What a day... Or "Cause he has Floyd all over his face"

I'll have all of you know... I started this "Social network" racing Coverage... I'm OG... and Ya'll are just following a Previously Blazed Trail...

But What have I done for you Lately....

No Pictures. Sorry, I have a tendency to simplify my life these days, and it was nice to just enjoy the race without trying to get pictures!

I will have T-Bird Know... I started the second round of applause and shout-Outs on the Podium... That was me buddy!

Spent most of the morning Screaming from my chair!!!! T-BIRD!!!!!! and doing the same on Twitter... I also spent all morning obsessing about why people don't put HashTags in their Tweets for the TOU... and why I felt the need to retweet them....I mean how long was it going to take till I was a total Twitter Snob... I mean my learning curve on this crap is Through the roof!

The funny things that happened today. Well I decided not to Activly engage people with my shit eating Grin. Especially since people say it's kind of Creepy... but strangely. I'm just doing my thing, and Suddenly there is Gardie jackson... Or Ryan Barrett or Stephen Flahut Scheffield(I proly misspelled that, sorry dude but I'm not into looking it up).

Like I've said before, the only thing more embarrassing than asking "Are you The Mop?" is saying "Hi! I'm The Mop". But I swear Burke had his eye on me... It was kreepy... or maybe it was the kreepy on me oozing off, and Burke was just trying to keep the Kreepy in sight!

It's funny, I'm not talkative.. but get me going at a bike race! I'll tell you everything. I start talking about Sleevie(mike booth)'s Tatoos I talk about Burke's Dog... BLA BLA BLA BLA. I tell stories about calling Ben J Maynes a Wanker!.

Kind of lame that when Zabrisky hit the line he looked like one of the Thousand Warriors... and I think I have that Jersey BTW... Classic Red!

Ok.. .I stole this from podium insight What a great site BTW...

I told the people around me that to see dave cross the line they had to find the guy in the plane red Jersey and Black Shorts....

So there is this old guy at the line, and he has the rider numbers and as they cross he looks them up. What he needed to do was ask me who it was who was crossing. of course there are about half the Local Riders I can't recognize by a Quick Glimpse. Now Dave passed through After Floyd.. but As Dave passed Nobody noticed, and it was only the normal applause, then I piped up "Go Zabriskie".. Suddenly everyone is like!!! Oh That was Dave, and they all got excited and cheered.

It's been Tough Dave!! Good to see even a Great Champion can be off a little! GO!!! DAVE!!

So... as time went on this old guy was getting more and more frustrated, because he also couldn't look them up fast enough.. nor did he know who he was looking at.

He also gave that standard line about how Spectator unfriendly Bike Racing is. And we all Know that... I mean I was Psyched to catch it by Twitter all morning, it was kind of satisfying.. even though those simple facts seemed to sneak away "What is the Lead time? Chase time? Peloton time?" and "who is in the Lead?Chase?Peloton?"... but I digress.

So.. What really frustrated him was when Floyd Rolled by, and I shouted out "GO Floyd" and said "That is Floyd Landis"... Since I didn't have the sheet and the numbers,

He said "How do you know that."

I said. "Well he had That stupid Goatee and his face had Floyd all over it."

he said "What!"

I told him "Well Why don't you run down to the end of the line and say hello, I bet he is a nice guy! "

he gave me an angry look and stomped away.

you know that old people can't process Vitamin B right! The get Super Stressed and have to take Vitamin B shots, but since it's water soluble it doesn't last longer than a few days....

So basically that is why Angry old men stand on their Lawns and shake their Fists at the Traffic

BTW if we don't realize it, this day will go down in Infamy, We will be telling our Grand Kids about the day that Burke Swindlehurst BLEW The Crap out of the Tour Of Utah in a Mad Breakaway at the Gun, and the entire Nort american Peloton Chased him for 4 hours Dragging their lame assees in for nearly an hour, in packs of 2 and 3.....

T-BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a Week!

I had a nasty feeling this week.... Ugly to shake those ugly feelings... but it was a good warning.

All this Heath care nonsense... it is a great example of what is wrong with us.

Both the insurance and medical industry are these Ridiculous positive Spiraling self serving ... Sky Nets so to speak just trying to go for world domination.

I was going off about what Middle class is, Pardon me if I don't look the numbers up again. but it's roughly 35k-57K This includes health care... and that is Household income.

the insurance cost per house hold is 13K.

This means that the amount of money people bring in, that are "Middle Class" is 22k-44K. It works out on the low end... One breadwinner making $10 per hour, or 2 Breadwinners making $10 per hour. Or One person making $22.00 per hour... of course including benefits/health care.

Interesting that that is middle class, $400 per week or $1600 per month.

hmmm that $15K dream isn't all that little now is it... I will bet there are some Non Middle class people that make less.

So... my bad feeling... I had a call from someone trying to "Feel Me out" trying to see if my most hated Client had any chance of becoming a Client again. It's crazy, I've had them try and feel me out a couple times in the past 5 years since I dumped them.

What is it about a "most hated" either person or Client... that they keep trying to come back for a taste... It's like "Well I took advantage of you once... sucker... I'm sure I can do it again."

sort of like a child abuser can smell out a victim...

I Really hate that client..... and it has set me off for days ...

In the land of spoons, Suprise... Everybody is a spoon

Damn! I love to have White Hot Bike racing in town. I also am about ready to Tear up because I'm doubting I'll be able to check it all out. Which is an Absolute Heart Break!!

I was thinking about what I should do for the ol' TOFU.

Those who have followed me, know I sort of mess with that Razors edge between Avoiding making things about me, and my own natural Narcissism.

Not to get off on Politics, But for the most part people have their heads up their ass on Healthcare/insurance. And its because for the most part you don't realize how expensive it is; because your employer pays it. Then because you have never made a serious claim, you don't realize how much your insurance company has no intention to pay. Its a Heads they win Tails you lose. And when you realize that incomes haven't gone up in 10 years but cost of insurance has. So you did get a Raise... you got to keep your health Insurance.

But it's all good as long as you keep what you have Right? Cause Change is Scary! And We would hate to see the insurance companies profits hurt. It's not possible that we could cut all these middlemen out and Reduce costs, and cover everybody! Hell no.... Let us just stick with buying the product that INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE NO INTENTION OF PAYING.. they don't make money by paying claims!.

But I digress....

I think for the most part I'm going to Keep Quiet for TOFU, There seems to be too much of a willingness in our age of social media, to make things more about the authors, and not the subject.

But good luck to everybody; Burke Louder Todd DZ Dave Mike Chase nate alex jesse Cameron Ben... Etc... sorry if you are an etc....

and not to badmouth the social media guys... cause keep it comming cause I'll be stuck at the workstation for most the stages.

SO...

had a nice ride yesterday.. which I don't mean, this road construction is out of control. They don't realize it's not easy to go around construction and add 3 or 4 miles to a bike ride. This Machine that tears up the road and puts about 400 places for either a pinch flat or just to shake the shit out of you and your bike...

Then when they re-Tar them.. and throw all the gravel over the road and suddenly you are Rim Deep in lose gravel, on a road with no shoulder and has 2 thin lanes...

Yep it's something. I dropped off some Gifts to the T-Bird. Told him to tell Tiff that the Yard looks nice. Also you can split Ground cover and then if you try and keep Zero Scape watered it will fill in. Also Most Zero Scape needs to be watered for the first year so the roots can go deep enough to really Thrive.

Then if the Thyme grows you cut them in half and spread them out, so then you can keep going till it's all filled in... but you want them to thrive... so they could use some water....

or Give it time.. Thyme LOL... crack myself up.

For the most part... I'd guess we need to let our local guys get into their Full Zen Racing Form, not give them too many distractions. Be sure not to let our Manic ooze over to them.... unless they are on the Road.

it's not the energy you spend, it's the energy you save....

or some such bullshit.

Reward

I like there to be a new reward of some musing... or something.... My mind for a large part is a disaster... Fatigue... Stress... Like someone pulling on my Heart or Colon...

had a disaster ride... I'm strong.. but I swear I need to.... I just don't feel like I'm one with my bike...

I keep thinking I need to tear it apart and put it back together... Spend 6 hours getting the pedals in the perfect position....

bla bla bla

sorry about the bad reward... so with the bike, so with my writing..

