2008/11/06: RepoHate, 4M news, and Milly blogs cycling craziness

Haven't updated in awhile. Life 1.0 trumps life 2.0. Some little things: I just found RepoHate (thanks delicious network!). In the wake of all the OCLC brouhaha over use and ownership of bibliographic records, the Declaration of Independence for Metadata is both needed and bang.effing.on.

Our experiment with metadata movies at MPOW has wound down. I manage by consensus and the group decided they would rather watch metadata movies on their own time rather than as a group togetherness exercise at the end of our weekly staff meetings. *shrug* You try stuff, you fail sometimes. I will still bring muffins for the Monday morning meetings periodically. I'm happy to be relieved of Sunday night baking duty. My weekends are beginning to be filled up with cycling.

My wife has committed herself to riding the Furnace Creek 508 in 2009 and has started blogging regularly about it at slipperytext.net. It's a year away, but it will take that long to do the training. It's 512 miles and she's got 48 hours to complete it. I think, frankly, that rather than committing herself that she ought to be committed. But I approve of crazy audacious goals and I love and support her 100%. That includes:
  • financial support -- she's got a coach and a very detailed training plan. She's got electronic toys for measuring power output, cadence, heart rate etc. Coach and toys are pricey. I'm giving up some extras so we can swing the cost
  • waking up with her at 4am to train. She's got to put in 3hrs per training day on the bike and will be building up to 4-6hrs plus really really long rides on the weekends.I only join her for 30 minutes per session but she finds it helpful to have a buddy to wake up with her
  • joining her for her afternoon sessions. I do another 30 minutes with her during her afternoon training -- with 4hrs per day to do on the bike, she's got to schedule it in chunks. I will build up to joining her for 90 minutes per training day (a girl has limits)
  • traveling with her to brevets so she can practice doing long rides at high cadence
  • being patient with her absences -- long rides means loooooong rides. Most of her weekends she'll be toiling away on the roads all day long. More housework for me, and less time with her.
Please follow along and give her encouragement. This is a very big deal and brings her a great amount of joy. I love seeing her passion for her sport and hope she can bring this joy to others with her journey. She's brought me into cycling (albeit not as hardcore) and we've had many wonderful hours together on the road. Go Milly go!

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2007/08/15: I'm baaaack

I've returned from cycling the Underground Railroad. Another tour member - Crazyguyonabike -- posted a ton of pix. We didn't take many ourselves since Adventure Cycling is going to be sending us a DVD with all the photos they can gather from the 90+ participants. What's really incredibly cool is that OCLC has teamed up with Adventure Cycling to provide a map of public libraries with Internet hot-spots along the route. Makes me proud(er) to be a librarian.

My daughter Z. did an AMAZING job as stoker on the tandem with wife M. as captain. She got to learn about some American history which she'll be taking in school this year as a fifth grader. She also had so much fun that she wants to continue doing tours in summer vacations to come. Yay. Next year we're thinking about cycling Greece since 6th grade is ancient history. We'll see.

I'm catching up with CC:DA work. Our commenting period for the revised Ch.6 & 7 is over. Now voting members are in the phase of reviewing one another's comments on the CC:DA wiki and indicating whether they agree/disagree. The process, while tedious, is very interesting to me. Lots of folks have strong feelings about it. I suspect it will take me several hours to work through it. Fortunately, my wifi works on the front porch and there are no rules against reading RDA commentary from a deck chair with an icy glass of Mojave Red.

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