Monday, September 29, 2008

School is a waste

School should just be a series of internships, real world experiences set up through your "university." This would be a much better use of time rather than classes that are set up for the least common denominator of student. More and more classes seem to have less and less to do with actual business practices. I was under the impression that the education you would receive would be knowledge that would help you land a job. I don't know maybe a class or two about what you can do with your degree and what areas of work to enter after school.
I know that there are placement programs and other such offices at school but they just reccomend that you go to the insurance companies and sell insurance, F-that. Why should this be an extra-curricular activity on top of all the crap that must be done. I figured this would be a package deal with the ridiculous sums of money that are being forked over every semester.
Perhaps this little baby rant that I've just written will be enough bitching for the evening that I can go back to writing this paper and concentrate until its done.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Also likes seeing 77 finishers out of 205 starters in the world road race champs

Ballan WC

I don't really know much about Ballan other than he won Flanders a year ago, but I think its cool when the underdog wins. Being that he was on arguably the strongest team in the race, he was supposed to be a helper so Bettini could have another world title laid at his feet. Something about when the unexpected wins that makes things more interesting. I am a huge fan of Lance, but after the third or fourth win it was somewhat expected that he would win, yeah it was still cool when he won but nevertheless pretty boring. I expected to wake up this morning and see Bettini, Valverde, Friere, or maybe Boonen has won, Ballan winning meant the race report would actually be interesting. Not to mention, how bout Bruseghin pulling for 8 laps to single-handedly bring back the break from more than 17 min out. Thats a tough bitch. Almost as tough as Keith.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

WTF

I found this on Dave Zabriskie's picture roll, he says its his favorite. Now I've been looking at this thing for a few minutes now and can't exactly figure out what it is, other than the most overthought bike I've ever seen - tight.

ODU football

The ODU football blue / white scrimmage is today at six. What's cool/not so cool about this is that it is four now and already filled up, way to go ODU on being ready. It woulda been cool to have that somewhere where all the people who want to watch can, instead of the gayass highschool stadium that'll fit 1/10th of the senior class. This has been hyped up for the last four years that ODU is gonna have a football team, anytime someone in the football program here farts its front page coverage on any media outlet in the area, ODU sailors place two in top three at nationals, back page four lines of coverage. Bobby wilder names his 777th recruit and its front page above the fold. So with all this coverage do you think that this would be a well attended event, abso-frickin-lutely. My take on the ODU football program so far, grade F.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Interbike, what I'm missing


I had plans to go out to interbike this year with J-dub and check out Vegas, but plans were derailed due to many factors. I now realize that I should have found a way to get out there even though I have six tests this week. This is because your friend and mine Smelliot sent me a pic of him and this 10 next to him.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Band-aids suck

So, let it be known that shaving your legs does in fact make a large difference in healing time when involve in road rash related incidents. It reduces the actual injury as well as healing since there is no hair to interfere with the process or get stuck in the scab, not to mention that bandaids stick to hairless legs a billion times better than legs like that of say, I dunno who fits here best, oh yeah that would be g-lover. HOWEVER, it still hurts like a bitch when you pull a band-aid off hair or not.

Monday, September 22, 2008

So, um crashing is not cool.

Just did the monday night ride out of east coast and found the pavement, that sucked. Everyone was nice enough to stop and check the kid out, ensuring that my face indeed (the moneymaker) was ok. Also thanks to mike the guy who was kind enough to ride back with me and make sure I made it. Future reference to those who may not know, when stopping you cannot be loud enough in stating that you are in fact stopping. Its a good peice of information to have when riding close to someones wheel.
JW I would post pics but once again I don't have a camera, as well now that I've washed myself the wounds don't look as hardcore.

Friday, September 19, 2008

End of Summer shenanigan

This was shortly before I blew up spectacularly, twice. End of summer crit was cool, kinda crap course but there are worse out there and I was stoked to race somewhere else other that the ring of hell at the sportsplex. I should probably quit working at the shop so I could actually ride my bike, then maybe I could do well in a race. If only our crits included an hors category climb I'd probably be more likely to get a W. Goal next year, don't be a bitch.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Word up to the Rat

all I can say is check out buckles blog milesofseparation.blogspot.com for details on the rat press conference, too funny.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Here, Pics, you happy!!