Empty blog space

I just know this is going to be a lame post. There is this point on twitter where you put in 3 "Tweets"WTF... with this Twitter.....

but you put together three posts and realize that you would be better on the blogger.

4 flats today on a 3 hour ride... Pushed it to about 4.5. Had to patch Twice.... I didn't even want to ride today... just figured I needed to get something in... and there it went...

With all the rain I couldn't even sit on grass to change them, ended up on the curb.

And one of them, I came rolling down hill at 30-40 and hit some shit on the road and tire go boom...Couldn't even remember which break was my rear since the front had gone so soft, so quickly......

Good lord...

I'm not even sure I tried with this post......

RootBeer Consumerisum

Decided after my long week.... and I get a little repreave right now from work... I'm BEAT!! no ride for me today... I caught a little nap instead.

I have this "Hell's Kitchen", addiction I havn't seen this weeks episode, so... that is running as I type this.

but I decided I should go take a walk and get a rootbeer. here is the trouble with the rootbeer. I go out and for .40 I can get a Can of rootbeer, but if I do that I'll proly drink it before I get home or out of the parking lot.

So I can get a big rootbeer for like $2 ... Or I can go to the grocery store and get a 2 liter bottle for .79...

Then of course I have over a thousand calories of soda in the fridge...

Yep.. not as interesting a post as I'd thought

hmmm maybe one more hour of work...

I'm not sure I should be doubted that I have almost Zero time.

today went 4am to 6:30

bike ride

Nap

Dinner W/ MSNBC news

Now I need to see if I can crank out another hour of work before bed, or go to bed or bed get up ASAP and do more work.

Some of this is why some of my writing is so shitty IMHO. There just isn't anything but exhaustion on my mind...

there is a point where one just can't keep going and your brain is mush... have to rebuild neurons.

Ok... Agressive Asshole

I'm going to organize some music while I do this... I have so much crap, I even have stuff I've never listened to, and I need to clean it up.... and it is a good way to start my week, after work and the bike ride.

So, there was a time when.... When I was a kid I was a fairly intense kid. I also wasn't raised on T.V. Until I was 8 or so. Living on a ranch with Miles and miles to explore like Huck fin... Well I don't have that ADD most of you have. I've talked about it before, how most of you... and many of the younger and Gen Y.... DRIVE ME UP A WALL. Because you can't seem to do the same thing for more than 10 minutes....

You are T.V. Babies, those short bursts of 7 minute data from tv broken up by 30 seconds of Someone screaming at you to buy some crap, had destroyed your brain... it's why twitter rocks and Blogger sucks... Cause all you have is 140 Characters in you. "I'm taking a Crap" "Lance Lays down" #supermac18

and While I'm at it... This Jon and Kate Goslin thing... I can totally see why he dumped her ass. It's one thing to marry a Bitch, but then to have her Screaming at you about the 20 Kids she popped out... and that she dresses her hair up to look like a Peacock or some shit.... Both of them don't realize they arn't 20 anymore.... But he is no 'Catch'... And as a Dad.. I'd buy a Tranquilizer Gun.. and he doesn't have to use that on Kate every time.. he can use it on those damn kids... Perfectly Justifiable to own a Shock Collar when you have that many kids... Seriously there should be some Rule that if you have more than 5 kids within 5 years of each other... You should be able to use "Extreme Measures".

I'm just saying!!!

I would think that most of you, through some minor Interaction or another. May have caught on that I can Seriously focus on something... I guess you could classify it as some Obsessive Tendencies. What I'm getting at is that, if you are the Focus of my attention... It's not as Pleasant as you would think.

And for the most part, if I get going... I can kind of stick the Knife in and Turn it Just Right.... and do it just to amuse myself.

For most of us, who have Dated.... Well, Let me just say 3 weeks of intense focus is no way to seduce woman, in fact it gets just down right Creepy. At a young age, I realized that I had no choice but to slow play Woman. ... But still there is sort of this Lazer beam thing that goes off... and it just isn't a Joy for anyone. I'm not saying I go all "Say Anything" on them... It's just hard to explain.

I'm not even excluding other types of relationships, Even friends or... Relatives... I guess it's sort of like I'm indifferent, until I'm not.... And I kid you not Even if I work for you, It's all fun and games until you tell me how I could run my life or do my job better... and you are about to get an earful.

I had a friend I used to work for, and periodically he would call with projects. about 3 years ago, I told him... "Now I'm getting older, and I can't fuck around on these projects like I used to. If we start this project, we are going to Finnish it... and if you start fucking around and delay things and drag it out. I'm done!" Well he didn't take me seriously, and after working on a project for 2 weeks we were called off. He Called me back up wanted me back on the project... I told him "sorry! you knew the rules, I explained them before we started, I explained it in the middle. You want to fuck around, you find someone else."....

Well he lays down all this shit about how I owe him, and how I'm screwing the project... bla bla bla. Well that was it, I layed down for about 20 minutes about all the laws he breaks. How I could have him Fined by the labor Commission. How He acts like a 14 year old boy. And how he could never find anyone with my skills to work like that. The way he treats me like I'm stupid, and I just let him get away with it because I don't want to call his Bullshit Card. How he will never find anyone to do what he wants until he pays 4X the money. How his skills are a fucking joke, he doesn't understand even the most rudimentary engineering principles. How everyone in the industry thinks he is a fucking joke, and can only pull down out of town projects because they don't know him or his Lack of Follow through, and the only Clients he can keep are ones I deal with, because I spend most my time mothering his ass mostly because he acts like he is 12 years old... and is Completely full of shit, and to not even try to make a phone call to me, cause he is fucking Done....

Just saying you don't want to get on my bad side, I'm not going to burn down hour house, but if you step up to me... I'll shut your ass down.

I don't talk about this, my Grandfather used to go into one of the magna bars with all the Copper miners, and was willing to kick any one's ass who wanted some. Just saying.... I come from an intense blood line.

So.... at about 18 I found this little trick... this sort of magic mellowing trick... This sort of thing I could ingest and all the Crap that goes through my head... all the Demons that Chase me all day, well it slowed them down. For about 10 years or so, that sort of kept me from tearing things apart... but... at one point I decided to give all that up.

and well... Now it's back to Aggressive Asshole.... I had a friend who was 2 hours late Just one too many times, and after Repeated warnings, didn't listen. Decided to hold me up one day, so I could stand Waiting for 2 hours... I haven't talked to them since. It's not holding a Grudge, but when someone talks about how busy they are, and that is why they are late. Not realizing that You are busy too, and that at one point you are just too busy to wait for someone for the 4thousandth time.... I'm not only too busy to hear how busy you are, But how if instead of Getting to dinner, they just show up to the Restaurant and wait for you until they get sick of it. And if I ever miss them, I'll just go stand in a Street or something for 2 hours, and remember all the good times.....

I've talked about how much I hate the phone, Girl Friend of mine used to want to call me every day or every other day and just Chat.... After a few days of it, That was it I quit answering the phone. Either you want to come over or not... and either we are going to plan to do something on the weekend or not.... But the Hell if I'm going to spend an hour on the phone everyday.

This was my schedule today.

Up at 2am... Personal stuff till 2:30

Breakfast 2:30-3.

Work 3-6am

I made Cornbread for 30 minutes.

Work 6:30 through 2:30PM

That is 11 hours of work and it's only 2:30...

I took a nap for 15 minutes.

Work 3-5pm

Ride the bike 5-6pm

Dinner

6:30 work and watch the news- 7:30.

now I'm warn out, so I decided to take the rest of the evening off and listen to music and Bang at the keyboard for an hour or so. I'll be done with this about 9:30, I'll probably read some research papers that I'm trying to get through, if not I have a couple books about economics.

at one point I'll fall asleep and wake up at 2 or 3am... and start again...

So I guess what I'm getting at is that if you step into my Realm... I look at you and decide if you need to be Fixed or Dealt with... I throw you through the washing Machine or whatever... and you are done... anything else... any "Can you just stop for a while and....."

Nope... Seriously... the Daemons are after me... and if I stop they catch up.. and it just takes to much time to get them off of me......

So I guess those daemons are just going to have to chase!!

