Sorry all, I suck at updating this. The problem is, unless you want to hear about cycling or work, I really don’t have much to say – I’m boring.
So weather people on TV in this town are bad. I know the weather is hard, but when you have thousands of dollars in computers that create these elaborate data sets used to predict the weather, I would think you can do a little better than this… This is a weather timeline of the last 12 hours:
-6pm: It’s become cloudy and colder
-615pm: Weather man says there is a “chance of flurries tonight with no accumulation expected.”
-630pm: Feels like it’s going to snow, no snow actually falling.
-845pm: Snow has fallen; SIX INCHES OF SNOW HAS FALLEN.
How can you blunder it that bad? I went out and drove to Denver last night, which, to their credit, it was not accumulating more than a half inch or so in Denver, but there was 6 inches on the roads at my house and driving was EXTREME. The road surface went from pavement, to water, to slush, to several inches of snow – yea, sketch.
Thanksgiving was ok. I worked which I don’t mind much and we actually stayed pretty busy all day which makes time fly. Throw that in with free Starbucks (at a different location no less) and free dinner it was a pretty good day.
I want to get a job on the orange helicopter, but I don’t have time right now, it’s a conundrum I’m dealing with.
I think I will join the team for a social bike ride tomorrow morning.
Lindsay comes home today, but I’m working, so I’ll see her tomorrow, that’s good – said with a czeck accent for those of you who know…
Yep, that’s pretty much what’s going on, exciting stuff I know. Maybe I’ll have more in the next couple days…
Nov 29, 2008
Nov 5, 2008
Man, yesterday was great huh! I mean, Obama cleaning house, democrats taking huge majority in house and senate… Hopefully this will be the beginning of a new, New Deal sort of era where we can all work together and bring this country back to where it should be. I must admit, Obama really, REALLY knows how to inspire, but inspire not just in an idealist sense but in a very real and tangible one. Watching him speak, you really get drawn in to his passion for this country and getting it right. I’m not at all one to swoon over newly elected leaders (or leaders at all for that matter) but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t tear up at least a couple times watching him speak and acknowledge the crowd of a quarter million in that park last night. Anyone who questions his patriotism after that is a fool. You have to be a black hearted cynic to not have felt even the slightest bit of hope watching him up there. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/05/sot.obama.entire.cnn
Unfortunately my night of hope and good feelings ended shortly after that speech. It snowed a bit last night which turned I-70 into a sheet of ice which is never good when you’re trying to get a good night’s sleep. I totally jinxed it the other day when I was talking up how good it’s been to get paid to sleep like 10 hours every night for the last month or more for we were up all night. Shit. And of course, I actually had stuff to do today.
Nov 3, 2008
Here we are again on what is shaping up to be the eve of history. Cliché, yes. As I said 4 years ago, we chose a president who lead us into times unprecedented in the last two generations. You don’t need to read here that we are in the worst of times since 1930 in terms of economic prosperity, national defense/safety and world respect. We are finding out what an imperialistic attitude towards life in this global world is like, and what most of the world is doing, is laughing. We have lost our ways as a true superpower, be that for better or worse.
That can all change here in a mere 24 hours.
If the people of this country have truly been educated enough to understand what is at stake here, we will most certainly see a change for the better. Make no mistake that it may take decades to undo the last 8 years of damage, but with a new direction in leadership, that repair is on the way. If not, you will see this country continue to darken as morale lowers even more, along with our economy and standing in the world. I sure hope we get it right for the first time in 8 years…
That can all change here in a mere 24 hours.
If the people of this country have truly been educated enough to understand what is at stake here, we will most certainly see a change for the better. Make no mistake that it may take decades to undo the last 8 years of damage, but with a new direction in leadership, that repair is on the way. If not, you will see this country continue to darken as morale lowers even more, along with our economy and standing in the world. I sure hope we get it right for the first time in 8 years…
Nov 2, 2008
Another boring day at work here, which hopefully continues to be the trend though the night. Not to put a jinx on it, but I’ve run only one single call after 10pm all month, which means I’ve been getting some damn good sleepy time it. I almost sleep better here at work then I do at home – but here I’m getting paid for it! Soon enough my luck will change and it will all even out, but for now it’s a pretty sweet gig.
Yesterday I rode with the team and we had a huge turnout, pretty much our whole race team showed up because the weather was so nice – almost 80 degrees the first of November?! It was because of that weather that had most other bicycle owning people in Boulder County to do the same thing, and depart from essentially the same place in town which made for some seriously sketch moments on the highway out of town. We passed a big group of triathletes, the weekend warrior types, then a smaller women’s team along the way. Not to be a hater, but triathletes don’t generally race bikes in a group, so their handling skills when others are around (like when being passed on a busy street) aren’t the best, and the women were clearly beginners because they would make these random gestures as if there was road hazards hen there weren’t any, and they would NOT ride faster then about 19mph even on the straight downhills, they’d just ride the brakes and refused to ride single file giving us enough room to pass. Throw in a 2x4 in the middle of the road that about 50 people behind us hit, a loose water bottle, and dumb ass hicks driving pick-ups who would rather pass you at 70 leaving 6 inches between you and certain death than move over an extra couple feet and you have a damn interesting morning. It was by far the closest I’ve come to crashing into someone in a long time.
I’ve been slowly ramping up the training the last weeks or so and it’s been great. We rode up in Vail because it was so warm everywhere this week. I ended up going a tad too hard that day but it was a solid 4 hours in the mountains. I did the same thing the next day but in the hills and canyons outside of Golden. Turns out I’ve been getting a little too excited with all the nice weather and I’ve been going TOO hard… Eric told me to “have fun but get some work in” while riding in the mountains and turns out my definition of “fun work” is really hard work. It’s too early in the season to go hard, at least not with any regularity. There will be plenty of time for that in a few more weeks but I should be saving my motivation for when it’s 15 and snowing and I have to either endure the cold, or suffer on the trainer inside.
Speaking of motivation, I have not at all been motivated for winter. A-Basin and Loveland have bother been open for a few weeks now, all manmade snow of course, and I’ve considered going, but when it comes down to it, I can’t make myself go. I have tuned up a couple of my skis so I guess I’m ready anytime, just have to get up and go…
Ah, thank god for that extra hour of sleep last night.
I’m turning into an old man, I’m ready for bed and it’s not even 8 yet… Super lame. Lindsay’s in Paris all this week, even more lame. I’ve never been, but will go when I win Le Tour in 2013. Yep.
I want to go camping.
Yesterday I rode with the team and we had a huge turnout, pretty much our whole race team showed up because the weather was so nice – almost 80 degrees the first of November?! It was because of that weather that had most other bicycle owning people in Boulder County to do the same thing, and depart from essentially the same place in town which made for some seriously sketch moments on the highway out of town. We passed a big group of triathletes, the weekend warrior types, then a smaller women’s team along the way. Not to be a hater, but triathletes don’t generally race bikes in a group, so their handling skills when others are around (like when being passed on a busy street) aren’t the best, and the women were clearly beginners because they would make these random gestures as if there was road hazards hen there weren’t any, and they would NOT ride faster then about 19mph even on the straight downhills, they’d just ride the brakes and refused to ride single file giving us enough room to pass. Throw in a 2x4 in the middle of the road that about 50 people behind us hit, a loose water bottle, and dumb ass hicks driving pick-ups who would rather pass you at 70 leaving 6 inches between you and certain death than move over an extra couple feet and you have a damn interesting morning. It was by far the closest I’ve come to crashing into someone in a long time.
I’ve been slowly ramping up the training the last weeks or so and it’s been great. We rode up in Vail because it was so warm everywhere this week. I ended up going a tad too hard that day but it was a solid 4 hours in the mountains. I did the same thing the next day but in the hills and canyons outside of Golden. Turns out I’ve been getting a little too excited with all the nice weather and I’ve been going TOO hard… Eric told me to “have fun but get some work in” while riding in the mountains and turns out my definition of “fun work” is really hard work. It’s too early in the season to go hard, at least not with any regularity. There will be plenty of time for that in a few more weeks but I should be saving my motivation for when it’s 15 and snowing and I have to either endure the cold, or suffer on the trainer inside.
Speaking of motivation, I have not at all been motivated for winter. A-Basin and Loveland have bother been open for a few weeks now, all manmade snow of course, and I’ve considered going, but when it comes down to it, I can’t make myself go. I have tuned up a couple of my skis so I guess I’m ready anytime, just have to get up and go…
Ah, thank god for that extra hour of sleep last night.
I’m turning into an old man, I’m ready for bed and it’s not even 8 yet… Super lame. Lindsay’s in Paris all this week, even more lame. I’ve never been, but will go when I win Le Tour in 2013. Yep.
I want to go camping.
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