Due to me being a cheapass, i have not bought a camera and the one on my phone works about as well as bender with a hernia. Thats right guy, I went there but I bought heroes season 2 so its cool.
This pic is one my pops took down at crossroads; that was an awesome series, too bad I had class and couldn't stay the whole week. I raced three days and had two top fives so I was pretty pleased.

Monday, September 15, 2008

ineptitude testing my patience

It blows my mind how some people get into college and make it past first semester. Today in financial managment class was one of those times. Part of what frustrates me about college is that we are supposed to be more knowledgable on a subject than the average person such that the instructor can teach everyone revolutionary ideas that the understanding of will require critical thinking. Now it pains me to think that these classes are being paid for when some asshole is holding up the other 25 people in the class from being productive because they do not grasp the concepts developed in basic mathematics. Not algebra or trig (god forbid the calculus to come later in the class), but such topics as the identity property and simple multiplication. Now would that have been long division I would have been more tolerant since long division is some tough stuff. I hope this person either drops the class or figures some stuff out quickly because I don't know if I can sit through another one of those classes much longer.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Lesson Learned

Don't think drinking leads to great fitness, it doesn't. Explanation to come after I leave the pain cave, get my head out of my ass, and then go ride my bike.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

End of an Era.





Some may know that sailing has been a part of my life since I was a little fat kid. I started sailing at age four with my dad. It was awesome, just kickin it with dad on the boat enjoying the day while probably winning due to what I know now to be no part of my own. Since then I have grown up and we have moved onto bigger and better boats, progressing nationally into a contender for the championships. While we never won a national championship, we came close finishing second many times and top five in too many to count.
I moved on from catamarans to dinghy boats when I came to college and developed into a pretty good sailor after a few years of getting my ass handed to me, but my college career ended last semester as riding got in the way and in general I lost interest in sailing at that level.
This weekend was the last time that I get to sail competitively, it was just that time that we decided to sell the boat as our oppurtunities to sail grew slimmer and slimmer, while also having to travel farther and farther away. The amount of fun that can be had on the boat we sail is tremendous, the potential for speed and the "on the edge" feeling provided by the boat is like no other. But having to travel long distances to sail against fewer and fewer people takes its toll. Dad and I came to the conclusion that it was time to hang up the spurs after 17 years of sailing together.
The weekend was great as we won four of five races to take the overall; but pretty sad at the same time since we had to say goodbye to many people that I have known since I was a kid and have been a large part of my life. I will miss them.


addendum

there will be no Trek madone in my stable, I was told to wait two months before it shipped and it would only ship if they had any left? This guy is not cool with that so I guess thats a few less g's im spendin this year

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The kids back

I wouldn't really call sunday's ride a reentry to riding from my 3 week hiatus since it was 5 hours of ridiculousness with a few batshit crazy kids, so today's three hours will be ride one. Pretty happy about it, got to see some vanity liscence plates that made no sense and got yelled at by some pretty awesome dudes for being in their way...whatever, thats riding in hampton roads. I acted like a real joker as well by forgetting to bring any food or money so that after two hours when my stomach was about to turn inside out I had no ability to eat, sweet life. Anyways time to clean the ride, its lookin kinda rough right now and elliott knows this kid can't be having that.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Ships Sept 22

The new Madone is hot, bottom line. Mine will be here three days after Sept 22, I'm not good at math so you figure out when that is. This hot little thing is the 6.9 PRO, pick yours up at East Coast Bikes.

Superman dat ho!


So I get a call a couple days ago from Tkarnes saying get off your ass and come ride at the beach with the kids. After much complaining about having to ride at 8 AM in pungo I obliged and drove out there for 5 awesome hours of the slowest ride I have ever done. Which was fine by me, three weeks of beering and sitting on my ass have relegated me back to cat 5 status.
Long story short this was the well worth the drive as I got to kick it with the kids and their extraordinarily overexaggerated stories, this snapping turtle that was a tougher bitch than Jeff Brandon in the field sprint, and watch smelliot craddock pull off this legit superman move. enjoy