Morning riding is much better than the 6pm rides

What is knocking around my head.

On my ride this morning I was glad I gave up early, I was feeling good. but I would rather ride less, than to over-train and quit. It also keeps me healthy.

Lots of people out, I like being a morning person..... Well, let me just say that I'm not a good morning person yet, and being exhausted from 6-9pm sucks, as I'm just begging to fall asleep. Last night I was so tired, I wanted to cry. I felt like I was 4 years old and had hit that so tired I was grumpy.
Most the time I was on the bike I was trying to figure out how to get out of this dinner. How stupid is it that I have to write a break up email with one of my friends."I know we haven't seen each other in 9 months, by now I'd have thought you would get the hint.

Ok, seriously I have shit to do........ No Latte Enema this morning

Glad to see Crystal reading the blog, now I may be up to 3 people.

I think I need a pseudonym..... Colon-boy

it was much darker when I took that

The reason it's blurry is I was on my bike, talk about accident waiting to happen... Probably darker cause my sunglasses were on.

Finaly recovered a bit.

OK, this is what has me. I have to go out and have dinner and drinks with a ....friend of mine.. This is what it will be, He will whine about how he is turning 35, having a kid, has a beautifully great Wife, over a million in assets, PHD, Great job. New SUV. and I'll spend the evening holding myself from reaching over the table and choking him to death.
On my 35th birthday, he forgot till it was over for a week, and when we went out to dinner, we split a $90 tab, that I spent $20 of.
Oh, the woman I was dating called to make me jealous that she is dating someone else, since we broke up, sort of.

Excellent, I doubt my day could get better.

I deserve pie...

Solar energy is stupid, and is over over valued. We are going nuclear.

(insert Picture here)

Instead of going to bed I should go grocery shopping.

Com'on Meltdown sally

So, I just had the worst 40 minutes on the bike yet. In addition to the 2.5 hours of suffer I had yesterday. I don't even want to talk about it... I did check the scale and it's saying good things... It was just hot, my back tire was flatish, had a not so good day. Riding in the evening sucks ass. The wind sucks ass, and my diet sucks ass.

Ass sucking is how i feel.....

Just wanted to blog it.

Maybe I should have a salad or something....

.... I'm trying to come up with something else to blog about than my Bowel movements..... It's interesting to get up and not watch 150 guys push pedals on bikes. I'm forgoing my morning ride, since I did it last night. I'm not actually feeling well, I'm not sure why. I was coming into form, and I imagine I still am. I seem to not be in the groove.

On the TV front, I missed "The Two Correy's" I would have had to of stayed up till midnight."
Is Haim starting to look like Mickey Rourke... In the bad way.

I may just spend my day eating fiber.

2.5 hour suffer fest

so, It's about bed time. Except I'm just rolling in from an evening ride. After eating dinner 5 times today: waffles, tacos, french toast, orange juice, tacos, then turkey( is that 5). I suffered into a head wind for the uphill parts. Everytime I get out there I think I'm being gutted.

But Ice road truckers starts in 20 minutes, just enough time to get in the shower, and snuggle up to an hour of Trucker Whining.

You have new Picture Mail!

Ya, it's sideways, I'll have to not do that next time.

it's 1am in france

.... No wonder I'm tired. See, all the riders are snoozing away. and I'm trying to stay up till till 4am...French time. 3 more hours. Ouch.... I'm so damn tired. I hope I make it.... What can I do..... Laying down is a bad idea.. worse is that I fall asleep in my chair.

I'm trying to blog here.

Well, Levi without Divine intervention is only 3rd in the Tour, Regardless of his amazing ride. I guess it shows that even showing big brass balls you still get beat sometimes. He did win a stage, which is great.

I'm tempted to give the blogs address to Burke. I just need more people reading. It would increase the quality, of the blog, since it would mean more people read it. Most of us blog, and I realize that a tremendous amount of what is written tends to be catered to the audience. Without more significant audience, this blog is dying on the vine.

Looks like I'm still on French time, it's rough I get up at 2am and then start taking naps at 2pm get up and pee and eat. I'm totally that guy who works out and takes a ton of naps....