I hope you know what movie the above is from. Maybe I died in an LSD experiment 15 years ago, and I still haven't figured it out.

... I don't know. WHAT THE FUCK! sandros... Fucking inhaler??..... My Repertoire of Asthma inhaler movies just isn't that long!

See.. that is an example... that is just me at normal Volume... Sorry Sandros it just isn't that big a deal.... it's just me without my good behavior on.

If any of you are more familiar with my writing, you realize that every once in a while the sand in my fingers just slips through... My personal Tolerance meter for most people just doesn't go that high.

I was working for someone, and one of the employees stepped completely out of line with me.. I had to shut them down... I never understand why at work you aren't so busy working that you can get involved in a bunch of bullshit. But the boss came to me and asked me if I wanted them Fired, I said it was up to them, that that wasn't my Call... but that what that employee did, reflected on the Boss, and that was what I was concerned about. So I was very concerned about what the boss was going to do about it. The boss gave them a Warning. I said, "Ok, that is fine. But if this is the kind of workplace they wanted it was going to cost them Twice as much to have me contract for them." .. They said it wasn't acceptable and went out to find someone else, who wanted 4x as much... After that I told them I wanted 5 times as much.... And trust me .. I work so hard i'm a deal at Twice that Figure.... but nope hire someone to nickle and dime you and milk every project for ever dollar they can get.

DUMB ASS!!!

I was on a project once and busted out a calculator and laid out a flow chart of this project, The Project manager said "You can't bust through all that math and come out with the right numbers and have it work."

I said, "the hell I can't. "

He called the owner of the company, he didn't think it could be done the way I had done it.... All I'm talking about here is coming up with a Clear plan that lays out the settings in advance and uses math to optimise the system... but the Owner said "Oh that won't work, you just have to do it manually as you go."

2 days later after we laid it all out and went through the settings Manually.. then spent half a day debugging the first 2 systems, which were wrong... I pulled out my Chart... Said "Try this"... Everything Dialed in Perfectly, once we ditched the manual Crap and went to the Model. 6 hours later it was all Ready to go. 20 min of tweaking it was done. The Project manager told me "he was sure it wouldn't work." I said that that was because he was a moron and hadn't paid any attention in math Class.. he said "but the boss agreed it couldn't be done." ... I said "Ya, that is because he is a fucking moron too."

next project I had the Project manager's Job.... they begged me for the equations... I said "my teaching rate is 100X my salary."

I was listening to some utah economics professors a few days ago, talking about health care. One was saying "Well if people don't pay for it, then it will be more expensive because they will have all these unneeded procedures." Ok dumbfuck... Explain to me why I want to break a leg! or why I want to sit and wait 4 hours to get an X-Ray or 6 hours of my day to get an MRI. Where is the Joy in Getting a Chlamydia test... Had the doc grab your nuts and check for a Hernia?.... Every had your Prostate checked?..... GOOD TIMES!!! sign me up for 2.... And this DUMB BITCH teaches at the University of Utah.

BLA BLA BLA!!!!

What really kills me is that most of these people just find it easy... they just roll around in this Haze of Narcissism with their head up their ass. And it's all golden, and you need to give it to them... what ever it is... It's theirs and they deserve it.... Like Jon and Kate.. think they are fucking 20 and Pimp their family off to TLC... When it's like looking at a Family of Dinosaurs in a Cage! WTF did you think it was a good idea to have 8 kids... and the first 4 weren't enough.... Mostly because if kate had more kids she wouldn't have to get a job! 4 more kids... or a Job... hmmm tough choice. I know I'll have 4 kids, spawning like a Puppy. Then spend all day whining about how fucking hard it all is, and need a show on TLC just to pay for them...... That is the shit Healthcare insurance shouldn't pay for... Erections and so that you can have 4 fucking kids... It may be fine if you don't have kids... but Shit... if you already have a few... Just let it Be! And if you can't get an erection.. lets start with no more fucking potato chips soda's and all the chemicals in the Meat....

enough said... there are a few people who can't fucking stand me! and for good reason. It's part of why this blog is easy for me, as opposed to interacting with people.

Ugh...

Sunday ride took it out of me, Spent the rest of the day Sleeping and eating. Catching up on the week of sleep I never get....

hmmm other stories of ....

Time for coffee and Omelet

6am

it's 6am... I just finished the morning carb load, it's all digesting. Trying to get the coffee in me so I can get the .... er other important pre ride Bodily function going.... Rough to be getting old.

Damn looks like I'm getting better at writing 140 characters.

but it needs to get a bit warmer before I can hit the road.

Hello Virginia!

I've been starting some emails as an imaginary conversation with someone named Virginia. I discussed this with one of the Victims. I wondered if it was that I was having a discussion with Virginia Wolf... They suggested that it was more probable that it was as in "yes Virginia, there is no Santa Clause".

Seemed more probable, since I've never read any Virginia Wolf... But it's possible that I was just having a conversation with what I imagine 'Would be Virginia Wolf'...

.... My word... what a dizzying intellect...

Well, That may be good enough... I was going to post about what an aggressive asshole I can be... but maybe another time.

what to say what to say

I went out and pulled one of my hard Routes on Sunday... it's hot again.

But... UGH!!! I need to put that route into heavy rotation, it's only 2 hours... If I don't steal fruit on the way back. So... some of the apples are starting to come on and Pears. we should have Peaches. Apricots are just about gone. The plumbs are out there, but most the trees are the shitty Variety.

But... it should get me into much harder shape... but... It's just a long lonely road.

But arn't they all.

DateLine 4am

Saturday was a bust....

I may need to kick in the vitamin B

4am... I remembered that most my kit is not dry.... There is that step where I put stuff in the wash... I can pull that off, it's remembering an hour later to put it in the dryer...

but I digress... Or just move randomly Sideways...

I'd like to get a couple more hours of sleep... Light sleeper it's called, cept I may be exhausted later... any chance for me to get good sleep I take.

I'd love to sleep and get up at about 7... put on the freshly dry kit and hit the road... I'm a little concerned I could be derailed... or progressing to de-railed... Heart rate says I'm ok... but I've seen some signs I should be concerned about... Mostly that I rode the other day and didn't push the heart above about 80% and spent a ton of time at 60%....

well....

I leave you with a scene from "Things to do in denver when you're dead"

Sir.... Sir.... I wouldn't do that!!!

out on the ride today... I feel awful on Fridays so.... it wasn't much of a ride. I pull up on an intersection.

"Hey, Your Gas Cap and fuel door are open"

"Huh"

I point at his rear quarter panel, "Your Fuel door is open and the gas cap is hanging out"

"Oh... Shit, I should fix that."

Ok... I can see fuel door but Gas Cap...

He gets out of his car... Cigarette in hand.

"jesus... I wouldn't close my gas cap with a Smoke in my hand"....

"Oh... you are right... Damn..."

It's surprising most of you fuckers get through a day....

Adventures of Cycleberry Finn

For those that Follow me on Twitter(Jebus I hate Twitter). Today seemed like a great day to put in some miles, so I figured... Leave early and put in some miles. bring a book and read at a park.

I always struggle with what to eat on the road, I hate stopping at convenience stores. It's just a bitch just to get some water and some Bike snacks. I have some frozen pancakes in the freezer. I figured I'd try and put some jelly on a pancake and take it on the bike ride, that and my usual Banana and... a few other things.... So; a book, a banana, a pancake with Peanut butter and Jelly.. This Ashtray.... The lamp.... The Paddle Game

and I was off, Like Huck Finn, Pockets full of crap ready for a long ride...

I felt good even though I was about 20 pounds heavier. As I rolled down the road, I kept noticing that that Awful Puncture weed

Tribulus Terrestis, BTW has been claimed to boost testosterone and has been found to act as a aphrodisiac in animals.... also used as a diuretic and nervine.

As I rode I could see the vines slowly reaching into the road like a giant Octopus, As I was getting very nervous and avoided some close calls, Suddenly there was literally a pile of Vegetative Crap in the road... I imagine some "Clean Up" crew decided to leave massive piles of crap left along the roadside.... Well Enough said... about 1 mile to the park of my destination I was hot footing it under a softening Tire.

As I switched out the tire, I checked the other Wheel and it looked fine..... But we all know "Blown tires tend to happen in Two's.

