It occured to me that I've never published a photo of my bike.  So, what did I do?  I pulled out my trusty camera phone from work and took a picture for you all to look at.  Of course, then I had to a program to pull the photo off the phone, then resize it, and now finally, POOF!  So, now everyone can see my Trek.  Of course, hopefully, tomorrow I'll no longer need to use a program to pull it off the phone, I'll just be able to email it to myself and be done with it.

I'm getting (I hope they have it in stock) a new Blackberry Curve (Verizon) tomorrow.  I'm "super-excited".  Well, as super-excited as I get.  But it's has a camera, can do video, as well as all my normal blackberry functions.  It's easily justified by Jess... so that I can take pictures and video of the kids.  And post them here (added by me).

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Good morning, one and all.  Today is my fourth day of commuting via my Trek 4500.  My first day of rain. I woke with a start this morning because I realized that I had slept in.  I knew yesterday that it was going to rain, so I was trying to plan ahead.  I thought it would take me a bit longer to get to work (and it did) so I wanted to leave a bit earlier.  Nope.

It took me about 35 minutes today, and my bike is dirty.  Perhaps Mike Rowe could come clean my bike... Anywho, I still rode in despite the rain.  It wasn't a down pour by any strech of the imagination, but it wasn't dry either.  Safe to say, the ride was still enjoyable and I hope that when the down pour does come, I'm don't shy away from it.

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Hi, it's Damion... just letting you all know that I'm actually on Day 2!  Yesterday (May 28th) was my first day, and today is the 2nd.
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A couple of weeks ago Damion posted about converting his mountain bike into a city bike so he could bike to work.  Today he did it.  He rode his bike to work. 

Okay, I hear you guys wondering why didn't he do it last week.  Well, he and I were sick (the kids were sick the week before) and last week he had just enough energy to drive himself to and from work and play with the kids a bit before calling it a day. 

So what I'm trying to say is, yea Damion on day one! 

It is currently 11:30 pm on Monday evening and I am happy to report that after our journey around northern IL we successfully made it home from our travels.

We left our place Friday evening and the kids slept most of the drive to my brother Joe's house.