I'm psyched for "Le tour" to get over since I can return to my regular life, I'll also be excited to watch less TV, Till the US Open :) With all the Doping stuff it seems unlikely that we will get more cycling coverage. If I hear one more person talking about it, I may pop them. Doping in cycling and in sport has been going on since the 50's.

I want pudding.....


I need to put some serious miles in on the bike next week.

more lists of wierdness

It's like massive Turmoil out there in the universe, I wish I could give an extended post about "Le tour" but let me just say it's full on crazy.

In addition:
My bike riding sucks, some tubby 220lb guy tried to drop me today, I sort of kicked his ass. Talked to him a bit, nice guy. I wasn't a dick, but it shows how strong I am right now.... I'm getting better.
Some dudes, at me least favorite restaurant "The melting pot" $40 for fondue...WTF how about that same price for 2 people and wine. in the kitchen the employees stuffed a kid in a garbage can full of ice, till he was unresponsive. Paramedics got there and his temp was 71 deg... Ya, they are going to jail.
a friend got a call from the regional office of a bank and they want us to redo their network..... WHOLY SHIT, that kind of work would set me up for years, but no she isn't taking the work :(. They are calling her on Monday, to confirm her "NO"... I was agreeing with her that she didn't want to do it, (she is kind of burned out) then she kept talking about it, I finally said "if you don't shut up about it, I'm going to try and convince you"

I'm trying to not take my afternoon nap.

Must be in hell...

After my afternoon nap, I awoke to find that the guy who was ahead of "Le Tour" has been fired, which is good.
The idea that this anorexic freak is the greatest athlete in cycling get's on my nerves Or makes me want to change sports. (I'm about to steal this from somone Else's blog) It has also been pointed out that we need to do something about the starving danish people... has global warming gotten that bad.
The reason why is that he has been missing his out of competition testing, and lying about where he has been. His Team sponsor fired him, don't get the idea that event, the cycling governing body, or his team got rid of him. Be clear that it was the people paying the bills, who were tragically embarrassed by his lying cheating evasive bullshit, not the team, the event, or cycling officials.
Then I'm reading the news and bear grylls has been cheating and sleeping in hotels on man vs. Wild "No word on what "transparent" means or how fans of the series will react, but perhaps Discovery should add a disclaimer to the show: Survival made possible by hotel stay and dramatization of events. "(I just linked an image and the former is what I got, It almost made me pee my pants)
Further reading has uncovered that there will be a "2 Corey's reality show"(how real can it be with those 2 dopes).....



and...
.... apparently there was a Scott Baio reality show where he reevaluated his relationships. I hope to God that he went all the way back to Erin Moran AKA JOANIE LOVES CHACHIE... I mean how can your love live go bad when it's turned into a sitcom.

I'm still wondering if it's all a dream.....

Well Now

If one more person I'm irritated at, or lack tolerance of. tries to contact me, To be honest there are only 2 more people on that shit list. Doesn't mean I care.... I'm trying to catch a quick nap after waking up at the pre-ass crack. Not sure I can deal with anything else today, without a nap.

(repair for a vent here)

NO, I'M NOT GOING OUT TO DINNER WITH YOU, SO THAT I CAN WAIST A BUNCH OF MONEY ON 3000 Cal. OF BAD FOOD, AND SPEND 30 MINUTES WAITING FOR YOUR ASS TO SHOW UP!!!!!!!!

(that didn't feel as good as i'd like)
Nap

....Morning

I've had fairly fitful rest over the night. Something I haven't shared with the blog is that Ive been strangely "haunted" over the past weeks, I'm not sure why. When I say haunted, I mean that things from my past come up in my head and I manage to think about them more than usual.

Well now for those of you not covering "The Tour", lot's of doping stuff going on. The organizers are saying they "regret" allowing Michael Rasmussen, the current leader, into the race. And one of the favorites came up positive in one of his races and they asked his team to leave.
The awesome thing about Europe is that they are more concerned with Truth and Honesty than they are with "Due Process". They idea that they are innocent until proven guilty. or "we will see what the process shows us.".

Amusing, is that the American cyclists are all about due process when it's an American, but when it's Europeans they want to hang them, with the rest of the cycling public. It's just common ethnocentric, nationalistic sentiment, but it's amusing.

The start of the TV coverage is in 30 minutes, looks like I won't get a ride in this morning. I think I'm still dehydrated from yesterday's ride, and I'm thinking eggs granola and yogurt for breakfast.

Thanks for reading.

all the stock nonsense and now this

Lindsey lohan has the monkey..........

I'm not a fan of covering this stuff(I say this like I'm a journalist). For some reason I started following this. The judge will be doing her no favors by going easy, time for her to do some jail time. She has to hit rock bottom before she can rally, and I hope she does. She also needs to give up being a blond.

More Stock Nonsense

I love the stock market. Not because I'm making money hand over fist, (I'm doing ok). It's impressive that it's completely irrational. It's emotional, and Moodie, it's one of the most human things in business. CNBC lines up person after person, applying some kind of sense to it. Everyone having an opinion, and day after day it comes down to the Truth of it. I don't care how many PHD's you have in economics, or how "Dialed in" to "the street" you are, it comes down to one thing..... are there more sellers or buyers?

Today the Dow is posting a 200pt loss, all because the stuff that is no good (home builders, real estate, Sucks and still isn't hitting a bottom(It seems like people who build homes don't want to stop doing it, regardless of the excess inventories... They are subject to their own momentum)). This has been going on for damn near a year, every time they call a bottom to it, it shows a little more downside. Which isn't exactly fair since it's not like people won't keep wanting and buying some homes. (to be honest there is this whole thing about how money works, and how credit and lending affects the money supply, which is why there is real fear because of this).

The key to picking a bottom(according to some) is when there is "Real" fear, out there the kind of fear when people are jumping out of windows kind of fear. When we see home builders unable to sell homes at a profit, or they are so broke they can't build new homes. There will be the bottom. Real Fear from the home builders. I wan't to see them cry.

Ugh

I made it out on my bike this morning, I was going to live blog it from my phone, but it was inconvenient and then I was too tired.

Let me just share what it's like to ride a bike for 3 hours. In the first hour you burn up the glycogen in your blood supply and have to refill as you go, at 20 Mph you burn 2000 Kal per hour, you have to eat 700 to help your body pull the other 1300 from your fat supply and/or from your last Meal, or you can slow down. As poor as my training is right now, it's hard to eat that much every hour. 1400 calories in 2 hours. So, I spent 1 hour doing fine and then 2 hours in gastric distress. I got to my "feed" which is what I call the half way point, which is a convenience store where I can refill my bike bottles, and grab more food. The thought of chocolate was turning my stomach, and I was toying with ice cream, or other stuff, but it wasn't doing it for me. Which is a bad sign, since you just have to eat. I choked down a candy bar and was on my way.
Furthermore, when you get home you then have to eat again, usually some form of protein shake/fruit juice. Then the fun starts, you hit the shower, barley able to stand and lay your head on the side shower tile and ask yourself why you do this to yourself. about an hour later, after laying and/or sitting. you start feeling human again.

Ok, time for Iced coffee before I end up taking a nap.

Things I'm avoiding

Ya! this sounds like a waist of time to blog about, and it's not interesting for you the reader, which I'm very sorry about.... Because without you, I probably wouldn't blog.

Things I'm avoiding doing today.

Spending 2 hours sending in My "Heart Rate Monitor" in to be serviced, I have to print out a form, fill it out, place it in a box with the HRM then mail it off to an authorized service center. I'd be lucky if it only took 2 hours.

Buying new tires for my car.

Getting replacement berrings for my bike,

ordering new tires for my bike.

Repairing the flat tire on the front of my bike.

Finish 2 different projects, which I'll bairly get paid for.

I'm sure there is more I'm avoiding, Maybe I'll make more coffee and see if I can fail at failing at all these tasks today.

Test

Danger, Will Robinson apparently I can post from my phone now..... This won't go well.

Exhausted morning

I managed some good sleep last night. I remember being frustrated at about 1am. Something happened and suddenly it was 5am. Usually it's just a fit full 4 hours, this was solid.

