Remain Calm. All Is Well.
The hospital, across the street from our development, has closed off its back road. It used to be that you could just ride your bike all around the spiffy new building, but now there's a gate with a chain and serious-looking warning signs. I wonder if they were put up because of me? Almost every day I ride a bike around there. But once, a few weeks ago, just as I was on the back loop a helicopter landed, not so many meters away! It kinda freaked me out I must admit, and I could see one of the pilots pointing at me and saying something into his headset. (That's how close it was.) Then the chains went up. So I rode around them. Then the signs went up. Then more signs. Now security guys are there. I'd say that the old service road in back of the hospital is pretty much off limits. Tsk! It was the last part of my 15 mile time trial course. So now I'll have to redo my little course and set some new records. Actually, it's surely not just because of me. All the housewives used to go for walks around there because it makes a nice tidy mile and half loop if you go from your house, around the development and the hospital.
Then there's the case of our (morally) bankrupt cable company. For the last two years we've had OLN as part of our basic cable. I put up with the lumberjack contests and hunting shows and even Kirsten Gumm (is that how you spell her name?) just so I could watch same day coverage of all the major cycling events in Europe. But now, OLN has been moved to a tier of channels only accessible by purchasing the highest-level digital package. It would cost more just to get up to that level than it costs for cable now! So, I won't be watching Lance's epic quest for 6, except for the super-cheesy one-hour summaries each week on CBS. I wonder if there's a Eurosport stream available? OLN's website did have live audio last year. That might work. Honestly, what is there to see? Guys riding bikes. Got plenty of glossy pictures of that in the mags. So all I'd need to keep updated is the voices of Phil, Paul, and the inimitable Bob Roll. I've been doing a sort of test run of life without OLN during the Giro, checking daily results via good old cyclingnews.com, which is all we had before anyone even invented OLN.
The hospital, across the street from our development, has closed off its back road. It used to be that you could just ride your bike all around the spiffy new building, but now there's a gate with a chain and serious-looking warning signs. I wonder if they were put up because of me? Almost every day I ride a bike around there. But once, a few weeks ago, just as I was on the back loop a helicopter landed, not so many meters away! It kinda freaked me out I must admit, and I could see one of the pilots pointing at me and saying something into his headset. (That's how close it was.) Then the chains went up. So I rode around them. Then the signs went up. Then more signs. Now security guys are there. I'd say that the old service road in back of the hospital is pretty much off limits. Tsk! It was the last part of my 15 mile time trial course. So now I'll have to redo my little course and set some new records. Actually, it's surely not just because of me. All the housewives used to go for walks around there because it makes a nice tidy mile and half loop if you go from your house, around the development and the hospital.
Then there's the case of our (morally) bankrupt cable company. For the last two years we've had OLN as part of our basic cable. I put up with the lumberjack contests and hunting shows and even Kirsten Gumm (is that how you spell her name?) just so I could watch same day coverage of all the major cycling events in Europe. But now, OLN has been moved to a tier of channels only accessible by purchasing the highest-level digital package. It would cost more just to get up to that level than it costs for cable now! So, I won't be watching Lance's epic quest for 6, except for the super-cheesy one-hour summaries each week on CBS. I wonder if there's a Eurosport stream available? OLN's website did have live audio last year. That might work. Honestly, what is there to see? Guys riding bikes. Got plenty of glossy pictures of that in the mags. So all I'd need to keep updated is the voices of Phil, Paul, and the inimitable Bob Roll. I've been doing a sort of test run of life without OLN during the Giro, checking daily results via good old cyclingnews.com, which is all we had before anyone even invented OLN.
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