Day zero was preceded by the previous week and the last day in Denver. The last day was a scramble at work day and then a scramble to pack and prepare for the long flight. I was very preoccupied with work details right up until travel day and found myself sending emails and double checking software deployments. Me Thinks things were well in hand.
I didn't get the suitcase out until late in the day, and then simply found the few clothing items I'd wear over and over while in Greece, and tossed them in. The other itmes I'd bring were electronic like chargers, cables, some pharmaceuticals for Maria, and reading to to (maybe).
Packing went fast and I didn't agonize over much. Since Demetrious and Maria's summer home on the beach is well provisioned, arlene said that we would likley bring more back then we would need to bring with us. I went to bed early.
I woke up about 4:AM, made coffee and started preparing for the travel day. Al Morris is going to pick me up at 6 and get me to the airport extra early so I could ask to ride standby on the 8:20 Atlanta flight instead of the 10:20 flight I was actually booked for. I printed out the tickets and shut down all the electronics in the office and the rest of the hous. That was a satisfying feeling.
I added whatever else I needed for the backpack, which was throwaway reading stuff in case I got stuck in an airport along the way, laptop and charger. I added the camera, thinking there may be interesting airport activites to photograph.
Al calld and frantically asked me wtf and how to route around the construction on our street. I'd forgotten about that and realized that givenhow much pain and difficulty I had to find ways around it, i'd better just jump in the car and find him first and then lead him to the blue house.
After a few moments of last minute indecision about keys and emtpy house details, I grabbed my shades and we hit the road. 6:AM is a good time to go to the airport, but there was still plenty of traffic. Al's badass new BMW got us there fast and he was dropping me off at the Delta curb by 6:25ish. I offered Al a hug, which he declined, acknowleged the August 3rd pickup details and then said something like "dont' get taz'd in a riot bro".
Checkin and security went fast, and the gate agent set me up on the earlier DIA to ATL flight. Excellent. In ATL I grabbed a bite and after being assured that my bags were checked all the way through, waited at the gate for 4:30 by alternately reading "Inkheart" and geeking out on the computer.
As usual, I waited to be the last one on the plane, since I don't want to be on the plane any longer than necessary and because I didn't have a mega carry on bag to force into an overhead compartment. I found my seat and was a little psyched that it was next to the mega hottie I'd noticed (several times) while waiting for the flight. We exchanged pleasentries and I settled in.
"Eva" (pronounced with a long 'A') was upset that her seat had been changed and that now it sucked that she was over a wing and it was the noisiest part of the plane and that they told her it was so that she could be on a window but her other seat was a window and that just seemed unfair. I told her it sounded like bs to me and that they probably just move people around for whatever last minute juggling seems necessary. I also suggested that if she makes a big deal out of it they may cave, or to simply to ask some nice person to switch seats later on. She said she didn't want to be a "beeatch".
We had a nice long flight and talked a lot about her Albanian-Greek-American experience and that she now lived in Vegas as a dealer in one of ot e casinos, and that she had just gradutated from cosmetology school and was going to visit her family in Athens where she grew up and then was going to Mitilini for a month or something like that. Despite here early impression of a whiner, she was a delightful conversationalist and very friendly. She shared her "sleeping aids".
Eventually I slept on and off during the flight. Since the movie was hard to hear over the engine noise and the nearest screen was too far to see very well, I read a bit and took frequent walks to get water, or another glass of wine.
When we were getting closer we looked out the window at the beautiful Itallian Alps and guess how long before we'd land. By now the flight attndants were showing their wear and rather tossed the breakfast sandwich and banana to us.
Eva, being the savvy traveler and Athenian, offered to help me through customs and to the baggage pickup. I knew that my bags were checked all the way through to Thessoloniki, but I knew I had plenty of time and was happy to hang out with her a bit longer.
After hanging out and talking a bit more while she waited for her bags, I thanked her for being such good company on such a long flight bid her Adieu and found my way to gate B9 where the last leg of my journey was to depart from.
By now was was feeling pretty grungy and I did a GI shower in the bathroom and waited for the flight. No delays here or anywhere else along the way.
When I arrived in Thessoloniki, I got off the plan and onto the shuttle to the airport. Once more through customs and found the baggage area. After waiting and not seeing my bag, I asked someone who told me that non-EU bags were at a different carousel and that theh were probably already there. I found it and in fact there it was, waiting for me. I though "Arlene will never believe how perfectly my trip went!"
I went upstairs and heard Demetrious call out to me and then saw Aidan running toward me. I dropped my bag and picked him up and hugged and kissed hime and told him how much I missed him. It was beautiful.
The drive from Thessoloniki to Kasandra and Gerakina Beach took an hour and as we drove the memories of my past trips came back to me quickly. We stopped at the "Lidl" grocery store to get dinner stuff and headed to the summer home.
When we arrived, Arlene and Luka came out to greet us and we carried in the groceries and after a look at the beautiful Agean sea, I lay down to sleep.
I slept like a rock, but Aidan came in after a bit and tapped me "Daddy, let's go out in the canoe!!" I felt like I'd slept for a month, and it took me a while to regain conciousness and tbe energy to get up. I found my swim trunks and we walked down to the beach.
The 'canoe' is really a fiberglass platform shaped like a surf board and with one little seat and two little indentments to put your heals. It's really a sort of kayak-surfboard hybrid. We carried it down to the water and had a blast capsizing it and paddling around the cove.
We found that two is the max on the kayak, but there were arguments about who got to ride on it.
It was absolutely beautiful in the evening on the water. The sun got low on the horizon and the air cooled a bit. The sand was no longer blistering hot on your feet. We swam and paddled until it was time for dinner which was quite late.
Yia Yia and Papoose prepared a fabulous dinner of Greek salad, beesteakie, green beans, fried eggplant and zucchini, sardines, and bear. We sat on the second floor deck with a view of the sea as the sun went down. The moon sparkled on the water as the lights across the sea got brighter. There were no bugs, and Demetrios joked about how bugs in Atlanta must be dumber than bugs in greece because they get zapped by the bug electrocution device but bugs here don't.
We watched a movie, had ice cream, and I fell asleep downstairs with Aidan.
More to come
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- Ed
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
MLK Weekend Skiing with the boys: Monday
Sunday night before I crashed on the couch (after skiing all day with the boys) I agreed to ski again with Alan McQueen and his daugher Emerson.
He was going up to WP and was looking for another bunch to go with. It seemed like a great fit since all the kids could ride in back and the two adults up front. We agreed to meet at the SE parking lot at Morrison.
We got there a little late, but Alan was a little later because he'd forgotten his ski harness backpack. I played hacky sack in the parking lot and cracked up the boys by occasionally throwing it at their windows.
Alan arrived and we loaded up and headed off in his rig. It was a pretty fast drive, with fast moving traffic. Near the turn off to Empire it bottle necked, but not for long. We were over Berthoud pass quickly. We went to the Galloping Goose area of Mary Jane, rented skis for Luka, got the 5 and under passes and decided to drive to the same place Aidan and Luka and I had parked at the day before.
We rigged up, got on the bus and were at the slopes quickly. I talked Alan into going up the Zephyr first run, because of it's great green cat track. The ski harness he and Emerson were using added some complications though and Luka got tired of waiting. After waiting a bit, he urged us to move on, and we did.
Luka had dramatically improved since the first runs the day before and we were able to make run after run on the Zephyr lift. Aidan made a plan that was to ski down to the Prospector lift and ride up and ski those runs. We managed to stay together until Aidan took the family terrain zone. It turns out that went past where we wanted to go to cut off to "Mock Turtle". That run would take us to Olympia Express where we could get up to High Lonesome.
Since Aidan overshot the turn off to Mock Turtle, Luka and I continued on, expecting that Aidan would find his way back up to meet us. We Made it to the top of Olympia Express and decided to go look for Aidan at the bottom of Zephyr lift. On the way down we got a call from Aidan who had met a family who made the call for him. We met at the bottom of Zephyr lift.
We then all took the Zephyr lift up and made two more runs before calling it an awesome day.
At the bottom we called Alan and Emerson and coordinated our rendevous for apres ski hot chocolate and beers.
He was going up to WP and was looking for another bunch to go with. It seemed like a great fit since all the kids could ride in back and the two adults up front. We agreed to meet at the SE parking lot at Morrison.
We got there a little late, but Alan was a little later because he'd forgotten his ski harness backpack. I played hacky sack in the parking lot and cracked up the boys by occasionally throwing it at their windows.
Alan arrived and we loaded up and headed off in his rig. It was a pretty fast drive, with fast moving traffic. Near the turn off to Empire it bottle necked, but not for long. We were over Berthoud pass quickly. We went to the Galloping Goose area of Mary Jane, rented skis for Luka, got the 5 and under passes and decided to drive to the same place Aidan and Luka and I had parked at the day before.
