There is only one Main Man, and today is his birthday!

[tomblackwood]

Please join me in wishing john_childs a very Happy Birthday, and ask him if he's going to ride his age.

[dan de man]

HAPPY BDAY JOHN!

have a nice one
dont break your leg

[GILD]

Happy Birthday John.

Forget riding your age, rather drink your age.
Find a nice single malt whiskey that's been matured for Xnumber of years and Presto!

[C-ZER]

Happy birthday John

For this very special occasion I am going to rap for you

I now a guy, his name is John
I hope he won’t ride his uni across my lawn
We know he is getting old
So let’s drink while it’s still cold
His last name is Childs
So let’s drink a cold one in the fields


And that’s your birthday rap I hope it doesn’t sound like crap

[dan de man]

im guessing in your rap john is said Jaaaawwn

[Poseidon]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Hooray woo party!

[AEV D.]

because i´m german i´m going to "sing" you happy birthday in german..:D

zum geburtstag viel glück (2x)
zum geburtstag (2x) (or zum geburtstag lieber john child)
zum geburtstaaaaaaaaaag viel glück

happy birthday john and don´t drink to much :)

[UniBrier]

Happy BD JC!

One thing I really liked about our Belgium vacation is everything is metric. Riding your age is much easier over there, but you do have to deal with jet lag.

[JJuggle]

Happy Birthday John. May all your plays be gapless ones.

[vanpaun]

Happy Birthday! Have an awesome party at chuck E cheeses ;).

[MuniAddict]

Happy Birthday JC!

[harper]

My sig has said it for years. You clowns can send birthday greetings from afar. I get to ride with the only main man today. Happy Birthday JC.

[Into the blue]

Where's that picture of John looking salty with the blond wig?

Happy birthday!

[Ducttape]

happy birthday John! you should ride down here and celebrate!

[john_childs]

Hey! A thread about me. :)

I'm enjoying new tunes right now while finishing up some chocolate cake.

I consumed enough espresso and coffee today to keep me up for the next 12 hours. I didn't ride my age in miles today, but I did manage to more than satisfy the requirement for 1 doppio per decade.

I should be down in Portland for the Bridge Pedal on August 10th and the Portland Juggling Festival on September 26-28.

[tomblackwood]

Hey! A thread about me. I consumed enough espresso and coffee today to keep me up for the next 12 hours. I didn't ride my age in miles today, but I did manage to more than satisfy the requirement for 1 doppio per decade.
Oh yes, it was all about caffiene today. The first double came before we were a kilometer into the ride. But in between espressos, it was also about sun, water, animals and art, just the right mix of up and down, urban landscapes, gelato, and blackened salmon sandwiches with thick-cut slaw. Riding with Harper and JC on JC's birthday is one of my new favorite things to do.

Photos in the JC's Birthday Ride gallery of my Smugmug site (http://hayope.smugmug.com/Unicycling%20Photos).

[yoopers]

Oh yes, it was all about caffiene today. The first double came before we were a kilometer into the ride. But in between espressos, it was also about sun, water, animals and art, just the right mix of up and down, urban landscapes, gelato, and blackened salmon sandwiches with thick-cut slaw. Riding with Harper and JC on JC's birthday is one of my new favorite things to do.

Photos in the JC's Birthday Ride gallery of my Smugmug site (http://hayope.smugmug.com/Unicycling%20Photos).
Enjoyed the photos, Tom. You all have beautiful country out there.

Oh, and HBJC.

[maestro8]

Happy happy, joy joy! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqGsxwQpa_g)

I'll tip a cup of Viet espresso in your honor this AM.

[cathwood]

Happy Birthday :)

[Ducttape]

Hey! A thread about me. :)

I'm enjoying new tunes right now while finishing up some chocolate cake.

I consumed enough espresso and coffee today to keep me up for the next 12 hours. I didn't ride my age in miles today, but I did manage to more than satisfy the requirement for 1 doppio per decade.

I should be down in Portland for the Bridge Pedal on August 10th and the Portland Juggling Festival on September 26-28.
cool are you going to do the 11 bridge ride? if you are I'll join you I was planning on doing the bridge pedal this year. I think I'll be at PJF as well.

[john_childs]

cool are you going to do the 11 bridge ride? if you are I'll join you I was planning on doing the bridge pedal this year. I think I'll be at PJF as well.
I'm planning on the 8 bridge ride at 24 miles. The 10/11 bridge ride is 37 miles. Unicycle rides stop being fun at about the 30 mile mark for me. The 24 mile option keeps the ride fun the entire time for me rather than wishing it was over for the last 7 miles.

