Thought Sausage

Goddamn long weekends. Since we're agency folks at RM, I haven't been in the office since Thursday. I've spent the free time cycling and partying (mostly blended together). Good things came of it I suppose. The weather cooperated this weekend too, which is good.

Thursday night I took in Stone Temple Pilots over at Northerly Island (courtesy of Dave Weiland). I've never been to Northerly Island...cool outdoor venue. Sound was pretty balanced. Had that kick-ridiculously-louder-than-the-rest-of-the-kit sound you get in ampitheaters. They had some guitar troubles early on which Scott Weiland covered by throwing out generic cliche phrases at us. But when they DID get it together, the guitars sounded awesome. One of the finer live tones throughout the whole set I've ever heard. Other than that, the show was basically a romp through 90's radio hits. Travis disagrees with me on this, but ultimately, I think Weiland's voice was pretty solid.

Friday we went out for a 60 miler and I took the orange beast out. 3 fucking flats later (three!) it was an alright ride. Morton Grove has to be the lamest boring-est town in the state. That was the first and last time I attempt to find a beer garden there. Not planning on that many flats, I was out of tubes (d'oh). I haven't looked to see if my rim is bent out of shape yet, but I had to ride a few miles on the rim. FUCK squared. Matters weren't helped when we happened by a bike shop that actually had employees in it, but was closed. I knocked on the door (figuring this was an emergency a bike shop interested in supporting the community would rally behind). The bitch working there actually opened the door and said "No I can't sell you a tube"...even after I offered 20 bucks (which is ridiculous) as I was a bit of a jam. Still "No sorry" (slam door). I'll go ahead and write a bitch out email to 'em and post here. But suffice to say, Turin in Evanston can go ahead and choke on my left nut.

Went to Travis's party that night and debuted my super cool new card trick. His new Edgewater-ish pad is the shiznit. Lots of space. Much to his dismay, I'm sure I'll hub out of it this summer when I'm way the hell up north (as he here in Drew and my West Loop outpost). All I know is that I didn't make it home that night...woke up on his couch the next morning. Spent the day not really doing much of anything until later on. I procured a bike trailer...one of those things you tow your kids in. Rather than tow kids, we're having speakers shipped in and this is gonna be a massive sound machine. Some loose ends to sort out in the actual implementation but that's what the irish guys are for.

Diran 'n work peeps had a party saturday night and so I took that in, then I met up with irish guys and slaughtered the rest of the night. Weeeeeeeee

Took Monica mountain biking on saturday and brought her to within an inch of her life it seemed. Good day for it though. Cambr is getting pissy about people riding when the trails are wet. But fuck 'em. I'm definitely more aware of how my cycling habits can ruin things for other riders, and I'm probably going to treat the trails with more care than I did last year. But if I only went out when the trails were totally dry, I'd get a grand total of maybe 3 days of mountain biking in per year. That may work for some folks but not me.

BBQ/memorial day shite at friends house Sunday night that spilled into Monday morning. On the cab ride home I left my fucking phone. However, in what has to be the luckiest phenomenon ever, a lady who was in the cab after me held onto it and I got it back. WOW fucking squared (I was literally about to head to the store and buy an iphone too).

Saw Indiana Jones tonight too. Was actually alright. Harrison Ford definitely shows his age, but has all the energy of the old indiana jones movies. Worth the price of admission? Totally...especially if you are like me and saw the originals in the theater.

My main computer's motherboard seems to have gasped its last breath, so I gotta get that in to be replaced (and/or make James fix it). I'm debating whether or not to fix it or just get a new one. Maybe I'll finally make the switch to macs now (NO!!!!!!!!!!!)

I spend too much fucking money