Cutting it close

I just printed off today the form I need to submit by the end of the year in order to race for Guy's Racing this next year. I've been in kind of a bind since moving because Verizon sucks. That's all I'm gonna say about that, I don't want to get all riled up. Anyway, suffice to say, we've moved and moved in, and we have no internet, so today I'm down at the library deleting my junk emails and killing some time. I am so glad I have no shopping to do today, it would just suck to have to be out today, especially around here.

Well, Garrett has come and gone, he dropped in Wed afternoon and we chilled til about 11 last night before he bounced to hang with brother Bradford out in West Chester. It was sweet to be able to kick back and catch up over a Leinie's Apple Spice Ale, which unfortunately is not sold here in PA, so he brought me a Christmas six-pack. Coates was able to hang for awhile, but he and Cath left last night for Maine. Holmes and wifey spent some great times in Iowa this week, (which I'm told stands for Idiots Out Walking Around). Rumor has it Fisher and Suz are in town and have cell phones, but that sounds a little far-fetched if you ask me, I think I'll have to see it to believe it. Apparently Pat had his Christmas presents imported from Italy and from PA, though I'm not to sure I can believe that either, cause that's 3rd or 4th hand information, which tends to be unreliable, but I don't have anything else to go off of either. Anyway, hope your Christmas isn't a debacle and don't drink too much of that SoCo Eggnog. Merry Christmas-

School's Out For Winter!

Well, sort of anyway. I have a class in four weeks that I have some pre-course work for, but I'm trying not to think about that. Our last class was today, a Christmas party of sorts mixed with our end of semester evaluation. I think the party is only there to offset the depression that accompanies the evaluation. Oh well, it's over now. I have some serious packing to do before we move, and some serious painting to get started on. I'd love to just go to town on the new apartment, but we have to paint everything back to off-white that we paint bright red before we move out, so I don't want to go overboard and have to repaint the whole place when we move out next time. With that said, I'm gonna grab a beer and some boxes go nuts.

A lazy sunday...

Yet again I am here, though I should be finishing up the last bit of homework that I have for the semester. Not a lot left to do, but just enough time left in the semester to procrastinate a little more. I spent the week since last post working, a rarity for me, though it was pretty sweet to be doing some good carpentry again for a little while. Also nice to know that there is an end in sight, as I am only building a closet. I went out Thursday night to watch a little band I know called Cedarwell(www.cedarwell.com), down at the General Lafayette Inn(www.generallafayetteinn.com), an awesome little pub/brewery where you can buy a mug that they'll hang at the bar for you and serve you your drinks in. It was a cool show, and good to kick back and hang out for a little while.

This next week looks pretty crazy, with the last day of classes and homework tomorrow, packing up to move all the way across the parking lot starting as soon as we're packed, not to mention things like painting the new place, and setting everything up again. Thankfully we at least have some colors picked out, so that difficulty is done. Now we just have to get them up on the walls. Shouldn't be too bad though, that is what my brother Zach is coming out to help us do. Okay well, that's not why he's coming, but that's what he's going to be doing. All week. Day and night. Ahh, it's good to have a brother . . .

New Year's Resolution

I've decided on one new year's resolution, if you will, and I figured, what's the sense in waiting til January so I started today. I've decided that I am going to re-enter the world of mountain bike racing next year. So I started today with my first training ride for the 2006 season. Everybody else is finishing up for the year, mountain and road nationals are long over, cross nationals are next weekend, but I've got a lot of catching up to do, so I'm gonna need all the time I can get. It was great. I was planning on playing football today, as last night was the first snow we've had this year, but that got nixed so I decided to take advantage of the 2 inches of snow which made for a very wintery ride. If you dress right it's fine, and for the most part I did, but I still don't have all the feeling back in my toes, they got a little wet. I love the briskness of the cold air in my lungs. I love the cold, as long as I can stay warm, which is usually the trick. I am really stoked about racing next year, I forgot how much I missed it until I went to one of Tristan's races with him. We'll have to see how my training actually goes . . .

Bono's Faith

That's right, Bono's faith. Check out this article, it'll surprise you. http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4139

We'll try this again

Well, I am supposed to be, that is, I should be feverishly preparing for teaching this evening at The Porch, but I seem to have reached some sort of roadblock. It's that sort of burnt out feeling, even though I haven't put as much time into this week as into prior weeks, mixed with a desire to be doing something else. Hence my presence here. So instead, I type while listening to Audioslave on a new Yamaha stereo. I'm teaching on wisdom/foolishness tonight, out of Ecclesiastes 11, which seems ironic due to the foolishness of my current time constraint. I think I'll probably end up working that into the plot of things.

On a different note, I have a couple other blogs that I want to link up to my site if I can figure out how, which I haven't yet. If anybody has any tips, I'd appreciate it. One of them is a good friend of mine who is a pro mountain bike and cyclocross racer, which is just cool to be able to say that I have a friend in pro sports. Even if it is cycling, and he pays his own way everywhere. Check it out at www.tristanschouten.blogspot.com

Here is entry number one, as I attempt to sort out the endless maze of blogland.