pretty sure all I've found is industrial waste... anthropogenic source... not cosmic

and pretty sure there's nothing from outer space in all the crap i collected and cleaned and sorted.

And I was petting the dog this morning and the middle of my back is borderline locked up, has been since...  deepest breath and it hurts, dull persistent ache otherwise.

Fun.

I did order a couple of the stardust books to have, maybe something will turn up. Maybe I'll just need to collect more. It isn't unlike looking for cool diatoms I suppose.

But I'm still deflated. gonna try one more imaging session today...

not sure i'll get out of here before the rain - or the dark.

at least I remembered to plug in the headlight. Was down almost empty last night after the long ride home.

Doesn't like to charge very quickly plugged into the computer...

sigh...

gonna go see if i can get excited about some of this magnetic dirt from the roof...

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got on the SEM - did something that was exciting. went to the roof, gathered some stuff - might have found a micrometeorite. Check the Nanoscape instagram (or twitter or tumblr)

will write more later - had 5 min to image before heading off and meeting up with Il Bruce and GG the squirrel. A bit of a blinky ride. doubled the mileage home and had a good chat with them.

was told i'm a real life caricature of my online persona...  i'll take that,

This was good...  the drama this summer because of it not so much.

Sort of hey well yeah no you can't have your GF on the ride but this dude can have his wife and kid follow him in an RV...  film was good, and yeah maybe someday. The route goes past my dad's old place. Sort of. Goes through a place where we went up and cut down beetle kill pine for firewood.


Finished Gideon the Ninth last night. Didn't plan to but it was like a slow building tsunami. could. not. put. it. down...  at the end...

So good. go read it. I'm going to be one of the few at work tomorrow, but that's okay - there's a pile of shit to do and maybe i'll be able to fit in a few imaging sessions and really dial in the conditions for the sample. I really wish I had an ultra sonic cleaner though. And an x-ray detector.

it was a pizza night - i got home late - and just worked on the Nanoscape, then watched this...  now? Might go get in bed... yeah - this early. low coffee, not much sleep, sleep sounds good!

i'm tired - no need to stay up, well besides the rest of the stuff that needs to be done, but nothing NEEDS to be done...

i did sign up for Secret Squirrel so i am racing saturday... 

also if anyone tells me 9/16 is fine for a 14mm or 7/16 is the same as 11 i'm gonna get a bit pissed off. sure - close enough but not for my mechanic ocd

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Like some people are.

I don't have an enormous following like others:

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Over 6,000 miles, fifteen states, one Canadian Provence, two rear mountain bike wheels, four tires, one hydraulic brake set, three books, 90 postcards, a half a sketchbook, one 30 year reunion, twenty-two blog posts, five rock shows, one 7:00 pm bed time, one 6:00 am bed time, one set of bike shoes, one set of skate shoes, dozens of old friends, bunches of new ones, one absolutely soul crushing two week long anxiety attack, three night terrors, one tarot card reading, one energy reading, thousands of laughs, lots of tears, hundreds of beers, two bottles of bourbon, more love and support than any single person could ever hope for, and one hundred and sixty seven days.

A post shared by Stevil Kinevil (@allhailtheblackmarket) on Nov 24, 2019 at 8:20pm PST

Not sure if the embed works and yeah Stevil has a blog but the IG seems to have more timely updates, but fewer words, as IG should be.

My IG has turned into Bikes and bike path commute images... I guess it always kind of has been that...

Seth and Steve sell shit, subscriptions and merch respectively. I just suck mindless time out of my day and fortunately only a few of y'all's. Not many readers here. And I kind of am okay/like that.

I rolled into the weekend ready to get shit done. Okay that's a lie. I collapsed into it. Wrung thing and a dried up husk. KMC was an option, the fee changed that before I committed and then the car and other stuff came up and well good thing.

Saturday was rough, Coffee, but out of coffee, had enough to get started in the morning but by the time I made it back home to make more the lag had kick started a headache.

I bruised and cut myself and strained a forearm muscle trying to remove the rear O2 sensor. Shit is rusted the fuck in. Failed on the car fixing. Got the Erg done, but should have bought new elastics while i was at it, now I gotta order those and pay the extra shipping/price for being an idiot.

