An update on the Lee-Man

Hi All:

I see I haven't updated this blog in a while, so it's time for an update. I know the many many folks following my exploits will want to know what the Lee-Man is up to, so here's the down-low.

I did get a job. I work for a company that does "I/O Virtualization". I have only been working there a few months, but I've already learned much about PCI and SAS.

If you're not technical, you can skip this part ...

The idea with I/O Virtualization is simple: you leverage one I/O card to work on several servers. Each server gets the impression that it has its own I/O card.

Okay, enough technical talk. This is not a work blog, but since my work is part of my life, I guess it qualifies via the back door.

Biking
On the biking front, I got a nice new Chris King bottom bracket for my Single Speed SiSSy. She used up her previous two bottom brackets, each lasting about a year, so I decided to get a bottom bracket that will last a little longer. The CK actually has a special fitting that allows me to use a grease gun to re-inject new grease in the bearings. And they are purty, being colored Pewter, which matches my Chris King rear hub. I just need to replace the crappy WTB front hub with a Pewter CK, and my SS will be set for life. Oh yeah, I also still need a custom Ti stem, maybe from Black Sheep.

I rode SiSSy up the hill behind my house this evening, after work. The BB creaked a little towards the end of the ride, but that's not unusaly with the EBB on my single speed.

If all of this sounds like a foreign language, you're probably not a mountain biker.

Everything
Besides life and biking, there's the new animals. We now have 3 German Shephard dogs and 2 tabby cats.

The oldest dog is Misha. We rescued her from the Larimer County shelter, in Colorado. She is lovely and smart, but old, with ... issues. LOL She is a real pain in the ass.

Then there's Cayenne. He's our most excellent German Shephard from TeMar kennels here in Oregon. He is smart, strong, brave, and not well enough socialized, so he scares the crap out of many people (including my neighbor Mark).

Cayenne was gaurenteed, which meant that if he had hip problems, we got another dog at half price. (It's not like you can return him!) Well, sure enough, he had hip problems, though minor. They are enough for us to get another puppy at half price, so we did that. Cayenne is just getting over a broken right rear foot. He broke it landing wrong while playing disc with Cyndi. He had a hard cast for 6 weeks, and now he has a bandage and 3 weeks of careful recorvery before he'll be close to what he was (running-wise).

Our third GSD is our new puppy Jalipinia (obvious named using a pepper theme, to match Cayenne). She is maybe 10 weeks old now. She has not quite master the whole inside bathroom bad outside bathroom good thing, but she's trying.

Then there are the two cats. We got Gar and Kicker from the Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, OR. They are a great non-profit group that had quite a selection of cats. We didn't have much money at Christmas (since I was out of work), so Cyndi gave me permission to get a cat as my present. I found many great cats, but the two I picked had to be adopted together. They were loving, smart, seemed brave enough to handle our dogs, and they needed each other. Since I had room for 2, I took them. I love them so much. Many night one or both of them sleep on my water bed with me. That's nice, since Cyndi doesn't like the water bed and sleeps elsewhere. :(

I guess that pretty much covers the life of the Lee-Man for this installment of Boring Theatre.

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