Mark Denovich

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England was great. The knot in my stomach melted away as I was there, and has been replaced by anticipation, tinged with a little bit of dread... I have sooo much to do.

In England

First trip across the pond. Rocky start... thunderstorms on the east coast caused some pretty big travel snafus. I managed to hop on another flight out through O'Hare, and got here pretty much…

Blog lameness

In addition to rarely posting anymore, TextDrive (my hosting service) has taken to killing my lighttpd process (something wonky with the Ruby setup) killing the site entirely... Deb's too.…

I'll blog 'til my fingers bleed

Well, that didn't take long. My dermatologist tells me I have psoriasis, or maybe atopic dermatitis. Common suffers are babies, children or adults. It effects mostly the face, scalp, arms, legs,…

Peter visits Pittsburgh (Weekend Wrap-up)

Busy but unproductive week at work thwarted my plans to post about this earlier. A month or two ago, my friend Peter informed me that he was leaving Chi-town and moving to Philly. The move was…

Too Hot to Blog

94F here in Pittsburgh. Also had some chores to catch up on, after the excitement this weekend. Details to follow tomorrow.

Seat modification

Photographed by denovichThe stock seat on my CBR1100XX, is pretty good... but clearly could be improved. First, the pillion's seat is angled forward a bit too much. This makes it difficult for…

For the Record: I am outraged

I'm proud to be an American, but I am ashamed and outraged by the legislative body that governs us. The NSA Wiretap/phone database scandal is just the latest in a litany of attacks on our civil…

Weekend Wrap-up

Photographed by denovich The weekend started early... After a pleasant evening of fishing Thursday, and the promise of even better weather Friday, I excercised some of my PTO, and headed back to the…

Groundhog Loop

Photographed by denovich210 miles yesterday around west-central PA. It was a great ride. The Blackbird (CBR1100XX) proved to be an excellent way to see some scenery and to carve up back-country roads.