12.28.2005

Desperately Seeking Bike

Dale "The Cannon" Ellsworth is intensely arachnophobic. And his friend Titus swears its the truth that speedracer and racer-x were fathered by a Yeti.

12.27.2005

Waste of Time

Actually, time's a wasting, I should be at home getting hurt.

12.22.2005

Winter Solstice

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. Did I let that stop me from riding? Hay-yell no. Busted out the helmet lights and shone 'em in drivers' faces. But damn, my toes hated that last hour as soon as the sun went down.

Yesternight was the longest night of the year. Did I let that stop me from staying awake? Hay-yell no. Busted out the "xmas is almost here and i might be getting a new bike" jitters and stayed up from 2:33 to 4:33.

Put that solstice in your pipe and smoke it, Old Man Winter.

12.21.2005

Sun Spots

I have spots on my face! well, more like a general, itchy, scaly redness. Doc wasn't sure what it was exactly, but gave me some steroids and some potent hydrocortisonem, or sumpin, cream to apply.

Maybe it's the recent cold weather rides (I need to find a cobra kahn mask), or me getting into some nasty stuff during my feeble Paul Bunyan impersonations in the backyard.

Anyway, the magic cream seems to be working.

12.15.2005

Jay-moe-nay

12.06.2005

Paquito

He is the chihuahua mixed breed we fostered last night, and he'll be staying with us this weekend too. Six week old chihuahua with a dash of poodle in him, looks like, since he's got those teary, eye shadows streaming from his tear ducts, with floppy ears to boot. He's also probably a little smarter and a little less hyper. Very little hair, doesn't look like a shedder (although he's probably a shitter).

He's a Paquito impersonator, w/slightly more hair.


Too bad we already have 3 other animals.

12.02.2005

Of Fish

If you can't contribute to the team, why stay on the team? But what about when you know you CAN contribute, but don't for reasons out of your control? That's when you jump to a smaller lake.

But well, that decision isn't that simple. Sometimes there's a lot of other things that make you like the bigger lake. Maybe it's a super cool lake to live in. Maybe you get compensated rather nicely for the microscopic contributions you make to the lake. And well, sometimes a big lake has less of a chance of going dry, and killing all of the fish that live in it.

But if for whatever reason, a fish NEEDS to feel that it is valuable and needed, it first has to manufacture (and i use that term in the cheapest sense) attention to itself, so that the big fish notice it and give it the OPPORTUNITIES to prove itself worthy of being a bigger fish in the lake. And the little fish won't get those opportunities unless they kiss enough of those water-tight asses those big fish have.

If smaller fish need to feel valuable and needed and are willing to play that tune they might find fulfillment in that big lake. Otherwise, it may take living in a small pond to make them feel that they make a difference.

Maybe fish should stop being so needy.

On an unrelated note (but ironically similar), check out my new team's logo...

12.01.2005

Lagging

Man, I need some motivation. New team kit helps only so much. I guess I'll try not to forget my running shoes this morning.