After riding both in the morning and in the evening, I was exhausted, and decided to take the morning off. Hopefully I'll either hike or put some time in tonight.

Something is going on in "Le Tour" But I'm not sure what, there seems to be a big break, and a lot of tired riders, and watchers. 23 days is a lot of days to watch an early morning bike race.

More Sunday posting

My Inbox says, We need more salacious details of my relationships. We are probably broken up. I say probably because She needs to call me. It's that bullshit call trade off game. To be honest, I'm sure I wear her out. She is either suffering a crisis of confidence, or she is just tired of me .... pushing all the time.
All I want to do is go into the great outdoors, my desire to sit and feed my pie hole or watch TV, is very limited, and it's not what I want out of a relationship. I just wear her out, she needs to get more exercise than she gets with me. But she won't do it, so she just sufferers as I push her harder and harder each time. She wanted to take it easy and I won't let her. In her eyes it's all my fault cause I think she should be improving, but she is caught up in that catch 22 or "I can't do it cause I'm not in shape, and you don't get in shape by not doing it." I know it's tough, I'm there all the time, my bike time sucks right now, but that's why you keep at it, and keep pushing. I'm good to keep going with things, but she needs to "want to".
As per Salacious details, there aren't many. Being fit, salaciousness isn't as fun when .... well ... let me just say it would be better if she didn't just lay there.

Added to my to do list is new bearings for the bike.

Things to do

I need to get back into yoga.

I need new tires for the bike

still need new tires for the car.

Need a haircut.

New heart rate monitor battery.

.... I'm trying to avoid a ciesta

What is there to do during the hot hours of the day, besides drink iced coffee, trying to ward of that beautiful afternoon nap......

I guess I'm catching up on some blogging.

I managed to snap some photo's from my dawn ride today.
A little blurry but you get the idea.

This was stopped at a stop light with the sun just coming up behind me.


This isn't from this morning, I was caught out in a rain storm a few days ago... second rain since june 7th. It shows the skanky crap that is on the road, building up day after day. White Foamy Road Scum.

She is marrying Vern .

Blair Brown reminds me of Sarah.

For those of you who don't remember the Sarah episodes from last year, you're lucky.

In my fits of insomnia I managed to see this again, "Continental Divide" it's a good movie. Also it's all outdoorsy. It's a love story, which doesn't really resolve itself, which is interesting. Point being Blair Brown is hot. She was also in Altered States, another good nerdy Science movie. An interesting side note is that Richard Feynman was involved in some of the sensory deprivation experiments.

The Diet.

I feel emasculated to talk about "The Diet", also emasculated to talk about being emasculated about talking about the Diet. It has been good, with all the workouts etc, I'm dropping weigh fast. I'm not on any particular diet, Or maybe we can call it the Eric diet, it involves apples, soup, and carrots. Sometimes Cheese and salads when I need something substantial to make my stomach work like I'm eating regular foods. This does make my workouts suck, since I'm low on energy most of the time.

Well, Le Tour stars in 15 minutes and I need to find something to eat.

Bored

I got up at the ass crack of dawn today, to watch the first mountain stage of "Le Tour". For some reason I'm getting caught up in the old cycling Kats and Kittens, just finished catching back up with Becky Broeder. Tempted to make some emails out to some people, but I probably will decide not to. Now that I've seen it all, I'm just bored silly.

Also this morning I received a phone call from someone about some dumb shit. Interesting that they think I care. Sorry I'm not going to go into it. basically someone wants me to work for no money. Funny how people disguise it, but ya... I have no shortage of options to work for nothing.

2 a day lake mary

After putting in 10 miles on the bike, I took a quick hike.(Poet, Know it). In the exercise world this is called doing a 2-a-day. Since my cycling legs have fallen apart because I've been working really hard and only hiking and running for exercise. I'm trying not to, do the same for my Hiking legs.
BTW I was very tired, and still am. I need to figure out how to recover and maybe I'll go run or something tonight.

In other news, I need new tires for my car as I realized I had a radial tear in my front left, yesterday. I also went through my finances more clearly a few days ago, and I'm not going anywhere. But I may still buy a tent.

Signed fatigued in Salt Lake.....

Not sure why I'm updating.....

