How's This For Exposure?

The NYT baby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/sports/othersports/25outdoors.html?8dpc

Choices Choices

The Thanksgiving feast. Well, there was some turkey and some of that other stuff. I over-enjoyed my selection. Good times were had by all.

Back to Normal

Well, I hope my computer is back to normal. My hard drive was on it's last leg for a long time. I waited until the thing flat wouldn't work anymore before I bought a new one. A few days later, a class-action lawsuit settlement was announced. Toshiba was ordered to extend the warranties on the drives and replace the bad ones. Normally, I would be a little peeved because I would have had a spare hard drive laying around, however, the new one I bought was worse than the original one according to the computer dude. Now I have to get the store I bought it from to give me my money back.

So since my computer is up and running, here are the pics from the USGP of Cyclocross I've had on my camera for weeks now. Enjoy.

USGP Xilinx

Save the Cheerleader . . .

save the world.

If I hear that one more time, someone might get choked.

It Took Me Long Enough

Now that I'm gray headed and ready for the nursing home . . .

Dear Alan,

The following request to change your NORBA category has been approved and
processed by USA Cycling:
mtbingfool - 2006-11-07 12:23
Member: Alan Simons
License: Cross Country Racer
Request to change category from Expert to Semipro

Another, Sign It

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/197087202

cross videos

http://nathanspear.com/movie/default.htm


PS I didn't mean to post this to my blog. It was an e-mail accident, but since it's up, we'll leave it. I haven't seen any of these, but they appear to be good.

Sign It

http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?domain=bicyclecolo.org&PageID=763&CFID=29368717&CFTOKEN=51d8ca46ba2ba0a4-D0E7A388-DA6B-9BD5-CA11D7C4AB373550

Kaput

Well, my computer is all jacked up again. I just bought a new hard drive. It worked for a day before it clunked out, so I'm not sure what is wrong with the thing.

What a crazy last few days. USGP Xilinx Cup race on Saturday. Raced, watched the mens and womens open races, and drank beer. Rachel's birthday celebration Saturday night. More beer and the Broncos (I was too lazy to drive to Boulder for the 2nd USGP race) on Sunday.

Most importantly were the last two days. I stood in line almost 2 hours to vote on Tuesday. All due to what was supposed to be a quicker more efficient system. Cha. It's hard enough to get people out to vote as it is, but then you throw a 2 hour standing wait into the mix, and people aren't going to vote. I almost didn't, but the guilt overwhelmed me. I've been voting in my current area for almost 8 years, and the most I've ever had to wait was 15 minutes.

It wasn't all for naught. Power in the House and the Senate changed hands, and Mr. I don't remember what I said, but I said it, so I'm sure I said it finally "resigned." All good news. Let's hope the Dems follow though on their bipartisan cooperation promise. We'll see I guess.

Oh well, I snapped several photos of the races on Saturday, so once I get the computer back on its legs, I'll put them up.

Edit: Here is what Rummy actually said:
"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."

Tinkoff is Russian for Juiced

And I ain't talkin' potato juice.

http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/11132.0.html