Headache all day, felt like shit, didn't ride. Rain started overnight Saturday and poured all day Sunday. Dirt church was cancelled. I still had a headache, slept like crap and said fuck it and mailed it in for the day. Got up, made coffee. Drank coffee in bed. Made more coffee, got back in bed, read some of the book. Made some food, started watching movie, gave up on the movie, read book. Made more food. Never GOT DRESSED. Sweatpants and a bathrobe were the uniform of the day. Made more coffee.

Watched football. Finished coffee at 5pm and at that point the headache went away. It lingered all fucking day. Made dinner. Watched more football. Did absolutely jack fucking shit all day.

Needed it.

Still tired, but feeling a lot better. I was a physical wreck. I'd better register for Secret Squirrel before I forget. But it was good that I didn't race or ride. Not sure why but I'm just dragging.

 But still dragging one foot in front of the other.

At some point it won't feel like i'm wearing concrete shoes.

Chased a single speed rabbit this morning. Dude on a nice Ti one headed south, then a bit later he went past me going north. me in the Mt Khakis, they ain't great for pedaling fast in, but have good leg compression - aka my quads don't really fit in them. I didn't make it quite up to speed to catch a draft but upped my tempo enough that he was only going just slightly faster than I was.

I'm sitting here looking at December and am totally overwhelmed. But there's no choice but to get through it.

And still have to work on the course plan. And get the car inspected. And hope it passes. Or just get a new car. Still really like the idea of an electric car for most everything we do. But they are so expensive. And that should tell you what my perspective is. Maybe just need to find another cheap used Volvo...  ugh... I really do hate cars and how dependent we are on them and how much $$ they suck... 

Well - this has been a long time in writing - busy, would be nice if the short week was as relaxed as lots of people are saying theirs are. Full speed ahead.

MOVE

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editor's note - or whatever

rain stopped, roads were wet but i stayed dry thanks to fenders

made some dinner, ate, dishes, listened to some George Alan Isakov

but yeah - made it home, and the tailwind was awesome and there were no ninjas on the path, pretty much only one other person out there that i encountered...

quiet night

gotta finish up making this batch of ice cream then fuck it -going to bed

how am i not surprised...


I didn't think it was going to rain today.

I didn't dress to ride in the rain.

I did what I've done all week, except that day it did rain and i brought cycling gear to ride home in...

except I didn't do that today.

these mt khakis are going to be fucking brutal to pedal in once they get soaked.

Perfect cap to the week.

Maybe it will blow over before it is time to leave.

finished that new Amos Decker book...  won't post spoilers but it was good. Predictable but not really

didn't read through much new stuff on the tabs no links..

walked into the building only be olefactorily assaulted. Burning/grinding of concrete and steel. Smelled like something caught fire. Been unpleasant today.

Tired. Slept terribly last night for some reason. Perplexing esp since I went way light on the coffee consumption yesterday - no time too busy...

Still out of sorts.

One foot

in
front
of
the
other

SEM is kinda messed up, but still working but not as well as before. Tried to do some imaging, deadline for the Staff show is the 4th. Don't want to miss it this year but don't have anything that I want to print out huge and stuff.  AKA still missing that muse, that inspiration. I prep'd samples I'd fixed and run through to 100% ETOH, looked at small selection of them and didn't find anything that made me go "wow cool"

I just put this on to chill and watch while finishing up all the emails and schedule coordination, January is already starting to fill up...



I like the stuff they do, the venues are cool, the DJs and photographers are all awesome. Love the production value increase over the years they've been doing this. Drone work esp has been a huge leap from their first use of it. But that one with the guy out in the salt lake, probably hard to top that both in scenery and music.

But this one with Mathame, beat is just right, I like this - fits, uplifting a bit, perhaps this is the magic rhythm that pumps out a wee bit of them happy chemicals that body makes in response to stuff... 

Gonna pause it - grab a late afternoon coffee...  then kick back and hope the rain stops soon.

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"Water's dripping down here in the basement."

Guess I didn't seal it well. Although I can't figure out where the hell it is getting through. Couldn't find a flaw in the caulking. But it is somewhere.

At least it wasn't from the rain. Had dried out before I got in the shower this morning - was wet when i got out.

Drain/faucet/new tile side is totally dry.

Not sure I have the energy to deal with that.

Oh and I forgot to plug my headlight in today. Don't have a battery backup.

Today was a continuation of last night. Non-stop, issue after issue. some issues resolved themselves even after I made sure they were repeatable and had the company person here to help diagnose. Other ones? Couple hours of working with a different field service engineer on a different system put us no closer to a solution than when we started and part of the microscope is still not working. And A THIRD vendor "updated" the firmware and software and managed to wipe everyone's user account settings, two people discovered that today when i was unable to be there in person to set it up.

This is not a normal day in the dungeon.

Not. At. All.

Hell I didn't eat lunch until 3pm. And I didn't even eat breakfast, AND I ate a pretty small dinner portion (needed to make sure there was enough leftovers for the kid so I started small, then waited before going back for more and then just didn't eat anything else).

Now I'm tired, waiting for another couple minutes to hopefully stuff enough electrons into the headlight battery to make it home on low.

Well speaking of electrons, TEM user just had problems using those electrons to visualize stuff.

AND THE ELEVATOR WON'T STOP ALARMING - non-fucking-stop

Not sure what to make for dinner, whenever I make it home. At least it isn't raining... 

Well - just noticed - that race with the $10 cover for parking? Dropped it to $5. Interesting.

But now I've got a full plate of shit to do, like work on the car... bike racing takes the backseat now... 

I wonder if the light has enough battery to get me home...

I guess I'm supposed to keep going. That's what Seth says. But seriously, who owns a Merckx Leader and sells it...  I guess it is just a bike, hanging on to shit too long is dumb. Not everyone needs to have a museum.

Fuck it - it is going to have to have enough light to get me home. Guess I'll find out.

sigh

so it goes, so it goes...

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the rest of the blog world is thin...

people do podcasts...

fuck podcasts

but here's a few from today's reading while eating salad. (can of tuna in EVOO + the last bit of ricotta from making stuffed shells last night with the tahini dressing was pretty fugging good and satisfying - i'm ready for a nap)

From Dirty:
http://drunkcyclist.com/2019/11/19/tuesdays-with-dirty-fall-off-the-cliff/

From Jill:
http://www.jilloutside.com/2019/11/the-goal-keep-moving.html

From Seth (kind of funny how it echos/parallels/relates to Jill's):
https://pvcycling.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/take-a-break/

From Padriag:
http://redkiteprayer.com/2019/11/bike-work/

Now I dunno about you but I didn't start in shops until 1990, and we were still all cassette tapes, Even VPeddler in Michigan didn't do the CD thing. We made mix tapes or listened to the radio. We all had a fucking crazy collection of music, but there was Flat Black and Circular upstairs and I spent a huge pile of my cash from working in the shop on Used CDs. Would go through buying up every CD from the particular band I was digging at the moment. This was before Wiki when you had to fucking work to find the discography. OCD much? maybe.

Right now I can put together a basic hybrid in 20 minutes, that is assuming the disc brakes don't need an intervention and a visit from the Pope to exorcise the demons in them. I like the transatlantic flight thing though. Funny.

Dirty mentioning the SSWC, Derek is over at SSCXWC in Utah or someshit right now. Maybe we can get them here next year. And yeah I'm close to going single speed on the MTB. But not yet.

Lunch is over, time to help run a scope or two.

And to keep consistent - here's what's playing on the "radio" right now


Music... nothing more consistent in my life eh? but always tweaking the playlist...

Go figure..

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Is that what I need?

Why  bring that up now?

Thanks radio...


Yeah, I've been listening to this song on a few different stations of mine, today I noticed that the cover art was for Into the Wild with that kid sitting on the bus.

I had this page open to write and started looking for an image of a train going off the rails to explain yesterday's post.

Work interrupted. Transitioned into other work when I got back to my desk.

Today is one of those weird limbo days. Two systems with two engineers working on them. It is a catch up on shit kind of day. A day that pushes scheduling into other things but it is what it is.

Maybe this is a better music vid instead of the above.


So yeah, this morning is forced hanging out. I should clean my office/desk... or not... Woke up early... coffee, more coffee...

I started reading Gideon the Ninth. Huge and rave reviews on the socials, library finally got it. I'm reading it. But at the same time an audiobook I'd put on hold came in, been waiting a long time for this one, the eBook has like 50 people waiting for 15 copies (three weeks per person - you do the math) it is the latest book in the Amos Decker installment. Nice and pulpy and all that. But I've been listening to most of them, building in the shop or something so listening to this seems familiar. Listening at 1.4 speed of course. Faster is too chopped, still seems smooth but not as pedestrianly paced as the 1x speed. And a guilty admission: I've been listening while pedaling. Zoned out on autopilot, multi-tasking like only someone with as fucked up a brain as I have can do. Do I remember the ride? Sort of. Snapshots of interactions/awareness, gaps of nothing. I can roll the tape back and pretty much play through it. The couple in the Riverside forest.. tall thin guy and his short wife who are always out birdwatching was carrying an umbrella, I've never seen him carry one before.