Let me just say that this story is about half as interesting as it was in my head before I wrote it... Maybe I'm rushing and should take a break.... Should I let you know I'm going to step away for a while? WTF not...

Well this spoile my perfect afternoon to sit and read... I sat for a few minutes with my book and decided it was better to move on.... After eating my pancake. Well.... How did it Digest? you ask? a few days ago I managed to drink way too much water, then I ran out of Juice for recovery, ended up using Milk... HOLY GASTRIC DISTRESS!!! I was in Pain for 2 hours, and just layed there.... I guess my point is the Peanut butter was a little rough, but I think could be gotten used to. I have one of my Illconcieved theories that if I put myself into Gastric distress I'd be less suceptible to it or I'd at least be able to say

"Gastric Distress" you don't know Gastric Distress... I once ate 4 cheesburgers on an 80 mile ride!!! SO.... You know....

Well to avoid those same roads a second time I managed to try and Beat out some new routes... of course. Why when you beat out a new route, it's more likely that you run into the same problem you had last time you looked for a new route in the same place... and you end up comming to the same conclusion you did last time you tried...... "YOU JUST CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE!".

I know I'm only 30 blocks away and yet... I have to go on some roads that you wouldn't even want to walk on.......

Finaly I get out of the Fucking Shit in the hinterland of Rose Park! and I'm 10 miles from home and know all the roads. Just a long sprint home when!!!!! Yep You guessed it... the other tire starts going soft...

Well another day another Tube!!!

And yes they come in Two's....

Even though I didn't quite get as many miles in.... Sitting under a Tree

listening to Blond on Blond.... even changing tires... Isn't all that bad.

and for your pleasure.

Girl with the leopard skin pill box hat!

Rider down...

Well... had my first fall... and it was at a light one.

You never know how that shit happens, all I know is I was sitting there, I started to fidget at the light. Suddenly the bike is falling over and pulling me with it.

I did decide the proper response to such a situation is to stand up and do a Victory Salute

I think the last time I was dry humping the Tarmack was a cold day a few years ago... Light wouldn't chance and I had to go over and push the fucking button. Nothing is more charming than trying to turn 160 degrees at a dead stop on an irregular surface.

That is my excuse and I'm sticking with it. That is certainly one of those moments where all the people in cars around you say "I don't understand that sport.... Why would you strap yourself to some infernal Contraption and push yourself down a road at 30 MPH"

House of the Midnight Taco!

The stress of riding and work has me this week. I don't intend to whine... It just has me. Every day still on the bike, but the legs have nothing. I may have to do some research figure out what else I can do. The Brain is burning all the calories, Wish I could just eat for the head.... That sounded fucked up.

So, I umn had the Hebie Gebies and had to take a midnight walk. Out there sorting out the.... whatever.

It's one of those times where suddenly you look around and realize that you are out with the "I've got to have a Midnight Taco!" Crowd. Yep.... White minivan 300 pounds Can't figure out that at midnight you have to use the drive through at Taco Bell...

They ate some brownies and now they have the Noid!!!

Sir...it's called being paranoid...

Step away from the Redwings game!

boogyman

managed a little of the boogyman today... I've given up my Sunday FakeUmentaries on discovery channel and the like, no more watching truckers change a tire for an hour.....


So then I'm left on Sunday to sit and stew in my own demons.

Oh!!!

And Sleevie Is KILLING IT this year!!!

GO Sleevie!!!

Ramble Ramble tumbleweed

I'm trying to spare you the rambling post, i've been so good at.

I still feel like hell on the road, and Pain just about everywhere. I did clean the bike yesterday, should have about 1 pound less Road Grime. Made me want to pull the whole thing apart and give it a good once over. Just what I need mid season... A whole new "bike Drama".

You know... Figure out if my pain is just the normal breakdown build up of getting fit.
It's been all salads all the time, but finally I actually ate some proper food thursday. But I think I need to Keep on the Lawn Clippings, and the long rides for a few weeks.
Who am I kidding! I make a mean Salad!

Tired Pluss some

Coach Ryan, who is not my coach. If you saw my form, it would confirm, he is not my coach. But after whining a few days ago about the heat, he had a reminder that 90 and sunny isn't perfect but it's damn close.

So I wen't out and a dog tried to eat me, but I got in a ton of good miles. Then today I made a fun run to frontage road, see if he could catch me, or see if I could leave after he did, and not get found....

I was riding up the river valley to frontage, saying "this is almost the dumbest ride I've ever done, I have no intent to go south or go up suncrest... WTF am I doing"

so, Tired... Just checked the heart rate, and after Many more miles in the past 3 days than I've done this season... The old heart rate is 60, Hopefully it will go down.

but I get home, have dinner and recovery.... Sit in my office chair, fall asleep, then move to lay in bed and watch T.V.... Fall Asleep then put the covers on, Fall Asleep till 10pm....

hmmmm..... that isn't a very interesting story....

Hey I tried!!

Empty

A week of salads and fish.... I think the tank is empty.... that and... I keep skrewing with my bike position, one would think I'd go get fit, but it seems to me that it takes a few days to sort out if the position is correct.

and... Since I'm an eternal Tweaker!!!!!

Doh! i'm that driver

The other day, I'm pulling out of the driveway. pull to the street, to make my way onto the road. I'm Fucking with the Radio, It's hot. sorting out the air conditioner..... The whole bit.

road clears and I pull out...

as I do, Sure enough... there is a runner waiting for me to pull out... Cause she knew.... I had my head up my ass, and was ready to kill her, if I got the chance.....

FUCK!..... I'm that Driver...

I don't drive much, maybe 2 times a week at most. When Gas got expensive, I just decided I was sick of it, I do much less than 20 miles per week in the car... Groceries.. I'll even walk most of the time....

that is my first lame excuse....

Don't get me wrong.... I was completely at fault... COMPLETELY... I was, I guess we all do, but analyzing my "Risk Management" on my traffic rule following and even trying to convince myself that Confrontation with drivers may not be the best thing. Even though a dose of "you almost killed me" is something some drivers need.....

On the bike, I notice that many runners run on the wrong side of the road, and maybe I even read it, but there is even a camp of runners that think that it's the best thing. Just as there may be a few cyclists... Only... I think in cycling it's become fairly clear that you need to ride with traffic, and not against it.... because for the most part drivers don't expect to find somebody riding up the wrong side of the street.

I would think that would apply to runners too!..

but to each their own, it is their safety at risk.....

Same as it ever was!

The goal early season was to get some more aggressive Cleat position. I gave in and moved them back It's like it used to be now. I've also managed to get back to the old diet...

I had some Halibut and some salad, for dinner... I was like "this is it" and I guess it was. that and my omelet this morning. That has been going on for a few days now.

but it would be good to hit some kind of reasonable cycling weight. My body fat was coming down but the weight was maintaining.... may have to run some sessions of "fat Camp"

and I'm starting to feel better... Well that and the Creatine.

On the ride I was a bit.... Knackered... but It was an easy day, tomorrow will be the test. but I totally drilled it today, average speed on flat 20mph for an hour... And the watts were there.

I'm not sure the cleats are even.... lol, that will be for tomorrow....

Like you Fucking Care!!!

so... the point was...

Jrad is being quiet,

Tbird is gearing up for Tofu

Ryan is struggling with the 15k Dream

Sandy is ... Struggling with the Waving issue.

Louder is Nostalgic

others are... as others are....

Lance is trying to win the tour.

Levi is disappointed again

The mop is stretching his Moral and philosophical... Muscles... to near annoyance....

It's like the world is back in Redux...

Good lord help us all...

Lets hope things improve and don't just stay the same....

Turning Squares

biggest buzzword of this tour is "Turning Squares". You can almost name the tour based on the buzzwords being used during it. What was last year "reclaim the tour.".... and the year before.... "Jacked full to the gills".

My legs have had the hurt in them... all over. I messed with cleat position because one of them was giving me some grief. then the other one started hurting to make because it had new stress at the new mileage.

So... I'm Out today, getting some miles in... wondering if I need to make some adjustments... maybe even dedicate a ride to making the adjustments, or god save me, pull out the rollers.

But I'm out... and I realize that much of the problem is ..... "That I'm turning Squares"... and most the stress is because I'm pounding away at the pedals and don't have that good fluid motion....

