My Hovercraft is Full of Podcasts
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Yeah man, what he said. Ho's that those Thundercats may be notwithstanding, glad to hear that everything is ok.
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Fourth Party
I was lucky, I'm also happy it wasn't anything serious. I told Dustin today, when people in my family go to the hospital, they dont leave.
After I finally got admitted, my wife went home and showered, ate and hung with my girls. She came back about 6 that night with both of them. The baby saw me hooked up to everything and wanted nothing to do with me, my older daughter didnt want to leave. I think if they would have let her sleep there she would have. This is the stuff that got me emotional.
Anyway, all is good, back to Norms regularly scheduled blogging.
Day 5:
http://normbrero.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-vacation-day-5-defined-by.html
Off for a recovery ride now. Maybe I'll do a podcast this morning.
Then off to the zoo.
Then peewee practice.
Feel like making kung pao chicken/tofu tonight. Who wants in?
Dunno if I mentioned it but I registered for the Cherry Blossom 4/5 and 3/4 for Saturday morning. Likely going to hurt. My legs are pissed.
http://normbrero.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-vacation-day-5-defined-by.html
Off for a recovery ride now. Maybe I'll do a podcast this morning.
Then off to the zoo.
Then peewee practice.
Feel like making kung pao chicken/tofu tonight. Who wants in?
Dunno if I mentioned it but I registered for the Cherry Blossom 4/5 and 3/4 for Saturday morning. Likely going to hurt. My legs are pissed.
Bronx Zoo, just pictures today:
http://normbrero.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-vacation-day-6-bronx-zoo.html
Still tired. Need to sort team kits and maybe try and move forward on buying that car I mentioned last week. Bernardsville didn't turn out to be as helpful as I hoped, sorry Glenn. Will have a podcast later. Need to edit.
No SSaP preview today, my bike isn't ready and I guess I'm too tired. Moved to Sunday. I'll go out and beat myself up a little for 2 hours this morning. Lasagna for dinner with some friends tonight.
http://normbrero.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-vacation-day-6-bronx-zoo.html
Still tired. Need to sort team kits and maybe try and move forward on buying that car I mentioned last week. Bernardsville didn't turn out to be as helpful as I hoped, sorry Glenn. Will have a podcast later. Need to edit.
No SSaP preview today, my bike isn't ready and I guess I'm too tired. Moved to Sunday. I'll go out and beat myself up a little for 2 hours this morning. Lasagna for dinner with some friends tonight.
Well after Friday morning everything went kind of haywire and it was impossible for me to keep up. Here's a quickie on how those next 3 days went:
Friday - bought a car, rushed home to make dinner, got a special fish delivery from Utah, made fresh awesome fish for our dinner guests that night. Drank beer.
Saturday - a lackluster 4/5 at the Cherry Blossom (with Ilya, 26er, Y-Rob), warmed up for a race I didn't do (Ben, Eric, Ilya, 26er) then destruction/terror/mayhem after that (Robin, Allison, Erin, Eric, Spilker, 26er). Skipped the 3/4, then went home. Ilya came by, then Pat Brown, and I madly rushed to sort the team order. I think there were 3 mistakes, Ilya managed to be the recipient of 2 of them. Pat bought my roof rack. Peewee practice after that. Drank more beer.
Sunday - Fred showed up at 6:15 with beer. Drove to pickup Utah, met Y-Rob at Stewart. Clearly we had the wrong GPS loop so we sort of winged (wung?) it, then Y-Rob flatted, and we got back to the lot to finally figure out that my headset isn't in right, or something. We all agreed to blame Jeremy for it, because he wasn't there. Instead of making a mess of the bike, we decided to call it a day. At the convenience store, Fred bought us beer. After we dropped Utah off we hit Booton LS and bought more beer. I went home, changed the ceiling fan in the kitchen, and drank a bunch of beer. And ate food.
Monday - back to the box factory.
Friday - bought a car, rushed home to make dinner, got a special fish delivery from Utah, made fresh awesome fish for our dinner guests that night. Drank beer.
Saturday - a lackluster 4/5 at the Cherry Blossom (with Ilya, 26er, Y-Rob), warmed up for a race I didn't do (Ben, Eric, Ilya, 26er) then destruction/terror/mayhem after that (Robin, Allison, Erin, Eric, Spilker, 26er). Skipped the 3/4, then went home. Ilya came by, then Pat Brown, and I madly rushed to sort the team order. I think there were 3 mistakes, Ilya managed to be the recipient of 2 of them. Pat bought my roof rack. Peewee practice after that. Drank more beer.
