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A group of us got together Saturday afternoon at Thai Chili Gardens on 800 N. in Orem for and early dinner. The food, of course, was awesome. My favorite dish there is their massaman curry - probably the best I’ve ever had. We also ordered some vegitarian spring rolls and some Thai BBQ calimari. All good. Kristen ordered some sticky rice and peanut sauce but she didn’t really like the peanut sauce that well. Apparently there is another restaurant near by that has a better peanut sauce - can’t please everyone it looks like. Despite the apparently sub-par peanut sauce, we all had a good time.

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Went to Vivian tonight. Cool because of the the approaching storm. Not too many people on the trail because of it. I stopped by Best Buy tonight to look at a small digital camera that I can take on my rides. I’m looking at the Olympus Stylus 810 or Olympus Stylus 710 because they are weather resistant, light and small. Anyway, couldn’t’ decide so I figure I can wait.

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Tonight after work I rode from the Novell building H parking lot along Kuni Rd. to the Springville exit with the Walmart (not sure what the exit # is) then West following the road as it wound around through farm fields turning South and ended up on Main Street in Payson, UT. I did the tour of the one block “Historic Downtown” which consisted of riding up a oneway street of old buildings before continuing to the Payson Memorial Park. While at the park I was entertained by three juvenile delinquents riding skate boards and a BMX bike on the bandstand. They were quite entertaining but after the 15th ollie and 10th kick-flip and a couple kick-flips off the three foot bandstand, I had seen their entire repertoire of tricks. I ate a couple granola bars I had in my hydration pack and headed back to Novell. Nice ride. Lots of protein in the air out in the farm land tonight. Yuck!!! Almost as bad as the number of bugs I suck in while climbing Provo Canyon.

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Rode to Vivian Park today. Nice, warm. The trail was a bit crowded though.

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The following is the announcement for the May 17th Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting that was sent out to the sllug-members and sllug-announce mainling lists:

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Rode to Vivian to day. Drafted behind some super-rodie-biker for as long as I could - only about a mile or so before he left me in the dust. It was fun though. After the canyon, I went South on Univerity Ave. then up past the MTC and Provo Temple to visit a friend who lives East of BYU campus. Nice ride. It was dark when I got home but the temperature was perfect the whole ride - in the 70s and 80s.

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Got up early this morning and rode to Vivian and back. The morning was a little cool but there were many people out on the trail.

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Took half day today to take care of some things and had time to ride this evening. Went to Vivian Park in Provo Canyon then on the way back, went past the old WordPerfect campus, west then south heading home. Nice weather in the 80s. Pushed pretty hard today. Stopped by Jay Platt’s place on the way out. He is moving his family to Arizona. I’ll miss him - he’s a good friend.

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So, I’m fixin’ to get me another kite. “Don’t you already have too many?”, you might ask. Well, the fact is that a) you can never have too many kites and b) I need another kite in the 3-4 meter range because when I take friends kiting, that is the best size for them to use when learning a 4-line kite after they have learned on a two-line trainer kite. The Ozone Samurai2 is what I’m looking at. A very sweet kite with either a bar or handles. It’s a non-depower kite so you need kite-killers or a good saftey release mechanism on your bar when flying it.

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Today during lunch I rode south of Novell along Kuni Rd to Thunder Mountain Raceway then west to the Armory then North on the West side of the freeway before heading back. Nice ride again, a little cool.

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Rode the Provo loop today but extended it to include 700E. to BYU campus then North along Timpview drive then to Canyon Road North, across University Ave. before heading back home. Nice ride.

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Rode this moring. Went South on Geneva Rd. then west to the Provo Harbor before heading east along Provo Center St. to University Ave, then North to Orem Center St. and back home. Nice ride. A little cool this morning.

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Today I went to Park City, UT to ride with my sister Susan and her husband Brad. We did an 18 mile loop around the Park City rural and residential area. It was amazing! The weather was a bit cool but the sun was shining when we rode. We stopped by Hapa Grill, a Japanese restaurant on the way back to the car, ordered sushi to go, finished the ride then drove back and picked it up about 20 minues later. It was an awesome ride.

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A front was coming in last Thursday and the wind was steady out of the North West so I called a few friends after work and we went to a local soccer field on the UVSC campus to do some power kiting. I had all four kites there - the 1m Ozone IMP, 3m Edel, the 5 and 10 meter Ozone Frenzys. It was too windy for the 10 meter but everyone was able to fly the three smaller kites and we all had a really good time. Pretty cool. I met Jen and Seretta for the first time. Below is a picture of Jen with Seretta and myself in the background.

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