PUSHING BUTTONS......................................

A conversation...

Bubba: Hey Julie..There's some wacky stuff on the blogs lately.

Julie: You mean you guys are bored again.

Bubba: No really............check this out.

Julie:(after reading about 2 minutes of political and religious banter) Give me a break....Those blogs are much more entertaining when everybody's making fun of each other and especially when they're making fun of you. Now move and let me check the e-mail quick..I'm tired.

Julie: Here you go.. and try not to fall asleep in front of the computer screen again.

In other news.....

This creep got her temps. last night and will be driving a car in the near future.

God help us all.....................................................oops.

Interesting to note that the new product rep. for cycleops trainers has put zero minutes on hers since the picture was taken . Her total time logged to date remains at 12 minutes. That's advertising for ya'.

CHEQUAMEGON......................................

I'm in.............The check cleared.

I think I have a good chance of cracking the top 800 this year. Go Bubba!!

GARBAGE IN.......GARBAGE OUT.................

I'm really surprised I haven't been dropped from a bunch of link lists as lame as this blog has been lately. Sorry and thanks.
Truth is, I aint got nuthin' these days.
Yeah....I have been doing some riding and am still getting to the "Y" a couple times a week for swimming and pump class. It would be cool to keep up the pump class once a week or so and swim a couple days before work, but I just don't know if I'm that motivated. You know how it is when the weather gets right and you can find cycling "good times" with the local schmucks just about every night of the week.

I've had the Rockhound out for a few short rides and I think it's going to be a great bike for me (It may just stay in one piece too), but lately I've been thinking about doing the singlespeed class in WORS..........How screwed up is that??? However with 24/9, Ore to Shore, a few WEMS races and hopefully Chequamegon on the radar, I should have plenty of opportunities to ride the Gunnar.

I hope to get down to Parkside Sunday for the races. I have been told to try the Masters 40+ instead of the 4-5 race, but I don't know if I can get there that early.
Bubba and Masters.........Two words not used together very often, but it does have a nice ring to it. If you get spit out the back...are you still a Master???

ANYBODY SEEN MY KID???...........

I let my kid go bike racing with him?? I must have been liquored up.

MAIDEN VOYAGE.....................................

I took the "Graped Ape" out for it's first little ride tonight. Pretty damn nice.

I'm gonna' get my ass handed to me in style this season.

Before I went on my ride I took a walk on the "Bubba trail" with these two. The river is high and mooovin'. We observed something I've never seen in 43 years of living on the river. Giant chunks of ice busting loose and floating down the river. They were making loud crashing sounds as they broke loose and when they hit rocks and fallen trees in the river. One piece got stood up on end and was about 12 feet tall. We must have just been in the right place at the right time. Awesome sight. I had to keep Jack-shit from jumping in and taking a rocket ride to Jones Island.

LIVING UP TO HIS NAME....GUSTO IS REALLY GETTING MOTIVATED................................

After taking Gus for an exam, the vet confirmed our hunch....he's older than dirt. She said 12 yrs old was a good guess. She also found him to have pretty bad ear infections in both ears, and very "old man" hips and joints......but no cataracts and his teeth are actually pretty nice for a dog his age. She also said his lack of muscle tone indicates that he may have been owned by someone elderly that could not or just did not exercise him. However, as is the case with strays, you just don't really know their story. This guy swears that with the name Gus, he belongs to some old polish dude on the south side who's gonna' want him back as soon as I dump a few hundred bucks on his health care.

BUT GUS IS ON THE REBOUND........................
I have been aggressively treating the ear infections and they are clearing up real nice. We've got him on some supplements for joint health, and our vet gave us some samples of arthritis meds to get things moving along a little quicker. He's looking better every day.

With all the attention being paid to Gusto, Jack is feeling a little "left out of the loop", but he's being a good sport. This is the look I've been getting lately. Pretty pathetic. I keep telling him things will be back to normal soon.

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A SNAPPY DRESSER............................................

ROLLER BALL.........................................

Yeah...I'm still here....Just doin' a little swimmin', ridin', liftin'....you know...stickin' to the plan.