smoldering remains

that's what i'm looking at after the morning... and right now i'm catching my breath waiting for it to flair back up... but really hoping it doesn't... but like that campfire with too much wood and you with not enough water i KNOW it is going to flair in about 30 minutes and no... nothing i can do about it...

So everyone needs to give Solobreak a big round of applause. One for being a big enough dick to kick me in the knees when i am unable to defend myself, and two for actually writing stuff worth reading. Looking around a few of the great places linked over on the left do have nice new content. But many not so much. Found one blog and a trackback that go me suprised: http://leavethefanon.blogspot.com/! Listed with big names like Radio Freddy and Big Jonny! Holy cow that's cool. Undeserved maybe? But appreciated. Thanks Charles. And thanks for putting mud and cowbells back on the map. I'd looked at that for a while but sometime between cross season and now it dropped off the radar.

Heck even CTodd has footage up... Nice is freaking awesome. I spent about 36 hours there, maybe more, took the train down... grabbed a room, walked around the city, grabbed dinner, walked around some more, spent the day exploring. hitting the Chagal Museum the big castle place... wandering the streets of Old Nice (the terra cotta roofed area in Ctodd's vid overview of the city. I didn't eat anywhere as fancy as he did. In fact i was pretty damn frugal. loaf of bread hunk of brie and some jam were the staples of my existence back then 13 years ago. Wishing i had a generous per diem/expense account like those marketing guys...

BKW (mentioned above already) had a nice bit about frame pumps. I might have to try that QR thing but i've a feeling it ain't gonna fit on my giant bike, even my HPx4 prolly is too short. And yeah. I'm riding with the HPx4 all the time. TT'd with it even. I'll go so much as to say, yes i even did the TT with my CO2 inflator and a couple extra carts in the tool bag. Yeah. Big full pockets, frame pump AND CO2 jobber. The frame pump just bascially takes the place of my little mini-pump which while wicked cool and all that is a wicked pain in the ass... Frame pumps STILL rule. Although i do still and have always preferred the Zefal as you can get it as high as you want (pressure)... even if all you want is 90-100 psi.

JB asked for advice for bike commuting. And i've been racking my brain and searching my archives to no avail. What's the name/link to that handbook for safe cycling? Rhodale Press? IIRC there was an online PDF somewhere. Il Brucie? Do you recall what it was? I thought maybe you had sent me the link but, damn i ain't finding it.

The vatican's new driving commandments sound pretty good... now i got another line for people who are driving like dickheads: "Are you catholic?" And here in Rhode Island there's a better than even chance that they are. Ifn yall missed the news bit... here's CBC.ca's version of the report.

Sponge Doors................can't knock 'em!

Oh and speaking of jokes... or teasers or something... Meg's pictures don't work and when she spends a whole entry talking about who's who in the picture and all that and then there ain't no picture? That just ain't fair... funny as in Ha ha, jokes on us. Then her field day? I ain't even able to click it. Maybe i need to check my video settings.

And let me finish off with this:

coffee house nw
Originally uploaded by rendermack

Almost a shame to drink it... and something you'd never see at a Four Bucks --- at least since Curly stopped pouring...