Friday's post - not gonna re-sort it....

So, curiosity has me wondering what’s going on out in weirdo land (internet)…
Thursday night i got out for a nice 30 minutes with my oldest on her bike… I just sort of putzed around and she got some seat time. Still with training wheels, but I don’t wanna push it, when she’s ready she’ll let me know. It was fun though. Funny too, we say probably 20 different passats. Very few other cars were on the roads around the neighbor hood. From old ladies driving blind to post college guys piling out to hang with friends.

The drive up with my sister was mellow, cars were freaking slow… I kept blowing past WRX scoobies…. Man are they doggy up hills… maybe I should expect every car to blast up the hills accelerating to 90 without thinking from 70 in the space of a blink…

Torque kicks ass, and having torque on demand, not relying on a charge or what not is nice… Filled up with B20 on the way out. 3.079, and the gal that runs the show asked if we lived in the Providence/Cranston area, yup I said, well turns out they are starting to distribute 5% biofuel in the fuel oil. Ain’t that sweet. I asked about higher % and also asked if they make it to the east bay side… she said not yet… not yet.

Still pretty cool. Turns out my little sis’s Taurus that got creamed by some cell phone talking Suburban driving distracted wife of the chair of the republican party in Durango CO, was a FFV car. Coool. ‘Cept she looked and well the only E85 pump when she had the car was down in San Diego. How retarded is that? Clean air morons. Hopefully they have more pumps out there now. Dunno…. Driving back was more mellow. Rather than push the limit of speed, I settled in and stuck with the cruise control as much as possible, managing a mellow 70 or so for most of the haul back to 146…. Definitely was more relaxed. We listened to the Seal Maiden story on CD for the billionth time, followed by Peter and the Wolf. Both great stories, but like the nutcracker when my sister was this age, they are wearing thin… I still have a hard time sitting through the nutcracker. She (my sister) danced to it daily for about 2.5 years. And I’m not stretching it in the least, maybe it was even like 3 years.

Gonna see about maybe taking a wild leap and assume the 9am ride is headed out tomorrow. ‘Course this prolly won’t get posted till Monday it looks like, unless I just manage to swing through somewhere with connection and get it up.

Pretty funny how as soon as I got the P velo Blog up, the mad Frenchman gets the Brown one up and running…. Still crackin me up.

I might not have the speed, or the hard ass drive, but I don’t have the time or the freedom that being single affords. It’s a trade off. My life is still not settled from the move out east. The second phase of settling down is beginning and that’s a bit stressful. My wife is great but seen as we share stuff around here one of us being gone throws it all out of balance, so working in solid training, not to mention races is tough. And not that I expect unmarried types to get it, or married but sans-children (dogs cats and pets don’t count)… but I’m saving up for cross season… there’s only so many passes I can get, don’t wanna waste em on some thing other than cross unless it works out well. But then I’m sure ol SB’ll read that as an excuse….
I’m less bothered by the comments today but only by a little… again not sure why. That and its hotter than hell inside here – and outside. Damn I’d be nice to have either a basement or central Air….or even a window box… or a place that doesn’t get so GD hot.

See there I go again… bitching up a storm.