Starting last summer I have been really home bound.  I have just not had a lot of time to get out and play with the arrival of a new baby, moving, so on and so on.  Needless to say I have attracted a little weight and it is time for it to come off.  We have 40 acres of mountain bike trails right behind my house and a ton of other good trails near by.  I used to ride a lot back in the day and I am hopping to get a little more time in on the bike now to loose this weight.

I have been eying a Cannondale Prophet for a while now and I picked one up at an end of year sale.  For its first run I went for a ride with a friend this weekend and it was blast, plus a kick in the pants.  I have really missed mountain biking.  Boy was I out of shape though.  We did the Preston Railroad/Timberline Loop trail.  The first part is a three mile up hill.  Only 2,500 feet of elevation.  Man I wanted to puke going up that.  I used to ride up that without stopping or walking.  There was a little of both this Saturday.  Once on the top it was a different story.  The old mountain biking skills kicked in.  We passed a lot of people on the way down.  It felt good to still know the skills are there.  I just need to build up the strength so I don’t look like such a dork on the way up.  :)

The new bike is a dream.  It is basically my 14 year old bike but everything improved 100 fold.  I was going over crap I would have never gone over on my old bike.  The disk breaks would stop even when they were wet.  It felt good to go fast and get covered in mud.  Can’t wait for the next ride.

Here is pick of the new bike.  Click on it for a larger image.   See you out on the trail.

I just finished The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes for the Wii.  Once again another great Zelda game.  If you have liked past Zelda games you will like this one too.  What I really enjoyed was using the Wii remote for the control.  No longer do you just push your "A" button to swing your sword.  You really swing your Wii remote.  It never got old for me.  You also shot arrows the same way.   You had to point at what you were trying to hit.  This game is long(in a good way).  I started back in January and with only an hour here and there I just now got it done.  It took me 43 hours to finish.  The sad part now is we will probably have to wait another five years for a new one. 

I am on to Super Paper Mario right now and that has been a lot of fun too so far. This one is only rumored to take 20 hours to finish.  So some time in August I hope to be done.  :)  I have to be.  Bioshock is coming out then.  This is the first 360 game I have been excited about since Gears of War.  If you have a 360 you should really check it out.  This holiday season is full of games I want to play.  It is just to bad that I don't have the time to play them.  At least when I do finally get to them many of them will have dropped in price.  That is one thing about being to busy to play every new game.

Games I am looking forward to are:
BioShock
Halo 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Metriod Prime 3
Mario Strikers Charged
Nights: Journey of Dreams

I need a good rally racer.  It makes me sad that the best one out there is no longer being made.  I am taking about you RalliSport Challenge 2.  There are two choices this year on the 360 and I am not sure which one I will get.  The Wii remote also has me thinking about force feedback steering wheel for these games.  It just adds another level of fun to the game as well a little better control. 
Dirt or Rally Revo

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So life has been a little busy the last few months with the new baby but that is not the only thing I have been up to.  Since the last post I have sold my old house, purchased a new house and bought a used car.  I will talk about the house stuff later but I will fill you in on the car.  I have been looking for a car for quite a while now.  My truck, having only two doors was killing my back putting my daughters in their cars seats in the back seat.  It was only a matter of time before I put my back out doing it.  I needed something with four doors.  I had narrowed my choices down to the Toyota Camry or the Volkswagen Passat.  I had a budget and I could afford the fully loaded v6 Camry or a middle of the line v4 2.0 Turbo Passat.  I really wanted the fully loaded black v6 Passat but it was to much.  During the move to our new house one of my wife’s friends had a really nice Volvo.  When I asked him about it he said he picked it up used for a price way under my budget.  That really got me thinking about used cars.  So I started looking at the auto trader for used Passats.  Low and behold I found a fully loaded v6 Passat (dark brown - its so dark unless you look closely you can’t tell its not black)  for the same price I had budgeted.  I made an offer and I am now the new proud owner of a VW 2006 4-motion v6 Passat with all the luxury fixings for the same price of a middle of the line new v4 2.0 Turbo Passat.  The car was owned for seven months and only had nine thousand miles on it.  Well that is about it for now.  I will try to keep this website a little more updated from now on.