Chaos and Disorder

the homeowner. It's kinda old news now but I've been busy and it's probably new to you! With San Diego's housing market "declining", I decided to take the plunge and I bought a condo/townhouse in October. I'm fairly certain that the housing market hasn't hit rock-bottom yet so I didn't get the proverbial "steal" but the deal was good enough for me and we plan to be here for at least another decade. The value will go back up. :-) It's a 4 bedroom end-unit with a detached 2 car garage and within walking (biking for the lazy kids) distance of the boys' elementary & high schools. Unfortunately, I'm still ~40mi from work and the commute still sucks but as long as I can still lane-split, I can deal with it. ;-)

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It's that time of the year again. The pre-holiday school fundraisers are in full effect. I don't quite understand the fundraising blitz. They hand out a packet to every kid in school and say go sell stuff to raise money. So far, so good. But they limit the time period to 2 weeks and you can't go door-to-door. So every year you wind up hitting the same set of local friends, family & co-workers that are also being bombarded by every other kid they know. If things were stretched out a bit, you wouldn't have people being overwhelmed in this short time frame and over the long term, people would potentially buy more. I don't need 10 boxes of pecanbacks so I'm not going to buy that many upfront. But I may buy 2 or 3 a month if they were always available.

This year, at least, they're allowing us to broaden our range by setting up a site to sell things through: http://www.foryourschool.us/store/brochures.php?sID=rsc7977

The fund raiser ends October 1st.

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Yesterday, I completed my first SaddleSore 1000 ride in 17.5 hrs. The SS1K is the entry level Iron Butt ride. This particular ride was a charity event organized by the Ride for the Heart Foundation. For the most part, I had no problems on the ride and I made pretty good time. Outside of Arizona's blustery winds, it was a good day to ride, weather-wise.

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Owning a motorcycle in Southern California, I often get asked if I lane split and if it's legal. The answer is yes and yes. A local news station did a a report on lane-splitting a little while ago. It's a fairly balanced and pretty informative report (see the video) though the second condition mentioned was changed on the CHP website some time ago. The CHP website now states that lane splitting must be done in a "safe and prudent manner" with no mention of any speed limits.

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I spent another St Patrick's Day weekend chasing down a frisbee at St. Pat's Hat 2007. Once again, it was an awesome experience! Our team, Pot O' Gold (aka yellow), won the tournament!!!

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