Do your duty!!!!!!

Go vote for the Breck Epic Blogger Challenge. Send Dicky to Colorado!!!! Imagine the hilarity of his posts. The bad nutrition and hydration decisions..etc..etc..etc. Also..you should send Tomi and Lynda W. If for no other reason than to be like me. HA!!!!

Long Time Ago.....

Several months ago a friend of mine from the Air Force days told me about a website called KC-10.net. It's a website dedicated to the Airplane I spent my time working on. Well, I mostly worked in the snack bar, but in theory, I worked on the KC-10. Anyway, last night I was puttering around on the site and came across a pics thread in the forums. I started looking through them and was having a good time recognizing old faces and such when I came across an entry with some scanned pics. It was by my friend Eric Schrefler. He said they were pics of some guys we hung with and other folks he didn't remember. Then I saw him mention the names Opie and Mosh. For the 3 years I was stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force base in beautiful Goldsboro, NC I went by the name Opie. I'm sure it was my boyish good looks that earned me this. One of the other guys I hung out with a lot was Jim Massey aka Mosh. Lo and behold there was a pic of the 2 of us. I don't remember exactly when the pic was took but judging by my stylish Poison tour shirt I'm guessing it was either 88 or 89. I even had a lot more hair.


In the it's a small world category...Mosh was from Youngstown, Ohio. Which I believe is pretty close to Team Dicky's old stomping grounds. He lives in Warren, Ohio now and I have no idea if that's near TD's old stomping grounds or not. Always sort of weird seeing these kind of old pics.

Hope everybody is having a great week and reaping the benefits of this super warm weather.

some new stuff...sorta

For the most part I've got nothing new to talk about. No new bike toys. Work is the same old,same old. Other than dreariness and rain the weather has been good, but I'm afraid if I brag about that Brian may hunt me down. ;-)

One new thing I'm trying is a total revamp of the diet. I have a pretty bad one. I work in the restaurant business and I'm pretty bad about "grazing" all day. Usually not the healthiest stuff either. Anyway, Namrita O'Dea was awesome and did a nutrition assesment for me. I highly recomend her to anybody who might want to do something like this. One thing she said that suprised me was despite my grazing all day I wasn't always taking in enough calories. This suprised me. I figured I was taking in way to much. Also, I needed to eat breakfast and not just consume coffee in the morning. OK, I knew this but it still helped having somebody else say it. I've been trying to eat more high quality calories and I've been doing pretty well for breakfast. Usually only cereal but baby steps. I'm usually not at all interested in shoving food down my throat when I wake up whether I'm hungry or not. I've been better about eating some nuts and fruits. Plus I've been eating a mid-day salad at work on most days. If it's to busy to eat I sip a bottle of Hammer Perpetuem for a "meal". It's not optimal but it keeps the fuel coming in. I've been having more energy and feeling better so it's definitely helping. Next thing to work on is cutting down on sweets and fatty foods. This is gonna be the diffucult one.

Thanks Nam!!!

it's the simple things

I call this one "Sunbeam Happiness"

promises,promises

I'm promised a bunch of snow by the weatherperson and all I get is this little dusting. Hell, you can still see the grass. Looks like my day goes on as usual.

It's back.

The music is back. I got bored and started playing around with the blog and added the playlist once again. Added some more songs(Iron Maiden has way to many cool tunes) and we're back in business.

It seems winter has decided to once again grace WNC with it's presence. It's been a pretty cold week and the morning commute to work has been a blast. Still way worth it though. It's scary how much better my mood is at work when I ride.

Hope everybody has a great week. I have to go say my prayers and whatever else the Gods need me to do to assure the Pisgah Stage Race happens and that I can afford it.

Later yall.

here we go

First "race" is right around the corner. 6 Hours of Warrior Creek. It's a new race on new trail. What more can you ask for? Not much as far as I'm concerned. Yesterday was a joy of a workout. I had about 2 hours between jobs so I hopped on the trainer for about 45 minutes. Did a few sets of 1 minute on/1 minute off puke in your mouth intervals. An integral part of my highly unscientific training plan.

Any of you guys watch the Travel Channels Man Vs. Food? The basis of the show is this guy goes to different cities and tries out different restaurants. The finale is always him attempting a local food challenge. This past week he was in Atlanta doing something called the Carnivore Challenge. He and a partner had 1 hour to eat a 30 inch pizza that weighed 11 pds. 11 FREAKING PDS!!!!!!
5 pds of that was meat!!!!!

So anybody near Atlanta wanna give it a shot? ;-) I'm kidding!!! Mostly.

Hope everybody has agreat weekend. Later folks.

YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!!

Check out http://blueridgeadventures.net.

A PROPOSED Pisgah Mountainbike Stage Race???????

Happy day, happy day!!!!!!!

That fresh, minty feeling....

