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March 28, 2010
Mr. Ed
Remember me?
I know, I know, I've been really remiss in posting the daily goings-on of our lives. But there has been a lot of hiking and sailing and exploring to be done. And, as some of you know, I am starting a business! I should say, I have started a business. www.livegreene.com. It is a retail store in Palo Alto that will sell cool fun stuff that just happens to be green. The only hang-up now to opening is US immigration. This is the subject of an op-ed piece that I am working on for the New York Times because you simply would not believe the hoops I have leapt through so far. Being a circus clown or trapeze artist would have been an easier.
But that's another story.
We are just in from a wonderful sail in the Bay, where the winds picked up to 15 knots and we hardly noticed the current. Spectacular. This followed an early morning run through the hood, and a breakfast fit for the fit. Tee hee.
I was having coffee with a friend on Friday and we sat on the wall next to where I had parked my bike. My bike and I have been together for 20 years, and I rescued it from a shop in Toronto that recycles (pun intended) bikes. It was an old courier bike with completely replaced Shimano brakes and gears. I love my bike, and California's temperate climate and gearhead-loving culture has allowed me to get virtually anywhere on my bike.
I was describing some of the products I would carry in the store to my friend. Some of them are made from recycled bicycle parts. I patted my bike and said "Just like my faithful steed here."
I thought nothing of it at the time, until I replayed the conversation to Chis over our hearty breakfast this morning. Somehow, telling the story inspired me to name my bike. Mr. Ed seemed fitting.
And so it is that my old Rocky Mountain Fusion mountain bike, which gets me everywhere I need to go, and soon with be the wheels that get me to work, has been officially and utterly knighted.
Mr. Ed.
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