monday

no wait it is tuesday.  yesterday was monday but monday was VJ day here in this state.

so today is sort of a monday. although there is little distinction between days now, although the last couple months have been cyclical around the Thursday night TT.  That's been my friday night lights, ebb and flow from that point.

i've been on my bike once since saturday's totally cracked 75 bpm ride home (i managed to avg 80 on the way in, up hill). and that once was from the top of the hill after dropping off my daughter for ballet intensive down here.  Sort of not far.  And nearly all downhill.  Got passed by a dual squish mt biker. Saw lots of other cyclists out there too.

so being out of the loop i totally missed the whole getting run over by a dump truck of awesomeness.

200 on 100 - The Fall of Ryan T Kelly from cycloWHAT? on Vimeo.

Chandler is pretty awesome - but man Ryan Kelly is pretty. He has such a nice beard.

i was briefly tempted to take a page from Zen with his FnFs and institute melon mondays but decided against that. i'm all for it but not really in a public space, private? no problem.

jls did manage to make good on his el doper encounter at the fred festival. although his tweet from that day left me thinking it would be a bit more dramatic than it came across.

off of twitter: "Holy fuck, they downgraded treasuries??Sell the entire portfolio and put me in treasuries." -everyone i was reminded of it when the the rep i was having lunch with mentioned everyone was diving into the Treasury market. To me it is just hearsay, i don't know if they are or not... i've been moderately successful at closing off the outside news except what i've actively gone out and sought. talking with jamner now and then a while back i'd actually pay attention to the market, and my "portfolio" aka 403b accounts. i've given up on tracking that shit completely. was actually surprised when i caught the headline that the dow was as high as 12,000. saw that and immediately thought 'oh great, re-evaluation on the way' aka market crash. sort of had a mini crash last couple days. looks like it is rallying today (tacit glance).

another humorous quip off the bird network was this: "The Politicians will not be happy until the US is downgraded to the grades they got in school." For certain the original was "tea party" not politicians, although you could as accurately place democrats in there. They all seem to be a bunch of loony self serving morons at this point.

most hope? this:

The good tends always to outweigh the bad: it just takes longer to get itself organised.

spot of truth to that.

just went through the last few weeks of the month's schedule. looks like i'm all set and primed to pretty much let all the fitness i've built this summer disappear. can't wait. it will make sure i start CX season as flat as i normally do.

yeah.

on a moderately bright note, that would be brighter if it wasn't 4 months later than hoped. maybe the images will be on display before i turn forty. if they aren't that's really going to suck. only because i will allow it to suck. because even if there is a rational reason for the delay, and i can see that rational, i can't keep from getting wrapped up in the associated emotional let down.

snelling called me and my current downward spiral a resignation a bit. resigned to the fact that yes, i'm getting old. and while i honestly had no idea what to expect of the 40 year old me twenty years ago... and knowing it doesn't matter, i'm here, and this is where i am. again that irrational side of me still doesn't like the end of august, and maybe all these years of hating this time of the year have entrenched it too deeply for any shred of intelligence i may not have ever had in the first place to over come it...

oh well

move through

i was pretty f'n excited about cyclocross earlier today

until i looked at the calendar

if wrentham isn't in the plans for wed night i may have to just schedule CX night at my house, two sets of barriers, my 10 turn dirt/sand track with 20 second laps, and then the start drill section and the single track actually done in a circuit weight lifting style are pretty solid for drills and intervals, it might just have to be enough.

hmmm

wed night as CXy night might be good, would lead into Midnight cross and night weasels well... hmmm

have to wait to see what the dependents school and activity schedule looks like

up in the air

went from awesome to morosely resigned in one web log post, might be impressive, if it wasn't so routine. although usually it is the other way around.

meh

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