Our new couch and stuff should be here today. That will be nice to go home and sit on new stuff. I wonder if they will be able to find our house? Today is slow at the shop so I am bored.

Wind!! Oh yea look at that flag. 

Oops he saw me! good thing I am in the house. 

Here is a couple of pics of a couple of havalina in our front yard.They are known to be very aggresive and possible even attack. If you see one keep your distance. 

well the picture is a little blurrry but here it is as promised. one blooming cacti 

AHHHH Starbucks!! I never thought I would be one of those people but It happened. Last winter (or what we call winter) I purchased an almond latte and the rest is history. I have been fine tuning it since then and 6 months later I have all the lingo down like a pro (venti almond latte with extra shot and 2 splendas).Michelle is a mocha person so sub the almond for mocha.

We got a little rain this weekend so I took some pics of cacti blooms and will post those soon. Tommorow is Thursday and I will do about three hours on the mtb bike. I've been riding the new road bike to death so I will jump back on the mtb and do my normal loop. I think I have 278 miles on it in a few weeks which is alot for me considering it is a second bike.

Wednesday is usually a slow day for us at the shop so I will get caught up on some paper work and maybe goof of a little bit.

Well the Jets took a kicker in the first round??? Actually that's not two surprising considering our current kicker blew it in the playoffs last year. We also took a corner, tight end, two safeties and a defensive tackle. I would grade our draft a b+.

We got a little rain today and that will make the weeds worse. We also started painting the shed and finished the porch. We also found a living room set we like. We might pick it up next week.

Well we are one day away from the NFL draft. Tommorow we will see who goes were. The jets are sitting in a pretty good spot over all considering we traded away our #1 pick.We have two second rounders and three third rounders. Will we trade up? Will we get a good player? Or will we fall on our face? hopefully it will be one of the first two.We will have to wait and see.

Michelle had to work on thursday so we did not order the couch. We will look and maybe do something this weekend. I recaulked the tub in the spare bath yesterday (fun fun fun). all thats left is to fix the toilet handle jigle thing thats going on.

Well Michelle and I went couch shopping tonight and we found one we liked. Although it is not the design we were looking for it is the most practical. We will probably order it on Thursday.

I failed to mention the crash that happened on Sundays ride. Two guys went down. Fortunately no one was hurt bad. We were all in a pace line at about 45 miles in and were going threw a small construction zone. Greg clipped a barricade and the guy behind him ran into him. It is surprising that out of 35 riders going 20+ miles per hour, only two went down. They were some of the rabbits that took off early in the ride so they were tired and having trouble keeping pace after 2 1/2 hours.

Work is work and nothing new there. The NFL draft is this weekend. It will be interesting to see who the Jets take. I think either a cornerback and a tight end in the first two rounds,we will see.

Well we did almost 60 miles today on the road bike and it went well overall the pace was a little fast again but I just let them go. As always it is a rabbit and the tortoise story. We caught the group well b-4 the end of the ride.

Well I really have nothing to say but I have not posted in a while and am feeling guilty.It is just another day at work. Saturday is usually a busy day although we are rather slow so far. It will proberly pick up in a little while.

http://www.gizoogle.com/ This website is hilarious it will take any sentence and turn it into ebonics. Also there are horoscopes and other features as well. Check it out!

We officially hit 200 views the other day. I did not think that would happen for a while.

There have been alot of deaths due to motorcycles this month for some reason. I think the toll is at 5 for the month. I better get one.

We are going to look at a few couch stores and see if we can get a deal on one we like since ours is worn out. Maybe tonight or tommorow.

Well the ride did not go as planned. I felt sluggish at best and my legs just did not want to keep a higher cadence. Thats ok though since I already put in about 6 hours this week , 4 of which were pretty high intensity. I will do an easy recovery ride tommorow b-4 work. and take saturday off.

They annonced the 2005 nfl schueduale yesterday and it looks like the Jets are going to have it pretty hard. Third hardest in the league. That shoulld make for some interesting games.

Summer is almost here so it is time to start planning Pinetop trips.

Well it is Wednesday and that means tommorow is a big ride day. Proberly a minimum of three hours. I will ride the new road bike and leave early since it will be 90 degrees by noon.

I think I am going to do well in the may event since I had no problem sticking with the group on sunday without going to far out of my hr zone. Usually I have to work pretty hard to do that. We will see.

Today was a pimpin day at the gym. It was silly busy yo.

I thought I would take up ebonics since it seems to be taking over the tv and everything else.

Yo I had to pimp my ride a little today. note the dual colored bar tape.

The ride today went good, a little faster than expected though. The new bike is a rocket and the 12-27 cassette was unexpectedly awsome. We rode from the new shop down Ina road and jumped on the frontage road heading north,then headed east on Tangerine north on dove (which is an out and back)north on Thornydale east on Moore south on Rancho south on Oracle west on Ina to the shop. About 50 miles and since I rode frome home I got in an extra 5 miles. I felt good although it was way faster of a pace than expected so I just sat in the back and took the draft.


Thanks to all my family who sent Michelle a Birthday card! It means alot since her family treats me so well.

here is Michelle opening a b-day gift. 

This is a pic as we were leaving. our seats were actually right on top of the cubs dugout. 

Here is the new road bike!! I will put it threw the paces on sunday!! 

I went up to phoenix and we took Michelle to a Cubs game at the BOB wenesday night and had great seats( right over the cubs dugout)and then we had a little get together thursday night with her (our now) family.


My new road bike showed today, I will post a pic later. I hope to ride it sunday on the group ride and see how it does.

ahhh glute heaven!!!! 

It gets dark in the desert at night. 

here is a pic from last year of a baby rattler. 

Surley should consider beefing up the spring they use for singulators. Everyone seems to over tighten them and pop the spring. 

Rode today about three and a half hours and the wind was not to bad. It was about 15 miles an hour. It was great all the way to the trail since I had a tail wind.

Michelle is out of town till next sunday at a work conference. The conference is in phoenix and I will be going up on Wednesday or Thursday to hang out.

I took one picture on the trail and will post it later.

I found Sabrett hotdogs in the grocerie store. Oh yea thats the goods.

84 degrees today almost hot, you can tell it is coming(summer). The wind died down finally and I have a monster ride planned out for tomorrow. Taking in alot of fluids today in preperation.The new seat did not show. DHL is that new company simular to ups. Somehow they screwed up again. We are getting one box a day for the next 9 days. I dont know why all boxes were shipped at the same time from the same place.

we had taquitos for dinner, good stuff

Allright I am sick of the wind. It has been windy since wednesday and I am talkin blow you off your bike windy. Saguaro's are fallen over and all the customers hair piece's are blowin out of position(Am I supposed to tell them?).Needless to say I have no motivation to ride in this crap. It could be worse, it could be like 10 degrees outside or pouring rain I guess. This sunday Michelle is going up to pheonix for a week long seminar so I will do a loooonngg ride. The weather should be better by then.I am off to bed for some r and r.

I was watching NFL Network this morning and that loser Clarette said that he was tired after his 2 1/2 hour workout at his "personal" combine. That blowes my mind, he is a (or wants to be)professional athlete. He should not be tired after that. How is he going to play a three hour football game? Even if he was tired he should have said I feel great (with enthusiasm)! Either way he will be paid. Oh well I guess I just don't get it. All I know is that I (just a normal guy) can go do a 5 hour mtb race and I looked better afterwards than he did.

I am riding tonight after work and will be looking for about 1 1/2 hours. Hopefully my new seat is in today, my arse has been getting sore after the 2nd hour. I think the old one just has to many miles on it and has finally broken down to much.