This year I decided that I was going to continue to commute to work by bike, at least a couple times a week, as long as it was safe to do so.  This meant finally buckling down and investing in all the necessary paraphernalia that allows it.  Over the summer, when training allowed, I was riding into work about twice a week.  I really enjoyed it.  It's only 25 minutes each way, and I can usually factor it into my training a bit.   Any time on the bike is good time on the bike.  Especially riding home after work, it's...

I grabbed a copy of GH3 yesterday and Deb & I spent about 2 hours working through the first 3 sets of co-op career Sunday Night. Co-op career is certainly a cool feature.  Basically it’s like the older co-op mode where one person does guitar and the other does base. The graphics are a little snazzier, but given you spend 99.9% of your time glued to the frets, it doesn’t really matter.  I actually don’t really like the new crowd meter…takes more time to glance and grok - the old one was much easier to read.  ...

For several years now I've been trying to find a good way to serve music to my bedroom upstairs.  There are speakers in the ceiling of the bedroom and bathroom up there, and now that all my music is digital I've been working on a good way to stream it to that location. My house isn't wired with network cable, and the layout of the place makes doing so rather challenging (no attic or crawl space, etc).  Since I'm running Media Center now, one idea would be to get an extender to do it, but that's a heavy weight...