We rigged up, got on the bus and were at the slopes quickly. I talked Alan into going up the Zephyr first run, because of it's great green cat track. The ski harness he and Emerson were using added some complications though and Luka got tired of waiting. After waiting a bit, he urged us to move on, and we did.
Luka had dramatically improved since the first runs the day before and we were able to make run after run on the Zephyr lift. Aidan made a plan that was to ski down to the Prospector lift and ride up and ski those runs. We managed to stay together until Aidan took the family terrain zone. It turns out that went past where we wanted to go to cut off to "Mock Turtle". That run would take us to Olympia Express where we could get up to High Lonesome.
Since Aidan overshot the turn off to Mock Turtle, Luka and I continued on, expecting that Aidan would find his way back up to meet us. We Made it to the top of Olympia Express and decided to go look for Aidan at the bottom of Zephyr lift. On the way down we got a call from Aidan who had met a family who made the call for him. We met at the bottom of Zephyr lift.
We then all took the Zephyr lift up and made two more runs before calling it an awesome day.
At the bottom we called Alan and Emerson and coordinated our rendevous for apres ski hot chocolate and beers.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
MLK Weekend Skiing with the boys: Sunday
Aidan Luka and I skied at Winter park on Sunday January 17th and on Monday January 19th-Martin Luther King day.
We had two great days of skiing, with lots of helmet cam footage to show for it. Luka learned to ski this weekend!
Saturday evening we spent with Nick and Elizabeth and kids. I made a sortie over to Breeze Ski rentals to get Luka skis for Sunday. When we got home from visiting, we rallied all our gear together and Mommy got vittles for us to eat on the Mountain.
Sunday
Sunday morning we rallied early and made it up the mountain with no traffic. We got a good parking space at the Blue Spruce lot, geared up and were on the bus to the slopes. I showed Aidan how to bind his skis and poles together which seems to drastically help ski logistics frustration.
We started at the discovery park area and had some frustration with luka and turning. He would bail out by sitting down and sliding. We did a few runs there but Aidan was getting bored. We got separated at one point, but Aidan appeared at the top of the lift. He'd been waiting for us.
I decided to take Luka up to the top of the Zephyr since it services some nice long green runs and because Aidan could ski the big blues. I had Luka hang onto my ski pole while I pulled him along the too gentle cat track (it looks like "March Hare" but it's hard to reconcile memory with the map). This was very successful and he was able to figure out how to turn his skis to stay with me. Further down, where it was steep enough, he was able to figure out how to turn and control his speed by snow plowing.
We lost Aidan at one point, but I had made him memorize my phone number and I recieved a phone call from a ski patrol who had him at the top of Gemini Express. We skied down as quickly as we could and met them. We thanked the ski patroller who explained that Aidan had been helped by a ski racer who hooked him up with the ski patrol.
We met some parents we know at Docs Bar and had lunch. Their kids were in ski school so no hope of hooking Aidan up with any peers.
We did a bunch more Zephyr top to bottom runs. During one of the Zephyr runs, I was giving Luka a little push, and I sort of ran him over. When I did, his legs must have done the "splits" and the "edgie-wedgie" snapped. The helmet cam footage is pretty dramatic and audible!
Luka was kinda freaked out because "I needed that!". I assured him that he could make it down without them and he had to try. I pulled him down the track and he did very well keeping his skis straight and then snowplowing when he needed to, and turning just the right amount. In a few minutes he had it figured out and he was doing better than he had with the edgie wedgie!
It started snowing lightly and without edgie-wedgie, it was all very dramatically rapid improvement. We did run after run and Aidan was very proud of his little brother, and told him how well he was doing. I was pretty proud too.
We finished up the day at about 3:30 or 4 and jumped on the bus back to the car. Everyone was pretty tired, but no complaining. The snow was picking up a bit, and so the drive over Berthoud pass was slow, but steady. Once over the pass it was dry as a bone and no traffic!! Both boys fell asleep and I listened to Physical Graphiti.
We were home by 5:30. The boys were excited to see mom and I crashed on the couch.
We had two great days of skiing, with lots of helmet cam footage to show for it. Luka learned to ski this weekend!
Saturday evening we spent with Nick and Elizabeth and kids. I made a sortie over to Breeze Ski rentals to get Luka skis for Sunday. When we got home from visiting, we rallied all our gear together and Mommy got vittles for us to eat on the Mountain.
Sunday
Sunday morning we rallied early and made it up the mountain with no traffic. We got a good parking space at the Blue Spruce lot, geared up and were on the bus to the slopes. I showed Aidan how to bind his skis and poles together which seems to drastically help ski logistics frustration.
We started at the discovery park area and had some frustration with luka and turning. He would bail out by sitting down and sliding. We did a few runs there but Aidan was getting bored. We got separated at one point, but Aidan appeared at the top of the lift. He'd been waiting for us.
I decided to take Luka up to the top of the Zephyr since it services some nice long green runs and because Aidan could ski the big blues. I had Luka hang onto my ski pole while I pulled him along the too gentle cat track (it looks like "March Hare" but it's hard to reconcile memory with the map). This was very successful and he was able to figure out how to turn his skis to stay with me. Further down, where it was steep enough, he was able to figure out how to turn and control his speed by snow plowing.
We lost Aidan at one point, but I had made him memorize my phone number and I recieved a phone call from a ski patrol who had him at the top of Gemini Express. We skied down as quickly as we could and met them. We thanked the ski patroller who explained that Aidan had been helped by a ski racer who hooked him up with the ski patrol.
We met some parents we know at Docs Bar and had lunch. Their kids were in ski school so no hope of hooking Aidan up with any peers.
We did a bunch more Zephyr top to bottom runs. During one of the Zephyr runs, I was giving Luka a little push, and I sort of ran him over. When I did, his legs must have done the "splits" and the "edgie-wedgie" snapped. The helmet cam footage is pretty dramatic and audible!
Luka was kinda freaked out because "I needed that!". I assured him that he could make it down without them and he had to try. I pulled him down the track and he did very well keeping his skis straight and then snowplowing when he needed to, and turning just the right amount. In a few minutes he had it figured out and he was doing better than he had with the edgie wedgie!
It started snowing lightly and without edgie-wedgie, it was all very dramatically rapid improvement. We did run after run and Aidan was very proud of his little brother, and told him how well he was doing. I was pretty proud too.
We finished up the day at about 3:30 or 4 and jumped on the bus back to the car. Everyone was pretty tired, but no complaining. The snow was picking up a bit, and so the drive over Berthoud pass was slow, but steady. Once over the pass it was dry as a bone and no traffic!! Both boys fell asleep and I listened to Physical Graphiti.
We were home by 5:30. The boys were excited to see mom and I crashed on the couch.
Ski day 1-8-2010 with Aidan and Luka
Aidan, Luka and I drove to Copper Mt. Sunday to spend a day skiing together. Luka would be in lessons for this day, but Aidan and I hoped to do a few runs with him afterwards.
We rallied early and arrived at Copper at about 8:30 so we avoided most of the ski lesson and ski rental lines. It was still a little painful, standing in (the wrong line) but we got him all set up with boots and skis, found his instructor and we said a tearless "byb, bye" to Luka. Aidan and I headed for the lifts.
Aidan and went up the High Point lift and talked about which runs we would do. We talked about ho slow the High Point lift was and decided to go up Excellerator to the top. We made 3 or 4 runs before going inside for lunch.
Although mom had set up us with good grub that morning, I had been so flustered about getting everyone together and on the bus from the parking lot, I didn't take any with us. Aidan and I stopped at the lodge to warm up.
Like my buddy Al says, taking your own lunch is the way to go, but that the "cool" people pay 5 bucks for a beer and 6 bucks for a hamburger. That recollection must have been from years ago.
$7.50 for a hot dog for Aidan. No, it didn't come with a
drink or fries or anything except a "7.50 for a freaking hot dog?!?"
From me.Does that make me one of the cool people?
When in the lodge we were waved at by two girls and their mom. It turns out that one of the girls recognized Aidan and the mom recognized me. She hand I had met mt biking along the cherry creek single track area back before they turned that section into a golf course. We both sort of acknowleged that we were right about how that section of trails was already under threat way back then and now has been taken over.
The girl (can't remember her name) works at Picolos so we'll have to visit.
Aidan and I made our way down to where the ski school was. We made several runs up and down Kokomo and the other beginner lift but no sign of Luka. We went inside to look for him at the ski school. They pointed to the magic carpet outside the school. That's where we found Luka.
...And we had luka in ski school at $150.00 for the day. When I got
there to pick him up he was playing on some dinasaur playset thing
instead of skiing. Another what the *&%^! moment.
