parenting 101

i think this sums up (quite nicely) why i am not currently a parent.
seriously, i dont know what i would do i had to deal with this kid on a daily basis.

FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2

hahaha awesome.

im running out of time...

my ride started good last night. had a small stomach cramp when i started. odd. 30mins of easy, then an hour of tempo.. then i started my sprints. after that, the stomach cramps started getting worse.. hmm. then nauseous... then cold sweat... then the "oh no, i gotta find a bathroom NOW" i will spare you all the details, but lets just say it ended badly. very badly.
i would like to publicly appologize to the the owner of the parking lot on Hanover Street.

after i got home & took a shower, i started to get a little better, but still had the cold shakes.. ugh. it was like 75degrees in my place, and i still had 4 blankets on me!! this morning is better, but i feel very weak & very tired. not sure abou my ride tonight. see how i feel in a bit.

loooong weekend

i had planned my rest week to fall on the long weekend. that way me & allie could have some fun, without me having to worry about getting any long rides in. smart me.

we had a pretty relaxing weekend... really didnt do too much. saturday was really nice, so we went for a loong walk around downtown manch. made some delish salad... and then got some soy ice cream (cookie dough!!!). also planted some more flowers at my place & it looks really good.

sunday, the weather looked like it would hold off, so we headed up to Franconia to visit the flume gorge. as we were driving up there, it was goign from very sunny, to very overcast. ugh. anyways, we got about 5mins into the trail, and i stopped to take some pictures of the river. as im squatting down, i hear "plop". hmmm "i hope that wasnt my cell phone." yup, sure enough, its sitting at the bottom of the river. shit. i got it out, but its dead. me & allie tried drying it out all the way home, but it has limited function now... and most features wont work... ugh. i loved that phone.

im elegible for an upgrade in 2 weeks... so i think im going with this one..
basically a newer version of my last one. with symbian OS, 2mp camera, mp3 player (dont need) and 5x the internal memory that my last one had. im not a big fan of flip phones.. but its my only choice for a symbian phone on cingular. ugh. oh well. oh, and its a 3G phone, so it should be super fast on the internet....

oh, i ordered up some tubular wheels. now i can be a real 'cross racer. :)
American Classic hubs, laced to Ambrosio Nemesis hoops. should be mega-light and bomb-proof. Grifo 32's. zank said he would give me a hand getting them on, as im a newbie.

cemetary....

i went with my mom to my grandfathers tomb this morning. i never new him. my mom barely knew him...he died when she was only 3. this was the first time i have ever been to his grave site. it was nice to see it. my great grandparents, as well as my great great grandmother were also buried there was well. hard to believe, but my mom's dad died when he was ony 28yrs old.

this topic has been on my mind alot lately. the summer after i graduated from unh, a friend of mine died of a drug overdose. i cant say that i was extreamly close to her. but she was my friend and a group of us spend alot of fun time together. she was such a nice person. im not sure why this has been on my mind so much lately. this was 10yrs ago. anyways. i didnt find out about the funeral until after, and i always felt bad about that. i am going to try & find her grave site soon. she was only 21 when she died. sad.

RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

haha. old, but still funny.

Union Leader - Seatbelt bill hits bump in the road - Wednesday, May. 23, 2007

life free or die, bitches.

ps: you are a moron if you dont wear your seatbelt or wear a helmet... i just dont think the government should tell me what i can and cant do.

GTI Racing

i downloaded this game last night... soo much fun. ctodd would love it (because of the VW's).


finally some nice weather. got home, started to clean, but decided it was much to nice to stay inside. so i met allie after work & we got a super burritto downtown, along with a quick trip to the library.

i know that anybody who's anybody (mark, sarah kramer...ok, thats all i know who blogged about this)has already blogged about this story, but its pretty damn annoying. I like Isa's response. she rules.

rain rain rain

i wimped out on saturday because of the rain, and opted to ride the trainer instead...starting my season later has allowed me to do almost all of my base miles actually outside. its pretty sweet...but im de-trainer-fied. i get bored quickly now. anyways, i was psyched to see the evidence of possible sun this morning when i woke up. i told my mom i would do some riding with her, so i picked up all my shit & was gonna head to the seacoast for a nice 4hr ride. seriously, as soon as i walked out the door to leave, it starts raing...pouring...downpouring.. forget that, ill ride the trainer. so i bring it all back in... then it stops.. completely stops.. i bring my bike backout.. it rains. no joke.


anyways, park the car at my parents and head out towards exeter, then to n. hampton. even in the rain, it was nice. tons of surfers out there. i got back to my moms house at the 3hr mark, and then did another hour with her, bring my weekly total to 16 hours... good times...

