cafe

new day, husker du in my head, new day rising, bob mould's voice is one of those super-distinct defining sounds. that band would have been so much less without it. grant hart no way could have carried the vocal load. had my coffee now i feel a bit better, the key being the scavenged pop tarts chased by second rate coffee fixins' i have enough chemicals running thru my body to embalm an elephant. i would rather not think about what i did to my body today, too much guilt. no donut though. makes me think of billy bob, he eats an organic diet, drinks only the best juices and generally takes great care of himself so that me may smoke marlboro and drink miller with less guilt. jeff had a good post, more philospophical than some of his others but as usual a healthy dose of science thrown in for good measure. think about it.

in it

i had the furnace rolling yesterday, not too far to get tired but plenty far to push the legs. lots of climbing in proportion to how far we rode. eternal spring. had good solo time in the wind, that always makes me feel good. too hot still on the overnight to sleep under the covers, i'm still warm now. the body is responding well to all the different stuff. shaubie and i skinned up monday morning and then we skiied at the nordic center in the pm with b. he rocked the nordic boards. 15 minutes of skiing for the kid, pretty impressive for his first time on skis. pulling him in the sled brought a new level of effort to skating. 10k was all i could do of that, then shaubie learned to skate, the no pole drill hooked her on it. she's going again today. tele, tour, skate and ride, hard to beat this winter for general work. i did it again yesterday, went to denver without my wallet, i really felt dumb and hungry after the ride, i got lucky the mob boys hooked me up with food and much needed supplies. the single is ready and the road bike maybe on the block soon too.

worlds

a good morning trying to further my telemark talent, i think i can actually make a turn now without too much trouble. soft snow, lots of it. both sides seem to be pretty good, my leg strength imbalance is fading, i hope. good fun learning the new skills. i saw some cool pics on the cref boys site
that looks good, would you rather see a silly panaroma pic from the ski area or a nice big plate of belgian fries? check it out, good link, the future looks pretty bright.

sad

the lack of sleep the last few days has put a fog over my head, i just seem to be in a daze, lack of good sleep isn't a good thing. at least it keeps snowing, the quiet glide over the freshly fallen last inght made me happy. then i heard about the golden retriever on long island that killed a little girl in his family. he was playing with her and she had a scarf on, he playfully went to get it and knocked her over and dragged her around by it, she's dead, he will be too. i wonder if i can adopt him from here? brookhaven animal shelter.

i've got a name and i've got a number and i've got a line on you...

i never really liked genesis when i was growing up. i thought they never were that good, now i hear the stuff i would turn off when i was younger and i actually like what i hear. old age is skewing my ear. i know bateman was a fan, but he did a whole chapter on huey lewis as well, that whole thing i still don't get. not that it's much different with punk, agent orange never sounded so good. same with dag nasty, makes me chuckle at the bubble gum punk they try and push on the kids these days. i wonder what b will say of the stuff 30 years on? i saw a fox on the way in that was nearly the size of number 1, one well-fed fox. negative temps have me ready to throw away my long blown out lobster paws, they sucked today, too cold to not have mitts when it's like this. balaclava and neck gaiter helped, but the hands and feet were unacceptable, too cold. at least i had henson to keep me laughing and warm. what a twisted freak. listen is you have a tolerance for the odd, or over the line humor, like keith, but shorter. feeling that the key is to have it in the ears to prevent zoning out, better focus at 5 am in winter. took the longer way across, made the trip thru the snow scultpure area to see what was up, pretty impressive, i have trouble with the fleeting nature of temporary art. whatever the medium, it's here this week gone next. one of the coolest things about seeing some of the museums in paris and florence was looking at art that was over 2000 years old. fabric kept in darkened rooms to deter fading further, art crafted on a loom when caesar was still around and now it's a placemat in a dark room that nobody will eat from.

goodness

better snow today, felt good to get out to the eternal spring yesterday. not warm but nice enough. fed the head just right. the trick is get the right food at the right time. did that yesterday. the pieces fit, i know.

stuff

a lot to do after work that may prevent me from getting in any ride or ski, java was right, mtbr is the better place to sell the fork and the single. maybe a few hits would come thru ebay but overall the better place is mtbr. that and it's an ongoing deal, not finite like ebay. so look for a bianchi BOSS 17 inch and a 2004 fox f80x on mtbr to tell your friends about. as soon as i get off my lazy ass and post it. today.

goal

variety, yesterday i skinned up the hill and actually made a few tele turns worth a piss, pretty good stuff for me. solo up and down. today maybe skate or ride. i feel better about march and april coming. i know i can hang i just would like to hold some form, base form i suppose before cross. usgp top 5 35+, i think i can get there, it'll just take a lot of focus season long. all for cross. maybe more fixt action too. shrine loop fixt? i like the sound of that.

ebaaaaay

been fooling around ebay the last week or so selling and looking at trends to see what the stuff goes for. i know it's improper to end a sentence with a preposition but i'm not a paid/graded writer. as convenient as it is ebay really isn't much cheaper than retail. especially for new stuff. tomorrow i put the fox fork on that i don't use, why i still have it only speaks of my laziness when it comes to such things. easier to avoid it than photo-post-tend to. there, that was another preposition to end a sentence. so buy my stuff if you need more crap, i am trying to thin out, cull the crap i don't need. session in the pool with b, no puke and no troubles, he is jumping off the sides like a big, well person. slow down kid. too fast with all this growing up. more agent orange and earlimart, old and new, me and b.

-13

mitts wouldn't have been a bad idea today. somehow the squeaky snow offered more traction. the hill wasn't too bad, i'll be sad to say goodbye to the studded tire in a few weeks but it held me up just fine today. i think the niner wheels are going to be almost as good as the sixer with studs. i guess it'll be like cross, be a student of tire pressure, too much and you slip, too little and you flat. made it across without too much hassle, the balaclava did wonders but it still wasn't enough, i needed one of timmy and bacon's new hannibal masks. pretty cool stuff. i don't have half the ride they do, mine is just cold for shorter, not the downhill ice skating they deal with. blue water yesterday made my day. little things are the joy of life. the boy is feeling better, still a gnarly cough that makes me cringe at the sound but to little people with the pain threshold of small creatures in the forest it's nothing.