The Great Swindle!!!!

2008 TOUR OF THE GILA Silver City, NM 5/4/2008 2:26:20 PMMEN PRO 1 Stage 5 ResultsPL TIME @ TIME B / P BIB # NAME TEAM HOMETOWN STATE LICENSE

1 4:37:13 0:00:00 - 00:15 101 Swindlehurst Burke BISSELL PRO CYCLING Salt Lake City UT USAC005122

2 4:37:14 0:00:01 - 00:10 59 Ladino Vega Gregorio TECOS Trek 45

3 4:37:59 0:00:46 - 00:05 21 Colby Anthony Colavita Sutter Home p/b Durango CO 118320

A Little Bitter Sweet ....

Sunday......

I feel very good right now.... I could use a cookie.... The Soup and salad and stress diet continues. I don't .......

I'm into falling asleep watching baseball.....

I just feel so normal today...... I want it to continue...... I want a hammock and a book...

Maybe I'll go kick some dirt in the garden...

Friday night....

I went to hop on my bike and Realized my rear wheel had become tragically untrue.... Knowing that this was going to escalate into a several hour fiasco of re-truing it, I started pulling it apart and realized that I had popped a spoke....

Then.... UGH.... It's looking like it's impossible to even find my spokes.... and I have 2 or 3 more that also need to be replaced. I'm thinking about replacing all of them, It never makes me happy to know that I somehow have specialized parts that it requires an act of god to get new ones, and that I'll be off my bike for weeks finding the parts...

Walk around

I did much walking today, Saturday is tough for me. Weekends are rough, It takes me so long to decompress. I decided that I'd be better served on Saturday. Sort of Taking it easy, but wandering around, Clearing my head.

It occurred to me, or I've been asking myself what ever happened to the people the Great Human beings who could build the Coliseum and have done so little since.

as I was walking under an underpass today, I realized all our engineering genius has gone to building underpasses and overpasses. These things are MASSIVE... It's ridiculous and for the cost, we could have an amphitheater in every city.

From Hell's heart

For some reason, I ended up in the heart of Consumer Hell... The shopping mall, with gas prices so high, I bet shopping mall traffic is higher.

I did get an ice cream... I did walk 10 miles, sure It's not on the diet...

I was surprised, the food court, had a Dairy queen(owned by Warren Buffet.... as is sees candy). I got a small dipped cone, for $2 and I expected it to be... Tiny... It was HUGE!!.. I was quite happy about my indulgence.

Would you believe.

This is the first beer I've had in a while.... Well that's not true, I had One beer in my fridge, that was about 2 years old. I drank it about a week ago. But other than that, I bet it's been 3 months.

and then about 3 months before that. Christmas and Late Feb.

guess my next one will be Aug...

Well I did pick up a fair bottle of scotch.

This was cool today.

This is the path around little america.

Some nice gardening around there... a lot of water usage but it's nice.