It is getting close

vacation time that is... with everything breaking around here making scheduling nightmares and all... a step back will be nice. And with a busted lappy that means no finding some free wifi for updates. I will have to go back to the original days of writing long hand.

Might not actually be a bad thing. Some of those entries I still enjoy going back and reading.

Vacay isn't this week but it is soon. I haven't really felt like writing much today. The death of the lappy sort of maybe sucked some motivation. I took it apart, nothing was loose or seemed to be obviously overheated. And judging by the behavior of the different power supplies I tried, well there's a short in the motherboard and I can buy a new refurb with 10x bigger HD and a DVD burner for just a bit more than the parts and then there's no assurance that putting the new MB in the case will fix the problem (it should but... worth the chance?).

That aside i'm going to see about hitting the Smack Down Ride here. It is tuesday night and PVD has the throw down. Route is simple. Anyone is welcome to join, if you get dropped it is easy enough to find your way back home (esp if you check the map before leaving).

When the rolf busted i picked up a few wheels for short money and one of the rears (a plain heavy beat up 32 hole R400 rim on a no name hub) got the spokes tied (not soldered yet) and the disc cover put on. there's a good mm or so hope in it where a few spokes were replaced. I will see about working on that a bit more before hitting the wraps with some solder. But I slapped the disc on for tonight to see if I could feel the out of roundness. I'm guessing that my round-assed-ness with 100-110 psi in the rear should maybe mask it. The wheel is actually surprisingly really well balanced at high speed (on the work stand pedaling the 53x12).

I'm going to keep the P-mount hanging out of the way this year and TT with the Q-pro. The tubing diameter is a pretty small quotient and while the higher bottom bracket in the Klein may put me higher in the air, the bike itself is more efficient. Trade offs. And this way I don't have to pick and choose what chainring I'll run up front. I had my year of beating lots of people with much bigger gears and not really being that much slower than some. That 40t served me well, but it also killed the torque-making. And I found out the hard way at the start of cross, my max torque was down and my fluid spin i developed did me shit all with all those accelerations. Gonna try a better balance between high rpms and torque. And hey- if a disc wheel works for curly, heck, i might as well run it. I have a feeling I'm going to regret the heavier wheel on a few of the long slogging up hills. But it shouldn't be any different than normal. Me being OTB.

rather than add this on someone else's comment page (it doesn't jibe well with the friendly dig in return) about my "style" or lack of it writing here... it has evolved over time, and yes I alluded to the transcription of the hand written entries as being good ones, in general i subscribe to the e e cummings philosophy. once you learn the rules, you can break them. first though. you must master them so as to know how to do it deliberately. A high school english teacher taught us that. Or sort of maybe not intentionally. But that was one of the things I learned. I can't recall from memory any poems, but i remember the discussions about why e e cummings poetry was they way it was. so - i got as good as was possible - plenty of highly polished prose has my name on it. and the blog actually is a deliberate style. it is a rough draft, as it flows out of the brain through the fingers. the words being crafted (more like grab bagged and tossed) onto the screen with little changes from the conception. not the best example of the english language. a butchered americanized dialectic version. copy editors nightmare. that or a writer's nightmare after an editor has been through it trying to figure out what the hell to do with it.

Watching the hockey game i'd realized something. I'm losing my michigan/UP/ontario inflections. They are coming out rarely now. For a while they were an ingrained teaching accent for some reason. But now. It took watching and listening to the NBC commentators during the hockey games before I noticed. And I'll be honest, right now? The words in my head are coming out here in these paragraph with a hard core UP/Ontario accent, eh? Pretty funny. Sort of like a red green show in my head ya know? Eh?

Alright. Enough of that. Time to slip into some team gear (I hope the new stuff will be at skinny's house soon) and go see if I can work on making these tuesday nights mimic figure 2.

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