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One of my all time favorite people watching experiences is to go food shopping at the Safeway on Mother’s day morning.  Every dad in the neighborhood has dragged their uncooperative progeny in the hopeful attempt to salvage a Mother’s Day breakfast.  It is a site to behold. Kids screaming, father’s panicking, helium balloons being let loose in the store… Even if you’re not a parent this is worth checking out.   I, of course, participate and like anything I do, it always more satisfying to do it 100%.  So, I take a few extra steps to ensure I get the full experience.

1. Give the kids a little sugar before heading to the market
2. Only bring one toy and expect them to share
3. Promise to get them the shopping cart with the cool car attached knowing that it will already be taken
4. Walk slowly down the candy isle several times without buying anything
5. Check and recheck shopping list while muttering “I know I’m forgetting something”

Anyways, from me to all the Dads out there doing there best to survive an extremely hostile and unfamiliar situation (imagine landing in Bosnia under heavy gunfire like Hilary Clinton did),  Father’s Day is almost here.  Remember to clear your bubbles in combat conditions.

Well… I was really looking forward to doing this year’s bike to work day.  Not so much as an eco-fascist but it’s nice to get a little stretch in before work.   Last year I rode from San Jose to San Mateo which is about 40 miles on a mountain bike.  That was a pretty good poke.

This year I only had to go Mountain View.  About 5 miles from my destination some asshole opened his parked car door into the bike lane and sent me flying into the street.   Stuntmen couldn’t have timed it better.  One thing I noticed that in movies this usually send the victim end over end over the door.  What happened to me was ramming the right side of my chest into the corner of the door and get sent sprawling perpendicular to the car.

Who was this asshole?  I don’t know. I was kind of shakin’ up.  I was on the bike after letting my head clear a bit for 15 minutes but I probably should have made sure his car was alright (and if it was punched out the window of his fancy BMW).

Inventory of damage
1. My right chest and back are throbbing and it hurts to breathe deeply.  Coughing is excruciating.  Here is where the point of the car door caught me in the chest.

2. lost a piece of skin off my right thumb.

3. My right elbow is scraped up pretty good

4. My left pinky is sore

5. My company’s $3000 Macbook Pro is dinged pretty good

6. My glasses are bent

I like riding my bike, though I don’t do it very often, but I’m going to stick to the trails where it is safe (I used to ride my bike through the streets of Boston all the time but this just hurts too much). I was going to bitch about the hour it took to get my bike ready…

Mike

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Hi Folks,

Mozilla has delayed the release of their 1.5.0.9 patch for Firefox until Tuesday, December 19th.  Since this patch is a part of Flock’s 0.7.9 maintenance release we’re going to hold off on our patch until then as well.  Release schedule is here: http://wiki.flock.com/index.php?title=Flock:0.7.9.

thx,

Mike

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