the zoltani "Ron Brau" is pretty great IMO

Today my cranks got delivered. Threw 'em on just now, along with a new KMC K710 SL... looks damn fine, shiny. This officially makes my bike ride-able. Now I can see if my bolt on dropout conversion catastrophically fails. doubt it will. WOOT

today I did CM on the leader townie. wow it's been so long since I've done a freewheel more than around the neighborhood. 48x16 and I barely had to pedal, even with a rack full of stuff (portable ipod dock of course) and whatnot. makes me really appreciate what riding fixed has done for my endurance. also, looking forward to going downhill was a definite change in mindset. weeee

Today I:

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I had to ride 6 miles to the post office to pick them up after my 40 mile ride cuz USPS fails.

Riding single is so weird now and I've only been riding fixed for maybe 3 months. But I love going downhill unless I have to stop at the bottom. That sucks.

Speaking of CM, while riding to meet my wife, I came across the tail end of the one in L.A. tonight in downtown. I hear this guy and his buddy going back and forth with one of the motorcycle cops who is blocking the intersection for the cyclists and the dialogue was something like this:

Cop: What do you want me to do? They're biking. It's legal.
Guy: WTF do I want you to do? Haha, shoot them! Shoot them all!
Cop shakes his head, starts to ignore him.
Guy starts talking to his buddy: What do I want him to do? Ha! Bunch of Mexicans riding bikes, I don't care! Shoot them all!

I was kind of tempted to say something, but I thought to myself, if I saw a pig rolling around in crap by himself, which is what I equated this guy to (except that's insulting to pigs), I wouldn't ask the pig if I could join him. I'm no Dalai Lama, but the ignorance of this guy was astounding.

That really is the epitome of ignorance. The cop has no where NEAR enough bullets...

today, before a long semester of mathematical hurt, I'm drunker than I've ever been.

look out world, I'm here

Oh yea, today I got yelled at and chased by a couple in an SUV for not stopping at a red light during a protected turn signal when I CLEARLY stopped, got off my bike, waited for turning traffic to stop before going. I blew the second stop light just to get away from them.

Probably not a good idea to blow stop lights, but oh well.

Have you ever heard of FIDLAR?

Wut.

It means, f#ck it dawg, life's a risk.

Stupid, but funny. A good explanation for me running lights as well.

Today (well last night) I got a S&W model 442 for my birthday :D

Last night I went out for a friend's birthday. It was a good night involving some cyclists/cycling, but I didn't get to sleep until 7am, and I woke up still drunk at 930 to go running around for work. Fantastic. Plus some **** went down last night involving people knowing things they shouldn't, and now I have to figure out how to deal with it.

The only risks were getting caught by the police and being chased further by that crazy couple. There was virtually NO traffic. :/

Been wanting to get a gun for awhile now. A couple of my buddies like to go to the range every now and again.

I have that gun, pocket carry it every day! I love it until I get about 30 rounds in at the range and my hand feels like falling off. Enjoy, it's a great CC piece!

omg omg omg omg omg I got a fixie today! Or a frame, at least... Guy said it's an SE, not sure which model. I'm back!!

This is more like a last night I...but last night I deliver'd 2 little baby english bulldogs from my dog runt. There both healthy and doing great I was real nervous about the whole thing but everything's great! I know this isn't bike related but i'm a little excited and thought maybe some of you guys would be interested. http://i44.tinypic.com/fxazon.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/2nsca4o.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/149pjiu.jpg

I LOVE English bulldogs. This is certainly relevant to my interests. They are adorable.

Awsome, care to explain how the process happened?

That is exactly why I chose that one. Its (in my eyes) the perfect gun for CC but still will be fun at the range.

Today I lifted weights for an hour and I just realized that during tomorrow's ride my body is going to feel like sludge.

Made bread

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It's fun at the range for the first half of a box of ammo. Seriously around 30 rounds is a good time to call it a day.

am nursing a serious hangover while attempting to put out the Sunday paper without any stupid errors. Fortunately, greasy bean and cheese taco at the local Taco Palenque made the stomach settle down, but I've already had to drink 2 monsters and eat a stinger to feel functional.

On a side note, do not ever let your wife, girlfriend, or significant other tell you that you're almost positively only on 4-5 beers. I normally will stop after 5 no matter what...in this case I woke up, went to the fridge and was like "WTF! I was 10 beers to the wind last night..." Downside is that I wasn't any drunker than normal, just paying the fiddler a bigger due.

Today, got my new Zen 50t in the mail and my new 17t cog. Also got a new chain. Just finished putting it all on, and going for a ride. I will post a new picture of the pretty stuff later today!

I also cut my knuckles from slipping on the lockring. booo need one of those clamp lockring tools. :(

These things made you feel better?

I almost always feel worse if I drink any type of red bull/rock star/monster. That slimy feeling they leave in my mouth just doesn't feel right (pause, or twss).

Rode in a circle too many times:
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Sure man, I had 1 boy and 1 girl and I didn't think it was possible for them to mate naturally because the males chest is so pushed out but they proved me wrong. It was an unplanned pregnancy, so after about 61 days she started throwing up a lot 2 days ago. She threw everything in her body up, during the same time her body temp dropped from the norm 102.5 to 99 which means they were 24 hours away or less. 8 hours later she started panting very heavy that lasted about 8 hours until her first contractions during the heavy breathing. I fell asleep laying down with her and woke up at 4:25 am by 4:30 am it was out enough for me to help assist pulling out the sack. I clamped both sides of the cord and cut it then dipped it in povadone iaodine(sp). She continued having heavy contractions until the 2nd one came out at 4:55 and repeated the same process with the cord. I washed both of them out and suctioned there throats right after they came out. Now they've just been nuring and nessled into mommy for the past 9 hours. Both very healthy my dog name is runt so i'm sure you can guess that shes very small only 30 lbs and shes pure bread so I knew it wasn't going to be a big litter. I hope this is the process you were wondering about. She did 90% of the work I just assisted her.

finally got the new tubes and bar tape on the 725 and hit the rollers.

found the local hidden 'goomba' Italian barber shop and got a proper high and tight while watching a poker game and listening to three generations of Italian barbers talk about women/food/politics/sports.

now making Pollo Oreganata for dinner.