Fuck!

I find myself

Since I refuse to take the time to "Proof Read" or even Re Read...

Ya... Sorry... that would take even more of the time I don't actually have.

Just wanted to point out that... As the Turbo lovefest continues... or as I filled out the form yesterday... my current obsession with Turbo's post, would have been a better answer for current obsession.

It's hard to restate, But Ryan I'm not saying you should do one thing or another. or that one reality is Real... Maybe reality is coming to terms with "Where you are"... Wherever that is.

Right ... What is one of my bullshit sayings...... No matter where you go...... There you are..... and that is the reality...

That is the Enigma of what I'm Getting at...

It's like my situation on the bike, I'm getting there.... I'm improving every few weeks.... Everything hurts. My improvement has been Solid.... I should be super happy about it... But still I'm Fucking slow, and "Real Riders" drop me like I'm a rock... ok like I'm a wet rag(I have no idea what the hell that means). But I'm not being outriden by girls, or Weekend warriors for the most part... I feel like I'm coming into (some kind of)form.

So the Reality of it is that I should be happy and satisfied and if I just keep going I'll get stronger and get where I want to be....... But.... then there is the side of me that is unhappy about not being strong enough to stay on just about anyone's wheel, and even drop a few "Strong" riders.

One is the reality of where I am, One is the Illusion of Where I want to be. Then there is also the Reality of how far I've come this season....

Reality Vs. the Illusion.... But the truth is... I'm aware of all of it... Without that Lucidity... I'd have no hope, no chance.... I'd just be spinning my wheels.

Ok... that is it with my bullshit obsession....

Banter Pluss....

In my mind this played out like a Turbo Love fest.... and I saw a post on his blog.

So. Ryan posts a post, the Jist of it is "Struggling with Reality". Let me just say Reality is fungible, 90%+ if not 99% of us are Clueless, I'm not even that "high on my own shit" so say that I'm in the 1%... If you asked me, I'd say the great struggle for all of us is with Reality. And yet the most functional of us, don't struggle at all, and proceed through their delusions for all of their lives.


I guess that is to say... Reality is overrated!

Realize, I drank a couple beers Post 'The Black Keys' and my last beer was in the spring, and the one before that was in the fall. Not that I'm going Straight edger, but it's part of my new thing... As well part of it is to "not be a Zealot".. Cause there is nothing like a Zealot!! But thanks to the T-Bird for the Black Keys.... but I'm fairly sure I gave him Bob Log III... So Even....

Now that that is cleared up, What some of you don't know.... I'd imagine that there would be some supposition about "What happened to 'The Mop'" .... Was it about "the broom" or about "something else" or Just my desire to fade back into the Nether Regions.... and even writing this paragraph is about as narcissistic as I can get, without vomiting.

What I'm getting at, is that Ryan's post reminded me about What happened. I don't talk to people... my life is that of a monk, and a friend of mine drank coffee with me till about 5am, me shooting espresso till I started sweating out of the back of my knees. During that conversation It just occurred to me that my life needed to change. There is sort of a point at about 24 when you realize you need to Get a Life, and it seems like in your 30's you realize... your going to lose your life. Therefore it's time to Get off your ass, and live your life. That is where I hit, in the shower, sweating out the back of my Knees. It was time to work on being whatever it was I could be, and to fight for my potential.


I guess here I am.... sort of on the other side of that at this point.... I'm sort of Bloody, sort of Scarred.... Like the phoenix Born of fire..... here I am again... Still Haunted, and Nagged. Still Suffering, still fighting. What is it that is Born of the Ashes of that fire? I don't' know.... We are still working on that.... me, The Mop, The Max, Batman, and the Wolverine!.... Still working on Being a Better person, still working on enlightenment...... Always there is "The work". But There is now a new Lucidity to me... It's painful, and I live with stress and on the edge about 110 hours a week. It's nasty and hateful, and it get's ugly..... I can say, that for a large part, I can be a very unpleasant person to be around!

I had a friend struggling with Reality...... I asked Which is it that you struggle with? 'The Great and secret show' or 'The great work'? That is sort of a Clive Barker Reference... I'd explain it, but I'd have to kill you!... The difference is for you to ponder...

But to me... it's not those that Struggle with Reality that you should worry about, it's those who don't have the sense to struggle with it.

these days... I tend to assess people based on.... "do they walk a Razors edge"... the edge between Trickery and divinity... Between the great Illusion, and those glimpses of reality that sometimes seem so fleeting.... Those are the good people...

It's that struggle, it's those people that I think are 'the great ones'...... everyone else just tends to have their head up their ass!

You want the Truth.... You can't handle the truth!!!

Well Now

Kelly threw out a tag.... and some hidden part of me loves a tag... but I can't admit it.... except that I sort of just did. and she probably doesn't read the blog. and even if she did she wouldn't admit it.... and it's been lame these days...

Trying to generate some momentum to check out the black Keys.... I mean.. I never leave the house except to grocery shop and ride the bike.

1. What is my current obsession? Riding my bike. Also Thomas Paine, Gordon Ramsay... Ya... we all have tons to answer for, but Gordon does cool stuff like raises pigs in is urban garden, to teach his kids where food comes from, and then they eat them, after caring for them for months.
   
2. What do you hate that everyone else seems to love? Bank Stocks, Jones Brothers, American Idol, America's got tallent. Michael Jackson.
3. What are you Wearing today? Shorts T-Shirt... same as it ever was.
4. What is for dinner? Probably a salad... tough thing, I need more roughage.
5. What would you eat for your last meal? Wings!!! In fact, I'd like to die by hotwing!
6. Last thing I bought? Groceries, almost got a gatorade on a ride but couldn't find the cash in my pack.
7. What am I listening to right now? The TV switched over to the Yoga, as schedualed... which I never do. but the TV is too far away to get to.
8. What do you think of the person who tagged me? Kelly has a Great honest way about her. she didn't really tag me...
9. If you could have a house fully paid for and totally funrished where woudl it be? I'd like a nice Cabin, or a Beach house.
10. If I could go anywhere in the next hour... Where? Nice 80-90 deg beach ...
    
11. What is one of my hobbies? Gardening. Tinkering.... I always wanted to Cooper, 200 years ago I'd have been a cooper.
12. What is your favorite quote? I can't say it... first thing that came to mind is a Bukowsky quote.....
13. Favorite color? Blue... Dark Blue
14. Favorite piece of clothing... I have a dark green Fleece
15. Dream job? I was thinking about being a bar fly a few days ago, I was a Trout Bum for 6 months
16. describe your personal style? I'm caught in 90's grunge... need to move on... but how?
17. Favorite tree? I have this great Pagoda tree. Throws this huge Canopy of shade.
18. What am I going to do after this? Kit up
19. Favorite fruit? I eat a ton of apples... but an in season Mango is out of control... but you have to go to asia.
20. What inspires you? I'm not sure I know the inspiration you talk of... I like being Curious about new things. Maybe its a tell about me. but I'm unrepairable.
21. Who was athe last person I kissed? There was this woman I was dating till about christmas.
    
22. What are you currently reading?Working on Homer.. been working on it through 6 other books and for about a year.
23. go to my bookshelf take first book down with red binding turn to 26 type first line: Rumpled and sun roasted, graham didn't look like a federal investigator
24. What delighted you the most today. eh....
25. if your life had a theme song, what would it be. Can't think of one
26. if you bought a wiener dog today, what would you name it? George
27. what is the character trait or habit of yours that you inherited from one of your parents? Ability to make things more complicated than they need to be.

ok... have to ride the bike and convince myself to get out and see the world ... and be asshole to elbo with all the other nutjobs at Galvin.

Mid season

Feels like midseason meltdown. All kinds of sideways...... Momentum. from everyone...

My booring Pink Floyd story

I was up for this job with this sound company MANY years ago! And on the job site I heard Pink Floyd Division Bell.

I said, "Jesus this is crap, Floyd really hasn't done anything since roger waters left. Not that the stuff Roger waters is turning out is anything to write home about."

The guy I was trying to schmooze said. "Well I put it on, and I think it's some of the best stuff they have ever done!."'

Ya....

