is it really only tuesday?

 Feels more like Thursday.

Why?

Dunno.

The ride in this morning was a bit sketchy, mostly just by the house. A lot more ice than I anticipated, and yeah, no, not on studded tires this morning but oh so quiet. When the stupid rear spring on the BB7 pads wasn't dragging. The pads are not worn but the spring is just being a pain. It isn't too bad and the brakes still work. For now.

Forgot to pull the hub apart on the Aeolus Pro3V wheels so I could measure the springs and see what replacements might look like on McMaster. Checked the Dirtwire, thom's on the hydra i9. not the old torch, i'm guessing i'm gonna be stuck with these for a while. Best figure out a solution.

Oh and Stevil almost has me wanting to get a deck, yeah, no, i don't skate, haven't, weird right? 

Also decided to buy a book instead of keep waiting with almost 100 people for maybe 5-10 copies of the new Cline book. It was 20% off day so I just said fuck it and bought a hardback book. Yup.

Now can I read it without reading glasses, that'll be the real test. Or are my eyes just too fucking tired to focus anymore. Screens are okay but they are way more than arm's reach away. It is just the way up close, or stupid tiny low contrast writing that I have trouble with lately. 

Trying a new link protocol. We'll see if it works. 

There's a pile of tabs I had left open to include here but I realized they are all the same web pages or web logs I normally link. People are doing good content but there aren't that many. I keep expanding the open tabs pages but still, return to the same few... over and over. Y'all know them by now. 

Today's pile -

fire alarm interruption ...  TBC

One day I'll ride out there... maybe.

Also peeked at the Buena Vista Cycle Co web page, over an hour from where my dad's place was, but not so bad, better riding on that side of the mountains anyway and an hour drive is pretty short for over that way.

That stupid fire alarm totally disrupted the flow and any thought beyond that video and the BVCC comment.

Ugh.

probably for the better. there's much better stuff to spend your internet time on than keeping up here.

to that end while this latest process finishes I've got a chance to watch the latest Dirtwire drop.

At least it isn't raining today.

Last night was about as cold as it gets. riding through inches of ice water is cold. Headwind too, also ice pellets mixed into the rain sting on the face.

do some good, get off line for a bit, maybe read a real book for a change.

right after watching this next video on the you toobs

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