The thing I like about Bixi is the chain and gears are all covered, so I could wear my dress pants and dress shoes and not worry about getting grease all over them.

A co-worker took some photos of me with the bike.

I liked them so much that I decided that they would be the only thing I’d eat.  THE ONLY THING.  They would be the ONLY food I’d eat to give me energy to get around and power me through my day.

Things have been good.  Bananas still give me energy (although the resultant pollution is sometimes not so good… it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make) and they’ve been pretty affordable.  Sometimes the price goes up, and sometimes it goes down, but I’ve been able to keep eating bananas.

This is a good thing, as my body has become so used to bananas that I can’t really eat anything else.  Alternative food fuel sources such as apples? oranges? meat? veggies?  Nope – can’t have them.  My body runs on bananas – and it can’t change.  I’ve tried to change – but I’m used to bananas, and comfortable with bananas, and most people I know eat only bananas.  Only hippies and treehuggers eat things like apples or carrots.

BUT!  THINGS ARE NOT GOOD!

Banana Prices are going up! Way UP!  Apparently all the banana fields are running out of bananas, and they can’t make more, because … um… something about “Peak Banana” … I don’t understand it… but there’s a graph that looks like a hill that swoops up and then swoops down.

Anyway, yeah – Banana prices are going up… and I’m spending more and more of my budget on Bananas because my body runs on bananas only… and I have no choice.

I’m spending less on everything else (which can’t be good for the economy) and more on bananas (which I bet the stupid greedy banana companies love) and my family budget is in shambles because somehow, for some reason – everyone else started eating only bananas, and now they TOO have to buy the same overpriced bananas.

Banana prices are SO high… and everyone is eating them and they can’t make more, and that means banana prices are going to go up further because of some economics thing I once kind of skimmed about supplies and demandings.

What are we going to do when banana supplies get so low and prices are up so high because everyone eats them and doesn’t want to eat anything else?

This will kill the economy.  I should go buy stocks in banana companies.

Why did I EVER decide to only eat bananas?  It was convenient, and cheap, and easy… and now it’s coming back to bite me in the ass.

Convenient, cheap and easy.  Too good to be true.

You can expect to see Allison in a bike trailer, a bike sidecar or a bakfiats (dutch cargo bike) in Summer 2011.

Dressed up and ready to go home from the hospital. Baby blanket crocheted over the last 9 months by Mommy.

Guess what?  I took my camera to get a table photo, but forgot I had it until I was on my way home.  Duh, Joe.  Duh.

Who was there?  (deep breath…) James, Duncan, Steve, Annie, Todd, Michael, Claire and Ben.

Claire complained (or, um…. made the point) that she shares lots of photos of her bike, but not many others do, so I’ve gone and found photos of my bikes (past and present).  Sheesh.  haha.

The Old Bike(s):

I used to have a Raleigh mountain bike that I put hybrid-ish tires on.  I have more photos that I can’t find right now, but here’s one of it laying in the grass  (with my wife’s old bike beside it) on the Toronto Islands during one of our many Island Bike Picnics.

Here we are on the Ride for Heart in 2007. Yeah, we did 50 km on mountain bikes, because we are hardcore. haha.

The New Bike:

Again, there are more photos of my bike that I can’t find at the moment, but here’s a couple from when I took photos of the West Toronto Railpath. My bike is a Trek 7100. It’s great.

That is all.  Have a great weekend!

Joe.