Sunday - Fred showed up at 6:15 with beer. Drove to pickup Utah, met Y-Rob at Stewart. Clearly we had the wrong GPS loop so we sort of winged (wung?) it, then Y-Rob flatted, and we got back to the lot to finally figure out that my headset isn't in right, or something. We all agreed to blame Jeremy for it, because he wasn't there. Instead of making a mess of the bike, we decided to call it a day. At the convenience store, Fred bought us beer. After we dropped Utah off we hit Booton LS and bought more beer. I went home, changed the ceiling fan in the kitchen, and drank a bunch of beer. And ate food.
Monday - back to the box factory.
I don't know what we rode. Looks like Utah ended up with a scouting link, as opposed to the actual SSaP loop, so some was in, some wasn't. Not sure what's what. I'll find out soon enough I guess. Doubt I'm going to trek all the way up there again. 5 hour trip for 1+ hour riding makes it hard to repeat that.
This week begins my detox week. I need it after last week.
Ok I just looked at our course yesterday versus the SSaP course, and we were off he path about 15 minutes in if not less. We did the ST then were on the pavement/fire road in the beginning, then dove into the woods, which was right. After that section we dropped onto the fire road again and went straight, then back & up that steep climb, then back and the other way - at that point we were off course.
More generally - in the area where my wheel exploded out of the dropouts, we were lost already. There wasn't a wrong turn *in* there, we were supposed to have gone a different direction entirely before that. The SSaP course goes around that section then comes back into where we were at 1 point - at the end of the open field section (Bear Trail, but most people know it as the open grassy field).
Anyway, we immediately lost the trail again. We headed towards Campground & the course goes through that rugged middle section - I think that's where the 2 runners are. I believe there's something called 3 Sisters in there? Or 3 Mothers. Or Duckies & Bunnies, idk.
We did some of the course after that, then got off it again. Apparently it does not go through the built-up formerly muddy section. It goes Orchard in reverse instead of climbing that awful fire road, which is nice. (Pearl question🙂 How was Orchard in reverse? That would be the section right before the long fire road section leading up to Scofield.
Still not sure what we were following. Whatever, BIKES!
More generally - in the area where my wheel exploded out of the dropouts, we were lost already. There wasn't a wrong turn *in* there, we were supposed to have gone a different direction entirely before that. The SSaP course goes around that section then comes back into where we were at 1 point - at the end of the open field section (Bear Trail, but most people know it as the open grassy field).
Anyway, we immediately lost the trail again. We headed towards Campground & the course goes through that rugged middle section - I think that's where the 2 runners are. I believe there's something called 3 Sisters in there? Or 3 Mothers. Or Duckies & Bunnies, idk.
We did some of the course after that, then got off it again. Apparently it does not go through the built-up formerly muddy section. It goes Orchard in reverse instead of climbing that awful fire road, which is nice. (Pearl question🙂 How was Orchard in reverse? That would be the section right before the long fire road section leading up to Scofield.
Still not sure what we were following. Whatever, BIKES!
i need to hit this too. what are you guys thinking?
did you guys run SS? norm said he was going to run a 13 rear. did he?
Nice, but I think everything is packed up between now & then. This weekend is bad, then the following is BSA/Kirt/Fair Hill. Then SSaP. Time is tight. If I bail on Fair Hill we could go that day. We'll figure it out.
After thinking about it for 6-8 hours I decided to run 32-16. Or, I went to look for a 15 and found I didn't have 1, so put the 16 on.
ah, ok.
agreed, but that's likely not in the cards. life will surely get in the way of me "racing" bicycles between now and then.
The podcasts have tailed off. Last week I rode hard pretty much every day, so it's going to be the first thing to drop from the plate. I did the Tuesday night talks which some love, some hate. Whatever. I'll keep those going because they're easy enough to do since it requires no effort. It looks like maybe rain tonight? Where'd that come from?
Up by 5:00 and out the door by 5:30 today, in the office before 7:00 - total commute was 1:20 with a stop at Starbucks. I feel like I've been here 2 hours and I'm still 2 hours ahead of my coworkers in Chicago really. Our other guy is out this week in NY, so there's a chance I get stuck here. Hoping I can make it, but who knows. I'm not going to think too much about it right now. If it rains or I get stuck at work, I'll roll with it. Not much I can do. Like I said to Fred Sunday - in the end, everything always works out. Or it doesn't. Not much you can do about it usually.
I bought the A3 last week, which I didn't talk much about. In the end, the advice went overboard, and it was impossible to take any of it in. I know it's how things go, once you get past a certain point there's no right answer, as everyone will bring up salient points against anything you choose. I was close to buying a surfboard and taking that to work. But I figure it would get stolen in Newark.
When it came down to it, I talked to a good 10 people who own an Audi and the response rate was basically 100% in the "I love this f'ing car" camp. I found it to be somewhat similar to the Mac debate. Either you hate an Audi, or you own one. There was an exception, but that person owned it a long time ago, and it was a first year model. Everyone else who owns/owned one loves it. That was good enough for me. Plus I obviously loved the test drive. It was just another planet. I know this won't fit into Luke's world plan but he drives his wife around in a lawnmower so take that for what it's worth.
This week is a dud, in a way. Work after vacation is a drag, and this weekend is Julia's birthday weekend. Nat is going out Friday night to help some soup kitchen stuff. Then I'll have to wake up at Crap O'clock to ride, followed by who-knows-what chaos between then and the birthday party. Nat has this absurd idea that we're going to take Julia to a show as well as see her parents in addition to getting ready for the party, all by 2:00. What a joke. Party runs to 4:00. After that I will likely drink. I'm sure we have to do something after that.
Sunday is worse, as I have to ride in the dark, then be ready to go to the city by 9:30 or so with my folks to take Julia to the American Girl Doll store. Come home and then we go to her first peewee game, which will likely be a circus. Monday is her actual birthday. She turns 6. Sunday night I'll sniff glue.
Battenkill is Saturday and Rahway is Sunday. I'm not sad to miss BK but I would like to do Rahway. But then I can wish in 1 hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.
Up by 5:00 and out the door by 5:30 today, in the office before 7:00 - total commute was 1:20 with a stop at Starbucks. I feel like I've been here 2 hours and I'm still 2 hours ahead of my coworkers in Chicago really. Our other guy is out this week in NY, so there's a chance I get stuck here. Hoping I can make it, but who knows. I'm not going to think too much about it right now. If it rains or I get stuck at work, I'll roll with it. Not much I can do. Like I said to Fred Sunday - in the end, everything always works out. Or it doesn't. Not much you can do about it usually.
I bought the A3 last week, which I didn't talk much about. In the end, the advice went overboard, and it was impossible to take any of it in. I know it's how things go, once you get past a certain point there's no right answer, as everyone will bring up salient points against anything you choose. I was close to buying a surfboard and taking that to work. But I figure it would get stolen in Newark.
When it came down to it, I talked to a good 10 people who own an Audi and the response rate was basically 100% in the "I love this f'ing car" camp. I found it to be somewhat similar to the Mac debate. Either you hate an Audi, or you own one. There was an exception, but that person owned it a long time ago, and it was a first year model. Everyone else who owns/owned one loves it. That was good enough for me. Plus I obviously loved the test drive. It was just another planet. I know this won't fit into Luke's world plan but he drives his wife around in a lawnmower so take that for what it's worth.
This week is a dud, in a way. Work after vacation is a drag, and this weekend is Julia's birthday weekend. Nat is going out Friday night to help some soup kitchen stuff. Then I'll have to wake up at Crap O'clock to ride, followed by who-knows-what chaos between then and the birthday party. Nat has this absurd idea that we're going to take Julia to a show as well as see her parents in addition to getting ready for the party, all by 2:00. What a joke. Party runs to 4:00. After that I will likely drink. I'm sure we have to do something after that.
Sunday is worse, as I have to ride in the dark, then be ready to go to the city by 9:30 or so with my folks to take Julia to the American Girl Doll store. Come home and then we go to her first peewee game, which will likely be a circus. Monday is her actual birthday. She turns 6. Sunday night I'll sniff glue.
Battenkill is Saturday and Rahway is Sunday. I'm not sad to miss BK but I would like to do Rahway. But then I can wish in 1 hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.
Have you been to the American girl doll store before?