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Dilworth Playhouse on South Blvd makes one awesome caramel latte. A couple of them & a couple rides have fixed me over the past few days. Now all I need is some sushi finally. That won’t be happening until next week I don’t think.

Rode with Ben again this morning. Riding a route I had only plotted out on a map ended up pretty good fun. Roughly 30 miles. I don’t have a computer installed anymore & I’m relying on Ben for the info. “Our average was low” as he said but I’m happy to be on the bike going any speed for more than 15 miles. Tomorrow I have another route marked out to ride over to Mount Holly and up to Stanley, NC. Another 30-40 miler so nothing to write home about.

“Dear Mr. Toilet, I’m the shit.”

In one of those foul moods. The kind you can’t shake & you simply want to get away. The morning sucked. People being people & customers being customers. Seems like I rubbed a couple wrong lately which is causing some soul searching.

I had a long post about what is going on but I realized I don’t really want to share & it will only upset me more. It has simply been one of those days that I am printing this up and using it –

Morning road ride tomorrow — hopefully some happy long boring alone miles. Maybe I’ll drag Ben along. He seems like a good guy. Doesn’t care too much that I’m a roadie, and doesn’t give me a shit about it either. We bust each others balls and laugh about it. Isn’t that whats life is about anyways? People need to stop taking themselves so serious, stop being hypercritical & leave me alone if they can’t.

7:30am is the time I woke up this morning. I’ll be up till atleast 9pm today. That is pretty good for me if you look at my schedule for the past month or two. Normally I have been getting 12 hours of sleep & being awake for 12 hours. Today will be a challenge for me, but I will try and overcome it. I’m a bit drowsy for my 8:30am road ride but hopefully the guys won’t mind riding to Starbucks or Dilworth coffee for a small latte.

Today is a busy one. Ride, single speed clinic with the Dirt Divas, and then worky. We are having another single speed clinic on March 18th for men & women. For more info check out this link for now. I need to throw up info on the Black Sheep blog too. After riding..

Have a swell day!

Working out the details but a fixed gear is back on my radar. Been having weird dreams of doing centuries on one. Weird but fucking great none the less. Don’t know if I’ll ENO the Cannondale, or ride a true Vicious pista.

Either way I hope to have one in the next month to get some roadie miles on my legs. I’ll keep you updated as I’ll have better info tonight I should think.

Another bike oriented thing – rode the 1×1 today with it’s 2″ riser bars. Another weird thing. To go from the Mary bars to standard bars feels very weird, in a very bad way. Guess I’ll be purchasing a set of Mary’s for the 1×1. Well that is whenever I get my fat back on a single-speed off road.

Looks like my boss is starting to ride again. I’ll drink to that. Better to be a shop that rides than a shop that talks a buncha crap. Speaking of the shop. I’ll be there till 8pm tonight so stop by & give us some loving.

Looks like it will be a pretty decent day. Roughly 51 & humid out. Nothing too bad going on at work. Random things such as spokes and follow ups. I hope to finish up labeling in the next couple days which means things will have prices in the shop. Life will be a ton faster with that.

The Bike PASA meeting that is normally at the work on the last Thursday of the month was moved to NEXT Thursday. This is also when the Trailblazers meeting is but not many folks are members of both other than myself. I’ll be going to the Trailblazers meeting mainly because they had theirs scheduled first. The BikePASA meeting should be interesting though. They are in the middle of withdrawaling from SORBA & it doesn’t sound like too many members are happy about not being involved in that decision. Too much drama for me so I’ll be going to the other meeting.

Oh it is Jacob’s BIRTHDAY today!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jacob!

Off to shower and then to the shop for the day.

This past Saturday was the last race of the short track series. My gf was in town and I was more nervous thanks to that fact. Which means my stomach wasn’t too happy going into the start.

A few tidbits — it was FREAKING COLD. Too cold for the south. I think I saw snow again.

The race started – so that I wouldn’t be accused of cutting anyone I let all the girls in front of me. I could hear Taryn huffing and puffing going into the woods the first time.. Didn’t sound too good. Neither did Anna’s brakes. Screaming the WHOLE race. The race continued much like the last. Maria and I playing tag with each other. The sport girls being lapped by some sandbagging beginners. I wasn’t lapped by Taryn & Anna till the very last lap — which means something to me. Three laps to the end I finally put some distance between Maria and I. Securing my 3rd position for the race and 5th overall. A little upset with myself knowing I could of been in 4th overall if I would of raced sport instead of beginner my first race. I did receive a nice little trophy for 3rd place & a sweet Nascar jersey for finishing 5th overall.

Yes — I had a jacket over top my Black Sheep jersey the whole race.. but Neal Boyd did a great job of telling everyone who I rode for every lap. Pictures are on the way from some folks..

I try to refrain from talking too much about my girlfriend. I was once one of those people that post day in and out lyrics and poems that remind me of her. I’m tempted to do it sometimes, but I refrain. No one wants to hear about my love for her. It’s a dime a dozen I’ve been told.

I can’t stand it though. I miss her. Her visits are long enough to disturb my everyday life & stir things up. Not long enough to find comfort of her being here or to get used to another in my bed. I have much I am looking forward to when she moves down from the nasty Jersey she lives in. Most of them are normal – romantic dates, dinners to come home to, someone to help with laundry, another heater in bed. More than anything I’m looking forward to having my best friend back. Daily she is missing stories or jokes because I can’t remember them when I talk to her late at night on the phone. Only a little while longer. With much happening between now and then I hope time will pass safely and quickly for both of us.

For now I’m done.. back to normal randomness.