I had him put his skis on and I took him up the magic carpet 3 or 4 times. It was clear that he had not learned anything at all. He couldn't turn or stop or anything. He would go straight down the hill and let us catch him.
Since we weren't supposed to be in the learning area, we got kicked out and Aidan and I took Luka up the Kokomo lift. We did one or two runs, but Luka was clearly at the earliest stages of skier-hood.
We decided to return the skis and hit the road.
When we left, ski traffic was at high tide, and so I turned off into
silverthorne to find something to do and to let traffic burn off. We
found a movie theater and were just in time for "Avatar in 3D". $8.25
for the two kids and $8.75 for me. I got the large popcorn and large
drink for me and Aidan and nachos (which he wouldn't eat) for Luka.
So, I was one of the fool people who spent somewhere around $200 for a
day in the mts.
Next weekend we do it again. This time I'm packing gatorade a bag of
chips and we're heading home at 2 pm. Ill teach the kid to ski myself.
We rallied early and arrived at Copper at about 8:30 so we avoided most of the ski lesson and ski rental lines. It was still a little painful, standing in (the wrong line) but we got him all set up with boots and skis, found his instructor and we said a tearless "byb, bye" to Luka. Aidan and I headed for the lifts.
Aidan and went up the High Point lift and talked about which runs we would do. We talked about ho slow the High Point lift was and decided to go up Excellerator to the top. We made 3 or 4 runs before going inside for lunch.
Although mom had set up us with good grub that morning, I had been so flustered about getting everyone together and on the bus from the parking lot, I didn't take any with us. Aidan and I stopped at the lodge to warm up.
Like my buddy Al says, taking your own lunch is the way to go, but that the "cool" people pay 5 bucks for a beer and 6 bucks for a hamburger. That recollection must have been from years ago.
$7.50 for a hot dog for Aidan. No, it didn't come with a
drink or fries or anything except a "7.50 for a freaking hot dog?!?"
From me.Does that make me one of the cool people?
When in the lodge we were waved at by two girls and their mom. It turns out that one of the girls recognized Aidan and the mom recognized me. She hand I had met mt biking along the cherry creek single track area back before they turned that section into a golf course. We both sort of acknowleged that we were right about how that section of trails was already under threat way back then and now has been taken over.
The girl (can't remember her name) works at Picolos so we'll have to visit.
Aidan and I made our way down to where the ski school was. We made several runs up and down Kokomo and the other beginner lift but no sign of Luka. We went inside to look for him at the ski school. They pointed to the magic carpet outside the school. That's where we found Luka.
...And we had luka in ski school at $150.00 for the day. When I got
there to pick him up he was playing on some dinasaur playset thing
instead of skiing. Another what the *&%^! moment.
I had him put his skis on and I took him up the magic carpet 3 or 4 times. It was clear that he had not learned anything at all. He couldn't turn or stop or anything. He would go straight down the hill and let us catch him.
Since we weren't supposed to be in the learning area, we got kicked out and Aidan and I took Luka up the Kokomo lift. We did one or two runs, but Luka was clearly at the earliest stages of skier-hood.
We decided to return the skis and hit the road.
When we left, ski traffic was at high tide, and so I turned off into
silverthorne to find something to do and to let traffic burn off. We
found a movie theater and were just in time for "Avatar in 3D". $8.25
for the two kids and $8.75 for me. I got the large popcorn and large
drink for me and Aidan and nachos (which he wouldn't eat) for Luka.
So, I was one of the fool people who spent somewhere around $200 for a
day in the mts.
Next weekend we do it again. This time I'm packing gatorade a bag of
chips and we're heading home at 2 pm. Ill teach the kid to ski myself.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Spring Source Tools Suite and grails support
This plugin for eclipse is supposed to provide groovy and grails support.
It seems if I install the IDE Core first all by itself, it will install, but this seems painful and perilous.
eclipse update fails
When trying to use the release update site:
SpringSource STS - http://www.springsource.com/update/e3.5
fails with
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE)
Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE) requires 'org.eclipse.mylyn.jira.ui [3.3.0,4.0.0)' but it could not be found
When tryhing to use themilestone update site
Springsource STS Milestone - http://www.springsource.com/milestone/e3.5
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2 (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2)
Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2 (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2) requires 'org.eclipse.mylyn.jira_feature.feature.group [3.3.0,3.4.0)' but it could not be found
It seems if I install the IDE Core first all by itself, it will install, but this seems painful and perilous.
eclipse update fails
When trying to use the release update site:
SpringSource STS - http://www.springsource.com/update/e3.5
fails with
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE)
Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.3.0.200912171331-RELEASE) requires 'org.eclipse.mylyn.jira.ui [3.3.0,4.0.0)' but it could not be found
When tryhing to use themilestone update site
Springsource STS Milestone - http://www.springsource.com/milestone/e3.5
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2 (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2)
Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite (required) 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2 (com.springsource.sts.feature.group 2.2.0.200910161543-RC2) requires 'org.eclipse.mylyn.jira_feature.feature.group [3.3.0,3.4.0)' but it could not be found
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
AK Trip Day 2: Monday June 15
The fishing trip rocked, but it's day 3 and I have to feed and rally the boys. I'll write about the day 2 fishing trip later.Below is a start...
Spent the morning writing blog for day one and researching fishing outfits. We decided to hit the little Susitna for Kings, but I needed a fishing license, provision and be at the boat ramp at the little Susitna by Noon-That's about 100 miles away and I was herding cats.
I had been on the phone 3 or 4 times in the morning with Alaska Susitna Charters, to solidify plans. Lauri on the other end was relating how Greg had been on the river for days with clients and would kill for a huge cup of coffee and could I please bring him one. The way she talked I was imagining this guy falling asleep at the orrs.
I threw everything into my motherload backpack and we rallied, which means me yelling and herding them into the car. The drive to Wasilla was beautiful and of course Luka fell asleep. I woke him, we all went into Fred Meyer, got the fishing licence + king salmon tag and provisioned (chips, soda pop and a cooler) ($20 license + $10 king salmon tag, $3 cooler, soda, chips, bread). We stopped at Carl's Jr. for some vile fast food and headed down the Knik Goose Bay rode to the landing.
The drive from Wasilla was longer than I figured and the boys nearly heard me say a bad word a couple times when I started wondering if I'd missed a turn or something on the long gravel Point Mackenzie road. I remembered that I needed to buy a coffee for the Greg the guide and luckily there was a roadhouse with fresh coffee.
We found the obvious boat launch fee area, ,paid the $5 parking, parked and coffe in hand, went looking for our guide. I started asking around for Alaska Susitna Charters and it wasn't long before someone said "Hey is that coffee for me? You must be my new best friend!"
That's when I knew it was going to be a good day.
Monday, June 15, 2009
AK Trip: Day 1-Sunday June 14
Saturday was frantic packing but we made it with no problems. I spent $360 on Eagle creek packing organizers, but hope to make good use of it.
We got delayed out of denver and I was worried about making the connection in Salt lake but mad it with no problems. SPent a ton of money on munchies in the SL airport ($7 on sandwich, $8 on pizza, 12 on ice cream) but kept us occupied. The trip to AK was good, ,since we all mostly slept, uncomfortably.
We arrived in Anch and Alice was there to greet us. The boys were in good sprits and Luka ran to hug Aunt alice. We got our bags and loaded into dad's monstrous Ford excursion for the trip to his condo.
We were up will about 2 or 3 (still daylight) but slept well and were up by 6:AM anyway. (curses Luka!) We spent the morning getting settled and then walked from Dad's condo (13th and eagle) to Holy Family Cathedral and The Captain Cook. On the way we stopped at a tourist trap and I bought Aidan a nice fleece with an Alaska logo. ($20)
As i walked up to HFC a guy saw me and said "Hi Ed Young" which really took me back. He was Tim Walsh, who is an old friend of my dad's.
The boys and I walked into the church and downstairs, but there was nothing going on in the basement. I was hoping for a pancake breakfast!
We walked to the Cook and found dad. Luka was a wild animal and couldn't be restrained from jumping on the couch in the sitting area so I took them to walk arund and go up and down the elevators. Finally we talked to Alice and did some car shuffling. I ended up with Dad's kia (license plate: EYOUNG) and we went to breakfast. $(15)
The Luka machine was out of control so I decied to take them hiking and burn off energy. We got our gear from the condo and headed up to Flattop parking lot. On the way we stopped at John and Angel Woodberry's place but John wasn't home.
When we arrived we discovered that Luka had fallen asleep, but woke up with Aidan's help. I went to pay the parking fee for a day ($5/day) but paid for two days since I had only a $10. Hopefully we can use the second day soon.
