It's the best time of the year.
Yes, Thanksgiving is over and we can finally enjoy listening to Christmas music. And Alois has posted. He had two posts up on the front page at the same time. Now I have to get my wife to post more in Japanese. Over 500 hits in the last six months.
It has been awhile since I posted but I have been sick (paralleling Rush Limbaugh's illness). Felt something coming on well before Thanksgiving but it didn't hit till after. Maybe it was sitting out in the cold when we got a flat in the middle of the night and the spare tire release mechanism was frozen in rust. We had to wait for a tow and then it took me a good part of the next day to get the spare out. And then the radiator started spewing fluid, and then the alternator went out. (I had to walk to the repair shop over a mile deathly ill to pick up the car but the part they put in was defective and I had to walk back home [uphill both ways]) Then I got two new tires and realized I should have gotten four, but after stopping the car from going into a complete spin I straightened it out before we drifted clean off the road (I94). And then the furnace broke down on one of the coldest nights of the year. Things just can't get any....
I'll get back to you on that.
Or maybe it was the haircut that made me catch this awful sickness. I could blame my wife, but it was my own decision. The problem with going for that barbarian warrior look is the very real possibility of being mistaken for a hippie. And with the Winter weight gain almost guaranteed I wasn't expecting to look too ripped. The main reason though being a job interview. With the major Architectural firms all laying people off I put in several applications for some seasonal sales work. Got one interview and no job offer. We went to my barber, but being opening day they were all out hunting. It was closed.
Ended up somewhere, and the hair stylist kept asking; "Are you sure you want to cut off all this nice hair?" (not really)
Needless to say it has been a long while since I've made it to the gym or done any riding. Walks and shoveling snow (like shoveling water) has been my only exercise. But my illness kept away the traditional after Thanksgiving jump in my weight. Not to mention my wife giving away the entire double batch of rice pudding I had made for Thanksgiving at my brother's house.
And being sick I missed 'Emery's' after Thanksgiving Day sale. When I got their e-mail I called and asked how much the CycleOps Fluid 2 was going for. They had it $24 under any price I had seen previously on the Internet.
Cyclocross has seemingly come to an end. Whether Madison, New England or Europe it has an almost fanatic following. If only I could afford a Cyclocross setup. Or even an appropriate road bike for racing. I'll be lucky if I can get a trainer for the Winter months. Will try to shift more of my racing to Saturdays and the local road races may be an alternative. Why? Being USA Cycling events, as are WORS events (and Cyclocross), they are covered by the supplemental insurance (actually they have three different companies offering policies) that USA Cycling membership provides. WEMS events are not USA Cycling events, though I may make a couple local WEMS races, I don't think I'll being driving far to race challenging courses I am unfamiliar with. I'm quite sure I'll make at least seven WORS races though.
I missed the monthly MTB club meeting last night. Road conditions were too dangerous. Still no pictures... Sorry. Maybe I'll get a camera for Christmas.
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