1. Piper
2. Meddle
3. Animals
4. Saucer
5. everything with Waters, but the wall was the last great album, and it is more obvious that I like. but great if you are 16.
6. everything post waters till 90(TO be honest Final cut and Momentary)
7. then Whatever Bullshit they published after 1990

They umn... didn't give me any work.

Tired

Everything has me Worked, I kicked the workouts up a notch again.... to the point I need to think about the Long routes, but also doing serious watage durring the week. doing some form of climb with my ride, or putting in solid distance....

During the week.

Leaving at 5 and coming back at 7 or 8 at night is a thing.... something to adjust too.

Saw and talked to a Charming Young lady yesterday.... reminded me of part of why I do this... Not that being healthy isn't it's own reward.

but... I'm worked.. Need some down time.... Probably still going to ride but....

see.. now

if I do a set of whining I can be found.... Ugh... Went out to Camp williams, that road is full of construction....

and it was painful.... at one point this is going to stop hurting.... I used to have so much more base....

I look down and suddenly it's 10 miles and I start dragging.... Which is why we do the longer distances right....

but shit....

I did find some improved Routes to get out there.... it just seems like everything is under construction...

Wall Climbing Spiderman!!!

Trying to get out and do some riding, I'm tempted to ride downtown, Not sure I want to ride that section of the parkway that the "Weird dudes use". But that slow distance would be a good target for the day.

This Twitter thing.... hell of a distraction, I'd love to sit and read a book today. I just tend to have more to say than one can fit in 140 CHR.

and yet here I am, and I have nothing.

my easiest route

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One of my routes

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There is one hill that one can avoid by using 7800 instead of 6200 s.

It puts the lotion on it's skin!

that is what twitter is like!

I'm working through it, it's a thing...

Long hard ride. there is this section of town that has decided round-abouts are better than stoplights..... I guess, but it's like 4 right turn lanes.

I caught a draft today. It was only for .1 of a mile, had to drop him. Figured it would look funny me in my kit, him in a boyscout Uniform. Did I mention he was pulling a larger gear than I was.... so he LT'd himself out fairly quick.

it was one of those hard rides, went on forever... but it's that much closer to Butterfield canyon and real rides

Judd Gregg

Judd gregg was just on the news talking about Healthcare, and how great private insurance is.....

IT BOTHERS THE SHIT out of me, that congress is completely full of shit, as they sit with the best health insurance in the world, the federal blue cross blue shield system.

Which is Ten times better than any insurance program you can get in the private sector. Not even covering that most insurance programs are in the business of Taking a Premium and never paying for Claims.

I guarantee that if Ted Kennedy was on any other insurance program in the private sector... he would be dead right now!

BUT what is good enough for them..... IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU..... RIGHT!!!

Judd Greg "Oh... it would be a disaster if we had a gov run program."..

OK JUDD... go get a better one from some non Federal insurance program then if it is so good! You are missing out on high quality health care......

Put your money where your mouth is you Hypocritical Prick!!

Jebus

Because of Le....Tour I have been caught up in the maddness of Le Twitter....

Look left and I guess you can Subscribe....

I'll do everything I can to not talk about my Colon.... Just to let you know... If I felt you were a close friend.... I would tell you about my colon...

I added a Don Henley song to the playlist, there are a few I like but New York Minute is about .... I just feel like I'd rather be listening to "The Cars"... if I want that stuff.

Quick Aside! when I skied... Ya I don't ski any more, I keep swearing I'll go cross Country... and maybe in a few years or something.... But I used to ski at Solitude every weekend when I could do it for $12. But I had my walkman and inside was "the Cars"... Mostly!

I feel good, Legs are messing with me, lots of minor pain....

Funny, I just checked the playlist to kill dead song links. Started playing the play list, I was like "Damn! somebody built a playlist that I Really Enjoy!... of course... that would be me...

ride.......

the new Cleat position is still messing with me..... tough to build up new muscles to compensate, that and what it's been doing to the tendons and ligaments...

BUT!!! I now have some form of base.... I can not only ride hard for quite some time, I also have some fast twitch....

It's time to get some more base.... but it's nice not to have rubber legs at 3 miles....

I am a little slow at mile 10 but.... I think it's something to build on....

one of my good base building roads is just the nasty skankiest roads..... Dusty.... hot.... and hicks and trucks and confused drivers for 7 odd miles....... of bone grinding slowness.........

at one point.... it will be time to go for "that road"....

Twitter

all the yahoos throwing up their messages.....

and yet... I'm getting tempted...

I may only be willing to do it when "Oh! Twitter is so Last year"

Stuff

I just saw this Documentary, about a guy with a devastating brain injury.

it was good... the brain is probably the most interesting organ in the body. It's also has probably the greatest ability to recover, and yet.... since it drives the car... metaphorically... it needs some help.

I don't have anything against Billy Mayes.... but it's interesting that we "Celebrate his life"... I guess I'd prefer that to MJ.... not to speak ill of the dead... I was lucky, didn't love his music, didn't love him in life......don't care that he died.

One of my friends is on vacation, my other friend that I regularly contact every day is ..... MIA... Probably dropped the phone into the toilet again...... or some other Drama.....

so... I'm here to muddle on my own.... I've also been chaffing..... Is that interesting?...

If I twittered I'd say "I Chafe"

hmmmm

So... Hell of a Tour day today. Lance was funny, and insulting...

"Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that was going to happen..."

Zabrisky is in 17... good for him.... Love the guy... but has he finished it yet... just looked it up 2006 ... Good job dave... I just spent way too much time on his web site...

So... It's so hot, but..... for the most part I've eaten dinner at 5:30-6:30 every night for 2 years or so now. Because of the heat I decided to try and eat at like 5, then ride at 6 or 7 when it started getting cool.....

Ugh..... I felt like a sausage on a bike...... Good hell, then the only cyclists I saw were "Le Tour" cyclists... ones with no hard hat, poorly fit bike, dumping their legs in the first 5 minutes of riding.... SO... people go ride the parkway...
and I don't mean to be negative about any riders. but they load up their bikes and go to the parkway... but seriously it's only a mile or 2 from just about any place in the city.... So... why not ride to it, and back... it adds a good 2 to 4 miles to the ride.... and you don't spend 20 minutes messing around with the bike rack..

it was nice to get out and be riding toward dusk.... but I need to sort out the food thing...

T.V.

I'm not sure why but... during the summer I get caught up in T.V... all winter long, I'm not interested in sitcoms and 24 and the usual nonsense....

So, here I am... Ice Road Truckers, Expedition africa, Deadliest catch, Rescue me, Dog the bounty hunter.....

I hate all of them, Ice Road Truckers seems to be a die hard battery ad and a craftsman tool ad. Worse is that it seems to be just an hour of people driving a truck. I'm not sure that is all that exciting.... OH!!! BIG STUFF! the truck broke!!!!!
. Deadliest catch is ok.... Expedition africa..... I keep waiting for Meriah to skrew me but it just doesn't happen(you know she was a miami cheerleader right!), and I just wish they all would shut the fuck up. I can't figure out how I've started watching Dog.....

And... no new season of the 2 coreys... aparently there is a feldman blog I'd prefer if he gave it up and became a twit....

I had a rough ride today... 90 degrees is tough in my current fitness... and I wonder if ... though i suffer if it will help my fitness to just nut up to the heat.....

Andy took a beating today at wimbledon, it was tough to figure out who to pull for, but then at the end Andy said something stupid and ungracious, as roger was trying to talk up his opponent... I kind of wanted roger to turn around and say.... Listen Fucker you have had 3 chances at this... if anyone is going to let somebody else try... how if you make sure you let somone else do it, who can follow through.

I'm hoping it inspires andy to kick it up just one more notch... get to the point some of the bigger players fear him. He has a great chance at the U.S. Open.

Hi Blog....

Bob: Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to 'em for years but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot to the head. But something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday life, like having to tie their shoes.

---

Bob: I knew it in my heart. You can buck the system but you can't buck the dark forces that lie hidden beneath the surface. The ones some people call superstitions.

T.V. babies..... been watching people killing and fucking each other for so long, they think it's normal.---

-Drugstore Cowboy

I just realized it was the fourth of july, sure I knew it was this weekend, which was why we have an extra day... but about an hour ago I realized it was today.