We all packed up and started up the trail. Luka was groggy and wanted me to carry him (!). I carried him up the first flight of stairs (stairs?) and then let him walk. He was slow and groggy for the first 30 minutes or so, but he got going after a while.
Aidan was a little mountaineer and was cranking up ahead of us, but waited as necessary. He and I called and responded using the little whistles on our backpacks! Cool.
I took pictures along the way (hope they turn out) and we summited with no problems. The top is flat (hence the name) and we ran all over the place checking out the little rock forts people have built.
We stopped to have a snack where you can see Powerline pass and peaks 2 and 3. They were shrouded in clouds and it was cool looking. We took more picts ran around some more and started down.
Aidan was ahead and looked very sure footed. Luka was a little more hesitant and I had to help him on the sketchy upper part.
Once we got further down, there are now woodedn steps built into the mountain side (south side) and we had fun jumping down them. As we got down where it's less steep Luka wanted to race and we all ran on the trail. It was huge fun.
Alice had called on the trail and we met them at the parking lot. Dad, Alice and Uncle Mike were there and we all walked around the Anchorage view and took pictures. Luka and Aidan took turns being in time out.
We then headed down to tour the old neighborhood (Stonybrook drive) but the house on the hill is hidden by huge amounts of foliage. We drove to the lake and went to the park.
The kids played on the equipment, but Luka peed his pants and we had to go home. (Note to self: bring spare clothes for him) Not a problem since we were ready to head home anyway.
At Dad's condo we did laundry, luka peed his pants again (!) and Dad and I decied to go eat. (Country Kitchen ($32) Never again. The kids were totally unruly and it made me mad and sad that they did not mind or behave. No desert for them!
We drove down 5th ave to Eldeberry park and then around bootlegger's cove. Very nice areay and it made me misty eyed especially when we drove past the old house, now with a huge mansion on premises.
We then went to "Valley of the Moon Park" for the kids to play and play they did!! It was so fun watching them play together, having real brotherly fun! They played a game where they grabbed handfulls of gravel and ran up the play thing, then let the gravel go down the slide and then slid down after it. They did that endlessly and it was pure joy to watch! Luka peed his pants again (just a little) because he was having so much fun did not want to stop. I managed to get him to the woods to finish up his pee.
While they played, Alice and Mike and I talked about stuff. Dad was off walking around the park.
We went home after an hour or more of play. The kids need a bath!
At home we got in our jammies, did laundry, scrubbed the tub and I decided there would be no bath tonight because it was pretty grimy. One more clean in the AM and we'll be bathready.
Alice called while we did our evening routine and offered to get us stuff from Fred Meyer before they headed over. I said cleaning and laundry stuff ($28). The boys watched DVD all the while.
Bill Emmert stopped by and we had a nice visit. We'll try to meet again during our trip.
The boys fell asleep watching Tom and Jerry, both snuggled in the sleeping bag (very cute). They had a very long day, and will sleep well. They climbed a mountain and played their hearts out.
Dad and Alice and I decided that we'd spend Monday morning doing fishing research and then the evening go to Palmer to visit Alices friend who has a farm.
It's nearly midnight and still light out! Better hit the hay...
We got delayed out of denver and I was worried about making the connection in Salt lake but mad it with no problems. SPent a ton of money on munchies in the SL airport ($7 on sandwich, $8 on pizza, 12 on ice cream) but kept us occupied. The trip to AK was good, ,since we all mostly slept, uncomfortably.
We arrived in Anch and Alice was there to greet us. The boys were in good sprits and Luka ran to hug Aunt alice. We got our bags and loaded into dad's monstrous Ford excursion for the trip to his condo.
We were up will about 2 or 3 (still daylight) but slept well and were up by 6:AM anyway. (curses Luka!) We spent the morning getting settled and then walked from Dad's condo (13th and eagle) to Holy Family Cathedral and The Captain Cook. On the way we stopped at a tourist trap and I bought Aidan a nice fleece with an Alaska logo. ($20)
As i walked up to HFC a guy saw me and said "Hi Ed Young" which really took me back. He was Tim Walsh, who is an old friend of my dad's.
The boys and I walked into the church and downstairs, but there was nothing going on in the basement. I was hoping for a pancake breakfast!
We walked to the Cook and found dad. Luka was a wild animal and couldn't be restrained from jumping on the couch in the sitting area so I took them to walk arund and go up and down the elevators. Finally we talked to Alice and did some car shuffling. I ended up with Dad's kia (license plate: EYOUNG) and we went to breakfast. $(15)
The Luka machine was out of control so I decied to take them hiking and burn off energy. We got our gear from the condo and headed up to Flattop parking lot. On the way we stopped at John and Angel Woodberry's place but John wasn't home.
When we arrived we discovered that Luka had fallen asleep, but woke up with Aidan's help. I went to pay the parking fee for a day ($5/day) but paid for two days since I had only a $10. Hopefully we can use the second day soon.
We all packed up and started up the trail. Luka was groggy and wanted me to carry him (!). I carried him up the first flight of stairs (stairs?) and then let him walk. He was slow and groggy for the first 30 minutes or so, but he got going after a while.
Aidan was a little mountaineer and was cranking up ahead of us, but waited as necessary. He and I called and responded using the little whistles on our backpacks! Cool.
I took pictures along the way (hope they turn out) and we summited with no problems. The top is flat (hence the name) and we ran all over the place checking out the little rock forts people have built.
We stopped to have a snack where you can see Powerline pass and peaks 2 and 3. They were shrouded in clouds and it was cool looking. We took more picts ran around some more and started down.
Aidan was ahead and looked very sure footed. Luka was a little more hesitant and I had to help him on the sketchy upper part.
Once we got further down, there are now woodedn steps built into the mountain side (south side) and we had fun jumping down them. As we got down where it's less steep Luka wanted to race and we all ran on the trail. It was huge fun.
Alice had called on the trail and we met them at the parking lot. Dad, Alice and Uncle Mike were there and we all walked around the Anchorage view and took pictures. Luka and Aidan took turns being in time out.
We then headed down to tour the old neighborhood (Stonybrook drive) but the house on the hill is hidden by huge amounts of foliage. We drove to the lake and went to the park.
The kids played on the equipment, but Luka peed his pants and we had to go home. (Note to self: bring spare clothes for him) Not a problem since we were ready to head home anyway.
At Dad's condo we did laundry, luka peed his pants again (!) and Dad and I decied to go eat. (Country Kitchen ($32) Never again. The kids were totally unruly and it made me mad and sad that they did not mind or behave. No desert for them!
We drove down 5th ave to Eldeberry park and then around bootlegger's cove. Very nice areay and it made me misty eyed especially when we drove past the old house, now with a huge mansion on premises.
We then went to "Valley of the Moon Park" for the kids to play and play they did!! It was so fun watching them play together, having real brotherly fun! They played a game where they grabbed handfulls of gravel and ran up the play thing, then let the gravel go down the slide and then slid down after it. They did that endlessly and it was pure joy to watch! Luka peed his pants again (just a little) because he was having so much fun did not want to stop. I managed to get him to the woods to finish up his pee.
While they played, Alice and Mike and I talked about stuff. Dad was off walking around the park.
We went home after an hour or more of play. The kids need a bath!
At home we got in our jammies, did laundry, scrubbed the tub and I decided there would be no bath tonight because it was pretty grimy. One more clean in the AM and we'll be bathready.
Alice called while we did our evening routine and offered to get us stuff from Fred Meyer before they headed over. I said cleaning and laundry stuff ($28). The boys watched DVD all the while.
Bill Emmert stopped by and we had a nice visit. We'll try to meet again during our trip.
The boys fell asleep watching Tom and Jerry, both snuggled in the sleeping bag (very cute). They had a very long day, and will sleep well. They climbed a mountain and played their hearts out.
Dad and Alice and I decided that we'd spend Monday morning doing fishing research and then the evening go to Palmer to visit Alices friend who has a farm.
It's nearly midnight and still light out! Better hit the hay...
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Response to and thoughts on an article on trickle down economics, and my take on the Shock Doctrine
A friend came over for dinner one night and as is inevitable, we talked politics. He mentioned an article he'd read recently and later sent me a link to it.
In response to a link to this article:
http://www.fee.org/PUBLICATIONS/THE-FREEMAN/article.asp?aid=479
I wrote this:
Frank,
It was great seeing you too. Those two boys are total studs just like the old man!
...of course I'm talking about my boys...
Thanks for bringing all that food over when we invited you to dinner! I guess that means when we come to FLA we have to bring dinner.
And thanks for indulging with me in all that political rant, and for forwarding that article. It was a good time. Easy to get me going on that stuff these day's I'll admit.