We've usually been able to get a couple of Seattle area riders down to Portland for the Bridge Pedal. We'll have to see what happens this year.

[Ducttape]

I'm planning on the 8 bridge ride at 24 miles. The 10/11 bridge ride is 37 miles. Unicycle rides stop being fun at about the 30 mile mark for me. The 24 mile option keeps the ride fun the entire time for me rather than wishing it was over for the last 7 miles.

We've usually been able to get a couple of Seattle area riders down to Portland for the Bridge Pedal. We'll have to see what happens this year.
sounds good I'm pretty excited for the bridge pedal. I may have a unicycle problem though, my crank bolt came loose today and my crank almost fell off, I'm hoping it just unscrewed itself and isn't stripped, I especially hop my hub is ok.

[john_childs]

One of the places we visited was a mural painted in an underpass near the Woodland Park Zoo. The mural got tagged with graffiti recently. The result of some miscommunication with the city resulted in the city cleaning up the graffiti by painting over the mural with solid gray paint. The neighborhood and the zoo were not amused. To the rescue came Surface Cleaning Technologies who have a special power washing process that removed the gray paint while not harming the mural underneath. Amazing.

I had read about the mural in the news and wanted to find out where it was. One of the goals of the ride was a quest to find that mural. Other goals of the ride were to consume espresso and gelato.

There are pictures of us at the mural in Tom's gallery of the ride (http://hayope.smugmug.com/gallery/5420834_A3dLU).

Here's some local news stories about the mural snafu:

British spray-washing method may restore Seattle zoo mural painted over by mistake (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008007991_savemural20m.html)

Neighbors mourn mural creatures' extinction (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004460919_paintedmural06m.html)

Crews wash away coat of gray from mural near zoo (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008038573_zoomural08m.html)

[jagur]

omg, ive been out of it for awile.

Tom and John are all salt & pepper and Greg chopped the locks of love.

[maestro8]

Greg chopped the locks of love.
SAY IT AIN'T SO!

http://eddddie.googlepages.com/facepalm.jpg

[john_childs]

Ponytail Greg no longer exists. He has even removed all the pictures of Ponytail Greg from his home. We are left to wonder if that Greg even existed at all or just in our imagination.

[Into the blue]

We'll always have that picture.

[JJuggle]

We'll always have that picture.
I wore that picture this past weekend for the first time in quite a while. My wife pretended not to notice while my daughter rolled her eyes and scoffed. Some guy at the donut shop seemed to miss the point entirely but did ask animatedly if I rode a unicycle. I lied and said I did.

[harper]

I wore that picture this past weekend for the first time in quite a while. My wife pretended not to notice while my daughter rolled her eyes and scoffed. Some guy at the donut shop seemed to miss the point entirely but did ask animatedly if I rode a unicycle. I lied and said I did.

Next time point to the shirt and say, "no, I just pose with them."

Yesterday there were a couple of girls asking for some of the tattoos that Rhysling had made. I brought another few of them in to work for them. They do love me so. But they laughed when they saw them. I wonder what that meant.

Last I checked, JC was still 41. Happy Birthday, my main man.

[yoopers]

Yesterday there were a couple of girls asking for some of the tattoos that Rhysling had made.
We still have a few of those lying around here somewhere, Greg. They'll become valuable when you pass on.

[tomblackwood]

[QUOTE=john_childs]I'm planning on the 8 bridge ride at 24 miles. The 10/11 bridge ride is 37 miles. Unicycle rides stop being fun at about the 30 mile mark for me. The 24 mile option keeps the ride fun the entire time for me rather than wishing it was over for the last 7 miles.[/
QUOTE]
I will do the 37 mile option with anyone interested in blazing through that one. I'm trying to get my son to come along as well. He's 14, and a solid rider, but his view on long rides mirrors JC's. Perhaps we all do the 8 bridge ride until whenever the 11 bridge riders have to split, then JC and Miles can go find the perfect espresso, ale, and pasta emporium for all of us when the longer ride is finished.

Who else do we have on this? Probably we should start a unique thread.

[Ducttape]

I will do the 37 mile option with anyone interested in blazing through that one. I'm trying to get my son to come along as well. He's 14, and a solid rider, but his view on long rides mirrors JC's. Perhaps we all do the 8 bridge ride until whenever the 11 bridge riders have to split, then JC and Miles can go find the perfect espresso, ale, and pasta emporium for all of us when the longer ride is finished.

Who else do we have on this? Probably we should start a unique thread.
probably should start our own thread for this, but I'm in for the 8 bridge ride until the 11 bridge riders need to split and I'll do all 11 bridges.

[mr_charm]

A belated happy birthday JC!!!