Bedlam ball... like the games we used to make up... LFL... when no one knew the score or who won, but it was played with a footbal and we tackled and there were teams... sometimes...
Homey SB wrote a freaking novel today... holycrap that'll take some time to get through... maybe later. no maybe... definately later...
KL poppin some mad bike pics up there... i'm debating mentioning the free stiching software out there called Autostich I haven't actually used it but i've seen the results and they do panoramic pictures proud.
Almost as cool as that Russian 35mm panorma camera with the moving lens that took massive cool wide shots...
well i did pretty good - i got to Frazz (and that was way down the list of the open in tabs link set)...
lets see (yes i'm procrastinating... but i got a solid uber productive session in here a mintue ago and i'm drinkin coffee - break time. Well shoot - i just clicked through the last few tabs... butkis... nadda... 'sokay... i need to save up all the time to read SB's thesis.
LFR's entry is hanging with me... like Ghostbuster slime... and i had a major major proud dad feeling riding home last night. Sure going into a 15-25 mph headwind, up the hill on Hope from Olney to Doyle with the big kid in the back and her stuff from the day AND my stuff... SUCKED hard... but there was a sweet cacophony coming out of the trailer. She was singing... Making up words and basing it on a song. She was being creative, expressing the fun she was having riding in the trailer while her dad suffered mitily. Sure she could have been plugged into an iPod and singing along with that... no she was fully aware of the surroundings and the songs came from her.
Gets me all choked up thinking about it. So cool...
'Course i'm rocking out to Chronicles Disk 1 - and running around getting shit done i always like having tunes blasting... but on the bike... i play em in my head... if i need hill motivation i'll pick up on the rhythm of my legs and pull a song that matches that cadence...
OOOO "The Trees" just came on... The Oaks and the Maples.
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunligh
And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the maples
(and they’re quite convinced they’re right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the maples
Can’t be happy in their shade?
There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream `oppression!`
And the oaks, just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
’the oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light’
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw ...
As a tree biologist and someone who's painfully aware of the social surroundings... this song has generally gotten me not unlike a few of those others i listed a while back... The whole shade tree dominace... forest succesion is really cool stuff... and unfortunately its rarely allowed to progress towards maturity... and rarely well covered in all but the few Botany courses left... plants are wicked cool.
okay - so it ain't all that great of a song but it is a far cry better written/played than most of the shit out there now. Natasha Beddingfield excepted.
The legs...
gotta comment on them. Today, even in the drenching rain, i got on the bike (damn i'm writing too much - lemme get this out and then i'll make like a tree and leaf) for the first time without the buggy heading to work. HOLY CRAP... the legs felt amazing, the bike was rockin... and this is the p-mount even. The tuggin of the trailer has certainly boosted the muscle mass... and if i can get out and spin a couple times a week to get the cadence and all that up... the strength might possibily be able to be converted to power on the bike...
That and from the looks of it there are already 3 cat 4 guys on P.Velo and if Adam De-have-no-shoes-en hooks up (and the USAC grants me the upgrade) that could actually be fun to do some road races this summer.... we'll see...
okay - between the music, coffee, and what not... i'm freaking bouncing off the FREAKING WALL.... jittery jones'n man...
catchyall later - somewhere... and even though i ain't gonna stay try today.. yall try
G
lemme add this:
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain
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