SUCCESS

woot (i think i spelled success right)...

New water pump installed. All systems back up and everyone here is overjoyed at the turn around. *pats self on back*

Fingers chewed the hell up. Nothing like putting stainless fitting on with hands burried in water for an hour. That and i'm still gonna kick the designer of the system in the nutsack (assuming its a guy - in the way that a woman HAS to be smart enough not to design such a peice of crap).

Nice bit of ahhhh.

I'm trying out the Pandora stuff that Suds talked about. The Hub has it on pretty much every time i'm there. So far it seems a bit like, Yahoo launchcast with a slicker more "modern" interface. The thumbs up thumbs down are pretty one dimensional relative to the don't play this shit again up to i love it in 4 buttons (like Launch cast).

before completely judging it i'll wait.

And Distilled water loaded with copper oxide drys the holy hell out of your hands. Mine feel like i've got a pair of gloves that are way too tight right now. Me need moisture. Ouch.

Left hand looks like i lost a fight to feldman (which of course i'm sure i would if it came down to it, hell He's a fuckin maine coon cat...)

Now i'm wondering what this super mysterious announcement will be by mr yogurt boy? Stonyfield farm is going to sponsor a road team? They are gonna open an O Natural in Providence and Yogurt boy is going to head to the cycling mecca of New England (Providence, DUH) to run the store? Yogurt boy scored a new house away from the arial spraying from the crotchety old farmers intent on poisoning the earth? Stonyfield finally will make the switch to corn containers?

Rampant speculation abound... At least Cronoman will be showing up on Sunday for sure. Way too many wishy washy people. Going for along road ride instead of going to a cross race? The horrors you say. don't do it Dave... RACE... its only $20 and a few in gas. Its a nice drive out there man... With all the super fast folks not racing on a budget or training hard core out in New York it'll be... it'll be like Milford. Maybe one race a weekend for Zooski is plenty, don't want to overtax your engine.

Over at flickr appearantly there's this new thing. Okay i dunno how new, but, i've never heard of it. Its called a Panda Portrait. Yeah yeah i know i'm slow on the bike too. Stuff it. And yeah i have too much aggression. Must channel that into the bike come race day. Anyway, now there's a name for 'taking self portraits while riding the bike' might have to play around with that, see what i can get...

Oh the other thing i was thinking about... maybe i need a coach... i know, i know, back when it was just SB commenting and KL reading it (and Il Brucie in secret) i might have said not so positive things about those who need a coach... prompted by a coach writing about his coach for PEZ or Cyclingnews or something but, now... thinking, i've got questions that i really can't answer myself, q's like "what's the best race strategy for me at this point to approach the cross races" or what specifically do i need to focus on to augment my commuting miles to make me fast. On the other hand i'm a cheap ass bastard. definately inherited from my dad. but still hard core none-the-less. heck that's why i started working on my own car, and when i found its wicked simple and easy to fix cars and that there's freaking NO mystery about them (assuming you get your hands dirty, and actually start the process rather than wonder and speculate). So its been good in some respects. And yes i could probably sit down and figure out what my weaknesses are, esp post race. And figure out exactly what should be done to boost them. One thing i am pretty sure i know i need is at least one solid 2 hour ride a week for base and fitness. That's freaking impossible now though. So... skip that. Combating the cheapskate is the instant gratification urge. I want to know NOW. I don't want to spend years figuring this shit out. Although intutitively i know i need to spend the time to become fast anyway. It isn't like the 'local celebrity PRO'got a sweet kick ass sponsorship deal overnight. Ah well...

Oh and i've been thinking, that tall advantage stuff - our bikes are way freaking bigger than other people's... that means heavier (well more or less in general eh?)

Ahhh last bit put together. The freaking stage controller for the confocal... The last bit of broken bits of scopes is finally fixed. Ahhhhhhhh, the person on there now came out to ask why it wasn't working... the part had just come in... the weekend can finally come and i can race and relax knowing that there'll be a fresh batch of problems to deal with come monday! Whoooot.

Oh well... I think i may try the whole tub of Kozy Shack pre-race on Sunday morning. I'm still grumpy that i missed the farmer's market on Wed, no fresh peaches like the last batch...

So... fruits and nuts... peas and carrots... ladies and germs... this is the Tall skinny slow freak GeW signing off - heading out to the blissfully precipitation free outdoors for a nice mellow spin home... here's to hoping the WNW wind feels enough like a tail wind that i can spin nicely home (and i'm still torn, put a sensible gear on the p-mount to complicate things or stick with the 50 tooth...oh wait... i can't just remembered... i'm running a BB with a shorter spindle than spec and have no space for an inner ring... DUH)... oh well - here's to the spin... love the spin

-g