Last night, After the pone call I couldn't get to sleep till about 4am.... then slept in. Last night I caught this documentary about Everest, it covered the Morality of that climb. Let me just cover, I'll never do Everest. I once said, I'll do Everest when there is an elevator. Personally this would be a great tourist boom for Nepal. A quick Tram ride to the top, or something. Stop all the fools from dying on this climb.
Alright Back to the Morality of that climb, The basic thesis of the story was that people who clime it are assholes. They don't stop to help anyone, except people on their team, and even then they are only about 50/50. Apparently according to some, you should instead of taking care of yourself, keep in mind survival ratio is like 1 in 10 die on summit attempts. Also, there is no benefit to climbing to anyone but yourself. It serves no greater purpose, besides your own personal sense of accomplishment. Also keep in mind that people are suffering oxygen deprivation. Seems like to me it would be no mystery why "no one helps suffering climbers on Everest."
Everest takes years of planning, there are permits, you have to get fit enough to do it. Once you get there you only have a 3 or 4 week window. After taking 2 months off of your job, you then go to Nepal, spend a week getting there. Then about a month setting up the 4 camps to help you acclimatise yourself to the altitude. You get to camp 4 and the weather is good to do a summit attempt, Suddenly "Rick Rockwell" New York Financier, who paid a guide to get him to the summit, has been abandoned by his guide, so that the guide can do his 4th summit attempt. The guide forgets to tell him to turn back when he is coming back down from the summit, or he ignores it. But for some reason, you are supposed to abandon your summit attempt to go out pull him into your tent and watch him die for the next 4 days. It's only a narcissistic asshole who would expect someone to come and rescue him/her, only to look around and realize that everyone else is a narcissist around them, and it just ain't happening.

Got on the bike again today, 20 miles... I'm going to have to ease up a bit and not push harder for a good week. Riding a bike is hard. Well, I have no more beer and time to get to sleep.

Jail, or a hot chick.

347-1092.... wow, someone was drunk and tried to call me at 1am. I made it to sleep early and what happens..... Whoever that was almost got an earful.... When it rang, a voice rolled through my head "you better be drunk and hot". They even called me twice... If your in trouble, it's probably best not to call me.

What is skrewie is it's probably somone I know and they will find this blog.

And one More

Good things happend with my gold stocks today. I may even be making money soon on it... Not sure how long to ride it at that point. It's been a real butt cruncher. I've had some extra money latley, and there is another check in my mailbox today. I'm caught up a few months ahead on the bills, things I hope are looking good. Back on the bike, still super fit.
My list of "Where to go from here".

1. Trip to Asia
2. Trip to pacific northwest.
3. Trip to Idaho
4. Trip to Montana.
5. buy a Tennis Racket
6. Get the Tent I'm still Hedging on.
7. Trip to.......
8. Find a bunch of new work
9. Drink a beer, go to bed.
10. Start a new buisness.

• Pool Cleaning
• Law mowing
• Become a Spy
• Fireman

Not to sure about this

Decided to give an update on my lack of love life. So, there is this woman. I don't seem to like her or her kid. I realy don't like her kid. She doesn't realize that she gets into situations with other parents and they laugh at how ill behaved her kid is. To be honest I don't want to get into it. He seems to misbehave so he can get rewards for not being bad.... It's a terable system.
I'd be a terrable parent, I've said it many times. Have you ever seen "The great santini"? Kind of like that.... Damn, you probably havn't. Oh!!! have I mentioned how bad her ADD is. She doesn't even know what focus is. She flitters like a butterfly from one thing to another. She has been in like 12 trafic accidents. I was over there a few days ago, and the idea that we leave the TV off was unimaginable...... Maybe tonights movie will be the great santini.... Ok, I hope I can sleep.

Have I mentioned that it's hot.....

Fabian Cancellara in stage 3 today, pulled off an unbelievable finish. after defending his yellow jersey at the finish, he realized that he had a chance to ride to victory in the stage, and did.
I've been swearing I'd get my bike tweaked for weeks now. Finaly I did that today. it's not quite tweaked but it's running. and I put in my usual 7 mile loop, and at my big hill, I almost had a heart attack... or it was the heat. Wild how hard my heart works when riding the bike.... I need to do more of that....