That's an old article. I'd never heard of "Olson's Law of Groups" but it was very compelling. Also interesting to read about Milton Friedman's observation that interest groups desire government regulation as long as they are the one's doing the regulating, and it always leads to higher prices. Just look at the medical and pharmaceutical industries for solid proof of this. This would seem to be an argument against regulation, but there's no discussion about the corruption that is inevitable without effective oversight, because that would erode the idea of pure market magic.
The part about future based programs like jobs training and public education being a failure because the poor live only "in the present" was ridiculously simplistic, and extremely chauvinistic. It nearly blew the whole article even if it wasn't merely a 28 year old validation of pure market driven and unregulated trickle down economics.
I agree in principle that market based solutions are superior to government dependent ones, but I'm skeptical that without effective oversight, market based solutions will benefit anyone other than the few who construct their "iron triangle". One only has to witness the recurring deregulated financial industry collapses and subsequent bailouts to see who's benefiting and who's paying for all the pure market driven solution fuckups. Do I even need to mention how energy industry deregulation resulted in Enron's collapse? Did the energy industry suffer?
Any more I believe inn fact that they are not fuckups at all. It is by design that these unregulated markets fail and are bailed out by the taxpayers. They wrote the laws for their own industry, and are in effect playing the bankruptcy game, for which they are held unaccountable, because they have constructed their "Iron Triangle". Government exists to be ridiculed and gamed, and the taxpayers are to be played as suckers.
Beyond the well exampled market driven solutions that benefit from the "Iron Triangle" effect of self regulating (read no oversight) industries, there is a much more dangerous derivative economic theory that is being realized. It is much worse than being simply corrupt.
What's going on now is that there are entire industries that benefit from government failure and in fact are motivated to make sure that government does fail so they can jump in and provide their "market solution". This solution doesn't solve anything, in fact it insures that the failure is perpetuated and enlarged so that they can continue to profit from it. Witness the military industry, and what has become the "Disaster Capitalism Complex". The economic theories of Milton Friedman are central, and provide the adherents with a kind of intellectualization and validation for many of the economic and geo-political policies of late. In fact, even if the policies fail, they use the failure as evidence of success. Totally Orwellian, Dude.
This is the premise of the book I mentioned during our rant session. It's called "The Shock Doctrine", and it's just as truthfull and well documented as it is dark and apocalyptic. Everything I've written above is my own take (rant) on it all, so I urge you to read it, or as I did, listen to the audio book, rather than listen to me. Unfortunately, I know that with two kids, a job and graduate school, reality will get in the way of you're getting to read it.
So, anyway, thanks for the visit. I hope we can see Jen next time,and I wish you well in grad school and career stuff.
Hang looose, baby
In response to a link to this article:
http://www.fee.org/PUBLICATIONS/THE-FREEMAN/article.asp?aid=479
I wrote this:
Frank,
It was great seeing you too. Those two boys are total studs just like the old man!
...of course I'm talking about my boys...
Thanks for bringing all that food over when we invited you to dinner! I guess that means when we come to FLA we have to bring dinner.
And thanks for indulging with me in all that political rant, and for forwarding that article. It was a good time. Easy to get me going on that stuff these day's I'll admit.
That's an old article. I'd never heard of "Olson's Law of Groups" but it was very compelling. Also interesting to read about Milton Friedman's observation that interest groups desire government regulation as long as they are the one's doing the regulating, and it always leads to higher prices. Just look at the medical and pharmaceutical industries for solid proof of this. This would seem to be an argument against regulation, but there's no discussion about the corruption that is inevitable without effective oversight, because that would erode the idea of pure market magic.
The part about future based programs like jobs training and public education being a failure because the poor live only "in the present" was ridiculously simplistic, and extremely chauvinistic. It nearly blew the whole article even if it wasn't merely a 28 year old validation of pure market driven and unregulated trickle down economics.
I agree in principle that market based solutions are superior to government dependent ones, but I'm skeptical that without effective oversight, market based solutions will benefit anyone other than the few who construct their "iron triangle". One only has to witness the recurring deregulated financial industry collapses and subsequent bailouts to see who's benefiting and who's paying for all the pure market driven solution fuckups. Do I even need to mention how energy industry deregulation resulted in Enron's collapse? Did the energy industry suffer?
Any more I believe inn fact that they are not fuckups at all. It is by design that these unregulated markets fail and are bailed out by the taxpayers. They wrote the laws for their own industry, and are in effect playing the bankruptcy game, for which they are held unaccountable, because they have constructed their "Iron Triangle". Government exists to be ridiculed and gamed, and the taxpayers are to be played as suckers.
Beyond the well exampled market driven solutions that benefit from the "Iron Triangle" effect of self regulating (read no oversight) industries, there is a much more dangerous derivative economic theory that is being realized. It is much worse than being simply corrupt.
What's going on now is that there are entire industries that benefit from government failure and in fact are motivated to make sure that government does fail so they can jump in and provide their "market solution". This solution doesn't solve anything, in fact it insures that the failure is perpetuated and enlarged so that they can continue to profit from it. Witness the military industry, and what has become the "Disaster Capitalism Complex". The economic theories of Milton Friedman are central, and provide the adherents with a kind of intellectualization and validation for many of the economic and geo-political policies of late. In fact, even if the policies fail, they use the failure as evidence of success. Totally Orwellian, Dude.
This is the premise of the book I mentioned during our rant session. It's called "The Shock Doctrine", and it's just as truthfull and well documented as it is dark and apocalyptic. Everything I've written above is my own take (rant) on it all, so I urge you to read it, or as I did, listen to the audio book, rather than listen to me. Unfortunately, I know that with two kids, a job and graduate school, reality will get in the way of you're getting to read it.
So, anyway, thanks for the visit. I hope we can see Jen next time,and I wish you well in grad school and career stuff.
Hang looose, baby
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Triple Bypass 2008
Rode the Triple Bypass today. 120 miles, 3 Mountain passes over 11,000 feet. Very tired. Too tired to give details. Stay tuned.
That was all I had energy for the evening after I finally got home about 10:PM. I got home, cracked open a beer and risked falling asleep in the tub for an hour or so.
Everything went pretty well on the ride, except that I never saw any of the guys I was supposed to ride with, until the finish. That's because I started before they did, and then when I got to the first rest stop at the top of Squaw Pass, I waited and watched for 45 minutes for them. It turns out that they all blew through that one and kept going. There was no cell phone coverage up there so I had no idea. After that I was far behind the rest of the day.
No matter though. The weather was perfect all day. The ride up Squaw Pass was was chilly, but calm. My toes were cold the whole way up.
Once at the top, I refueled and used the bathroom, walked around, waited and refueled some more. Finally I got ready to head down "The Dark Side" of Squaw pass. For this I put on all my wind protection: Wind shell, hand and toe shells. I already had on my next to skin silk layer (the one I should have had on the Mt Evans trip) The one item I was missing was the balaclava, that JB had with him, and that I we had arranged for me to get from him when we hooked up at the first rest stop. I decided not to put on the leg warmers, and it turns out I was ok without them.
The ride down The Dark Side of Squaw Pass is cold, and long. Many people complained that after Squaw Pass, their toes and hands were frozen until they got to Loveland pass some 40 miles later. I think I was well prepared, and the cold air didn't penetrate too much as I blasted down the 10 or 15 mile descent.
At the bottom (Idaho Springs) I pealed off and after trying to make phone calls to my buddies, I got going. The section from Idaho Springs climbs gently on the access road that runs parallel to I70 through Dumont to GeorgeTown where the next rest stop was.
Once again, I lingered at the rest stop and refueled, used the bathroom and sunscreened up. About here I got a call from JB who was pulling into Loveland, the next aid station about 20 miles up.
I got going again and continued the steady climb up to Loveland. This section of the ride takes you along I70 (part of it you actually have to ride on the highway). Just as I was about to get onto the highway section, my sister Alice called and we talked for a few minutes. "Oh, ya, you said you were doing a bike ride or something. Is that this weekend?"
A bike ride indeed.
The ride along the highway sucked and occasionally huge trucks would pass by and scare the crap out of me. It seemed like each mile was getting longer now. I got a call from Jim Pefanis who was at Loveland now. I told him I'd haul ass and get there ASAP.
When I finally pulled into Loveland I gave Jim an call, and when he answered, it was obvious that he was riding up the steeps. Between gasps, he said, he'd seem me, down the road.
Since I had missed him again, I wasn't in any big hurry, and so I lingered at the Loveland rest stop. Here there was live music, ham and turkey sandwiches and a table covered with nasty mustard and mayo bottles. Most were empty, and all were crusted over and vile. I found a Grey Poupon, banged it on the table and managed to get a squirt onto my ham and Wonderbread lunch. I can't complain. They did a good job of having plenty of energy food there, and the watermelon was awesome.
