New job

Last week I accepted a new job with a company in North Dakota and will be re-locating in October.  It will be a significant change from living in Boulder, but I'm ready to move on to the next chapter in my life (and career).  After a couple years of splitting my efforts between cycling and trying to be an engineer, I am going to put bike racing on the back burner and turn most of that effort towards engineering.

I'm going to keep this short, in hopes of getting back into the habit of posting regularly.  The idea is to keep posts shorter but more frequent.

Before heading to North Dakota, I will make a trip to California to compete in the 2012 paralympic track cycling national championships as a tandem pilot for a visually impaired cyclist from North Carolina.  We will compete in the 4km pursuit and 1km time trial.

After having a later start to track riding this year compared to previous years, I took a while getting my track legs going, but am feeling pretty good now.

In the tradition of including a picture or two with each post, here are a pair of wildlife pictures I took in the last week or so:

The neighbor's cat is totally relaxed, even in the presence of three deer (there was one standing to my left when I took this picture) and a nerd.

I rescued these raccoons from the dumpster a week ago last night.  They had climbed in looking for food but then couldn't climb out.