As I go to sleep before I Bike The Drive for Chai Lifeline

I know, you've seen the video, read the playlist, and some of you even made me tear up when I saw that you sponsored me. Thanks! Just to update you, the shiurim I will be listening to while biking the drive for, at least, the first 3 hours are:
Rav Reuven Leuchter: Emunah 2 (and maybe 3)
Rav Revuen Leuchter: Growth Dynamics in Torah
Rav Moshe Weinberger: Hachsharas Avreichim 11 (and maybe 12)

If you read my blog, you know I have raised money for Chai Lifeline for the past 5 years by Biking Lake Shore Drive. Thanks to my sponsors I have raised around $9000 in 5 years, which blows me away. I'm less than $1200 from my current goal and I still need your help. Please repost this, share it, or send a link to a friend and help get the word out. To sponsor you can go here: www.tinyurl.com/bikethedrive.

Thank and stay tuned for a post-ride post later. I am going to sleep.

Rav Reuven Leuchter in Chicago this Shabbos

UPDATED

Breaking new:

Rabbi Reuven Leuchter, one of the leading mussar personalities in Eretz Yisroel, will be delivering a drasha Shabbos morning at Mikor Hachaim and will be the guest speaker at Shalosh Seudos this Shabbos @ STMY(in conjunction with JET). He is the primary student of Rav Shlomo Wolbe z'tl  .

Watch my YouTube video for Chai Lifeline's Bike the Drive

Now, be a friend and link this, post the video on a blog, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or any other social media platform, please! I want this to go viral. The link is: http://youtu.be/E5BgKu07f1U

A serious question for my readers

Hi, how are you? I am sort of torn between, what I view as, two opportunities. Here is the situation as I see it. 

I started this blog over seven years ago and it has been a great platform for me to actually write, hammer out concepts that are key to my hashkafa, and share a little bit of the Torah that I come across. These are all really great things and I am humbled and grateful to all who visit this blog daily. The lack of comments use to get my goat, but I have realized that if on one is commenting that means that readers agree with what I am writing. 

However, I am now seven years older and my own blogging needs have slightly changed. I am considering moving over to Wordpress. That isn't the problem, though. I already have a blog (nothing posted) on Wordpress and even have a name for the blog, and it is sadly not as cool as Al Ha Derech or even Modern Uberdox.

I am trying to slowly write more "general audience" posts and need to decide if I should just move all of Modern Uberdox over to Wordpress and still continue to post, yet have a sprinkling of more general posts about the challenges of growth or...

...just keep this blog here and have a totally different blog all together. 

While I write for most selfish reasons  I also know that this blogs reader have been with me from the beginning (even with that terrible post about New Square Orange Juice vs Lakewood Orange Juice  [Spring of 2006]). So I am asking a favor. If you are the person in California, the reader in Patchouge (Long Island), or the lurker in Jersey City please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you would prefer. I was going to post a poll, but I would rather that you leave a comment, because your opinion matters and I value your perspective. 

Update on my prep for Bike The Drive

I biked in the evening last night for an hour and will be hitting the pavement again today, in preparation for Bike the Drive for Chai Lifeline on Sunday. So for I have raised $735, which is great. There's still time to sponsor me, if you can. Any amount you can give to Chai Lifeline would be so wonderful.

I think I finalized my playlist for Bike The Drive. As of now, I'll be listening to 2 shiurim from Rav Revuen Leuchter and probably two shiurim from Rav Moshe Weinberger.

The playlist will is:

Hafachta- The Diaspora Yeshiva Band

Tzadik- The Diaspora Yeshiva Band

Yerushalayim- Even Sh'siyah

Ashreinu- Even Sh'siyah

Malachim- Moshav Band

Hashem S'fatai- Moshav Band

Carlebach Medley-Piamenta

Anachnu Maaminim Medley- Piamenta

Mitzvah- Yossi Piamenta

Va-Yivan Uziyah- Yossi Piamenta

Nigun Nevo- Shlomo Katz

eliyahu hanavi- Shlomo Katz

Hashem Melech- Yosef Karduner

Lo Yaavod -Yaakov Shwekey

Wavin' Flags at Camp Simcha-Kids Battling Cancer

Opinion- Greg Gaffin

Cease Bad Religion

I Hate Alternative Rock- Bob Mould

All Those People Know- Bob Mould

Celebrated Summer- Hüsker Dü

Chartered Trips- Hüsker Dü

Rescue- Echo & The Bunnymen

Just Like Heaven- Goldfinger

Choose Any Memory- fIREHOSE

Imitation Of Life- R.E.M.

This Is a Call Foo Fighters

Bamboleo- Gipsy Kings

Another State Of Mind- Social Distortion

Don't Change -INXS

You can still sponsor me by going here until May 26th. Thanks!!