag of Halloween candy to the 10,000 dice folks on Tuesday. Any who tried them thought they were pretty freakin’ good too. Soon all the pouches of the Nerds Gummy Clusters were gone. I spent almost the whole day of Wednesday talking myself out of going and getting a sack of just the NGCs.

I have been using half of a cannabis gummy pretty regularly as a sleep starter ever since we moved to Oregon back in 2019. I started with the flat square ones from Wyld. Each gummy came with 10mg of THC, cutting them in half yields a nice 5mg mellow buzz. That feeling didn’t always happen though, the edible was inconsistent. Sometimes you got nothing (from one or the other half) or sometimes you got what felt like both barrels.

I switched to Pearls not long after arriving in Fairview. Their name comes from the fact that they are round. Same proceedure, cut a 10mg one in half. Even these have those same inconsistencies as the Wyld’s, but at a much lower percentage. Today I asked the buistender if they had a different product that was not Wyld or Pearls that I might try.

Pixlz

She brought me a pack of PIXLZs. They come in a 5mg dose so no more cutting them in half. Cool. When I got home, I opened the pack to see what they looked like, and I was stunned. ——>