Corporate Hippy

I was hoping to get more posts up this week, but I haven’t had the time and/or attention span .. so for now, here’s a few highlights:

• 1/2 yard of margarita goodness, and drinking it while walking down the stip at night
• very cool topless bar on Freemont street, and Freemont street in general
• cool new women’s bike clothes companies, started and run by women, making bike clothes that actually fit women and look very cool
• getting asked for dreadlock advice by a dude who wants his to look just like mine 😀
• got tinker’s autograph on a sweet tinker pic

So far, I’m having a blast .. I like Vegas … Freemont is very cool .. I think we’ll go back there tonight after we see the Blue Men .. w00t!

Santa was good to me today.

I LURVE lurve love my new toy. Its been a loooong time since I got to buy a new camera. My last one was used and only a 2.1mp . This one is fancy schmancy 6.0 meg of sweet pixel beauty.

I was inspired. So I knitted it a cute cozy. And I was even more inspired, so I learned how to make i-cord. w00t. Go me!

So far, its been a GREAT vacation 😀

Its been a loooong planning process, but in approximately 127 hours, we’ll be on our way to Las Vegas!

This is a first time for me – Vegas, that is. The excuse is Interbike, but I’m hoping for more. As my pal Glen said “leave the responsible Marty at home and have some fun!”. So, that’s my plan. Be warned, all ye who travel with me – don’t look to me for plans and details, I’ve done enough of that already for this trip and now I just want to enjoy it 😉

Hopefully I’ll be able to remember enough of the week to check in here from time to time with reports 😀

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I’m a big fan of Fall.  I love the temperatures, the smells, the color of the sky and of course the apple cider 😀

Fall is the time when I start cooking chilli.  I think about using the crockpot for dinners instead of the foreman grill.  Fall is the time when it feels great to pull the fleece blanket over my legs while watching TV at night.

Its funny how we somehow associate Fall with renewal – kids are going back to school, life gets back to normal after crazy summer vacations, bbqs, picnics and parties.  Fall is always a good time to start over.  Ironic, isn’t it?  Things are dying all around, and we’re making a fresh start….

So, in tribute to this renewal time of year, we spent our rainy Saturday cleaning the basement.  We had two goals – clear a good spot for setting up bikes on trainers, and clean out that old pantry/room that still had stuff in it from the owners BEFORE my parents.  We’ve been wanting to clean that little room out for a couple of years, but just never had the gumption .. Welp, we managed to achieve both of our goals in less than 5 hours!

Now, you’d think that boxing things up to donate to the Salvation Army would be a good thing, right?  Yeah, we agree.  We’ve been boxing things up for quite some time now… Boxing … but not actually donating.  Generally, we fill boxes and leave them in the basement.  This helps no one, btw.  Sal’s Army doesn’t get my crap, and I don’t get any more room in my basement.  Having a bored 19year old step-son solved that problem.

Alex and his younger brother took 2 FULL jeeploads of stuff to Sal on Saturday.   Getting rid of stuff can be kind of addicting.  It feels so good to be rid of all that crap!

Oh, and as we sat down to relax at the end of the day, we found Serenity on HBO!  Not only have we been seriously fiending for a new movie to watch, Serenity is one that we’d wanted to see since it came out, but had never gotten around to it.  What a GREAT end to a damn good day!

So, aside from the basement news (ok, so its boring to all of you, but exciting to me!), we had an awesome ride with Mike and bruiser Greg at Bloomer on Friday.  Mike, Nick and I were all on our SSs, and Greg was slummin it with the slo-folk .. it was a gorgeous night and the ride was great fun!  And on Sunday, we met up with Mike and Tommy for some backroad/Addison Oaks riding.  Nick and I got almost 20 miles in, Mike and Tommy probably had 35+ by the time they finished!

This weekend was one of those when I didn’t absolutely dread going to work on Monday.

Gorgeous night

Attention asshole:

I generally take these things with a few grains of salt, but today I was suprised at how SPOT ON today’s astrological reading seemed to be:

Sometimes you are more comfortable in your own dreams when they don’t have words attached to them. Now, however, you are more likely to have detailed explanations that come from too many words. Your environment is intellectually noisier than you prefer. It will be easier if you remember that the noise arises from within you and not from out there, regardless of appearances.

PS – if you’re wondering why my posting has been, well, none lately … you might have noticed that my menu (which is normally on the right side of the page) has somehow made its way down to the bottom of the page below the blog.I haven’t had much of a chance to figure out what happened and why, but I’m somehow afraid that I’ll have to delete some posts .. therefore, I’ve been hesitant to post too much until I figure it out….Also, there’s this matter of intellectual noise I’m working with 😉

Mmmm… Guster