but... there aren't hills... and having been a hill climbin fiend and then turned into a big wind shattering motor... i kinda like the hills... easier to fake it and easier to measure/reserve power...
there is a technique for riding in the wind... maybe its just mental, but when i got to Michigan from Connecticut... damn what a change- road rides were never the same... took many years before i started to figure out the wind... and being a giant freak of a rider never helped... esp riding with the girls and smaller guys... it was a rare day when Big tall J Frost with his (as he called them) "Child bearing hips" would show up on a ride and i'd actually be able to get a real draft... little C and B were not quite 5' and on the bike... all the draft i got was on my knees... but it was better than no draft... 'course they could rest completely and pretty much freewheel behind me... lucky girls (maybe)...
but ya know - i started this with pullin a qoute, i dunno where 'imp got it but in all seriousness... its rather damn true:
"Abortion=the right to have unprotected sex with a man you don't want kids by."IIRC (if i recall correctly for the 'net noobies) i've mentioned something along the sticky issue of abortion... my stances was way more prochoice without thought until the kids came along and i started to think about it... as a biologist, life starts at fertilization. When that genetic material from the egg and the sperm get all mixed up in the same nucleus... THAT is a new individual. failure to implant is a natural form of rejection that the body does and can do... once its implanted... don't mess with it. BUT i STRONGLY feel that the Gov should not be legislating choice issues. at least now... but i almost hate to say it... i wouldn't mind if it was a choice taken away... yeah yeah i'm a guy... no i can't bear kids... but seeing so many people go overseas to adopt means maybe that there is a strong market for adoption... but what is more horrible than carrying a kid for 9 months to give it to someone else. That almost is worse than killing the baby in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd trimester. It is a bit political of an issue. One that you don't bring up with friends unless you already know how they feel. But the issue is one of those things that comes down to education, and personal responsibility. If you are going to have sex, have protected sex. If you have an accident, get the appropriate measures to prevent implantation (rape, incest... what not). Yes it does put a large amount of responsibility on the woman's shoulders. Yes it could change someone's life. I'm sorry to say but i know too many woman/friends who have had an abortion, yes their lives would have been drastically and dramatically turned upside down, and maybe they still feel that despite the pain it was worth it. I don't know. self control and education... self control and education but with everything, that's what it comes down to... fat gas guzzling wastes of a behemoth SUVs...
Gotta say - i like seeing all the hybrids out here - it does mean people are 'trying' to do the right thing. that they 'might' be getting better economy than they would otherwise... the tax credit gets me a bit grumpy... but i have to remember my cars are both paid off AND nothing is as wasteful as buying a brand new car... esp if the old one is reasonably efficient. Even if its a Yukon XL that was traded in on a Prius, in the global energy scheme... keeping the Yukon probably makes more sense than getting the prius... esp with few miles a year driven. And by few i mean 15k... of course though, if you are already deluded enough to think that your 3 year old car is junk and you NEED a new one... buying a hybrid is DEFINITELY a better choice than getting another Yukon. But then it kinda screws up the who conservation thing.
Its more environmentally sound to buy a car and spend the money or time on the proper maintenance, keeping it in running order and caring for it. Maybe spending more time evaluating if you can live with the vehicle for 10+ years is a good thing. But then, duh, what AM i thinking... this is the USA... people don't think like that here. Never have... hopefully they will but i would guess its gonna be a LOOOOOOOONG time.
Now, i remember, the idea from last night... it came out of a comment i read... about monday being james earl ray day... (which got me mad and deeply offended) its just shocking - a wake up call that people in the south still even in jest (which it sounds like it wasnt) would feel like praising the guy who killed MLK... WTF... sick twisted bastards... i guess it comes down to the education thing... the guy is so self centered and so poorly educated, and yes - you can have a poorly educated PhD (go to most universities - plenty of examples)... sad state of this union...
i was gonna write a bit/alot about it but i won't, too depressing, and i'm too tired to get pissed off... I guess the college street hill climb with a 20-25 mph headwind kicked my ass... that and i'm hungry - get to eat the soup today!
listening to some Horselips... not so bad... very listenable... time to eat some lunch and listen to some tunes and to read up on sometin i've been meaning to for a long time: Slow Food it always made sense to me... okay, but that's all for later... maybe tomorrow... okay - in process of spell checking (gotta make sure certain words are right) horselips started playing an out of tune fiddle with bad intonation... eeeeeeeeek - nothing worse than an out of tune fiddle played by someone who can't even get close to the other notes.... Some people just need frets...
-the Rev GeWilli
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