Alright!!!

Tuppence, patiently, cautiously trustingly invested
In the, to be specific,
In the Dawes, Tomes
Mousely, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank!

E-freaking-NOUGH already...

Tuppence, patiently, cautiously trustingly invested
In the, to be specific,
In the Dawes, Tomes
Mousely, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank!

That... boys and girls and bike racers... THAT is what was in my freaking head the last part of the ride in...

Man... and finding the lyrics (can't be mis-quoting Mary Poppins now can we) it's replaying mightly all over again!!!

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Took a bit of time to get out this morning - and so it set a precedent, and Foley's words were ringing in my head

I should have stopped and taken a photo for the blog, ala Gewilli, but I was a dumbass and instead kept going because I was too lazy to dig the camera out of the messenger bag, and because even though I was riding at a snail's pace, I am too tied to the "training" mentality to ever stop on a ride unless it is absolutely necessary.

Why? because Hell i'm always the one not willing to stop. It has to be something killer amazing to get me to stop. For Example. If i had stopped on the way back and fort back in Michigan i'd have had some AMAZING shots... but nope... i kept driving...

I'd kill to get one of those wicked thin little Olympus Digi Cams that are waterproof and fit easily in and out of a jersey pocket (even with the messenger bag on).

But this morning. I stopped. Too freaking gorgeous. Even shot some nice 30 fps video (which i realized i'm limited to 20 seconds on this camera - read/write/compression speed i think - anyway... i'll put one of them up here later (and maybe i'll try my vimeo page as compression instead of Youtube seeing how well YouTube preserved the video in my first g_odcast...

It was just amazing out there. and there were 1 million things popping in my head. like a freaking VH1 pop-up video except without the sound effects...

I'll burry it here so no one reads it - too early to tell but i think my whole hypothesis about over-gearing increasing torque is FOS (full of shit for those who don't know what FOS means). BUT like a good little scientist, i will collect data and normalize it over a week or two using the same stretch as a benchmark to see if the avg and max torque numbers are higher with the P-mount or not.

Other things? Coffee - was thinking i made it through yesterday with just one pot of French Pressed Stuff (Tanzanian Peaberry, NOT over roasted like the freakish Corporation's version of said bean - by that thinly veiled reference i mean Star*bucks). Yeah it wasn't organic, but it was Fair Trade and ya know... ya gotta switch up the beans now and again and to be able to buy a Fair Trade Tanzanian Peaberry roast for $9.99/#... how can ya pass THAT up?

So thinking about that i thought, well maybe i'll go the whole day without extra coffee, but then yesterday's was spread out much later than the rushed consumption of the morning's pot of coffee... and I thought, hell i'll just make 1/2 a pot. I don't NEED to always make a whole 10 cup pot and drink it all. Then i thought well putting 1.5 scoops of coffee in... why not just put two and make the full pot. That'll cut down on the total caffeine intake and at the same time keep the fluids up! i got some wicked circular reasoning going on in this head lemme TELL YOU!!!

Oh and freaking EVERYONE has new content up. Everyone except the queen bee of the new england blog scene. Yes i'm refering to none other than the Pro, the Small, the uber wicked freaking damn smart: KL!

I've seen it a few times, but finally remembering to make mention of it (because everytime i see it, it embodies the best part of being selfless. The first one Kicked ASS. The more recent one. There are a few on YouTube but hit the commercial source for the real one. And the most recent.

It is the last one there under TV that is hitting the air now. I gotta say. If people would all start doing those sorts of things it'd be freaking amazing. Really really amazing.

It is too bad that Liberty Mutual is out of the bike biz. But maybe they are doing more good focusing resources on that line of commercials than sponsoring a bunch of doped up cyclists racing around in Europe.

Other topics: I just wonder (not that i have seen any cycling on TV other than what generous friends have shared with me on DVD) why the LIVE day of pre-race coverage for the Kentucky Derby is longer than a whole week of the tour de france coverage combined??? Or why the pre-race coverage for a NASCAR race is longer than the coverage of a Spring Classic like Paris Roubaix?

And when (or why can't i find any) did they stop making yogurt with apple on the bottom? That was always my favorite growing up. And i've looked and haven't seen it anywhere listed on the flavors???

HUGE props to SARIS. HUGE. As Much as Solobreak Phuc'n rips the sh!t out of that company and all that. They came through. My HR has been toast for a few weeks now, and well yes, i tried new batteries in the HU, new batteries in the strap... all dat... riding with the strap 2" from the HU... (or CPU as they call it)... Well this morning the lovely mail gal dropped off an ecolite Kraft bubble pack. Inside, a brand new 2.4 chest strap and coded CPU to go with. Amazing.

These guys freaking ROCK. So i'm back in the heart rate biz i think (once i get the new CPU all programmed and stuff). Wicked exciting!!!

Oh and no. No racing for GeWilli this weekend. GeWilli had a great family day on Saturday. And Sunday was working. Got two of the $20 racor bike hoists hung in the "bike room" and the rest of it cleaned out. Got my wife's Zurich put back together, it is sporting some wicked effective 8sp 600 STI goodness. Pretty damn old skool but lemme tell ya - that shit works. Put in a few hooks in the ceiling to get the tires and wheels off the floor. Hell it is starting to look like a right bike shop in there! Still one bike in the barn in a box (the pristine gorgeous amazing Santa Cruz built Bontrager Race).

Here's a quick crappy shot of the bike room.

So on top of that i played electrician... for a couple reasons, #1 so we can get a CFL on the front porch (as the head of the house feels strongly about leaving a porchlight on) and #2 to get more light in the bike room. You see there was a nice outdoor lamp there in the bike room. I've hit my head on it a dozen times or so (it sticks out into the stairs) and it doesn't cast much light in the room (shape of the lamp puts more light down than out). So... Switch. Brilliant. Two 60 watt lamps lighting up the whole room (now can do work at night without using a flashlight to find stuff). Cleaned the Gutters. Re-attached one of the floods on the side of the house (need some of those Flood type CFLs for out there). Weeded the front bed and cleaned the dead stuff. Lemme tell you, i think i've pulled a thousand or two Maple Seedlings. For the time being i've left the Japanese maple seedlings with the aim/goal of transplanting them as gifts. The Genetic stock of these two trees we've got are kick ass. Some mighty beautiful specimens.

Anyway...

Here's a little clip, we'll see how it turns out... only about 20 seconds or so... fingers crossed that Vimeo has better encoding than screwytube...





Scaups and Brants from gewilli

I think i'll put another one up and link it later...

I'll maybe get another one up and send the rest of the footage off to CTodd for his cutting room floor...

The end of the semester is always a nice peaceful time around here too...
Ahh but soon the summer rush of insanity will start... the summer internships/fellowships/researchers will be banging down the doors here at the Picture Factory... and the mellow pace of this morning will be sent flying into the circular file.

Respect, Peace, Smile, do a good dead...
132 days till cross season starts (just to keep Gwadzilla chucklin)
GeWilli

PS

Tuppence, patiently, cautiously trustingly invested
In the, to be specific,
In the Dawes, Tomes
Mousely, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank!