Comments on: Hinterbike 2010: Last waltz in Sin City

By: khal spencer

khal spencer — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:55:49 +0000

I did a mortgage calculation for Patrick’s dream house in Santa Fe-fe. With 200k down (i.e. 10%), 3.7% annual interest on a 30 year note, and assuming 1 % in taxes, Patrick and Shannon would be shelling out about $10,500 per month well into their geezerhood, bringing the principle plus interest to about 3.3 million dead presidents.

Better write more screed, O’G…

By: Duncan Carter

Duncan Carter — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:29:56 +0000

The Santa Fw home is appealing, especially compared to my townhouse in Boulder. On the other hand, my townhouse in Boulder is paid for. If I need a vacation retreat, I can always visit Rush and Mindy in the Springs like I’m doing right now while they’re at Interbike.

By: khal spencer

khal spencer — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:50:46 +0000

Sorry. Wrong second link.
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/Ex-LANL-scientist-pleads-not-guilty

By: khal spencer

khal spencer — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:48:38 +0000

Yeah…Sotheby’s. Definitely where we do our second home shopping if we only want to pay out of pocket rather than hit up the family inheritance.

Of course, half of Santa Fe is closer to the Four Yorkshiremen sketch than Sotheby’s estates. And you can have a perfectly wonderful view of the Jemez while living under a viaduct along I-25 if you pick your overpass right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

But seriously, Patrick. If you and Shannon want to move back to the Land of Entrapment, there might be a perfectly good house available right around the corner from our digs on a great canyon rim lot. Just gotta be tolerant of the black SUVs fulla G-Men cruising around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

By: Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:24:48 +0000

Hey, Libby … quite the DogHaus it is, eh? Makes our 1,200-square-footer here in Bibleburg look like a Tuff Shed. All we need is American money in quantity and it’s ours. “Take out a loan. Everybody does it,” as one ultra-wealthy homeowner once said when we were envious of her place and she suggested we buy it.

By: Libby

Libby — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:10:47 +0000

I like your Dog-gy Daydreams - especially the last one - a property with two Dog-hauses! Plenty of boltholes for the kitties and lots of room for the guests you can now house so Herself doesn’t have to leave town (and you by your lonesome)in order to see her relatives!

By: Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:54:33 +0000

Hey, Charley, long time no see … where are you parked these days? Yeah, give the journalism bit a miss. Newspaper types were wearing paper hats long before the fast-food guys,

Larry, I’ll look forward to seeing your stuff from Sin City. If you have any extras that don’t fit on your blog, send ’em my way and I’ll slap ’em up here.

By: Larry T.

Larry T. — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:48:39 +0000

I’ll be at Hinterbike Thursday and Friday, hobknobbing with our Italian friends and official suppliers among others. I’ll bring a camera with me as well and try to report via the CycleItalia blog on interesting stuff that would not likely get covered by the mainstream cycling media. And if I can get a shot of myself posing with some nice looking female types there (like the cute but classy women staffing the Campagnolo booth last year) you might see a few of those too. That’s about as sinful as I get there in Lost Wages! As to Analheim in early August 2011, I’ll probably skip it — I’d hoped Denver (LA @ 5000 ft) would get the nod but what do I know?

By: Charley

Charley — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:18:14 +0000

I was about to consider becoming a journalist; Then I realized you were messing with my poor little brain! Can you have a nightmare if you are awake?