BIKE FORUMS IS BACK UP! Life is good...

Had a good commute the past couple days, generally have been taking the short route in and home...my big ride is next week! I actually leave for it Friday. Should be a FREAKIN BLAST!

My wife is the best ever. My birthday is Today, and we had a party this past weekend. She had her mother get me a new pair of my favorite bib shorts for the ride, and then she got me an AWSOME Sony cybershot 7.2 megapixal camera. I'll have new pictures of my bike, and commutes coming soon! And of COURSE awesome pictures of Colorado from my tour when I get back!

I had been talking about buying a case of power bars for my trip, and she was like "ah, forget that, I'll bake you some" "huh what?" yea, I was reading some recipes for energy bars, I'll make you some (my wife is an awesome baker). So...I got two different kinds, one has chocolate chips, dried cranberry, walnuts, and apricots in it, and the other...OH BOY!! has peanut butter, honey, sesame seeds, raisins, and some other stuff...AND THEN! It’s dipped in confectioners chocolate (won't melt as easy as regular chocolate) THOSE ARE FREAKIN BAD ASS!

Anyway, she's just been totally awesome about this entire bicycle trip, from encouraging me to go, allowing me time to train, paying for it! And now all this latest stuff....I'm just lucky I guess!