CST Alps 2016

Sick and tired.

With the mild, more like non-winter that we are having in Wisconsin this year I thought that I might get through the year without getting to sick. But as all good things go I was wrong. Started feeling bad on Wednesday, went a head and do the Crono trainer ride. By the end is knew that I was headed for a ruff bout of the CRUD! A bad cold, Flu what ever you want to call it, I got "IT". Went ahead and went to work on Thursday, needed to, or that was what I kept telling myself. Made it till about 3:00 and called it a day. Came home, went right to bed and slept. I think if I just would stayed home the whole day I would have recovered a whole lot faster. But didn't, been almost a week, feel a lot better but still not 100%. And to top it off I'll be traveling the next two weekends. This weekend to Minneapolis and next weekend to Tucson. At least next weekend I'll be going to a warm place. Get to ride some Cervelo's and hopefully get to see the new P5. I guess we shell see.

Big Surprise!

With everything going on I haven't updated this site as much as I want to. So I have decided to "NOT" post here for a while and try to update two other blog's.

Dualthreat.net

Cronometro blog

With a little luck I will be able to keep up on these two better then I have kept up on this one.

Peace and Grease!
Grumpy!

This is what a 5 year old boy did to his Dad.

Be careful what you promise your kids! They might hold you to it!

A little ahead of the game?

It's 10:15 P.M. Friday night and the weather lady just tell's us that we have received 10.3 Inches of snow in the last 24 hours. We are at 31" for the month that is compared to 25.1 (a record) last year.
I don't like snow! In face I hate snow. Yet I live in the upper Midwest! What is wrong with me?

Oh ya we are going to get another 3 to 5" Saturday night :~(

Google gadget what?

Is it just me or is google getting a little personal?

And so it begins!

Not a big fan of the weather man right now!

Snow will develop later this morning and early afternoon... and
continue through tonight... becoming heavy at times. Snow
accumulations of 6 to 10 inches are expected by Monday morning.

In addition... north to northeast winds will strengthen to 20 to
30 mph... gusting at times to 35 mph. This will lead to areas of
blowing and drifting snow.

Give me a break!

The election is over and Obama won! You gotta love it!

Now on to other issues. I went shopping last night, walk in the door @ Wally World. Christmas music? Are you kidding me its not even Thanksgiving yet and these ass hats are playing Christmas music. I thought I would go nuts the whole time I was getting groceries! Monday and Tuesday it was 70 degrees, the check out lady said they started playing it on Saturday the 1st. Give me a break... her comment was "they are trying to get people to spend money because of the economy.
Like we don't have enough to do we need to make sure Wally World hit their 4th quarter profits!!

So here is my suggestion DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM WAL-MART!

There are other stores that are doing this I'll leave that up to whoever reads this.

But for me I'm done with them.

2008 vote is in the books!

My friend Aaron in Omaha, Rode to place his vote!

Tour de Trainer

With the announcement of the 2009 Le tour de France next week I thought it would be fun to incorporate that into my mundane trainer training.

For me to set and on a trainer for more that about 5 seconds is a major accomplishment. So in a attempt to add a little excitement to an other wise boring task I came up with "Tour de Trainer"

What is this you may ask? Simple! Every week you will ride a stage of the 2009 Le tour de France.

21ish stages with a prologue (or not) and 2 rest days. When the route is announced on Wednesday then we will have the total mileage.

The idea is,

Ride one stage a week 21 stages, 21 weeks. Divide them up however you want. If the weather is suitable for riding outside DO IT! We are not keeping score.

If you miss a day, you can make it up somewhere during the week or not, again we are not keeping score.

The point of this is at the start of nice weather you will have a head start on next years riding.

For those who do not need any encouragement, good for you. For the rest of us... Its a thought!

Peace and grease.

Grump

Have I said that I'm tired of this snow?

If this snow stuff doesn't leave soon I think I might go nuts!! 80 plus inches. And still more to come. The record amount of snow fall was 73.6" the average snow amount is around 40" we have to much snow and I'm tired of it. I want to go for a ride and not freeze my ass off! I want to walk Rachel to school in the mornings and not need to ware a face mask. I want to ride my bike to work and not drive on black ice for 50 miles. I want to wear shorts. I want warm weather!!!!

I want! I want! I want!!!

Man I'm selfish!!

GEORGE CARLIN'S NEW RULES FOR 2008

GEORGE CARLIN'S NEW RULES FOR 2008

New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff "you" want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for classmates.com ! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days --- mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Lobster?


New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: Do you have two of them? Good, we're done.

New Rule:There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but, without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water.

New Rule: Stop screwing with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, he will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low, and One NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're mixed-up.

New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering My PIN! number , pressing 'Enter,' verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want Cash back, and pressing 'Enter' again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you Spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to 'beef with broccoli.' The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

New Rule: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN Recently televised the U.S. Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait, they're already doing that. It's called 'The Howard Stern Show.'

New Rule: I don't need a bigger mega M&Ms. If I'm extra hungry for M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

New Rule: If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie.

New Rule: When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

New Rule: If you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job that pays better than Minimum wage, then for God's sake don't pierce or tattoo every available piece of flesh. If so, then plan your future around saying, 'Do you want fries with that?'

Cronometro Spring Classic!

Any Questions?
More information to follow.

Another Year down

2007 another tick mark on the seat-post!

A short recap.

1. Full winter in Wisconsin= Not as bad as I thought.
2. One year down at the new job= Beats working for a living!
3. Commute to work Longer then an hour. (if you didn't know 45 miles)=see #2 also 2100 miles
4. Light weight commuter bike=miles of fun=also see #2
5. Having a stay at home Wife=its a family blog enough said B-)
6. Finding cool places to ride=Dude I can't begin to list them all!
7. Capn Cowbell & our old neighbors stopping by for a visit=Damn I miss my Omaha FRIENDS!
8. My parents 50th wedding anniversary=Damn that a long time!
   

So all in all I'd say its been a good year!

And lets hope that 2007 was good to each and everyone. And 2008 will be even better!
Peace and Grease!
Grumpy