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Hit #1

So I finally got the first jump ridable. It’s still a bit small and I have to ride my brakes all the way down the drop-in so that I don’t over shoot it, but it’s a pretty good start.

Posted by John on Dec 18, 2008

Sister's Sheriff Calls for the Week

Welcome to this week’s taste of small town trouble – straight from the December 3rd edition of the Nugget:

Deputies tracked down some people who failed to pay for a restaurant meal. They claimed it was all a miscommunication, which may be true since the parties were intoxicated.
There were several deer vs. vehicle collisions that ended badly for the deer and required towing for the vehicles.
Someone threw a rock through a window of a mobile home.
A man was cited for driving uninsured – and his load of wood was seized.
A woman reported that she was forced off the road by a bad driver.
An unidentified dog went on a chicken killing rampage, taking down 15.
Two men were cited for being in possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
A deputy took a report on illicit use of a hot tub.

*Information in “Sisters sheriff’s calls” is taken from log entries and reports of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.

Posted by John on Dec 10, 2008

organic food

my wife converted me almost entirely to organic food a couple years ago and I’ve never looked back. as a fan of organic food and Star Wars, I found this video pretty entertaining!

I came across it via this post on Outside Magazine’s blog:

Outside Blog: Not All Grocery Stores Are The Same.

it references a this article on CNN.com about the healthiest grocery store to shop at. Whole Foods tops the list (of course).

Posted by John on Nov 11, 2008

Well here we are on yet another iteration of JohnKnotts.com… this is like version #5 I believe. Please pardon the hiccups and site changes, but I’ve been trying to focus more on Ruby on Rails so I wanted to use a Rails based CMS… enter Radiant CMS. Plus I have a couple projects coming up where I’m hoping to use Radiant, so I figured the best way to familiarize myself with it was to use it on my own site. Yep, for better or worse, JohnKnotts.com is always the guinea pig.

Posted by John on Nov 04, 2008

Stay at home Dad

yep, that’s me.