Stuff like that but then there's also the book going on in my head.

And now I'm sitting here - being available in case people need something. Trying to avoid going down the route I did yesterday.

Youtube got going on the autoplay - scenes from the movie that I never saw. And of course it brought back all the thoughts that arose from reading the book.

At least it isn't sending me down the other rabbit hole that usually winds up totally derailing me.

Trying to avoid opening that door.

I'm doing fine, okay I'm doing okay, pretty good, functional. The car thing though. Still this lingering pain in the ass. Feel comfortable about the chances of success for fixing the thing, just need the time to make the attempt beyond the investigation. Van did the didn't want to start thing that it hasn't done since I change the plugs. So that was fun this morning. It started but still. Half of me just things E should take one of these cars and trade it in for whatever she wants and wants to drive.

The car thing created a semi-viral tweet - rando people liking it. Not many, but more than normal interaction that was a surprise. And then tehre are all the people who saw it that didn't comment, haven't said anything. And no - def not going to KMC, not with the car issues, and the cost. It was one thing spending $28 to race at Eco-cross, That place has memories, is fun, low key, easy as hell drive...

Of course there's that Impeachment shit going on. I'm getting the basics from twitter unwillingly. People are saying this is the end, yeah right. It ain't gonna change anything. Moscow Mitch ain't changing his tune, the whole lot of them... fuck em. I don't know man, this is fucking painful.

Oh funny bit - put the Rolo 100 on the bike for the commute home. Had the Bontrager on there - turned it on, the bontrager, and it wouldn't turn off. I didn't plan on riding home with both of them on, but I wanted to put the bontrager on a low setting...  stuck on Daylight flash your brains out. Fuck. Switch was NOT doing anything. Messed with it and finally got it off at home. I like the Rojo 100, but the bontrager feels more refined, less cheap plasticy. Also slimmer profile. But the flash patterns and brightness of the Rojo are really nice.

Finish up with this song;


because it is playing right now and speaks lots about everything...

best of luck out there - one foot in front of the other... and all that,

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Just to slip on the same mistakes and slide right back in
But people say I'm the luckiest man
Yeah they say,

I'm amazed at how patient some people are with me but then again I'm also equally amazed at having stupid total situational recall and wondering why I acted the way I did, why I didn't say what I could have, or wanted to or anything else.

A couple specific instances popped up over the last 24hrs. Not sure why, well If I thought about it I could probably tease the thread back to the seed that started it...  but no point wouldn't make sense to anyone else.

End result strange.

Better stuff to read:
I'm confused as can be with Stevil's stuff but I'm not him, I don't know him, probably will never meet him or understand but it has been a good read to follow along on this particular journey:
https://allhailtheblackmarket.com/2019/11/beginning-my-ascent-back-to-whatever/

For a long time Chipstick hasn't had anything other than my face at the top of his blog from the last entry. New post is up: https://velocb.blogspot.com/2019/11/putney-rules.html somewhat makes me regret not driving the 150 miles there and back, but only a tiny sliver of regret - the car issues sort of dissolve that. Good read. And yes I'm glad I went once. I don't know if it is worth the trip annually. I don't like VT that much and could care less about fucking mad alchemy at the moment/ever.

Best consistent resonating reading has been coming from Cycling in the south bay. The post about being sober, I think i linked that - if not go dig it up. The one up right now as I'm reading/opening tabs is about being in traffic. https://pvcycling.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/hateful-drivers/
I go back to Solobreak's point about drivers. It is much easier to fixate on the problem ones, the close passers, the aggressive d'bags, the honkers the throwers. He once mentioned look at all the people who give you space, aren't a'holes. So occasionally I like to count those that pass safely, don't pass, or anything that is considerate. Number are always surprisingly good. And this leaves me feeling hopeful for the human race.