I paid my debt to the hat....

I remember being 20 and getting all Fucked up and checking out the fireworks. Oh drugstore cowboy is on again tonight in IFC... that will be good, I missed most of it.

Sorry Reader... start in the middle work my way out. I keep swearing I'm going to try and Write for Real. Maybe here maybe just write some short stories.... some well disciplined writing.

I wanted to go lay down in the garden, it's actually quite a restful place. Except that Mostly, I think of all the work I need to do out there. Gardens are like a Zen effort, of constant work... There is the maintenance, then there is trying to Build the garden. I have some trees that need to move, that will be a bitch to move a 20 ft Tree... but it will be better than killing it at 30 feet.

It's a long weekend, one would think I'd be rested. No! Mostly exhausted... I hate what I do... I hate it. I think most of the financial community are such chumps... It's hard, but I see such stupid mistakes. Taleb was talking about Calculation error, and inability to calculate or perceive Variables in calculations. Most these people barely know how to take a sample.

My best hope this weekend is to get some big time on the bike, I'd love to get a nice 4 hour ride in... maybe tomorrow night depending on how I feel... still that little nag in my knee I have the Cleat placement right..... but need to watch out, if I don't make sure it heals I'll fight it all season. Out with the "Le Tour" riders today, weird riders that I've never seen.... I feel like one of them... one of the "I only ride my bike during the tour" kind of guys......

Old girlfriend just did an Elbrus summit... seems kind of weak to me, but surprised she did it... never knew she had it in her... of course I'm always surprise at how amazing some of the woman I've dated are....

ugh.... ya... this post kind of sucks...

I'll try not to talk about it.... that Bruneal and Team Astana is not saying "getting banned from the 2008 tour is the best thing that could have happened to us..."

Right!... talk about being full of shit. and the Cardinals.. the best thing to happen to them was losing the superbowl!!!

Purgatory

I guess some people don't suffer periodic insomnia like I do... with the knee playing with me, no hard rides for 2 days. My body is not used to it..... with my extra energy tonight I started cleaning.... then I still haven't been able to sleep.... Wimbledon Semi's in the morning... like 6am and here it is 1am and I can't sleep...

I'm sitting with this exhausted self... and yet can't sleep... I lay in bed and there is no quiet mind just a frustrated one, at not being able to sleep..... Tired and no sleep...

grrrr....

the uber fucking bike riding over last weekend

so... with the hard riding.... seems like I needed some Cleat adjustment, cause one knee has become sore... but I made the adjustment and now it seems things are fine.....

my knee is a little sore still.... but my ride was perfect... but it still gives me some "wonk" when I go down stairs...

nothing like a real injury though.... but best watch it...

I have no idea what rides I'll do this weekend.

so

well after the attempt at a fist fight yesterday...
and my Heart rate is up a bit this morning.... I'll keep checking it...

It may be a day to do some cross training.... or just read a book instead of riding....

I must like a fight....

I go out... and after yesterday.... my body realizes... and my mind... Holy shit! it's summer! I set my mind to just do a nice fun 20 miles. just have fun..... and I know a nice route... not hard on the body... just 20 miles...

In the epic attempts to get my ass kicked...

Hasn't happened yet!...

Probably why I'll never be a "Great" cyclist, I have no desire to be all "Small" up top..

So, there is this regular 35-40 MPH descent I do on most of my rides. But like most times when a cyclist is doing 40, it pissed drivers off. But this has nothing to do with it... I'm descending, Truck Pulls past me in my lane, he does a great job of giving me space.... Of course... Why pass me when I'm doing 5 MPH over the speed limit, and we are coming to a stoplight in less than a mile....

Suddenly out of the left lane, this shit bag pulls out in front of the truck, from damn near a stop. The truck Locks up his brakes, and I do to... at fucking 40 MPH.....

I'm Shitting, cause quickly I may have to decide to take the chance of going over the bars or... hitting a Truck....

Fortunately they all speed up and things mello....

So a mile up there is the light, and it's cars 7 deep waiting for it to turn..... Thank god we were all in a hurry.

Well... I take the opportunity to pull past mr Dumb ass who almost cost me my life!

"You are kind of an Idiot, aren't you!" As I pull forward... I noticed his junky car has the rear window rolled down, apparently the window doesn't work and no A.C.

Well I know that as the cars in his left lane pull forward, as I sit in between the through lane and the Turn. SO, either there is going to be a confrontation or he is going to shove his tail between his legs.

so, as he pulls up to turn, he has to lean back in the drivers seat so he can yell out the window...

Something like "Fuck you Asshole, bla bla bla the light...... somehow it's not my fault I almost killed you ...... and the guy behind me."......

the guy in the truck who he also tried to kill, Lays on his horn like nobodies business..... Oh... I guess you forgot about the other person you tried to kill.....

AND HOW THE FUCK IS IT OTHER PEOPLE'S FAULT WHEN YOU TRIED TO KILL THEM!!!!

so... he put his tail between his legs and drove away....

How do some of you people get drivers licences...

and.... like the crab boat captain who knows he will die at sea.... I'm sure at one point there will be a story of a driver with road rage who runs over a cyclist, after being yelled at driver decides just to put his foot to the floor!!!....

and that will be me....

Jackson Faked his death!

It's in the Weekly World news.. Must be true

“The superstar trip has trapped Michael in Neverland. Also there’s a very good chance he could end up in prison if he’s convicted of child sex abuse.

“The only way out of this mess he’s in is to fake his death, cut his hair and go underground,” says Dr. Reiss, who specializes in celebrity predictions.

If he Didn't ..... He should have!

Mullberries

It's all lance all day on VS. the T.V. Station.... it is weird, like cycling was different back then

big move stage ten 2001... the infamous Possum... and yet I wonder if Astana is playing possum again, or if it's a replay of 2007 or 2008 when it was too many leaders not enough support... and it was like cats in a burlap bag....

I made it out for a nice ride.... my 4 mile hill of pain.... but I felt good... and even now I'm not bad...

Better living through chemistry...

If I had a cycling team... I would name it the fruit and berry snatchers... I was out and noticed that there were all these squashed ripe fruit on the road and had to circle back to take a little mid ride feed, on some Mulberries... those are the sort of bitter berries that grow on the trees, go from red to black and are edible... this reminds me that the cherries must be coming on, then apricots, peaches, apples... then fall.

I also had my first run in with some charming family coming out of church... who tried to kill me....

Is it that church is so bad, that you just want to get the hell home... and that is why all the bad driving.... or is it that your head is with all the celestial bodies and on the planet Kolob...

I am literally 50%/50% on people who have tried to kill me Normal drivers vs. people in schoolZones and churches...

alright... try not to hate the mormons...

Trying to figure out

do I go out and just spin the wheels....

or do I take the day off...

I have sort of a half big ride planned for tomorrow...

one of my old big rides, but just one of the steady climbs.... build some real base....

I think I finally have like a 4 mile base... or like a 10 MPH... as long as I don't bonk base built up...

(ok, being a little dramatic, but I'm not sure I could hold 15mph for more than 6 miles flat.

Ugh.....

I guess I just typed this up to show I was alive...

.....

I could rip the ears off a tiger today...


or at least try and get killed

check this out!!

Melanie Oudin.... USA.... beat Jelena Jankovic... and moves into the second week

18 years old baby!!!!

there may be new hope for woman's tennis...

could be a break out performance!!!

on schedule for next week.

Venice vs Ivanovic

and maybe

Kuznetsova vs Wozniacki

Mauresmo vs Safina

Big Week 2...

Like the Playoffs for the superbowl... it is the first couple days of the second week that have the fun games....

Let me just make a comment that Roddick actually has become Fit... Like Fit and strong like he wants to become a real force in tennis... Not that he will but..... good for him... and I always badmouth him and he deserves some credit...

There is a Male Qualifier "Jesse Levine" 22, it is a little old...

I am starting to wonder if we will not see as many 16-18 year old Champions since there is some real dedication to fitness or steroids, that is required to become either a male of female champion at this point... but still I think you have to make your mark by 22 years of age...

bla bla bla

A little Cheat

Creatine is banned right? ... So, I'm not a good example to the kids... Honestly I should eat more meat...

but sorry, I don't ....

