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		<title>Up Montecito</title>
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	Today&#8217;s bike ride was Gene&#8217;s &#8220;Up Montecito&#8221; route. The name comes from the fact that we ride up the hill on Montecito Drive. We&#8217;ve ridden down that hill on the &#8220;Noodling 1&#8221; ride, but today we did it the other way. It was cool and overcast this morning, so it was just about perfect for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about time&#8230;</title>
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	The Los Angeles Times today reports that California is considering &#8216;pay as you drive&#8217; car insurance.
	I&#8217;ve long thought that this was a good idea. I&#8217;ve only driven about 1,000 miles a year for the last five years. I&#8217;ve even found cobwebs on my dashboard. Yet I&#8217;m still paying the same amount for insurance, regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toad away</title>
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	Yesterday when I started my car, the oil pressure gauge went down to zero. Usually, this is a Bad Thing. So today I had the car towed to my favorite mechanic to check it out. From what I&#8217;d read, the possibilities were that either the oil pump was bad, or the sensor for the gauge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balls!</title>
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	Today&#8217;s bike ride was a variation on our usual Larchmont Village ride. The variation was a detour around the north side of Silver Lake reservoir to see the balls. I&#8217;d recently read that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power had decided to cover Silver Lake reservoir with 3 million floating plastic balls. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Verne on another hot day</title>
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	Today&#8217;s club ride was out to La Verne again. It wasn&#8217;t as hot today as the last time we went there, but it was still on the warm side for SoCal.
	We had barely gotten started when I heard the unmistakable &#8220;PANG&#8221; of a spoke breaking. My back wheel went gimpy, and I had to stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The man in the Moon</title>
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	On Monday night, Susan and I went to the Egyptian Theater and American Cinematheque in Hollywood for a screening of &#8220;The Space Movie&#8220;. This was part of the Mods and Rockers Film Festival. I&#8217;m not sure what the connection is there, but that&#8217;s no matter.
	The film was put together in 1979 for the 10th anniversary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art in the afternoon</title>
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	This afternoon, Susan and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bank of America is having a promotion where having a BofA credit card is good for free admission there on the first weekend of the month. 
	We went to see the &#8220;Los Angelenos&#8221; exhibit. For some reason, the opportunity to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A nice ride with (virtually) no hills</title>
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	Today&#8217;s ride was the route I made up last May. The intention was to come up with a route with as few hills as possible.
	We started out from Victory Park in Pasadena and headed east. The route goes all the way out to Glendora, and then makes a loop back through Covina to Irwindale. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4th in South Pasadena</title>
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	On Friday night, I took Lucinda and her friend to see the fireworks show in South Pasadena. We&#8217;ve been to this before, and it&#8217;s usually a pretty good show.
	We got there and took our places on the artificial turf. That was a little weird. Sitting on fake grass that had fake dirt underneath it. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Fe Dam: aka Another bike ride to nowhere in particular</title>
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	Today is the July 4th holiday. Lucinda is off at the Sierra Madre parade with her friend from school. And there&#8217;s no official bike club ride. So Susan and I made our own.
	We started out from my house, and almost immediately, I got a flat.
	In Monrovia, we saw some people riding horses. The adults had [...]]]></description>
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