It was at this rest stop that I applied some kind of a salve to my crotch. The label identified it as some scary sounding medical name, but the first aid guy (discretely) recommended it. At first I was alarmed when it felt kind of like that "icy hot" stuff and I thought I had made a big mistake. It turns out that whatever that stuff works pretty well for saddle sore. Nuff said.
Next: Loveland Pass, painfully steep. Vail Pass, painfully long.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Mt Evans Hail Storm From Hell
The Triple Bypass is next weekend and a few of us decided we needed a challenge to see if our training had paid off. We decided to ride to the top of Mt. Evans from Evergreen, Colorado. Evergeen is about 7000 feet, Mt Evan's is 14, 277 feet so It's about 35 miles of climbing at altitude and then the same distance again in descent.
Jim Pefanis and I met John Bissert and two of his friends at Bergan Park. We started up the mountain at 7:AM and rode the first leg of the trip up Squaw pass to Echo Lake (11,140ft) . As we rode everyone commented on how perfect the day was and how nice and cool it was.
JB and his buddy Warren rode up a bit faster than we did so we agreed to meet up later. Jim and I rode up to Echo Lake and took a long rest and refilled our water bottles. Echo Lake is the entrance to to the 14 mile road up to Mt. Evans, and there's a $3/per person fee to use the road.
At Echo Lake, we started up the road to Mt. Evans. Jim decided that he would stop after a couple miles and turn around to head down. I couldn't blame him since we all were riding the Triple Bypass in 6 days, and a ride like this so close to the event, was not necessarily a good training strategy. Also, since the weather up around Mt. Evan's had been dark and cloudy all morning, a storm seemed pretty likely.
Jim took off down and I kept riding up the mountain. The air gets pretty cold the higher you go, and I stopped to put on my jacket and head band. As I headed toward the summit, I could see lightning occasionally, and started hearing thunder. A light rain started to fall, but I felt pretty well protected.
As I rode on, I passed some people and got passed by a few others. I was soon at the 6 mile marker and moving pretty fast, but it was also getting pretty cold now and the light rain had increased to a drizzle. I stopped to put on my new REI silk shirt and discovered that it was actually new REI silk long underwear bottoms! I stood there and stared at them stunned, and then stuffed them back in my jersey while muttering something to myself about how if I died of hypothermia, I'd deserve it for being such an idiot.
The lightning and thunder was getting closer and more frequent, and the traffic coming down was seeming more and more urgent. I continued on, but soon decided to just ride to the next mile marker and then turn around.
I got to the 8 mile mark, was stopping to turn around and just then saw JB on his way down. I yelled and he stopped. I told him I was heading down and we agreed to meet at the Echo Lake store. By this time the rain had turned into small hail and the lightning and thunder was pretty alarming. I put on my waterproof mits and got going down.
I passed a couple who were riding pretty slowly. The road at this section was extremely exposed and the ride down has some really unnerving views. The side of the road is basically a cliff, and someone on a bike, about 4 or 5 feet from the road edge would be in some serious hurt if a gust of wind happened to blast them off the edge. The girl was very scared and was asking her friend if they should stop. He answered "Not here! Keep going!".
I passed them by and just about then the hail turned from small mushy pellets into hard icy projectiles. Soon the size of them increased to about the size of large (frozen) grapes, and it turned from a little scary and annoying into an extremely painful and dangerous bombardment. The balls of ice were penetrating the holes in my helmet and were painfully pummeling my arms, shoulders and face.
This was now the worst hail storm I'd ever experienced and I was on a mountain side with no cover, and with lightning and thunder crashing all around. I headed for a spot on the mountain side that was most leeward and tried to protect myself from the painful hail. I managed to get my head and shoulders protected but my legs and back continued to get pounded by the increasingly large and intense balls of ice. I wondered if I was dooming myself to a lightning strike by cowering against the rock to avoid hail damage.
While I cowered, my head was covered but I could watch as the hail violently pummeled and bounced off the road. It accumulated rapidly, and what was a gleaming wet road in a green and rocky mountain side, was now completely white. I watched as my bike slowly began to be covered by the accumulating hail.
As I wondered how long I'd have to endure the bombardment, a ranger truck drove by, stopped, and then backed up quickly. My bike was pretty hard to see now, and I thought it was going to drive over it, but the driver managed to park right next to it. I jumped up and a second later was inside the truck, thanking the ranger for stopping. Inside the truck the hail was unbelievably loud, and we sat for awhile before deciding to turn around and head down. I jumped back out into the bombardment, and put my bike in the back of the truck.
Jockying the ranger truck back and forth to turn around would have been pretty scary any time, but in the hail, with thunder and lightning crashing all around it was absolutely terrifying. I buckled up and hung on white knuckled as the ranger (Harry) managed it with little trouble, and we were on our way down.
I felt unbelievably lucky that the ranger had stopped for me. As we headed down, the hail started to slow, but it was now several inches deep on the road. Nothing with only two wheels could drive in these conditions.
On our way down we passed a lot of motorcycles and a few bikers who had taken cover in the many tourists cars that had also been caught in the storm. It seemed like everyone who had cars was helping out the imperiled bikers.
Harry dropped me off at the Echo Lake store, I enthusiastically thanked her, got my bike out of the back of the ranger truck, and went in. Soon the Echo Lake gift store was packed with travelers trying to get out of the rain. When JB, Warren and Brian showed up, we traded stories of our experience/rescue and watched the rain outside. It wasn't slowing down. Eventually we decided to brave the rain ("Hey, it's only rain!") and head down.
It was a long, wet, cold, nerve racking ride from Echo Lake back down to Evergreen, but after the Hailstorm from Hell, it seemed downright pleasant.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
HighGrade, Conifer, Aspen Park, Marshdale, S Turkey Creek Loop
I escaped from work a little early and started up Deer Creek from Wads about 4:45pm.
I rode up Deer Creek then HighGrade to Conifer, Aspen Park, and then turned right (East) onto N Turkey Creek at Marshdale. At Twin Forks where N Turkey Creek goes under 285 I took a right up S. Turkey Creek and then Closed the loop back onto Deer Creek at the Fire Station.
40 miles, About 3 hours. 5500 ft to 8500 or so.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Commute Home from work via Fiddlers Green
I stayed late at work because I had not fixed the vexing problem I'd been working on. All the sudden I figured it out and after getting it all working, I headed out on my bike.
I decided to take a new route along the Englewood Dam and then north toward S. Yosemite/DTC. Along the way, I passed by Fiddler's Green and saw that there were lots of people going to a show. I asked someone who told me "Stevie Wonder". Man, suddenly couldn't think of anything cooler to be doing with the rest of my evening.
I was still on my bike heading up the road, but I belted out some bars of "I wish" ("Sneakin' out the back door, to hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine") while weaving between the cars and the people streaming into the show. I got some sideways looks and I got some smiles, and I thought I souned pretty good. As I rode away, I thought about who I could call to come out with me to the show.
Further as I rode up the DTC, I discovered another music scene going on at the corner of DTC and Belleview. It was the regular Tuesday evening free music thing that happens there, that I am aware of, but never remember to go check out. Kids were everywhere playing and the music sounded a little like some kind of old time Western Swing or something. Everyone looked like they were having a blast and I thought "I had no idea this kind of stuff was happening. Man, I got to get out more. "
I started to roll toward the stage, but the security people told me I couldn't bring my bike in, of course. So I started talking to some people about how cool this was and then reluctantly, started to head home.
While riding, my phone rang. I dangerously reached into my pocket to answer it. It was my old buddy Al, and while negotiating the intersection one handed, I tried to talk him into getting Janet and meeting me down to check out the action. Alas, it's a school night and all us boring regular folks need to be boring. We all agreed we should get together for the 4th instead.
Once I got home, I fed Clark (our goldfish) and I realized that I needed to clean his tank...Since Sunday...! And I didn't have any distilled water. Dang!!
I had to go to the store...
Cool, I'll take my bike. No, it's going to be dark in a few minutes.
So I took the car instead, and hated myself for it. As I walked into Whole Foods, a girl said "I like your shirt!". We got to talking and it turned out she was from Anchorage (Rabbit Creek area) We talked a bit more and said goodby. Later when I though about it, I realized that I'd never even introduced myself or asked her name. Odd to meet someone from back home and I didn't even introduce myself. What a mullet.
At the store I wandered aimlessly looking for the distilled water. While I was at it I got salad stuff, pilfered a handfull of awesome dark chocolate covered walnuts and headed home, but not before stopping into the "Merchant of Vino" to get a bottle of vino. The woman at the store pegged me for a wine ignormous and talked me into something (a shiraz I guess) called "Stump Jump".
Once home I started to make salad, and opened the bottle to let it breathe (right?)
Excuse me? It has a screw top?
Did I look to her like the kind of person who drinks wine from a screw top bottle?
