Ouch

Reading this from Kerry Litka dot com got me saying 'ouch' and hoping maybe i'm NOT one of the blogs she's calling shitty. Maybe i am - so what - who cares... until Big Drunk Johnny posted my link i've been cooking along as record few clicks... ol'buddy DropFrog takes a quick read once in a while - beyond that? nuttin...

Okay - that's the initial this morning beef meat to get ya going...

I've got a vacations worth of stuff i wanna get down - we'll see how my pathetic writing style and time handles getting it translated into bits and bytes...

the LIST:
#1 drinking - it rules and i'm a master after this holiday - if you can down a double bottle of wine yourself AND finish off two glasses and no one is the wiser! YOU are a master... if you can drink 8 beers before dinner and a few after and function properly that's a good thing... oh and not to mention never wake up with a hangover all on marginal sleep... i'm feeling like the only guys i can't drink under the table now are pro's like me that are over 250 pounds... those big guys can drink man...

#2 hybrids - fucking scourge of the highways... when the fucking minimum speed is posted at 55 mph and the limit is 65... DON'T FUCKING DRIVE 50 if the traffic is flowing nicely - you cause massive backups...

not just one - not just two - not just three - i stopped counting at 5 civic and prius hybrids yesterday that were causing two and three mile traffic backups... beyond the "hybrid" clear sailing safe driving, behind the hybrid... nightmare of psyco's weaving in and out honking flashing highbeams, brake happy new yorkers... fucking nightmare... all cause some retard is trying to get the same fuel economy on the highway that my VW TDI gets going 75 freaking GD mph... wake up... burn BioDiesel - use a 100% renewable 100% domestic 100% clean fuel (biodiesel - duh) that supports the farmers - tells the Terrorist supporting Saudis and Opec to go 'eff themselves - and gets kick ass economy. what to do about the 'underedcuated' suckers to a 'hybird' mentality. Morons who THINK they are doing good but are NOT... I know quite a few 'nice' hybrid owners... a couple of em are family... doesn't change my opinion... that enough freaking ... yet? if EECUMMINGS can get away with that shit - i think i should be able to - hell i've been writing long enough i think by now...

okay -

epic travels is #3

and no this isn't the full scoop - okay maybe the hybrid thing is....

anyone say 32 hours of traveling is a good idea? I dunno lets try this one on...
red-eye flight from SEATAC-Detroit Metro with a 5.5 year old, a 11 month old riding in a lap... and the flight leaves at 10:40 but is only 3.5 hours long... 4 hour layover in DTW... get to the final destination with less than a combined 2 hours of sleep - followed by the brilliant idea to spend two hours re-packing only to drive what i thought would be 7.5 hours south (really actually 9.5 hours)... leaving at 3:30 pm i was starting to have my doubts. But with a six pack of tuna sushi and 1/2 of a buffalo chicken pizza and 1/2 bottle of energy-C vitamin water and a big cup of coffee all rummblin in my tum-tum hell it seemed like a grand idea. Maybe it was the lack of sleep that had me thinking it was a good idea to forgo sleeping in the cold apartment - trying to figure a way to get the kids settled down 3 hours earlier than they were used to - heck- pack em in the car - great idea...

well...

it might have been... i drove the 440 miles south - all of it - through 2.5 hours of stop and go on I-95 till we finally broke free from the G-W bridge.... through the heart irregularities (prolly the excess caffine and lack of sleep and all the booze from the previous week). we made it... with actually little problem... had some good quality chattin time with the wife - can't remember when that's happened before.

will i be doing that again? nothing like being up for roughly 40 hours... and then finishinig the last 9.5 of it driving your family...

oh and if you are still reading this - strange -
#4

the weather today is about the same as it was (almost) as it was for the cyclocross nationals... not quite as cold but there was snow this morning - enough to cancel school (felt great getting up at 6am for no reason /sarcasm) and it kept snowing - rode in in the slushy crap - moronic cars sprayin me with slush 'thanks' - and it kept snowing for a while - then now - its raining. Supposed to switch over to snow again soonish with nice 40-50+ mph wind gusts... i can't wait.

my bike is dirty dirty dirty - these damn XT canti brake pads i've got on the front of the Cyclocross bike make some seriously dark messy crap in the rain on this old Open 4CD rim. and i'm sure the custodian is not happy with me - at least i carried the bike in through the hallways... i could have rolled it in and left a nice black trail from the door to the Lab.

#5 - Big scope is down... grumblin crap... and isn't coming back up, i don't have a confirmation for the install of a new software system on one of the older confocals, i've got a bunch of trainings to schedule but a new install to work around. all in all - the new year is starting...

more to come if after i read through this and decide it needs to be expanded...

I should also add
#6 - 27 years are done... 27 years of concerts - I haven't missed one... but i generally haven't been there for anything but the last weekend... its fun and the girls really enjoy it.

maybe more on that later... on to the scopes...