I was hit by a limo last night...and they offered to give me a lift home.
I don't remember much after I got into the limo.

TOONA

Toona is coming up in less than a week
I will be updating as often every day, so you can all read how the race is going.

Yeah, right...like that'll happen.

did I ever tell you about the time...

I went to my hometown on the 4th.
Chilled with the parental units and raced my bike in small circles past places I hung as a kid. We traveled at 30+ mph past:

1. What used to be $1 movie theatre I frequented for 20 years.
2. The long gone army/navy store that I hung out in nearly every day waiting for the - perfect combat boots to show up.
3. "Jakes," the late night and breakfast joint were I have been drunk, sober, asleep, in love, heartbroken, confused, completely out of my mind, and never more sure of myself.
4. The old bank where "Dan Tanner",a resident of the now defunct State Hospital, used to stand on the corner with his transistor radio, shirtless, all year.
5. The bust of Calvin Coolidge in the courtyard of the Old Courthouse that I traveled back to from Cleveland, to fight a speeding ticket, and won. Boo Yaaaah!
6. The convenience store previously known as "Grampy's" were I would wax philosophic with the clerk at 3 AM while in various states of being.
7. The building that used to house "Friendly's" where we would have lunch with my great-grandmother.
8. "Peoples Institute," where I first went to summer day camp and fell in love at the ripe old age of 4.
9. The Hotel Northampton. Still there. Still the same.
10. "Lizotte's" The tobacconist where I used to buy cool cigarettes and Chesterfield Kings.

Most things are gone, but so am I.

Thomas Wolfe said it best, "You Can't Go Home Again"

the months keep flying by

So..Like..I'm a bike racer ya know, right!?
So...like I raced my bike for the past four days and will do it again tomorrow.
and like if I told you all about it, it would probably bore you to death. Unless your the type of dork that reads other peoples' blogs all day and lives vicariously through them.

Are you that type?

Do you want to know what happened?

We __________ the race. (fill in the blank)

That's all you need to know. There are many more important things you should be reading and educating yourself about and not reading this.
Like...Darfur, Iraq, World Cup, TdF, that idiotic embargo of Cuba, Afghanistan, Guantanimo illegal tribunals (thanks Supreme Court,) Gubenatorial elections...

The list goes on and on forever. There is no end to it.

BTW, There was a huge crash in the road race at Fitchburg and this photo show just a portion of the aftermath.

"There were snow guns everywhere. There was no way to turn," one victim was believed to have said as he ran down the gravel path wearing nothing but a sock.