Packages come in all sizes!
Today turned out to be a very rainy day...which somehow I have learned to love. I have just started my 3-day weekend, thanks to my new job at Oregon Health and Science University. OHSU is quite an amazing place, as I have found out in the last three days.
The views are pretty amazing from up at the university:
I just started working in the Casey Eye Institute, in the Retina division, as an administrative assistant to two specialist Opthamologists. There are a total of 12 Opthamologists in the retina division and on our floor we have two other divisions totaling 3: Retina, Glaucoma, and Cornea. This is what my building looks like:
I've been working there for 3 days, which have been incredibly exhausting and exciting all at once. The university is huge and is connected by a series of tunnels and skyways because it is located on the side of a mountian. Its very cool.
Other than my sweet job..I haven't been doing too much. So this morning I decided to test ride a possibility for a new bike. It was raining so I didn't expect the bike shop to let me test out a bike...but they did. The guy laughed when I said...uh its raining..can I still ride the bike? He chuckled as he said, "Hey man, you're in Portland....noone would get to test ride bikes if we didn't let them ride in the rain.
So anyway...here's the rig:
Very beautiful!! The guy at the shop said to me "go ahead and take it out for as long as you want and get a feel for the bike." So a feel for the bike i got!! I hit everything in site, including a set of 8 stairs. They went down real smooth. I couldn't find anything bigger in the area, but i ripped it up for about 45 minutes. Lets just say I had a Session. The guys even gave me a helmet to use:
So here I sit..gazing at my road bike with disgust in my eyes. Oh how I wish that it was gone and the Session 77 was in its place. Soon my friend, soon.
After the session I headed out to a trail to do some rain hiking and I was greeted by a couple that had just got done hiking. They informed me that while they were hiking, someone broke their car window and stole everything of value. Yikes...that sucks bad. So I let them use my phone and by the time we were done , it was almost dark out.
I concluded my day off with a nice cold Kokonee beer, actually 2 of them, and watched a movie. Very nice day overall. Tomarrow will be an early morning workout and then maybe some camping on the Coast. Who knows.
Today I learned to not discriminate towards bicycles because of their travel. You must respect the suspension...because it is good, real good.
Quote of the day, as I thought back to my morning commutes on the TriMet trains and buses:
"No Eye Contact!"
The views are pretty amazing from up at the university:
I just started working in the Casey Eye Institute, in the Retina division, as an administrative assistant to two specialist Opthamologists. There are a total of 12 Opthamologists in the retina division and on our floor we have two other divisions totaling 3: Retina, Glaucoma, and Cornea. This is what my building looks like:
I've been working there for 3 days, which have been incredibly exhausting and exciting all at once. The university is huge and is connected by a series of tunnels and skyways because it is located on the side of a mountian. Its very cool.
Other than my sweet job..I haven't been doing too much. So this morning I decided to test ride a possibility for a new bike. It was raining so I didn't expect the bike shop to let me test out a bike...but they did. The guy laughed when I said...uh its raining..can I still ride the bike? He chuckled as he said, "Hey man, you're in Portland....noone would get to test ride bikes if we didn't let them ride in the rain.
So anyway...here's the rig:
Very beautiful!! The guy at the shop said to me "go ahead and take it out for as long as you want and get a feel for the bike." So a feel for the bike i got!! I hit everything in site, including a set of 8 stairs. They went down real smooth. I couldn't find anything bigger in the area, but i ripped it up for about 45 minutes. Lets just say I had a Session. The guys even gave me a helmet to use:
So here I sit..gazing at my road bike with disgust in my eyes. Oh how I wish that it was gone and the Session 77 was in its place. Soon my friend, soon.
After the session I headed out to a trail to do some rain hiking and I was greeted by a couple that had just got done hiking. They informed me that while they were hiking, someone broke their car window and stole everything of value. Yikes...that sucks bad. So I let them use my phone and by the time we were done , it was almost dark out.
I concluded my day off with a nice cold Kokonee beer, actually 2 of them, and watched a movie. Very nice day overall. Tomarrow will be an early morning workout and then maybe some camping on the Coast. Who knows.
Today I learned to not discriminate towards bicycles because of their travel. You must respect the suspension...because it is good, real good.
Quote of the day, as I thought back to my morning commutes on the TriMet trains and buses:
"No Eye Contact!"
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