Thought Sausage

I'm laying here after the coaches sprung an unforseen 30 minute time trial on me today. Had I known that was on tap for tonight, I would have backed off eating a footlong meatball sub for lunch (yeah I splurged on the calories a bit, sue me). Suffice to say, side cramps were abound during that excursion and I've once again amazed myself at how many times I can lose the will to live within the span of a half hour. But as the man says, them donuts got made and your hero whacked off 2350 yards (yes to the swim folk I realize that's a ghastly slow pace, but well, go fuck yourself, I wasn't "on the ball" today).

I'm wondering if the constants of the universe read my blog, because after bitching about the weather last week, we got paid back in spades the last few days. Rumor has it we eclipsed 70 today! Needless to say, Bertha and I had a nice ride to and from practice today. I'm getting to where I might, dare I say it, enjoy these rides (by enjoy I mean coast along without obscenely cold wind whipping across my face).

Meanwhile, I know I've been laxed on the Spokeeasy website. It appears somehow everything got broke, and amidst all that Travis changed the password. He told me what the new one is but I forgot to throw it in Dreamweaver, so unless he pops online in the next hour or so, that placeholder is all you get. The good news is there actually IS a blog on that thing now. It doesn't look like the rest of the site which is somewhat problematic, but, well, the functionality is there.

Other projects to be undertaken in the near future:

1. Wine -will procure the implements for this during my trip to Dominicks tomorrow. Yes I am going to start making my own wine. No I don't know what I'm doing. No my definition of wine isn't "vodka with some grape juice in it" (thank you very much Roly) and yes, you can have a bottle if it turns out good. But that's a pretty big "if" at this juncture.

2. Weights -Well I managed to trim off about 30 pounds of shitty weight. But with the cycling season upon us, it's time to start building the 'ol trunk up. You'd think I'd target legs/back, but actually, it's my abs and shoulders that probably need the most toning up. Unfortunately this will have to take place before I go to work, which means i'll be getting up at preposterous hours of the morning (although not too preposterous...the gym in my building is adequate for my needs so the commute consists of an elevator ride).

3. Launch Spokeeasy site -Turns out people actually have been emailing the addresses Ian had on the site, so that means somehow people are coming across our little neck of the web woods. Yes I'm totally late on this, but it's not my fault I swear. Blame the new PHP release

4. Become a total knowledge base for video search -The more I learn about this the more I'm learning how much I don't know. In short, nobody knows what the fuck is going on and I've never seen so many complicated factors go into such a simple fucking concept. You have a video, you want people to see it, MAKE A VIDEO PEOPLE WANT TO SEE AND PUT IT WHERE THEY LOOK FOR IT. Can you believe that has everybody in my industry completely flabbergasted? Yeah, it's not that simple...couldn't be.

5. Pimp out the mountain bike. Yeah this one. It's not the urban yuppie douchebag machine you see there anymore. Gone are all the city implments, and in their place, full off roading components are being added. My goal is to have this completed by April in time for riding. Of course, to make this work, I'll need to actually buy that car rack (the Dero I babbled about). I did find out how to mount one of the really cool welded ones, but well, fuck it, I don't care anymore.