.......look no further than this!
This is SO DOPE!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Crazy Good
During my last trip home the girls wanted to hit the Dollar General store. It was Crazy Good!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Great Gobble Days of Bicycling
The Turkey Day ride consisted of 3 hours, 37 miles and 3,862 feet of climbing.
The post Turkey Day ride consisted of 4 hours, 49 miles and 6,043 feet of climbing.The post-post Turkey Day ride consisted of 3:34, 42 miles and 2,392 feet of climbing. This ride finished in the rain, but we had an awesome tail wind racing back home! No profile posted since there is not much elevation change to see.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
5 Pounds of Coffee....
Yeah, I'm ready for the GobbleDays! I have my 5 pounds of Ethiopian Coffee straight from the Yirgacheffe's! Lets Worka!Disclaimer:
The Cane Creek water bottle and the iPod are of actual size and are used as a reference to demonstrate just how freaking big that bag of coffee really is. This image was not enhanced in any way. Let Me Be Frank is not responsible for any skeptism based on dis-beliefs on whether or not you believe the bag of coffee is the actual size as seen in this digital photograph. This blog post was NOT posted during work hours.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Team Velosports Banner Design
Over the last couple weekends I have been working on web banner designs for Team Velosports. Check them out.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
A Bicycle Ride with Floyd Landis
It was a Friday. I received unsolicited intelligence from an undisclosed source that Floyd Landis was in town. A few minutes later that intelligence was independently verified twice by two 4th-hand observers. Yes indeed "Floyd Landis is in town". My suspicion started to rise that Mr. Landis would show up at a local ride the following day. So my peeps convened via mobile-cellular technology (texting) and we decided to discretely rendezvous at the non-disclosed location the following morning at O-10-hundred hours. We arrived and waited and looked around. No sign yet. Then and after a while the one and only, 2006 Tour de France champion, Floyd Landis arrived at the location of the ride departure. There were about 20 cyclist gathered. There was no "star-struckness". I remained cool.
We were off. At times he was on my wheel. At other times I was on his wheel. We stopped at stop signs and red lights together. I heard the same voice in the paceline that I have heard on OLN and VERSUS interviews during the Tours de France. My friend (codename) "Butterscotch" unknowingly tried to run him off the road as we climbed up the short and steep Potato Gap. Floyd was boxed in as we were climbing more slowly in front of him. I blurted, "don't let him out!". We chuckled. Ha ha. There goes Floyd up the climb ahead of us. I can't hang with that. I am hurting. I hoped that I would not get dropped on this rare-opportunity ride. I dropped my chain. Oh, the team car is waiting on me. I hang on to the car as we go up a few of the short climbs. I wasn't going to get dropped. There were no officials, so pull me all the way up. Thanks! ...again, over and over....thanks!
It was like a normal ride.....a normal ride with Floyd Landis. It was pretty cool. He had yellow shoes on. He once wore a yellow jersey. Outside of Marshall, we raced a locomotive going down the tracks beside us. I witnessed Floyd waving at the train conductor. The train conductor waved back. Oh how cool, "he is normal" I thought to myself. The train blew its horn loud. I was getting dropped. I got dropped. Behind me the team car was closing in with several other cyclist drafting behind it. I "got on" and was saved from getting dropped all-together. We rode at 32 mph drafting the team car up the slight grade to catch Floyd's group. This ride would have been fun even if Floyd wasn't here. This is a good day.
My bicycle recording device gathered this elevation-distance profile. I did not take any pictures to protect the innocent. I have memories and some sore legs. It was a great ride. Now I can say that I rode with Floyd Landis. That is cool. Just another day in the Life of Frank. Let me be. Over and out!
Rory Sutherland was on the ride too. The 2008 NRC individual winner.
We were off. At times he was on my wheel. At other times I was on his wheel. We stopped at stop signs and red lights together. I heard the same voice in the paceline that I have heard on OLN and VERSUS interviews during the Tours de France. My friend (codename) "Butterscotch" unknowingly tried to run him off the road as we climbed up the short and steep Potato Gap. Floyd was boxed in as we were climbing more slowly in front of him. I blurted, "don't let him out!". We chuckled. Ha ha. There goes Floyd up the climb ahead of us. I can't hang with that. I am hurting. I hoped that I would not get dropped on this rare-opportunity ride. I dropped my chain. Oh, the team car is waiting on me. I hang on to the car as we go up a few of the short climbs. I wasn't going to get dropped. There were no officials, so pull me all the way up. Thanks! ...again, over and over....thanks!It was like a normal ride.....a normal ride with Floyd Landis. It was pretty cool. He had yellow shoes on. He once wore a yellow jersey. Outside of Marshall, we raced a locomotive going down the tracks beside us. I witnessed Floyd waving at the train conductor. The train conductor waved back. Oh how cool, "he is normal" I thought to myself. The train blew its horn loud. I was getting dropped. I got dropped. Behind me the team car was closing in with several other cyclist drafting behind it. I "got on" and was saved from getting dropped all-together. We rode at 32 mph drafting the team car up the slight grade to catch Floyd's group. This ride would have been fun even if Floyd wasn't here. This is a good day.
My bicycle recording device gathered this elevation-distance profile. I did not take any pictures to protect the innocent. I have memories and some sore legs. It was a great ride. Now I can say that I rode with Floyd Landis. That is cool. Just another day in the Life of Frank. Let me be. Over and out!Rory Sutherland was on the ride too. The 2008 NRC individual winner.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Cabin Build: The cement is hard and the temps are cold
The cement is poured! The rush was to get this in before the winter set in. Just in time, it was freezing cold this weekend when I visited the cabin site.