DCB called me a ginger, someone else mentioned they are a ginger and have no soul and therefore humor doesn't work, and well I pointed out i'm really only half ginger, red beard...not red head. So therefor i both have a soul and a void where there isn't one. And maybe that makes me feel that darkness, and the void even more strongly. Or explains my fucking weirdness...  obs not because souls are a cultural phenomenon to placate the fear that we're just a bag of walking water with a lot of electrical shit happening in a mass of fatty tissue at the apex.

Was feeling better after the hopeful part - thought relaying that FB thing about the no sense of humor and the soul would be good, it put me back in the funk...

Got wet this morning. Didn't ride the e-bike tho, nope. Worked and got wet even though it wasn't raining. Glasses had so much condensation on them that I had to wipe them off (not much improvement). Still just riding in street clothes. Still just putting one foot in front of the other.

The email this morning from the KMC folks got me a bit excited until i read through and finally got to the part about $10/car. Deal breaker. I was already boderline. Lots of reasons, well established. I supported that race while it was here in PVD for years, days and days of hard labor, through the easy smooth Tom Stevens years to the first couple with the new course folks. In person support and media support while they worked with the city and all...  They lowered the prices, cut it down to one day, there's a singlespeed race, weather is going to be wet and cold and should be fun, but driving there sucks in good weather. It is a fucking awesome place to ride to, terrible to drive to from my house. As a fence sitter trying to decide where to race this weekend, that $10 pushes me off the fence back to the side of not racing...  I feel bad about that, it isn't a good feeling having something so trivial as $10 pushing me in that direction but $50 to race? It really isn't that much, but it is just that tiny bit too much.

And yeah that didn't help much either.

And the elevator is fucking broken and alarming, beeping, then annoying alarm, then quiet then beeping then alarm... NON STOP - and then it is quiet for a bit. Randomly starts up again AND I AM OUT OF COFFEE, don't want to make another pot because that would be bad but I'm tired and not feeling well and coffee is the only thing I have left.

Not true - I have plenty of other stuff left. But coffee helps.

SEM is down, being rebuilt. Here to support and help the engineer, although he doesn't need help. at the moment. Kind of want to take images - find something new to look at on there. No inspiration. No muse.

Got the new Planet Bike Rojo 100 in the mail last night - will try that out. Gonna put that on the bike. Should be fun, nice and small. USB c recharging plug nice modes.

writing might have been a bad idea today. But I had all the tabs open (links above) when I opened this up to start - best intentions. Oh well.

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And to think, things have been really good lately in my brain... fuuuuuuuck

Got one car taken care of. The easy one. Just an oil change and a reset of the oil change indicator.

Picked up some new cycling gloves. cheap, but warm and thin and may be good. We'll see. Now I have two mid-weight gloves, one ancient pair of Pearl Izumi's on their last fingers and these 100% Brisker gloves. Will try em out tomorrow.

Got the parts to do the other car too, the hoping the spark plug non-foulers help. Code was clear until I just got home. But not quite enough daylight to start digging into it.

Picked up a second cog, a nice 17t. Gonna dig out the spare spacers and put it on the mud wheels. If i need the mud tires i'll likely need the easier gear. Also will be good to test the fit.

Thinking maybe KMC next weekend because of the singlespeed category. Skipping shed park because no SSCX category also a long drive and some less than awesome memories. Like say the downpipe falling off, among other things.

Got my blood work back and my Tgl is nice and low, well mid-range and that T/G calc i linked to last post puts me at the safe border of the insulin side and I think if i hadn't eaten a giant pile of pasta the night before and gone back for thirds because it tasted so good, I probably would have been even lower. Oh I have decidedly average hemocrit - 44. Weeeeeee.

Did get some rest, slept in, thought about the Bikeworks ride but sleep was good. I'll ride tomorrow, then grocery shopping, then work on the car.

Parts for the Concept 2 are here - gonna have to take that apart soon and put it back together...  and now start to figure out what to make for dinner.

And get my shit together for tomorrow morning.

getting my shit together for more than a day ahead seems like an insurmountable task.

one thing at a time...

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What a day eh?

What a week. Weird one. Short. And holy crap I'm booked up solid every day until I leave for Seattle for the Yuletide concerts.



This place looks really cool. Kind of want to go head there and hang out in the summer heat - gotta be pretty high on the amazing side no?

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYReozno9x/?igshid=1e3z8aiuwhwsx

Right here. Same as always.

