Cycling in 2020 has been an interesting year. I started out looking forward to the new cycling season after my forced early off season in 2019 due to injury that August. Races / TimeTrials Because of the shortened MATTS schedule,…
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Working Remotely
When people talk about working remotely they usually mean working from home. Over the past weekend I had to really work remotely: I was recording finishing times for competitors in the 2020 Ill Kanza Gravel Fondo bike event. Ill Kanza…
Making decals
One thing I’ve spent time working on with my LEGO collection is to make my own decals. Initially the problem I had was that I wanted to do printing in white. This causes a whole world of problems with most…
Quadriceps Tendonitis
In early March, I started to ride outdoors in preparation for my cycling team‘s training camp in Southern Illinois. After 2 days of outdoor riding on my road bike, which had been idle all winter, I started developing…
2015 Mid American Time Trial Series
The 2015 Time Trial season started off in January with a series of indoor TTs. Being my first full year participating in the series, one of my goals was to complete the requisite 10 races to be considered in the…
City of New Orleans
At BrickWorld 2014 I came up with an idea to build the City of New Orleans train in LEGO. The plan was to take the song and create vignettes based on different verses. At this year’s BrickWorld I debut the…
Kwas and the race to save culinary history
Kwas is the Polish word for ‘acid’ and the name of a Christmas Eve soup made from sauerkraut & juice, dried mushrooms, and noodles or dumplings. My dad used to make the soup when I was a kid but I…
Going Home
Last February, I was lucky enough with the help of my job and a co-worker to visit Pakoszówka, Poland. This is the small village, with a population just over 900, in south east Poland where my great grandparents emigrated from…
City of Light
50 years ago my late father spent most of 1962 and 1963 in Paris as part of his obligation to the United Stated government (drafted into the army). I spent about a week scanning in almost 500 slides from his…