To stay warm, I set up my tarp as close as possible to the fire. It was forecasted to easily be in the 20's! I was prepared.
I built a big fire! This thing kept me very warm and it was a peaceful, clear and cold night. The moon was very bright. Made it easy to get around at night without any lights.
What a collection of strange shots. 
Gotta go? This is where you go!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Cabin Build: The Last Pour
The winter is coming but the cement needs to be poured to finish the footers.
The forms are set.
The cement mix is ready.
The mixing and pouring begin.
The forms are set.
The cement mix is ready.
The mixing and pouring begin.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Cabin Build: Stepping It UP!
Since the cabin site is on a sloped mountain side, we need to include steps in the form-work for the footers. There was also some bedrock impeding our trenching efforts. We had to work around this. We were not going to get any cement poured this weekend, but wanted to make a lot of progress on the form-work to finish the cement pour before the winter sets in. The race is on!
Here is one big step. Lots of digging, leveling and filling!
Here is the other side and working on two-steps.
Here is one big step. Lots of digging, leveling and filling! 
Here is the other side and working on two-steps.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Cabin Build: Cement Pour Part 1
Recall the Big Dig post from last fall? Well, our team of cabin builders assembled this particular weekend to start the cement pour. Andy had scheduled a delivery of supplies to be delivered at an undisclosed staging location near his land. The delivery was "supposed" to occur between 7AM and noon on Saturday morning. Hmmmm? This sounds like a cable guy appointment......yeah, "we'll be there between 12 and 3"....and they NEVER show up! Lets see how all this turned out!
We arrived the Friday night before to start work on clearing the trenches that we dug during the Big Dig. We did not realize (I don't think) how much MORE work we had to do. So we re-surveyed and squared up the cabin site. We had a generator and lights so that we could work through the night.
We traded several phone calls with the people in charge of delivering the 150 bags of cement mix, lumbers and rebar. Finally they told us they would be there a little after noon. We watched the sunlight move across God's canvas of fall colors as we waited. This place is heaven!
Finally the delivery arrived around 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. We lost a lot of time during The Big Wait but tried to stay busy to quickly get the form-work in place for the cement pour.
Andy picked up a good mountain pick up truck with some lift and big tires to transport the building materials to the cabin site. I had misplaced my pouch of Red Man Chewing Tobacco, but really felt that I needed it now! It takes a good sturdy 4-wheel drive to traverse the old logging road beds and deliver the materials to their final destination.
Night sat in and it was getting cold, so we started a nice camp fire and then resumed work. We would not actually start pouring the cement until Sunday......I'm glad that I had requested Monday off work.....I kind of figured something like this would happen.
Early Sunday morning we had breakfast and coffee and got an early start. The form work proved to be much more confusing than expected, but finally we took the time to go through the dimensions and we got it right. Eriks is the brains behind all the planning and work.
Before the forms were in place there was still a lot of leveling to do and some bedrock to punch through. I was on my knees digging with my fingers to help get the form-work level.
Late Sunday we started pouring and we finished around 9 PM. We had to finish the lower section of the footers. We would have to come back and finish the rest at a later date when we could all get together again. Hopefully we would before the winter sets in.
Monday....the morning after. The coffee is hot and the cement is hard. Wow....my first cement job and my smoothing looks pretty good!
In a couple weeks we would come back to first finish the form work for the top part of the cabin site.
We arrived the Friday night before to start work on clearing the trenches that we dug during the Big Dig. We did not realize (I don't think) how much MORE work we had to do. So we re-surveyed and squared up the cabin site. We had a generator and lights so that we could work through the night.
We traded several phone calls with the people in charge of delivering the 150 bags of cement mix, lumbers and rebar. Finally they told us they would be there a little after noon. We watched the sunlight move across God's canvas of fall colors as we waited. This place is heaven!
Finally the delivery arrived around 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. We lost a lot of time during The Big Wait but tried to stay busy to quickly get the form-work in place for the cement pour.
Andy picked up a good mountain pick up truck with some lift and big tires to transport the building materials to the cabin site. I had misplaced my pouch of Red Man Chewing Tobacco, but really felt that I needed it now! It takes a good sturdy 4-wheel drive to traverse the old logging road beds and deliver the materials to their final destination.
Night sat in and it was getting cold, so we started a nice camp fire and then resumed work. We would not actually start pouring the cement until Sunday......I'm glad that I had requested Monday off work.....I kind of figured something like this would happen.
Early Sunday morning we had breakfast and coffee and got an early start. The form work proved to be much more confusing than expected, but finally we took the time to go through the dimensions and we got it right. Eriks is the brains behind all the planning and work.
Before the forms were in place there was still a lot of leveling to do and some bedrock to punch through. I was on my knees digging with my fingers to help get the form-work level.
Late Sunday we started pouring and we finished around 9 PM. We had to finish the lower section of the footers. We would have to come back and finish the rest at a later date when we could all get together again. Hopefully we would before the winter sets in.
Monday....the morning after. The coffee is hot and the cement is hard. Wow....my first cement job and my smoothing looks pretty good!
In a couple weeks we would come back to first finish the form work for the top part of the cabin site.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
le minor de E and yo maja le G
I put in some guitar time this morning to clear my mind. Here we have a acoustic doodle in and about the notes within the key of E minor / G major....the same notes really....just so many creative ways to get around the fret board....adding a few triads here and there. Yes, I know the video is dark. The original always looks brighter. Oops!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Diminishing your E minor scales
Here we are combining the E minor standard scale with the E harmonic minor scale, or the D# diminished. I use interchangeably scales that root from the E minor to F# diminished, G major to G diminished, and D major 5th to D# diminished. Sounds pretty cool huh?
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