Michelle is off to Vegas for the weekend with her mother (Ann) to have some fun and see some shows . Michelle has a minute by minute plan off course. They will be back on Monday so I can get some goof off time.

The Jets annonced a new stadium they will share with the giants again. This time the jets will be 50% owners instead of renters. I guess thats good, although they will still be in Jersey. They really should change there name to the Jersey Jets since that is where they play and soon will have there home office.

The new road bike rocks! Very comfy and smooooth. The shop is doing well and we are gearing up for the big rush b-4 the El Tour De Tucson. "The biggest perimiter road race in the country". Usually around 7000+ show up for the one day 109 mile race around the city. Rather pricy entry fees and very dangerous unless your in the front.

Nothing really new happining around here. Just the normal daily action. I will post when something good happens.

We went to the doctor on Thursday and everything is going well, right on task. We could not find out the sex of the kid yet, but we made an appointment for a sonogram. Two Thursdays from now we should know.

I bought a new road bike with the cash from the old road bikes sale. It is a 2006 Lemond Victoire. Nice smooooooth ride. This morning was the maiden voyage and after a few stops to get the fit just right I feel right at home. I hope to do the tour this year and that will be a good riding bike for that.

Allright we bought the 2002 Izuzu Axiom. We are pretty happy about the deal we found. we were able to get it from a friend of a friend who was looking to trade it in. We offered him kelly blue books trade in value and he accepted. So we were able to get a really good deal. I will be posting pictures soon.

In other news we are hoping to find out if it is a boy or girl we will be seeing in march tommorow. We had to switch doctors since our insurance company does not cover ours anymore. I think the insurance companys try to make it hard in hopes that we will give up and just pay our doctor and cut them out of the loop ( typical insurance scams).

How about one of these ? Drives nice looks good and is affordable.

Quick update

We still are in searh of the perfect vehicle. We found a 2000 nissan frontier quad cab at a local dealership and after 3 hours of going back and forth we could not get the deal done we were about $1500 apart(basicly the sales tax and fees). So the search continues.

How about one of these? We found and drove a 2002 pontiac aztec and we rather liked it. Only one problem, it is not a honda. It seems to get good reviews and with only 42k on the odometer it should run for a while with out any problems. Lets hear it, opinions that is.

Tuesday September 13th

Not much new happen here we are still in search for the perfect vehicle. I am torn between a minivan (fuel effecincy, lower cost, more room) or a quad cab truck ( the opposite but I can still have some dignity).

I am still riding to work and it is actually rather nice to get out in the morning and get it going right. Store is doing fine and we are hitting our #s. There is an event in October but I dont think I will do this one. From what I heard the course is no good and the entry is to high. So I will have to think about what events to do this year.

Well it did not rain during the event but it did the night b-4. It was storming so bad it blew a 18 weeler propane truck over the edge earlier that day. so they closed the road due to leakage and we had to drive all the way around threw Phoenix (about a 4 1/2 hour drive instead of 31/2). We started the ride at 8:00am and the starting line was a huge mud pit. People were having a hard time clipping into there pedals and even getting there bikes rolling threw the thick mud, by mile three 1/2 the field had mechanicals and turned back. I made it about 12 miles and the mud was so thick and soupy (think of thick oatmeal) that I was unable to go any further. I found a huge puddle and washed my bike down. That gave mw about another 3 miles and then I was in the same boat. I figure this race will cost me an additional $70 after I get my bike back in order. I spent about $8 at the car wash right after the event powerwashing the bike and shoes. The mud was so packed up in the frame that it took all the paint off alot of areas. Well next is El Tour de Tucson. A 111 mile road event around the city.

Michelle and I are thinking of buying a minivan. Yup you heard me right a minivan! I figure between all my bike crap and soon to be kid crap and also kid we will need some room. So if anyone is selling a clean reliable van, let me know.

I am off to Pinetop tommorow for the event and will return sunday night. That means I will miss my beloved Jets on the tube. Oh well. It is going to rain during the event according to the weather channel. I hope it pours, that would be fun. BIG HUGE MUD FEST!! All the az natives will go into hiding like cats.

Wednesday Septeber 7 2005

We hit over a 1000 veiws

I have been in tucson for 6 years

3 days till the T.W.M.

about 30 more days till nice weather

we have a new computer

we looked at a Honda Odyssey last night

New E-mail address dkharris111@yahoo.com. The Tour of the White Mountains is this weekend. Yup 25, 35, 41, 52 or 65 miles in the mountains take your pic. I downgraded to the 41 for the lack of riding I have been doing. It should still be fun.

In other news Michelles family came over for labor day and we did the whole grill thing. The shop is slowed to a nice pace. Thats nice since I could hardly keep up two weeks ago.

Anybody wishing to comment on a topic will now have to use the word verification. It is easy all you do is type the letters you see into the box and your post will go up. I had to many mass comments going in and it took alot of my time. This will make my life alot easier.

Well everyone it looks as though I will be a dad. Yup kinda scary huh. Michelle and I are pretty exited as you can imagine. Needless to say the priorities in life have changed. I am ok with that though this is going to be fun. I know there will be some hard times but overall it will be a good time.


Michelle is doing fine she is a little tired and is good for about 8 hours a day. Then it is all down hill. Still no word on her car. We really dont want it back now since it is proberly thrashed.

On the other side of things the other store beat us on $ last month by a mere bike sale. I still consider it a victory considering my store has only been open a year and a 1/2 and the other one 5 years. I have not been riding much exept to work.

Thats it for now D.