Rode some bikes, tried to rest. Rode some more bikes. Drove to Doc. Got told a few things. Took apart a Concept 2 Model C, put it back together. Rode in to work this morning with 20F on the thermometer with a 20+ gusting headwind.

I forget what happened saturday. Totally locked out brain not sure what the fuck happened. Oh right - kid pick up then shopping. Did some other stuff and eventually got to sleep.

Woke up way before I was ready to and headed out on the MTB with Syl and Fred. Was slow, but man I was dead, and tired and felt terrible. Sub-deltoid bursa was pissed off and painful from all the painting and grouting. Still. Yes. I know. Ugh.

Came home and didn't do much. Pretty hosed.

Went off for the CX out on the cape on Monday. Raced Singlespeed. Didn't get lapped by Donny, finished 8th, faded in the last two laps, probably lost a minute plus on each lap why? Sometimes the big gear I run works, sometimes it doesn't. This was another one of those where I should have changed the gear. Super short tight course with all the acceleration and few to no long pedally sections. You were either going slightly up hill, steeply up hill, or coming out of a 90-180 turn (or going down). I suppose if I was stronger and in better shape and 20 pound lighter the gear would be good. But I'm not, and it wasn't.

I left the Stache in the car after Sunday and put the CX bike on top of it. Maybe ride Otis after. didn't wind up doing that. Even though it was a pretty short race, i still was wrecked. Tired. Just drove home.

Made dinner.

Slept.

Woke up and went to the Doc.

My Glucose is too high, LDL kind of high, and oddly potassium was elevated.

I think potassium is probably a bounce back/related to the prednisone and the adrenal gland re-stabilizing. Had the blood work done fasted and only a couple days after last taper dose.

Glucose too high? well that's probably because I ate a shit ton of delicious mac and cheese I made (not whole wheat pasta) the night before. Sure it was almost a 12 hour fast but... well... I can eat a lot. And didn't work out nearly hard enough that morning, or the day before to be in glycogen debt.

LDL? only flagged now because they changed stuff but I'm very very much convinced these numbers are not great predictors of CVD. Related? Yes, but there's a lot of other things.

I re-did the Glucose, much less accurate quick little machine at the annual wellness screening today. Gluc was lower, but then again I ate a shit ton of mac and cheese again. Yeah I make it once every couple weeks, or maybe more frequently. Going to def go back to whole wheat pasta exclusively.

Too much fuel. Not enough intensity on the bike. Makes sense. Can tweak and adjust this. Will be re-testing for HepK and LDL and glucose. def will plan on doing a very different dietary plan on the run in to that blood draw.

It makes sense. I've been eating a bit more pasta and white potatoes lately. Trying to make sure I am topped up for efforts. even if I'm not doing as many efforts as I should. Also giving in a bit to fueling the rowing kid who IS doing a shit tone of work and needs the fuel.

Guess what's for dinner tonight?

Salad motherfuckers.

A big goddamn salad.

And maybe some burger pockets (burgers cooked and then wrapped in tortilla with cheese and then seared to seal and melt cheese - although writing this gives me another idea on how to make them... hmmmmm)

Did I mention it was cold this morning? Broke out the Wolvhammer boots. The previous generation, the ones w/o the removable liner, and w/o the boa. BUT THEY ARE STILL SUPER WONDERFULLY WARM.

The boots look pretty silly with Lycra, but I wore street clothes, no big deal. Shit forgot to plug in my headlight. Here's to hoping there's enough juice in the light to get home.

Dug out my warm gloves even.

So the energy balance thing is what I've gotta work on. Def not working as hard as i should and eating more than i should, esp of the yummy shit.

Made some chicken and soba noodles with so much umami it was REDICULOUS, so delicious. Ate so much. Too much. damn bottomless pit of a stomach. Ate that while watching Ramen Heads. Now I want some legit Japanese ramen. Where though? I bet no one makes their own noodles here.

Took apart crew kid's teammate's erg they got for free. Teeth were SUPER fucked up on the cog, chain also super rusty and missing a bit of hardware and had the old wood handle. Just ordered all the parts to recondition it. Not going to pull the bungies, they are still working, probably have been replaced at least once, the pick up has. And if the bungies break, well that's not the hardest fix, or the most expensive, maybe should have ordered them while I was at it... next time I guess.

Would be nice to race bikes this weekend but I think I'll just have to make due with riding the MTB. I am very much liking it. But will hopefully show up not as tired and run down as I was last week.

