Saturdays Rock; Evidence of a very small world..

I'm overdue on posting the rest of the Seattle trip. There's still a whole bunch of videos/pics from the hikes in the Olympics to post. Soon...

But first, today was terrific. Although I slept a little long, I got up and my friend Michael was game to get on the road and do a motorcycle ride with me. It was going to be my first ride that got me out of the neighborhood, and it turned out to be a great ride indeed. We basically wound up parallelling IH-35 north bound up to Chaz's family's house in Weir, Texas. Took FM roads and county roads through hills & cotton fields and suburbs. The ride up was good - about 45 minutes up there, and the bike handled awesome, especially on the curves. When we got north of Pflugerville/Hutto, we had the road to ourselves, and it made a world of difference. Chaz was of course a bit taken aback that we turned up out there: I had said I was going to the office. I changed my mind. :-) (As an aside, the pics of the remodel of his family's farmhouse are here.) We didn't stay too long as the weather was changing, and we wanted to try to avoid getting soaked. The ride back was even more fun, as on some of the straightaways that were now familiar, we could open up the bikes a bit more. Vrooom!

The cold front came through, I mowed, then went to Fry's to check out some things. After checking out, I thought I saw a face I recognized checking out at another position. I hung back to see if I could get a better angle; I thought it was Scott L. that worked with me at IBM and had moved on to Gateway in South Dakota. After he'd finished, I approached him with a questioning look on my face... "Scott??!!??" Sure as hell was him. Just back from Iowa for a week, new position at Dell, and just a few streets away down Braker, he's living in Austin again after 5 years of being up there. That's all just utterly cool, and its so like him to be seen at Fry's. Chaz & I had puppysit his dogs Barney & Wilman in the past, and we'll look forward to doing that again.