Some stuff

For those of you unaware, I'm a tennis fan too. I'm afforded the opportunity to watch all the tennis I want, live. This year I've redone my allegiances, and decided to chose the top woman and top man. Ya, it's kind of chickenshit. But I'm a fan of finesse games, and not the big server base line games. To be honest I've been a fan of henin for years. Her new focus and dedication to her fitness have me thinking she is something exceptional. Assuming she can recover from her loss in the semi-finals at Wimbledon..to some no name french girl. Not to belittle the accomplishment of the aforementioned french girl, but she is going nowhere. Due to some abnormal loyalty to her coach, she may have a little hindrance there. She may need a staffing change.
The day she lost, Andy Roddick lost as well... I'm not sure what to say about Andy. He may need a coaching change as well. He has improved over the past year but I'm just not sure it's enough.

Unknown to some is that today was day 2 of "Le Tour" actually it was day 3 but stage 2. Stage One Robbie Mcewen pulled off a masterful win after falling out of the pack with a mechanical failure, then coming back in in the last 5k to move up to the front and pull off the win. It will not be his last...... BTW his team sponsor is a pregnancy test

2 days 4 lakes 3 hikes 1 dog..... Huh?!!!??

On friday evening I made a call and invited somone to go on a quick hike with me. It's a fast hour up and 20 minutes back down hike, to this little lake. I got turned down for the friday, but they were super psyched to go on saturday. Anyways I went out alone, riged up my running shoes and shorts, and light hydration pack with a quart of water. When I got to the trail head I realized I could extend it about 2 more miles by taking the long route and adding a couple of additional lakes to the hike and I set off. I did a great pace, ran about half of it. I'm realy close to the summit of the hike, and I run across some people who are in border melt down mode(AKA ready to quit). They ask me, like little kids "are we there yet?". These people were ready to turn around 150 yards from their destination. I gave them the proper motivation, and sent them on their way. It was a good fast hike, lot's of fun, and a great workout.

Saturday happens, Stupidly they didn't want to get up early, Let me tell Y'All something about the weather here when it's this hot. If you can get up pre dawn and get on the road as dawn breaks, it's unbelevable. It's the coolest time, the weateher is in the 70's and 80's and it's just perfect. To be honest that is the best time of the year to be outdoors here, but.... people are tired, they have a hard time letting go of the impulse to suffer a little by getting up earlier. Then the trade off is, they suffer A lot, when they go out in the heat of a 10am-1pm hike, but did get that extra hour or two of sleep.... Well that's what we did. What also get's charming with "You People"(this may not include you). Then is when your 20 minutes from the summit and you start making excuses, "I don't feel well", "It's hot", bla bla bla... You know, your excuses are your own. I'm never sure how aware people are of their self defeating attitudes.... So, there we are nasty part of the hike is over and it's "oh, I need to get home by noon. I have to meet somone." Internaly I'm saying to myself "so, show up at 9, hike 2 hours then go home. this is all the time we had today? you said nothing about that when we left." so we quit, and start going down. BTW once we got down, there was no hurry to tell this person who was "Waiting for them" that they were going to be late, and no rush to get back.

On the way down, we come across a couple and their kids, one of the kids is totaly dragging, and starting to whine.
"This is steep, I'm tired..". Dad gives him a pat on the back and gets the young boy going again. This is a charming trate that this person has that I'm with, they have an ability to demoralize everyone they come across. Sure enough, they pipe up to this 7 year old kid,
"Well, it only get's steeper.".... I totaly come unglued, almost pushing my hiking partner down the hill and start going at them.
"Are you kidding me!!!!" I reply, " That father is doing everything he can to keep the moral of those kids together, to get them up a hill, the very one that you whined and cried even worst than that kid was doing. And you tell the kid that it's going to get worse. That guy is going to get that kid another 50yards and the kid is going to quit. All Thanks to you. It would be awefully tough for you to get up this mountain if I spent my time telling you how bad it was going to be. If I ever have you make a comment like that to another person, you will be hiking alone." BTW all of this is going on within earshot of that family. Course being alpha dog you have to keep the rest of the pack in line, and even nip at them every once in a while...... Next hike with this person, we will be working on developing some decending social skills.
I go home, drink another quart of water as I try and get myself into the shower. The hike was mellow enough that I just had a nice salad for lunch. I fell dead asleep....
Flash forward 30 minutes, my phone rings..... I ignore it, then it rings again, this time I pick it up. Same person from the earlier hike, her sister is stuck with a lame dog up the bowman trail... I compleatly tried to beg out, Then I realize how skrewed they were, and I rigged up and got back out there. Long story short, I pulled a 90lb dog out of the canyon. Making that the 3rd hike in 24 hours, probably over 10 miles.