Ooh it is late. Damnit. Been one crazy motherfucking day. it is 7 degrees warmer out there right now, and I'll have a tailwind. BUT it is dark, I'm wagering I'll be colder on the ride home than i was on the ride in.

Shit maybe I need to get the trainer set up, sigh, probably. The big Stache MTB is taking up the space the trainer would be set up in. Maybe I need to re-do the re-do of the bike room.

or not

Need to work more on the rest of everything. And catch up on the rest. Even racing this weekend and riding the MTB I'm making progress there.

Now I need to get home and make some dinner.

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This one makes me grin - from ridiculousness and such a fun cover

The song that lead to this:


was in my head for a while and it is this one:


But really mid-rabbit hole there I stumbled down this:


And I went bare handed in 33°F weather with a headwind.

Only 40 minutes, not too bad.

If you're gonna be dumb/lazy ya better be tough.

Yeah I need to find something other than my super arctic gloves. Can't find the mid-weight or lightweight stash.

odd morning

tiny punctuation of insanity longer bits of calm, and the stuff I need to fix is in use, which is good, but still has issues to resolve.

There were snacks upstairs. I ate them. Gotta rock the clydesdale label. My bike is heavy and so am i. Really was funny watching Syl try and lift it after the Church ride. He's gonna be a menace when his Blur is ready to ride.

Missing NoHo - mixed feelings about it but ultimately the right call... maybe I'll be back someday... maybe next year. Who knows.

Missing it? the racing every weekend? Yeah. Missing the racing, missing the friends... it was the best with teammates, even if it isn't a team sport. Gave ya something to work for, pulled ya up a bit taller, made ya dig a bit deeper.

This is f'n good, why have I not seen it before? Have I not heard them before? How is that possible?


crazy
more videos?

Not today.. maybe

Maybe the Ska infusion as of late and the Caro Emerald mixing in there has been a good thing.

okay - enough skankin around

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bathroom done and i'm wrecked and moving on to shit with no downtime,
 kind of

course might be all set to ignore until the spring, i think i have a full compliment of students and a overflowing waiting list

bikes? what bikes...

commute

still feeling tentative on the SSCX under super high load

made some steak tonight, kid LOVED it...  is was pretty damn f'n good.

took a couple photos on the ride yesterday - missed the rain, was awesome on the way home...

Pissed that I didn't have time to listen to the whole NKK J book. the audiobook I was waiting for forever (since july) expired before I could finish the last 1/4 of it. But it was extra awesome listening to the audio, and the cultural inflections and how to pronounce the names, so when I the book version (shorter wait #2 on 1 vs #12 on 2)  is off hold then I'll pick it back up. Still closing in on the last part of the Sarah J Maas's book 4 of the Throne of Glass series. It is good, I like it but am at the point where I just want to know what happens. Might need to give this series a rest before picking up book 5.

We'll see what the hold roulette does.  I kind of want Gideon the Ninth to come off first, I've heard much much good stuff about it.

That doesn't makes sense... heard much much good stufff...  wtf

Ah well.

Also GRX has a dropper integrated left lever. I want it. BADLY. Not because I need a dropper on the CX but i would certainly USE one. But that's a lot of $$ to upgrade to something like that. For a bike I haven't ridden since I raced it last...  when the fuck was that?

Minuteman CX?

Shit, can't remember. Not doing NoHo this weekend. Might head to the Cape on Monday. Why not eh? could be a fun day. We'll see what the weather does and the SS race isn't super early.

Felt like getting a few words out...  instead of reading... 

ok - gonna put food away and start the dishwasher and maybe catch up on sleep. The bathroom kicked my butt, the late night painting and all the rest going on.

I am tired.

But it looks good. I'm happy with it. Everyone else is too.

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that I can't focus enough to read. I don't have much left in the book and damnit i want to get to the end (so i can get to the next book)

Went mtbing - dirt church, was fun. Short this week, only about 3 hrs out there, 2:15 pedaling because of stops and clearing the trails and cutting logs and stuff with my Gomboy. We didn't just ride, we did trail work too.

After yesterday's marathon day and all the grouting, getting up early to ride and then coming home and cleaning the grout and then caulking and starting to put it back together... i'm tired.

Hoping to get the paint up tonight. Really want to get it done.

Hate this finish work.

But got a ride in.

Almost done with the bathroom...  all in time for an insane week.

time to eat - need food

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