Short, ugly hill on the Bob Thomas trail at Clough State Park.

A short clip of riding the BT trail at Clough after the first snow of the year with a friend.

A section from later on in the trail. Uploading this more out of boredom so I can use it on a forum. I don't expect people to sit through it, hahaha.

I met up with my friend Eric to ride some trails today and we headed back over to the River Loop. Here's some better video of us slogging through that first, most difficult section. The light is improved   more...and the addition of someone in the shot shows a little better the roughness.

Check it out at 2:45 where Eric wheelies up the first rock onto the second one. Shenanigans.  less

"There is no god, the wicked sayeth"

"There is no God," the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing,
For what He might have done with us It's better only guessing."

"There   more...is no God," a youngster thinks, "or really, if there may be,
He surely did not mean a man Always to be a baby."

"There is no God, or if there is," The tradesman thinks, "'twere funny
If He should take it ill in me To make a little money."

"Whether there be," the rich man says, "It matters very little,
For I and mine, thank somebody, Are not in want of victual."

Some others, also, to themselves, Who scarce so much as doubt it,
Think there is none, when they are well, And do not think about it.

But country folks who live beneath The shadow of the steeple;
The parson and the parson's wife, And mostly married people;

Youths green and happy in first love, So thankful for illusion;
And men caught out in what the world Calls guilt, in first confusion;

And almost everyone when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like Him.



"The Latest Decalogue"

Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?
No graven images may be
Worshipp'd, except the currency:
Swear not at all; for, for thy curse
Thine enemy is none the worse:
At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend:
Honour thy parents; that is, all
From whom advancement may befall:
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive:
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When it's so lucrative to cheat:
Bear not false witness; let the lie
Have time on its own wings to fly:
Thou shalt not covert; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.  less