So... My ass was dragging, and I pulled out the Jar...

hmmm I was just trying to look it up... it may just be discouraged....

of course... I feel puffy....

But on a Thursday I went out and did my long distance.... sure the distance is only long if I was on a bmx bike....

but I did go out... and do some millage... I may be getting to the point I'm ready to do one of my OLD intermediate rides.....

of course even parts of some of those rides.... I can't see myself doing.... there are particularly the long slow 3% climbs that go on for 5 miles..... That just sounds like hell right now....

Tsonga just took a smack down... in a very close game he just let go a couple of breakers, and it was over....

but it is all it takes..

well now

See.... If I talk about the stupid market I have to update....

when there is a chance I'm wrong....

HUGE UP BAR!!!!!... High Volume....

I hate to be one of those idiots who says "Range Bound".....

But it challenges my thesis in the short term...

But.... the thing to watch out for is "The Costanza Trade"... where almost every couple days... people are "Sell"!!!!! then 2 days later "BUY!!!!!"

that is the danger...

obviously we have to get below 900 to get to 850... so... .till then... there is a chance of a new high....

Gay Market shit!!!...

Art!!!! spx 850

Then we get a dead cat for a few weeks.

Umn

The insider talk is about the Gary Gorton Paper BTW... "Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand"

If you get a chance find some of the Lectures by Woody Brock... The man is a Fucking Genius! I'm not sure about the one about "Art".. not about you... but the other lectures if you can find them are great!

for fucks sake.... Risotto Update

All things cycling and food...

Hopefully I said it.... I had a brilliant Hollandaise over the weekend.... Not eat it... but made it.

like Toffee it's a psychological process..... Hollandaise and toffee can smell fear....

But after that Surprise success... BTW I expected failure... which is why it probably went well.

But after that I was reminded about my continued goal of the perfect Western/rocky Mountain Risotto...

So... I tried it tonight... and

Last time I did sort of a Ham and Pea.... with a little Spicy spicy....

this time I decided to try sort of a Mexican..... Taco... kind of Beef and sausage, and Cheddar.... With a significant "Spicy Spicy"

What A fucking Disaster!!!

Maybe some other time.... but a Taco Risotto is not the right path....

Next up... I'm thinking sort of a Ham Cheddar Pepper....

I may have to look at some recipes...

Little ride report

I'm trying to get as many miles in as I can..... and good news, instead of about 2 miles of base... I think I have about 4 or maybe even 5 now....


Jesus......

So.... With my Lack of ..... Well let me just call it "Lack of Core Strength" aka soft Squishie Middle... I've been doing the thing I absolutely hate... which is riding the Parkway some of the time..... For those who don't remember, I'm Philosophically opposed to road bikes on the parkway, since speeds above 5 mph are dangerous.....

But hey... you need to see hot Runner Ass somehow.....
and you can't quite call what I'm doing "road biking"

Now that we are progressing to 150 degree days.... but it is still too cold to ride at 5am.....

I now ride during rush hour... FUCK!!

Is it that it's hot, and people are now stupid... Maybe because they don't know how to hydrate, and end up sucking 64 oz big gulps instead of water... all while screeching into the 7-11 and trying to side swipe me.....

Or is it just that kids are out of school....

maybe that some of you idiots can't keep your cars going during the winter or spring... but now with summer... every moron with a junker is out on the road...

Which BTW.... I had my second Flat.... Thank god cause it was the tube that has had a slow leak... and pumping it up every day was starting to piss me off....

But as I'm rolling .... Some fucking Douche' had the nose of his Piece of shit White... Wanabee Modern Lowrider AKA... Car from Too Fast Too Furious....


(Now if it was a lowrider.... I'd understand)

Only... not so much Souped up sporster.... Just ....

This sort of thing....Kind of "I want to to be a fast car... but I can't afford it....and it is filled with.... I'd say it but It would be Racist... but if you want to avoid being a stereotype... try a little harder.....

So the nose of this shitbox is sticking way out into the road, forcing me to swerve around.... Then the guy pulls into the lane and then when pulling into the Seven Eleven.... for the old Soda.... manages to force me to have to jump a Curb.....

Well... that blew a Tube.....

and... Well I'm almost as bad at changing tubes at this point as I am at riding a bike....

Ride....

It was nice yesterday.. and after 4 or 200 weeks of rain, I forget... It's bound to be 200 degrees very soon. I'm looking forward to morning rides....

I did manage to out ride a couple of weekend warrior girls.... I felt bad... seemed like one of those chauvinist things.. but there is that ladder ... Outride the tragicly out of shape, and the guys who lost their drivers license to a DUI, Then faster than the Mountain bikes. Then faster than the strong Mountain bikes, and the slow girls..... then the fast girls and the weekend warriors....
Then fit with the "Elite Core Scum bags" who can't stand to go slower than anyone else.....

then it's all about riding faster than Turbo and Sleevie.....

Wimbledon!!

Jankovic... they are bitching about her today.... In a press conference she was bitching about what court she was on.... They are all "STFU about your court placement and learn how to Play." "big two handed back hand... but she needs to work on every other aspect of her game....."

which is very true... she just thinks the championship will fall in her lap.... She needs to get her head out and Commit to winning... and it will still be hard...

But... Wozniacki.... keep your eyes on her.... I'm not saying Favorite... but she is a comer...

Sorry PG Readers

I had to share this....

Microsoft paint Porn

not work Appropriate... but there are some very skilled people out there... With Paint...

Family Nonsense

I was lucky enough to have the joy of the old family get together......

I have been reflecting on my lack of kids this week... Mostly that I'm getting old enough that... that option is slipping away...

and I ran into some people I went to university with and they were chock full of kids...

The thing I'm reflecting on is that ... I don't care... And that the lack of narcissism in me that I don't want my Linage to go on....

Then.. I see my sister, and her retarded kids.... I realize what a miserable Intolerant father I'd be..

"bla bla, refuses to eat 'Fish'....." I'd decide to have an entire meal only of fish...and fish for an entire week.... Other than that you eat toast and vitamins.....

I shit you not.... I'm not avoiding fish because My kid doesn't like it.... WTF you are teaching your kid by planning the family diet around one person.....


That egg is overcooked BTW.... Turn the pan down a little

For all my, bitching

after a morning of rain... you could not find a better day this year to be out on the road...

I'm also not sure if it will rain this afternoon...

I suspect forecasting error

Economy Part 2

So.... I'm trying to do some Cheering up of those Economically worried... I guess that even includes me....

but, besides a short term scare... Which of course your place of employment may decide to axe just a few more workers....

overall... it's bound to get Less Scary and we can muddle properly, and thing can shake out as they need to.

Honestly your biggest concern is if the company you work for is in Massive debt and still has yet to "Deal with the implications of trying to roll over large amounts of debt."

My point is... for the most part... the worst is over.... Unless of course some crazy shit happens like... Hitler taking over Germany.. or other such unmanageable events.

Economics

Ok... so I may have hit that one... sure there was a little fake out before my market high...

SO... I hate to keep doing this..... because I think I'm doing it for my EGO!

And.... I could still be wrong....

But.... Unfortunately we are in a Bear market.... Stocks will be shunned for 10 years minimum....

which suggests that overall .... Long term, they are a steal right now over a 30 year span.. Though maybe a little toppy in a 6 month to 1 year... time frame..

But... My Models say that the market is going to take a dip here... between now and November...

I'm not saying from now till November... just there will be a significant dip .. .and that is when you put the big money to work....

but there also will be a sort of MUDDLE... where the Economic data is Uneven and it drives traders Mad!!! and then Finally they Give up again..... That will be the next big dive.......

BUT IF I were buying a home.... I would look to lock in a Loan in the 4.5% range..... YOU HAVE TO LOCK IT IN...... and right now you are getting 5.5%... which is very high..... in relative terms...


There are those that would disagree with me... but.... I tend to be a bit of a contrarian... and 4% is big return on a 10 year in this environment of global instability.... etc....

but after that dip back into the 4% range... this fall, that might be your last chance for a 4% mortgage.

of course taking financial advice from me... could be a mistake...

but THEY NEED YOU TO BUY A HOUSE... and that will go on for some time.... Housing doesn't rebound like the market does.... and there is and will continue to be an oversupply