New Bike

I picked out a new bike on sunday to replace my stolen 97 hard rock specialized. I picked up my trek 4300 yesterday but the weather was so crappy that I didn’t ride it more than 100 feet to car for the journey back home. So this morning I strapped on the odometer and took off for my daily commute to the park and ride. Not exactly spectacular for a first trip but enougth to get the heart following and get to know the new ride. So I now have two bikes one for serious long distance rides and one for commuting and rough paths like the c&o canal. this bike rides differently from old hard rock and is a very different ride compared to my portland. hopefully I will get as many miles out of my new mountain bike as I did my old one

This weeks chinese character

On trying to work out how to do tone I found out you need to enable extended usa keyboard on the mac then you can use.

ā Alt-a for first tone
á Alt-e for second tone
ǎ Alt-v for third tone
à Alt-` for forth tone

And hear are the characters I need to write.

人 rén people, person
十 shí ten
匕 bǐ dagger
中 Zhōng middle
日 rì sun
贝 bèi shell
玉 yù jade
矢 shǐ arrow
生 shēng to born suffix denoting person
者 zhě Person; thing

Dulles rail approved

This is good news, the FTA approved the metro extension out to Dulles Airport, only another 5 years before it is finished. For the moment Fairfax county is doing an excellent job of providing frequent commuter buses during rush hour from west falls church to the Herndon Monroe park and ride