Apparently so. I let it "breathe" and made the salad.
Once done making the awesome salad, I poured a glass and sat down to watch Nova, to write in my blog, and to relax.
Hmm...what was it I was supposed to do? Whoa! I'd better go change Clarke's tank water!
I decided to take a new route along the Englewood Dam and then north toward S. Yosemite/DTC. Along the way, I passed by Fiddler's Green and saw that there were lots of people going to a show. I asked someone who told me "Stevie Wonder". Man, suddenly couldn't think of anything cooler to be doing with the rest of my evening.
I was still on my bike heading up the road, but I belted out some bars of "I wish" ("Sneakin' out the back door, to hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine") while weaving between the cars and the people streaming into the show. I got some sideways looks and I got some smiles, and I thought I souned pretty good. As I rode away, I thought about who I could call to come out with me to the show.
Further as I rode up the DTC, I discovered another music scene going on at the corner of DTC and Belleview. It was the regular Tuesday evening free music thing that happens there, that I am aware of, but never remember to go check out. Kids were everywhere playing and the music sounded a little like some kind of old time Western Swing or something. Everyone looked like they were having a blast and I thought "I had no idea this kind of stuff was happening. Man, I got to get out more. "
I started to roll toward the stage, but the security people told me I couldn't bring my bike in, of course. So I started talking to some people about how cool this was and then reluctantly, started to head home.
While riding, my phone rang. I dangerously reached into my pocket to answer it. It was my old buddy Al, and while negotiating the intersection one handed, I tried to talk him into getting Janet and meeting me down to check out the action. Alas, it's a school night and all us boring regular folks need to be boring. We all agreed we should get together for the 4th instead.
Once I got home, I fed Clark (our goldfish) and I realized that I needed to clean his tank...Since Sunday...! And I didn't have any distilled water. Dang!!
I had to go to the store...
Cool, I'll take my bike. No, it's going to be dark in a few minutes.
So I took the car instead, and hated myself for it. As I walked into Whole Foods, a girl said "I like your shirt!". We got to talking and it turned out she was from Anchorage (Rabbit Creek area) We talked a bit more and said goodby. Later when I though about it, I realized that I'd never even introduced myself or asked her name. Odd to meet someone from back home and I didn't even introduce myself. What a mullet.
At the store I wandered aimlessly looking for the distilled water. While I was at it I got salad stuff, pilfered a handfull of awesome dark chocolate covered walnuts and headed home, but not before stopping into the "Merchant of Vino" to get a bottle of vino. The woman at the store pegged me for a wine ignormous and talked me into something (a shiraz I guess) called "Stump Jump".
Once home I started to make salad, and opened the bottle to let it breathe (right?)
Excuse me? It has a screw top?
Did I look to her like the kind of person who drinks wine from a screw top bottle?
Apparently so. I let it "breathe" and made the salad.
Once done making the awesome salad, I poured a glass and sat down to watch Nova, to write in my blog, and to relax.
Hmm...what was it I was supposed to do? Whoa! I'd better go change Clarke's tank water!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
MS150 bike ride
Saturday and Sunday rode about 150 miles.
Both days were great.
Day 1:
The first day I woke to my alarm at 3:15am so I could pick up Jeff Elfeldt at 4:30am so we could be there at 5:AM! We made it there, and met Tony Schoenberger. Once we got all registered with our packets, clued in, slathered with Sunscreen we headed up the road.
I was pretty excited and took off shortly after we got started, passed up the first few rest stops and finally saw my team mates at the lunch stop.
I saw Dave Verdun who I worked with at Advance Geophysical and we sat for lunch and talked for quite a while about the oilfield. Lot's going on.
My team mates decided not to let me get ahead again so they apparently left without me. I wasn't without company though, and the rest of the ride was full of riding with different people up Horsetooth Reservoir and into Ft. Collins.
Once I got into Ft Collins, I hooked up with my team and we all hung out in the Comcast tent, took pictures, got a masage, and spent time in the beer garden.
I finally left about 4:30 and rode to my friends Brian and Stacy, where I had dinner and met their little boy Levi and Brian's parents who were visiting. I gave Levi a book and some Rocket Balloons, which were a big hit.
After dinner, I showered and slept like a rock.
Day 2:
I slept in and got a late start Sunday morning and didn't get on the road till about 7:45am, so I missed my teammates on there way out. I had to ride 4 miles in the opposite direction as everyone on my way from Brian and Stacy's house. I knew a few people who gave me funny looks as I rode by in the wrong direction.
It was another great day, and I took my time. I actually stopped at every rest stop to hang out. At lunch I talked to a guy about the triple bypass.
I finished the ride, ate dinner and headed home. All my teammates were already done, so no team hug.
It was a great couple of days and I hope to do it again next year.
Both days were great.
Day 1:
The first day I woke to my alarm at 3:15am so I could pick up Jeff Elfeldt at 4:30am so we could be there at 5:AM! We made it there, and met Tony Schoenberger. Once we got all registered with our packets, clued in, slathered with Sunscreen we headed up the road.
I was pretty excited and took off shortly after we got started, passed up the first few rest stops and finally saw my team mates at the lunch stop.
I saw Dave Verdun who I worked with at Advance Geophysical and we sat for lunch and talked for quite a while about the oilfield. Lot's going on.
My team mates decided not to let me get ahead again so they apparently left without me. I wasn't without company though, and the rest of the ride was full of riding with different people up Horsetooth Reservoir and into Ft. Collins.
Once I got into Ft Collins, I hooked up with my team and we all hung out in the Comcast tent, took pictures, got a masage, and spent time in the beer garden.
I finally left about 4:30 and rode to my friends Brian and Stacy, where I had dinner and met their little boy Levi and Brian's parents who were visiting. I gave Levi a book and some Rocket Balloons, which were a big hit.
After dinner, I showered and slept like a rock.
Day 2:
I slept in and got a late start Sunday morning and didn't get on the road till about 7:45am, so I missed my teammates on there way out. I had to ride 4 miles in the opposite direction as everyone on my way from Brian and Stacy's house. I knew a few people who gave me funny looks as I rode by in the wrong direction.
It was another great day, and I took my time. I actually stopped at every rest stop to hang out. At lunch I talked to a guy about the triple bypass.
I finished the ride, ate dinner and headed home. All my teammates were already done, so no team hug.
It was a great couple of days and I hope to do it again next year.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday Morning Deer Creek mtb, afternoon Deer Creek road.
Wednesday morning I did the usual crazy early mt bike ride, again at Deer Creek. I got there about 5:45AM and Don Sims showed up a few minutes later. We were able to get on the trail by 6:05pm.
We rode up to Red Mesa, did one CW loop and then rode down and did a CC loop around Plymouth Mt.
I thought that since Don works at the CMC, and had a bike rack on his car, and I wanted to do a road ride up Deer Creek that evening, I'd just put my bike on his rack and ride to work with him. He was ok with that, and we rigged up and took off.
After work, I got on the road bike and biked the 30 miles back to Deer Creek and up the canyon to Highgrade. I decided not to climb to the top because my bike needed some mechanical work and I wanted to get it to the shop before they closed. I made it there and they fixed it.
Ready for the MS150
We rode up to Red Mesa, did one CW loop and then rode down and did a CC loop around Plymouth Mt.
I thought that since Don works at the CMC, and had a bike rack on his car, and I wanted to do a road ride up Deer Creek that evening, I'd just put my bike on his rack and ride to work with him. He was ok with that, and we rigged up and took off.
After work, I got on the road bike and biked the 30 miles back to Deer Creek and up the canyon to Highgrade. I decided not to climb to the top because my bike needed some mechanical work and I wanted to get it to the shop before they closed. I made it there and they fixed it.
Ready for the MS150
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Saturday bike ride with kids to Cherry Creek Reservoir
Most of the morning the kids laz'd around the house, but at one point were invited over to the neighbors house to play. I went over to thank the neighbors and see what the kids were up to and they were happily drawing and Aidan was writing in his journal.
I stayed at home and put new tires on my road bike and re-taped the handlebars. It will probably need re-taping again soon though.
When I went over to see what the kids were up to next door, they were laz'ing there watching Sponge Bob so I decided we needed to go to the beach.
We rounded up all the stuff and snacks we needed and I put it into the bike trailer. I strapped the super cool folding beach chair onto the bike trailer, Aidan found his helmet, Luka climbed in the trailer and we headed out.
It was a kind of longish bike ride, but Aidan managed to climb up all the hills!! He wanted to stop to rest a few times and I was fine with that, and proud of how hard he tried to climb. Later I thought about how we weighs only a bit more than his bike weighs, so it's got to be a big effort.
When we stopped to rest we checked on Luka who was unusually quiet. He was asleep for most of the trip.