off to tv land.

yawn

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this is where i was working today.... im doing a function/values assesment of this wetland. went well, accept i fell in the river. ugh.
i had my knee boots on, and was wading thru a shallow section... i stopped to take some pictures, and didnt realize i was sinking in the mud. when i went to take a step, my foot didnt move & it thru me off balance.... i did one of those break-dance moves where you bend over backwards and touch the ground (river) with one arm... then i kept on going, completely imerging one leg & one arm. ugh. but i saved the camera.

rode tonight for 4 hours. damn, im tired and hungry now.

that was odd...

while i have been putting in quite a bit of hours lately, i still have felt..well...slow. i have been consistently riding between 2-4hrs/day, 5 or 6 days per week, so i know i am getting fitter, it just hasn't been showing lately. anyways, yesterday i as soo sluggish at work. i had FIVE (5) cups of coffee, and still felt like i was going to fall asleep at my desk. this could be the result of having worked 15hours straight the day before, or my lack of enthusiasm regarding any project i am working on, or possibly due to riding alot.

so i am driving home, and the last thing i feel like doing is going for a ride, but i forced myself to get out there and at least do a quick spin. Much to my surprise, after a 20min warmup, i started my block of tempo... hmm.... i feel pretty good.
odd. after 30mins, im feeling really good. im cranking up hills in my 53, that i have lately been doing in my 39. oh well. sometimes you can never quite tell how you feel once you get on the bike. hopefully this is a sign of things to come.

i did something on my ride that i am typically adamantly against. i rode on the sidewalk. yes. i did. living in downtown manch, it takes about 15-20mins before i can get to the backroads. thats all fine and good except for one section. about a mile on Brown ave. The city, in its wisdom, took out the shoulder of this 4 lane road, and put sidewalks on both sides. i have NEVER seen anyone use these sidewalks and i ride this route almost every day for 5 years now. anyways. as there is no shoulder, and the white line is basically ON the 8" granite curb of the sidwalk, it makes for a kinda sketchy section. cars fly by pretty fast, and they are all pissed that i am there, leaving little room to ride. its annoying. its nerve wracking. and i dont like it. so i decided im sick of it, and from now on, i am just going to ride on the 5' wide pave sidewalk for this section. i feel ok with it now. its not worth getting nailed by some redneck dick in his pickup truck who wont move over.

listening to: new dinasour jr.

hanover street

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downtown manch

me & allie

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eating falafel at this new place on Hanover St. in Manch.

my girl

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libertarian's view on minimum wage....

recent changes in NH to raise min wage...

Skilled, experienced workers make high wages because employers compete
to hire them. Poorly educated, inexperienced young people can't get
work because minimum wage laws make them too expensive to hire as
trainees. Repeal of the minimum wage would allow many young, minority
and poor people to work.

It must be asked, if the minimum wage is such a good idea, why not
raise it to $200 an hour? Even the most die-hard minimum wage advocate
can see there's something wrong with that proposal.

The only "fair" or "correct" wage is what an employer and employee
voluntarily agree upon. We should repeal minimum wage now.

ilovemountains.org

lets see 'em try to take mount washington.

Global Warming

interesting read. the only thing i am 100% certain on regarding this subject, is that the media is a business, and makes more money by featuring dramatic stories... saying things like that we only have 13 years left to save the planet? come on. that is ridiculous.
im sorry, but sheryl crow is not a scientist and doesnt know anything more on the subject than you or me.... the same goes for the other side.. people who just spew out "facts" based on thier opinion are annoying... not believing in global warming for the simple reason of not wanting to side with liberals is just unbelievable... but so is beliving IN it just because Leo or Sheryl tell you to. whatever.

there is definately smart people on both sides of the fence on this issue. ive also heard some scientists who believe in man-made global warming but (gasp!) think that the media has grossly exagerated the problem and turned it into a mass hysteria... really ? the media would do that?
Global Warming: Not the End of the World as We Know It - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

someone asked me last week what i do when i get a flat on my bike... knock on wood, its been a while since i got one, was my reply. sooo, guess what i got not once, but twice this weekend? ugh.

downloaded the Frightend Rabbit album last week. its really good. check it out.
http://www.emusic.com/album/11004/11004035.html
i think they have a myspace page you can look at too...

google earth

in case you havent played with this... (again, sorry for the poor quality).. google earth has some neat 3d areas here in NH... specifically in the white mountains.. here is a video from the summit. i wish that google could stream it a little faster, but my nvidia card works it pretty nicely :)

download it here (both mac & pc versions available)

here is another one from the cholos show the other night... sorry for the bad quality.. but you get the idea.