Tuesday, October 30, 2007

time for introspection

or should read a little time for it goes a long way...

I had edited and reedited and boiled it down to:
Next time i'll have someone translate for me before posting because it sort of boils down to:
"Gewilli wants to make people, aka promoters, aware of that demand, he just doesn't know how to do it without pissing people off."

my apologies for appearing to be abrasive and insensitive to all the work the incredible promoters are doing in new england.

I feel incredibly lucky to be here in an area with as diverse a series of courses and races as we have here in New England.

but wise council said to leave the stuff alone. let it be...

makes sense i guess... as most have noted - and hopefully realized, how i say things don't always mesh why what i'm trying to say... all i can say is, that's how i'm hard wired and maybe that's a clue to why i've been pretty lonely. The best friends i've had, my wife esp are the ones who have recognized, or tolerated or both the fact that how i say stuff doesn't reflect who i am.

oh was that too introspective?


There, some dirt. On a bike. Where is should be. Not flying around as e-bitching on some email list that's seen it all, long before i showed up.

I forget that sometimes.

Commuting has been awesome. Cold. I love it. I might not be going faster but the gearing and the sensation in my legs is telling me i am. That's good.

This weekend will make the moment of needing lights for the commute, and the struggle to illuminate the trailer optimally has begun. Where to begin. Blinky lights of course, but sadly unlike the old trailer blinky attachment is not simple... Or more accurately, not the same.

The lights from last year won't really work well.

After not getting out of here later than normal due to a service engineer's delay in arrival i headed home with only one rear blinker, and only a back up one at that. The path is a bit dark unless i can scoot out at the normal time. I've got a nice temp clear reflector front flasher on the bars now, to make due until i can sort of the new battery connection and location for the Niterider head light.

Lunch time is almost over. Food is consumed, just the last bit of a boston cookies peanut butter cookie left to eat (vegan even).

I'll offer this - in the moments here and there in the last while i've been reading a thread from 2001... so yeah sounds like it was discussed earlier, but... hasn't the face of racing in New England changed enough since then to warrant revisiting the whole thing? maybe not... I guess funkmasterxx and i seem to sound the same over email...

yall juts be good in person
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4 comments:

PEANUT said...

Those cookies are incredibly scrumptious!

CTodd said...

Mmm... cookie lap!

Unknown said...

I picked up a 3 watt LED headlamp at Target a while ago - it's got just about a perfect beam pattern for cycling. Might want to take a look and see if they have any. I think I paid $25 for it. Even if it wouldn't work with your helmet it might be adaptable to a handlebar mount or whatever.

Just an idea...

zencycle said...

"I guess funkmasterxx and i seem to sound the same over email..."

Not even close. Go back and look at my posts to the necx group. I've had several different identities but the most prolific were madmonkeyxx and funkmasterxx. (why two x's? because you couldn't handle three fucking x's from me).

Pay particular attention to my tete a tete with tom stevens about what a dick and lousy promoter bill sykes is, then there's my battles with sharin' peters, and finally the whole pint glass conflagration.

Your posts were way too....introspective, apologetic, generally whiney.....nowhere hear the level of ascerbicity and vitriol I am capable of and famous for. Hint: never admit your wrong...just ask fucking foley.

yer a piker.

Funkmasterxx
aka
madmonkeyxx
aka
geraldbostockage8
aka
zencycle