It has been a while hasn't it.
Things have changed a bit around here since I last wrote. We moved (up the hill and stayed in our townhouse development) to a new place with slightly more space and a nice walk out basement. I started a new job which is, sadly, too far away to bike to so I am stuck each morning in my stinky car (boo). My new schedule gives me a fair bit of time to myself which is nice though.
I have yet to get the cyclocross bike fixed but did, today, get the commuter fixed. Due to an absent minded moment about a month ago, I ran over the front wheel of my commuter bike. I forgot to trunk it when taking it someplace on the rack. Moron me. The picture shows how I transported it to my friend's house - he builds the best wheels in the city and used to run his own shop - for a total rebuild. It now has the same hub, DT Swiss spokes, and a nice new (but inexpensive) double walled rim for the front wheel and the cyclocross wheel, which was doing time on the commuter bike, is now ready to go back onto the cross bike when it gets its repair later this fall.
Mileage is stacking up, but has slowed a bit due to all the car time. I am still getting out on the bikes a lot, but not as much as before. 10k km might be a bit of a stretch at this point and I am having to start running again to maintain the level of intensity that I need out of my exercise. As of right now, I am sitting at 7087 km since the beginning of the year.
I have decided that my midlife crisis is going to be to collect interesting and useful small cameras and then use them. So there. My sights are set on a fuji x100 (or its replacement - this might take a while...) and an Olympus EP-3 with kit lens plus a few standard focal length and bright primes (or its replacement - see the fuji comment.) Wouldn't it be nice if the much talked about "pen pro" that Olympus has been muttering about surfaced? Wouldn't it be wonderful if it surfaced with an all metal body, full on weather sealing at least as good as my E-3 (so, pretty darn good) and with a trio of small optically wonderful sealed primes and a 12-60 weather sealed m43 version of their marvelous 12-60 ft lens as its kit lens? That little beast would trump any other small camera I might want to buy hands down. I simply love weather sealed cameras.
Other than that, things are continuing as normal:)