i think its giving me.... the fear

Pretty frustrated. What do you do when the dude who signs your checks tells you to work super hard, pick up the pace, and do it with a smile; and oh, by the way, in 2 months you probably wont have the job anymore.

I also don't take kindly to the fact that when the belt needs to be tightened at one of my jobs, i'm the first to get the chop, because i work harder than everybody else there, being as i have 2 jobs.

maybe this is God telling me i need to beef up the old education. We'll see.

the gay warehouse worker on the office...

sorta looks like Dr. Norman Carter.

that's all.

tofu madness

i haven't really noticed any change, other than a little cranky-ness, from my recently adopted dietary plan. i did have some lentil soup from brisket's downtown that was off the chain though. Most under-rated restaurant in redlands.

Along with the increased aggression has come winter cold. i dont have it as bad as Walt, the dude building my bike as referenced here , however, for a california native sub 50 is pretty rough. This also might explain my crankyness of late. Hasn't cut into my riding though, surprisingly enough. Im using thom's demo bike which is one of the new fangled 6-series madones. Pretty cool for a plastic bike.

Along with the drop in temperature has come my desire for a snuggie. I know what you're thiking. Nerd. You're right, but i've never tried to deny it. I want a snuggie so bad! On recovery duty after turner tried to kill me and 8 other dudes on saturday, my blanket was just plain not cutting it. Only a snuggie could provide the solace/freedom to remain cozy whilst playing video games or reading comic books.

Along with the longing for a snuggie has come the desire to cast evil spells on my cats and create some sort of mythical hybrid creature. Although Stubbs already looks like a hybrid bulldog-chipmunk, im looking for something a little more badass. At any rate, here's a behemoth video to satiate any and all desire to cast an evil spell or two. At lease stave it off for a bit, anyways. I think this video best captures why evil will always conquer over good: because good is dumb.

be healthy

So, for the next month or so, i am going to be playing around with my diet.

People say when they go vegetarian, that they feel so much healthier and full of energy and and and etc. etc. etc. Now i think that this is partially placebo effect/bullshit that people say to make you believe what they believe, however, I have done a 6 year stint as a vegan, so i feel like i know how to do it right. I also know how to do it wrong as per the reference i am given by a great many of the vegans i know. If you consume rods whipped topping, or a little debbie donut, or the like in the name of it being coincidentally vegan, you may be standing up for the animals, but i hope you can find one that will stand up for you. If i saw people shoveling garbage into a chicken pen for a chicken to eat, i would stop them, and i freaking hate chickens. Such is the same reason i tell people who shove huge amounts of soy protein and hydrogenated oils into their mouths "hey, that suff would do you more good if you shoved it up your ass..."

If there is something behind this (and you veggie readers of this blog, please, comment) and i can feel better, or have more energy by eating a vegetarian diet, i'm gonna do so. After all, i love fruits and veggies. If there is a fruit or vegetable out there i don't like, i can always find a way to prepare it so i do.

chopper dropped by the shop do get his bike wrenched on. man. i'll let the pics do the talking.


"ive been having a lot of flats lately!" No shit?



"there's a grinding sound every time i steer at somewhat low speeds, like around that corner by the park on sunset..." that's cause half the park is embedded in your head tube sir."having a little trouble shifting lately...." that may be due to the fact that the ant magnet you call a bottom bracket shell is a giant sugar cube, sir.
chopper, im just wondering HOW you wiped your ass with your bottom bracket.

Now i'm going to hunt down and kill a falafel sandwich.

be healthy

Grand stolen bike inquisition!

So this week, we'll call him jay (a cop), reaped the benefits of my bike superherodom. Not by way of wrench (he's actually quite capable as far as mechanics), but due to my sleuthing skills.

After my mountain bike got stolen i approached jay to talk some shop when he came into the bike shop. i asked him about what the police could do for me, he promptly told me in the same boat as him, due to his bike getting stolen out of his garage around 2 months ago.

Fast forward to monday last week. Dude comes in to box up his project one madone. Hand build wheels. Odd. 140mm stem on a 54 cm frame. Odd. Flat black custom project one color. Odd. Never seen this dude at crit practice or on raincross or....well, i've never seen this dude. Again, Odd.

I search the annuals of my bike crime database. The bike sticks out as possibly jay's. I call jay. Sure as crap, he comes down and identifies the bike.

I felt so vindicated. Even if it wasn't my bike i found i still feel like i had vanquished a foe. Like i had punched satan square in the face.

here's a picture of captain america choking hitler so you can share in my feeling.

some worm stole my bike.

as well as a wheelset that i already had sold. Broke into my apartment in a 2-hour window of time, in broad daylight, used some bolt-cutters, and opened the lock on my garage door, and lifted the stuff inside, left most of it, just took my 2008 stumpjumper ht and a powertap wheelset. bastards. i'm sor of afraid of what i will do if i catch them.

1 man wrecking crew

ok, it's more like 3 or 4 man, but we are tearing apart the bike shop. Growing tired of a person, who does not employ me, telling me what and how to do, my job. Hopefully it will all be over soon.

Enjoying the new dude at the shop, john. I'm not 100 percent convinced that he likes me though. I'm sure he'll grow to like me, cuz hey, i'm pretty awesome.

Went to long beach comic con. Bought a LOT of key issues. Too good a deal not to pass up. Also, good to see that Geoff Johns spends some time around the weight pile. So man sloths at comic conventions. I think my personal fave issue i bought was:



In this issue, they tie, although, it's clearly barry allen being cool about it, because he smokes superman at least twice later on.

I've grown rather fond of the flash, who is in fact the worlds fastest man, which is kind of ironic coming from the worlds SLOWEST man. Speaking of slow, cross kicks of for myself this weekend. Getting ready to do some hurting.