brrrrr

I'm cold... my jeans are soaked... my shirt has barely dried off and the coffee ain't doing JACK to warm me up... and i'm hungry...

I'm a whiny sumbitch this morning eh?

Fortunately or unfortunately the "demo" was cancelled. The sexy sales lady and the tough sales guy (why do they need a pair? is she not smart enough alone?) couldn't get their little microscope in the building cause of the rain. Seems the cart has an exposed special transformer that goes boom if wet... and the had it in a mini-van and can't get it in the loading dock cause the dock is 4' up (duh its a LOADING DOCK). We don't have an alternate location so sitting outside in the rain, AFTER getting lost, AFTER not calling to tell me they were running late/lost until 9:10 (demo was supposed to start at 9) they asked to reschedule...

Okay - sure - no problem, i'm happy to have yall try it again...

If ya trying to sell something #1, wouldn't ya show up like BEFORE you set the time for the demo? The flyer announced the demo would start at 9am... if it was me i'd have the system fired up tested and ready to go by 8:45 at the latest...

Oh well... i'm still cold, hungry, and tired...

and i thought i had two peices of left over pizza to add to the meatballs my oldest made last night... nope, just one... and nope, no more...

YEah the oldest made meatballs. She wanted meatball subs "like school" so we stocked up on stuff to make em... (translation = went to Wholefoods)...

1 pound ground dark turkey (#1 cause i wanted to try it, #2 it was a dollar less a pound than the ground beef)
0.64 pounds of sweet italian pork sausage
added two eggs, 3/4 cup Progresso bread crumbs, chopped onions, garlic, oregano, basil (both dried), ~1 teaspoon of Whatsthisheresauce,

mix well... fry in extra virgin olive oil...

place in whole wheat split top New England 'hot dog' (lobster roll) bun and cover with sauce:
Sauce,
clarify 1/4 of a vidalia onion in a good amount of Extra virgin olive oil, once the onions are soft and translucent (low heat clarification), crank up the heat and put a good amount of Balsamic vinegar, reduce that down almost completely, add a 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes with Basil, put in the garlic, one small bay leaf, some dried oregano, add some dried basil, a few dashes of the W sauce, some sea salt, one finely grated medium sized zucchini, a trace of cinnamon. Kept on low heat while cooking the meatballs...

Damn if it wasn't super tasty...

And the meatballs were very very well shaped... little nuggest of yumminess...

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Round Chainrings addressed again by Cyclingnews...
Seems like a reasonable article... although... i still gotta say... WTF... maybe for a bike i with a single up front... but..... i dunno gimme round... i never noticed much difference with the two different types of biopace i tried and then moved back to round... "tried" as they were on the first two mt bikes i owned... An '88 Raleigh Chill, the laid back geometry fad with a short top tube and forged upright stem (in a 22"), and the '89 Chill, with the more agressive very LONG top tube with the nearly flat 130mm welded cromo stem with the integrated roller for the front brake. Stiff and heavy... Anyway... biopace IMNSHO was stupid, non-round chainrings ARE stupid. UNLESS you are some sub 50 rpm knee busting lazy type cyclist...

i'm still bugged/bummed that i can't check in on newenglandcross.com... no ping so maybe the box is hosed...

why the hell am i using hosed so much lately? Dunno

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Bruce was bitching to the email about the lack of brownies on the BLVD ride... maybe cause most of em are like - either taking a break from this place or off for the summer? Or not... maybe they are just tired of the grumpy old farts, or they've bolted for the P-Velo TT on tuesdays? I'd like to head up to the Tuc for a tuesday night circut or two, just to say i've done it this summer... next week ain't gonna work cause my sis is in town and i might be able to squeeze in the BLVD or the TT but not much beyond that...

--listening to the Essential Mix, Paul van Dyk is a damn freaking inspired genius DJ--

can ya tell? The demo being cancelled opened up a rather large block o time...

maybe i'll head down to the bookstore and see if i can spend some money, they are having an inventory sale... who knows what i might not be able to pass up... besides - i need more calories... no time to get any food in my own belly this morning... and no i think i'll spare the full complete details other than i'm STILL wet