tried to meet up with phil in utah

I lost my cell phone on the bus on the way from Salt Lake City to Cedar City. I don't know where it went. I got to a town called parowan and put my bike together. It felt great, like being born. I called phil with a calling card and made arrangements to meet him on top of a high mountain peak, and we could ride back down it together. I rode up the mountain for about 5 hours, until about 920 PM, and finally reached the peak. The country was beautiful but it got very dark and very cold after the sun went down. The peak (which turned out to be the wrong one, phil was waiting at a slightly higher peak down the road a ways) was at 9,910 feet and the stars were quite bright. I could see the light and dark parts of the milky way. I put on all the clothes I had and I was still cold, so I tuned my radio to a country station and made up country dances on the side of the road to keep myself warm. It worked pretty well, but after an hour I got tired of dancing and hanging out in the dark. I had a feeling animals were stalking and closing in nearby also. So I turned around and went back down the mountain, but before I did I turned up the radio all the way and pointed it in front of me. I was hoping any animals on the road would hear me and get out of the way before I ran into them. My front headlight was very dim. I tied a t-shirt around the lower half of my face like a cowboy villian to keep my face from freezing. On the way down my fingers got really cold and I had to keep stopping to warm them up. Then I got the bright idea to warm them up on my front wheel. I had been riding the brakes all the way down the mountain and so the front wheel got pretty warm. I met up with phil the next day and he said I could have put socks over my hands. That's a pretty good idea too. I got to a motel about 1130 PM and took a hot bath. The next morning phil and I met up. He had come down the hill about 45 minutes after me and got a room just down the street. Today we are cruising -- easy miles. Incidentally, the carl's junior I went to yesterday had phones in each booth and at each table. Not pay phones, regular phones. I should have tried to make a call on one.

Heuristic

Heuristic: A method based on empirical information that has no explicit rationalization.

bikes

some local bicycle action... We're trying to think of a name for our bike crew. Maybe the downtown bike posse, or local intense bike crew, something along those lines. We came up with some good formations such as the diamond switcheroo, and the orbit.

the future is the present

will i ever write on this sucker? I just made it now so I could comment on my friend's blog!
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