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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Unexpected Rough Air

This might just be a Delta thing. I wouldn't know what the other airlines do. During their all-important flight safety demonstration (for any aborigines who might be on board), they encourage seat belt use at all times while seated, "in case we experience unexpected rough air."

2nd Training Session ... 1st Day of Hill Training

After my Silver Comet partner dumped me for this morning's ride, I activated Plan B: the Blood Mountain ride. I arrived just South of the loop at 07:30 and found I wasn't the only masochist with a bike and a penchant for hills. Flip-flops off,

2nd Training Session ... 1st Day of Hill Training

After my Silver Comet partner dumped me for this morning's ride, I activated Plan B: the Blood Mountain ride. I arrived just South of the loop at 07:30 and found I wasn't the only masochist with a bike and a penchant for hills. Flip-flops off,

First Bike Repair

I got to the far end of the Big Creek Greenway trail in Alpharetta and came to a stop. After grabbing a drink and turning around I headed back down the hill but my left shoe wasn't clipping into the pedal. I fussed with it as I coasted

Let the Training Begin

I did my first official day of training, partly to assess all of the bike upgrades and partly to assess me. The bike upgrades worked perfectly. I need work. For this training start I did forty miles on the Silver Comet trail. Including a few breaks and lots of signal

Southern Tier

My bike has been upgraded like Michael Knight's Trans Am: new wheels, tubes, tires and pedals. The thorn-proof tubes which are themselves protected by more durable, four-season tires should prevent any flats during this extended trek; and the new wheels are stronger and lighter than the stock Shimano

Movies and Mountains

I think I could happily watch nearly any movie if I could have The Expendables as a chaser immediately afterwards. Truly it cleanses the palette. The Magic Trackpad arrived today. It's awesome. The jury is still out on whether I'll want to switch completely away from

Posh

Delta's Crown Room / Sky Club in the E-Gates in the Atlanta airport makes their other locations look ghetto.

Climbing Shuksan & Baker

We made it about half way up fisher chimneys before we admitted that we're too slow at rock climbing and that we left too late and if we persisted we'd be descending (the same route) in the dark. Not fun. So we rappelled back down to

Facebook Madness

All of you Facebook people will now be privy to my location updates now that I've added support to whereiscurtis for cross-posting the updates onto Facebook. And I'd like to take the opportunity to lament exactly how much Facebook documentation sucks. Their documentation is about as

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