Keep the Geek Squad away from my porn

.... this article is about how the Best Buy "Geek Squad", is about how the geek squad guys institutionally take consumer's private video, and picture files from their computers then put it on their own systems for further dissemination to the other employees.
.... What is strange to me, is that, my media collection is second to none, I've never seen a person with as good a collection of "media" as I do, so..... Why take it from customers... Seems like the geek squad geeks, ain't very good at accessing the plethora of available media available on the web.
... Point being, if you call "Geek Squad", just think.... That Mormon missionary looking guy, is jerking off to your porn that eve

ning......

I wonder what the missionaries are jerking off to.

So, I'm on a Rally

I took a week off, as addicted to working out and working my ass off, I took the past week off. Been watching Wimbledon, paying some attention to the garden, which is a shameful representation of its past glory. I did put in some new fruit trees, next spring I'm hoping to put in a couple more, I'm tempted to turn it all into an orchard and vegie garden.... Either that or a grass tennis court.... Ya... it's Wimbledon time. I'm also tempted to pick up a racket. get involved in a whole new way to ruin my knees. Also been thinking about a hair cut...

Point being I went up and did a quickie 2 mile hike with some runs mixed in.... I got a visit from someone in Minneapolis today, makes me wonder if it's Uncle KT or some other unknown UofM person via Doctor pistachio, I'm always resistant to posting comments on their blogs, since their significant other's may get freaky or something. But I still read them both. You know, Woman just blog better than men.... Yep... that's all I have.

the long awaited lone peak hike.

For some reason I'm missing a picture of Lone peak from my house. Let me just say, it's imposing.

I hijacked this one(there is no snow now), and have added the route. I wouldn't use this if you were actually planning this trip. Roughly the canyon on the right is bear creek canyon. you go up the south side of that canyon then cut over to the north side of cherry creek canyon.

this path is referred to as the cherry creek logging road.

and goes up between both canyons.

Once it levels off a bit(after 3500 vertical feet in roughly 3 miles and your running the ridge(this is where this hike is just an ass kicker).

you drop across bear creek canyon,

climb out of bear creak and

then follow that ridge and then you come to some nice pine meadows(green dot in first picture.)

that are shielded from the wind(which include the area where outlaw cabin is. to here this is 4k feet vertical and maybe 6 miles. So, I hit the trail head at 3, assuming I could pull an hour or 2 off the estimated 5 hour hike time. at best I pulled maybe 30 minutes, and got up there about an hour before sunset. with just enough time to make a fire

and settle in for dinner

and go to sleep.

In the morning without coffee, major mistake not packing coffee, I headed up the remaining 2 miles and 1500 vertical feet.

That is the cirque to the summit. makes me tired just to see it.

This is my pack, which was roughly 20 pounds "Pack" weight(includes consumables). sub 20 pound base weight probably 15 or so, but I never weighed it. this is maybe 5-6 pounds heavier than some of my day packs. most the bulk is made up in jackets.

BTW I haven't put on a pack since. ... Wait I did do a quick hike to lake Mary the next day. I had to call the person who wanted to hike and say... "well, let me call you at 10pm and let you know how I feel." Then at 10 I said... "ok, lets plan on it, but there is a slight possibility that I'll call you in the morning and call it off.". but I didn't.

So, sad things happened in Wimbledon today... Point being I've lost interest.

Fortunately

"Le' Tour" starts tomorrow. Of course I've lost track of who the starters are prologue starts at 7am