..of a new year. Full of new possibilities. Such as, actually losing that weight, or getting faster,or, well..I'm sure there are a bunch of other things also. Anyway, I'm going to start trying to use this blog to help myself be more accountable with this sort of thing. How so? Good question. I'm going to try and start posting my rides, wieght and stuff like that. Hopefully the urge to avoid interworld humiliation will help keep me on track. We'll see.

Hope everybody had a great weekend. Later folks.

HNY

Happy New Years everybody!!!!! Hope next year is even better!

3,2,1,....YAY!!!!!!

Only 3 days left in 08. Wow! The year has flown by. Another year of meeting and hanging out with great people, Riding(not as much as I wanted but very few do), the family, work and all the other little bits and pieces that make up what I call my life.

I have a few resolutions for next year. I won't go into them until the 1st. I'm hoping to start using this blog and the 3.5 people who read it to hold myself more accountable for them next year.

I hope everybody had a great year and will have an even better 09.

Later yall.

**&%$@@#@&*!!!!!

Yesterday was sunny, clear and about 67 degrees. A perfect day for a long bike ride.

What was I doing?

I'm glad you asked.

I had to work from 7:30 a.m. til 11:30 p.m.

Bah freaking humbug!!!!!!

The karma payback continues.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, all that stuff from the kids, Amanda, and myself.

The Artic South

A nightitme low of 10. A daytime high in the 30's. Sigh. Seems like winter is here. I'm pretty sure this a karma bitchslap for taunting Brian and Danielle.

Sorry guys.

I'm also sure they are laughing at me and calling me a puss for whining about this. Eh..what can I say..they're tougher than me.

Hope everybody had a great weekend and got all their X-Mas shopping done.

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Has anybody who might read this drivel ever done the Snake Creek Gap TT? If so, what would I be getting myself into if I signed up?

It's another lovely Monday morning. Raining. Bleh!!!!

I think I need to try out St. Johns wort. My mood seems to be heading more and more southward.

Hope everybody had a great weekend. Later yall.

Still alive...mostly

Yup. It's been awhile. I've had my annual beginning of winter illness, which this year managed to hit on T-giving day. For a guy that really likes to eat that's not a good day to be ill.

Not a whole lot else has been going on. Here's a short run thru....

Work-Slower than usual for this time of the year. With the economy circling the toilet people are not out spending moola.

Riding-Not as much as I'd like. I'm also going through my annual winter blahs. This is pretty normal and I'm used to losing enthusiasm for pretty much anything at this time of year. Anybody who has advice on how to beat this feel free to let me know.

Assorted other notes-I admit it. I'm a huge GnR fan and I bought the new GnR(Axl solo project) album the day it came out. Now...I'll admit. I didn't hold out high hopes but I had to hear. The verdict? Actually..pretty decent. I've read some reviews comparing it to Appetite for Destruction but those people are obviously insane and should be locked up before they hurt themselves or others. It's not bad but is nowhere near as good as that.

Hope everybody is having fun and such. Later folks.

So. I get this Perfect Pushup thingy I keep seeing on TV and hearing about from people. I'm thinking it can't be all that. It's just a gimmick. Wal-mart has a set for 199.99 though so I figure why not? Let me tell you people..this thing makes push ups even harder. The twisting action forces you to use muscles I had no idea push ups even engaged. OUCH!!!! I'm not enjoying the process of raising my arms above my head today. Sheesh, I'm getting old.

It's Obama

Well, I guess now we get to listen to the Republicans bitch for a recount. HA! I think Obama won by a large enough margin that there is no doubt. I don't know if my life is going to be any different with him in office, but I do think that by electing an African-American President that it shows the good old US of A has taken some major steps forward.

Hopefully politics will never have to be mentioned here again.

To celebrate this historic milestone I think I'll go on a ride. Later folks.

WOOHOO......

10 beautiful days off. Vacation is a lovely thing. Going to do Oktoberfest this weekend and then flying down to Mississippi to visit family. Hope everybody is doing well and riding lots. Later folks.

obla dee, obla dah....

...life just keeps going on. I can't believe how fast the year is going by.There's only 2.5 weeks left til the next and last race forthe year. Well the last MTB race of the year anyway. I might try a few CX races this year. WHich means that I need to head out and attempt to develop some mounting/dismounting skills. Bleh. Or, I could just go out and "wing it". That sounds like more fun but much more potential embarassment. Ah well.

Everything else is going pretty well. My second job(Bonefish) helped cater a charity wine tasting last night. We were told to prepare for 350 people. So of course that means that only 150 people showed. The downside..was kind of slow and boring. The upside.....lots of leftover food. All the caterers went around trading food and such. I ended up with a good bit of salmon and several canolis. :-D The 2 girls that went with us to help serve food ended up with a box of wine each. It was definitely a good night. The only downside. I missed the GWAR show. ;-)

Hope everybody had a good weekend. Later folks.