Showing posts with label inspirational. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspirational. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

Indu at the zoo

Nice video of my daughter talking to the baboon

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Biggest Looser second weigh in



This week I weighed in at 219.2 lbs. Three lbs less than last week.

Diet:
not great. Cookies, pies and buffets at work. However, My diet is not terrible. We have a lot of stuff we grow ourselves. Even our own eggs.


Exercise: 
Rode the Outcast four times to work. My commute is doing me some good, it is enjoyable, it's saving me money and it's not bad for the environment.


Road the Moab once on the weekend.

Walked Xena twice a day, but that's just the usual.

 3 pounds loss. Ate all I wanted plus had some fun riding a bike. All in all, I will take it.



Side story. Years ago I had a friend known to some as 'funky cold Medina'. When we met, she was a slightly overweight young lady working at the Goodwill stores. She had a kid at the tender age of 15 and felt her only way to make good money was to go into stripping.  While I can't say I approved of her choice of employment, I always admired her for the way she could loose weight. She would run for miles and had a lot of will power when it came to watching what she ate.

I lost touch with the funky cold media years ago. Last time I talked to her, she was getting out of stripping and going to get married. Hope life worked out for her, but I always kind of doubted that it would.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Travels - Kenya

Kenya - Safari. Elephant Charged vehicle in frontof us. He's backing up - fast. Taken with Minolta x370 800 spd film.



Elephants and Giraffe look like forests in the distance. The neck of the giraffe looks like a tree swaying in the wind. Looking out at the horizon, you come to the realization that the forest is moving closer, then it hits you - big wild life.


These Lions are everywhere. They pretty much do what they want.


They do give the elephants a wide berth however.

I could hear lions, elephant and crocs all night down by the river.
I never hear a lions roar quite the same way as they did in Africa. You felt the roar more than you heard it.
Anyway, these are old photos. If I find more from the trip I will post. Nothing much happening this summer so I thought I would revive and reuse some old pics.
Also came across a story off of my own fat-tire.net site http://fat-tire.net/feedz/newzFeedz.aspx about a couple of Kenyan electrical engineering students who have invented an affordable device for charging cell phones while riding your bike.
The chargers will be sold for about $4.50. http://bicycling.about.com/b/2009/08/09/kenyan-students-create-bike-powered-cell-phone-chargers.htm

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Darren's Rides: A Blind Mountain Biker

Darren's Rides: A Blind Mountain Biker

This is an amazing story on another blog I just happened across. I can't believe it's never even gotten a comment.

He shows how a blind man can ride a mountain bike in the wilderness. Huh?