well - mark one more week off

its friday... its well i dunno i'm feeling rather weighted down...

and i get a call confirming something... my wife is headed off on Monday for work... guess what that means?

I get to be a single parent until Thursday probably... And it looks to be raining this weekend so probably no BTH/BW ride on saturday. Sunday... who knows... And yeah, i know, i've only got two kids, how hard can it be... well... 17 almost 18 months is a really *fun* age... big enough and strong enough to climb up on anything, smart enough to move stuff around to climb on to get anything... more or less not an age that ya can manage easily, but her older sister should be of some help i hope... i hope... I don't mean to bitch but lately i've felt like most of the weight has been born on my shoulders for doing the routine stuff... And i blame the TV... outside of dinner i sat down for 15 minutes last night... maybe 20... and when it comes down to it, next week probably won't really be any different. I had an idea when i went to take the morning sit down, i need a 'rent-a-wife' for the first part of the week so i can get a warm up TT in on Tuesday, and so i can keep my sanity the rest of the time... i dunno, in some ways i'm looking forward to it. I can have the radio on without it getting turned off in favor of the boob-toob, now if there were actually boobs on it that'd make me feel differently...

Thursday next week is the first TT for Bikeworks... it'll be interesting... But the BLVD ride was good for tryin out the Spinach bars... my aero position with them really couldn't be improved with real fancy bars... and its MUCH easier/relaxing to ride like that than without them... Here's to hoping the course roads are smooth, cause, well it lacks the big puck pads of the cliponstuff... this is all assuming i can get there

i gotta think maybe KL's inspiration has gone poof ;-) ... i won't pick on SB cause he's been writing boat loads of good stuff lately.... not that KL's sudden burst of 4 entries wasn't great... but when Giulia makes a comment that "kerry has one of the best blogs out there, so detailed." well ya know... those are tough standards to live up to...

I'm feeling the need to hit the Hills up nort on sunday if the weather clears... dunno ifn i'll be able to round up anyone down here to ride up with and find some of those nuggets when i did the ride with chris bart and that tulip head grad student... part of the whole road bike thing is not driving anywhere for a ride... driving to a race? no problem... to a ride just seems wrong... principles ya know...

anyway... maybe i'll stumble across some more inspiration, but then it might be good if i don't cause i won't be exposing immature seedling ideas like i have lately (speciation and that stuff)...

Oh and this whole looking for houses crap is i think overshadowing me... how do i manage to carry these burdens? I think i think about them all too much... maybe...

time for a nap, or more coffee... i'd love the first, but gonna have to settle for the second...

and remember 3 is the magic number:
The 3 R's Lyrics

Three it's a magic number
Yes it is, it's a magic number
Because two times three is six
And three times six is eighteen
And the eighteenth letter in the alphabet is R
We've got three R's we're going to talk about today
We've got to learn to
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
If you're going to the market to buy some juice
You've got to bring your own bags and you learn to reduce your waste
And if your brother or your sister's got some cool clothes
You could try them on before you buy some more of those
Reuse, we've got to learn to reuse
And if the first two R's don't work out
And if you've got to make some trash
Don't throw it out
Recycle, we've got to learn to recycle,
We've got to learn to
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Because three it's a magic number
Yes it is, it's a magic number
3, 3, 3
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36
33, 30, 27, 24, 21, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, and
3, it's a magic number