exhale....

Blink - stretch - slump into jello

At least the day isn't flying by. Tedious work tends to have an uncanny way of making time creep past in a plodding pedestrian manner.

I read a bit around the virtual space over coffee this morning and lunch. There are a few great reads. Most of which everyone has stumbled upon themselves. But, in typical GeWilli fashion, I want to document them here for myself down the road.

Starting off with Fatty. This bullet caught my eye:

Lots of Reading: Susan reads about three books per week. I expect this will continue. On this subject, I’d like to take a moment to gloat that I used my ability to choose excellent gifts to unparalleled effect this Christmas: I bought Susan an Amazon Kindle. It’s a gadget you can use to buy — wirelessly — books, and then read them. No hooking up to the computer, WiFi, or Internet connection necessary. It’s like magic. The gadget press has pretty soundly trashed the Kindle in their reviews, but the reality is that if you buy it because you love to read (i.e., not because you’re a huge nerd who thinks social networking is an important part of your reading experience), it’s an awesome little device.

Cool. Very cool. I've been curious about the readers and what not. This one is the first that has me thinking "ME WANT." Like my cell phones that get used as (believe it or not) just as a phone. This dedicated device is wicked damn cool. I especially like the screen. gorgeous.

So in some what a contrary vein. I read this over at Gwadzilla:

article by anonymous in a marin paper
in this case
anonymous=jacquie phelan

I need to get to work
but I will read this later
it is only up till thursday

and i had to click over, and read. I made a quick digital copy to the hard drive in the event the content gets pulled and I want to read it again.

Dwight has a new entry at Velonews. Maybe one of the few remaining reasons to read it left? I don't know really where I stand on velonews. I have two print magazine subscriptions, Dirt Rag and Cyclocross Mag. That is it. Back to Brandon's report. This phrase caught my eye:

Since normal people don't really find January in Belgium to be an ideal vacation destination, I had no problem getting a ticket. With the flight booked I looked into entering the Masters Cyclocross World Championships and came to find out I can't race

DOH! The US 35+ Masters champ cannot compete in Masters Worlds? Serious? Brandon hasn't been following the Richard Feldman school of being a Masters racer, specifically rule #1: Do not ever enter an event that could even remotely possibly score you a single UCI point. He does bring up the point of the cherry picking Masters racers at Nationals. Or specifically all the elite racers who enter one Master race a year. We can honestly say that around here in New Beligum our fastest Masters racer at Nationals has a handful of Masters events under his belt. Usually a double day and yes, he is generally the fastest master on the course. No problem with that.

The recent snow on the bike path has me pining after the latest and greatest resistance training device possible: Here. Hook that bad boy up on Powertap'd bike and mash some monster watts!

Speaking of numbers. Frazz has a nice homage to Beaufort today:


That's about all I have at the moment.

So MIF/Solo which # does this post fit into?

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