After the 5 mile bike ride we were at the beach. We found a good parking place for our bikes and the trailer and the kids went right for the water. I got out the cool beach chair I'd strapped to the trailer and set up right on the water.
I got out the sunscreen and called the kids to slather them up. Since each have recent buzz cut hairdo's, I was glad to find that I had two bandannas with me, and I tied one on each of the kid's heads, Aunt Jamima style. They looked so cute, especially Luka, with them and I was glad that they'd be protected from the sun.
They played and splashed, and Aidan seems to have overcome his fear of getting his face wet. He was actually swimming underwater and having fun grabbing my leg when I went out to cool off in the water.
We played frisbee a bit but there were too many people and we didn't want to hit anyone. Aidan is getting pretty good at his aim now so we'll have to have some disc sessions soon.
We stayed a long time and then when I saw it was 5:PM decided we needed to pack up and head back home. Aidan was pretty un-psyched about the ride home, but he toughed it out.
I decided to take a detour and head to some friends house near ours who were having a bbq. They have a trampoline and a backyard pool so once we got there, the kids were psyched again. They jumped in the tramp, and played in the pool, and we ate hot dogs. I rode the bikes home and got the car to drive us all home.
We all fell asleep together on the couch watching Tom and Jerry.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday evening Solstice bike ride with the kids
Happy Solstice!
After bike commuting to the Village (kids daycare) from work, I put both kids in the bicycle trailer home via Cherry Creek Reservoir. (11 miles. see pic) Aidan wanted to stop at the res beach so we did. What a great idea!! he and Luka and I all played in the water.
They really wanted to swim in the water but neither had swim suits. It was already 6:30pm and there weren't many people on the beach so I let them take off their pants and get into the water. Eventually they took off their shirts too, but were in the water up to their necks the whole time. They liked playing in the waves when a boat would go by. Luka had a great time doing everything his big brother did.
It started getting windy and kinda stormy so we rode home. Windy! Rode into the wind for quite a while, but then turned with the wind and hauled a__!
Got home and we made pizza and all fell asleep on the couch watching Tom and Jerry. Tomorrow we want to go hiking and then come back to the beach!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Friday Morning Summer Solstice Bike Commute 6-20-2008
Happy Solstice!
Pulled both kids in the trailer from our house to the Village: 5.45 miles 10.4 mph avg 31:31 mins 289 cal
Rode Village to CMC via new route (see map)
6.67 miles 30:31mins 13.1avg 416cal
Beautiful morning. Got the kids up and ready before 7:AM and we were on the road at 7:01am.
Got to work before 8:30am and did a short worked out in the gym before showering for work.
Situps 100
Pushups 35
Dumbell full body thang
Lat pulldowns
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday Morning Mt Falcon ride report
Nice, warm, no wind in the parking lot. I got tires on trail by about 6:15am. There was only one other guy there with his dog (who I nearly accidentally ran over at one point)
I rode (grunted) to the Gazebo, took in the view and did a few pushups and situps. Then I did a fast CCW loop around Parmalee Trail.
Mt Falcon isn't really technically tricky, but I still managed to spin out the rear tire and wash out the front one a couple times early on. I also had to stop to rest and catch my breath a few times, which tells me about the kind of shape I'm in.
Parmalee Trail
Overall, the trail is in good shape, which is more than I can say for the biker.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Wednesday Morning Deer Creek Ride Report
Awesome morning. Perfect temperature, no traffic on the road or the trail. I managed to get to the Deer Creek trailhead just before 6:AM and had tires on trails by about 6:05. There were a couple cars on the lot, but I saw only a couple other people on the trail (actually already coming down at 6:05am!)
I rode up the main trail all the way and did two fast CW loops around the Red Mesa loop. Before going all the way down I did a CCW loop on Plymouth Mt. trail. The view from Plymouth Mt was unbelievable.
The lower part main trail is as gnarly as ever and has some really tricky sections. The "Deer Creek Wall" is as demoralizing as ever and I spun out early, which is a good thing since my chest probably would have exploded otherwise.
Since Deer Creek is so close to the CMC, and since it's such a great ride, I may do it again next week.
Vitals: TOT 6:09am
Miles: 11.46 miles
Vert: 1400 vert gain
Time: 1:50
Miles from home to parking lot: 26
Miles from parking lot to work: 15
course link:
http://coach.summitbid.com/course/show/37
Rode up to Red Mesa loop and did two CW laps. Rode Plymouth Mt CCW and down.
Made it to work by 8:50am
I rode up the main trail all the way and did two fast CW loops around the Red Mesa loop. Before going all the way down I did a CCW loop on Plymouth Mt. trail. The view from Plymouth Mt was unbelievable.
The lower part main trail is as gnarly as ever and has some really tricky sections. The "Deer Creek Wall" is as demoralizing as ever and I spun out early, which is a good thing since my chest probably would have exploded otherwise.
Since Deer Creek is so close to the CMC, and since it's such a great ride, I may do it again next week.
Vitals: TOT 6:09am
Miles: 11.46 miles
Vert: 1400 vert gain
Time: 1:50
Miles from home to parking lot: 26
Miles from parking lot to work: 15
course link:
http://coach.summitbid.com/course/show/37
Rode up to Red Mesa loop and did two CW laps. Rode Plymouth Mt CCW and down.
Made it to work by 8:50am
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hibernate cascade delete error
I did a search for
"remove deleted object from associations" in my gmail and came up with a post that sugggested adding a closure to the (Workout) controller called "beforeDelete". I added this and it deletes the items but there is still a problem. The controller stil errors out thinking that they didn't get deleted. I checked the db and the items are deleted so it works.
The problem seems to be references to the workout in the AuthUser domain so they have to be removed and nulled first I think.
Here's the method
def beforeDelete = { workout ->
workout.athlete.lastUpdatedWorkout = null
workout.athlete.removeFromWorkouts(workout)
}
Here's the error:
When trying to delete a workout or a meal I get:
[130922] StackTrace Sanitizing stacktrace:
org.hibernate.ObjectDeletedException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations): [Meal#116]
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.forceFlush(SessionImpl.java:1014)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:165)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:94)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:70)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:507)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:499)
at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:218)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:268)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:216)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:130)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:131)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:122)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:65)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:26)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1000)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.flushIfNecessary(HibernateAccessor.java:390)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.flushIfNecessary(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:78)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:181)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:59)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.postHandle(WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.java:61)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet.doDispatch(GrailsDispatcherServlet.java:257)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:809)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:476)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:441)
Deleting a workout:
[476516] StackTrace Sanitizing stacktrace:
org.hibernate.ObjectDeletedException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations): [Workout#48]
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.forceFlush(SessionImpl.java:1014)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:165)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:94)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:70)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:507)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:499)
at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:218)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:268)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:216)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:130)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:131)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:122)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:65)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:26)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1000)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.flushIfNecessary(HibernateAccessor.java:390)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.flushIfNecessary(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:78)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:181)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:59)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.postHandle(WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.java:61)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet.doDispatch(GrailsDispatcherServlet.java:257)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:809)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:476)
"remove deleted object from associations" in my gmail and came up with a post that sugggested adding a closure to the (Workout) controller called "beforeDelete". I added this and it deletes the items but there is still a problem. The controller stil errors out thinking that they didn't get deleted. I checked the db and the items are deleted so it works.
The problem seems to be references to the workout in the AuthUser domain so they have to be removed and nulled first I think.
Here's the method
def beforeDelete = { workout ->
workout.athlete.lastUpdatedWorkout = null
workout.athlete.removeFromWorkouts(workout)
}
Here's the error:
When trying to delete a workout or a meal I get:
[130922] StackTrace Sanitizing stacktrace:
org.hibernate.ObjectDeletedException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations): [Meal#116]
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.forceFlush(SessionImpl.java:1014)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:165)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:94)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:70)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:507)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:499)
at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:218)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:268)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:216)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:130)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:131)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:122)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:65)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:26)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1000)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.flushIfNecessary(HibernateAccessor.java:390)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.flushIfNecessary(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:78)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:181)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:59)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.postHandle(WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.java:61)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet.doDispatch(GrailsDispatcherServlet.java:257)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:809)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:476)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:441)
Deleting a workout:
[476516] StackTrace Sanitizing stacktrace:
org.hibernate.ObjectDeletedException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations): [Workout#48]
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.forceFlush(SessionImpl.java:1014)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:165)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:94)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:70)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:507)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:499)
at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:218)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:268)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:216)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:130)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:131)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:122)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:65)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:26)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1000)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.flushIfNecessary(HibernateAccessor.java:390)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.flushIfNecessary(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:78)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:181)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.postHandle(GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java:59)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.postHandle(WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.java:61)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet.doDispatch(GrailsDispatcherServlet.java:257)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:809)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:476)
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