Downhill Extraordinaire

Well headed out to Missouri tomorrow by way of Albuquerque and DFW. Getting away to see some friends from my Navy days. Plus I am carrying on my tradition of going somewhere new in January since 2003. I want to let you all know that I am more than willing to go and see you if the invitation is presented.

Hope you all have a good time working on Thursday and Friday and have a nice weekend. Are you going to be watching the Super Bowl? Who's your pick to win?

What an experiment

Have you ever wondered how much you change physically in a year. There are many factors involved. I had heard of an experiment and decided to take it on.

Well on January 1, 2008 I started taking a picture of myself everyday for the year. It started off with much excitement and dedication. I managed to complete it somehow. I will look back on it with happiness of my completion but never could see myself doing it ever again. I managed to get a picture all 366 days with it being a leap year and all. The main drawback for me was having to upload the pictures onto my computer and then onto my Flickr account.

Well it is complete now, so if you care to take a peek or watch them in a slide show click here.

Let me know what you think if you would please.

Oh my...Say what?

The Knack - My Sharona

Seven Months is a long time

For you Olins as you head out to set sail. Take care and hit it hard. Hope you get some vids of you riding at sea.

East Coast = COLD

How are you Easterners dealing with the bitter cold that is all over the news. Yes MLA you are included in that group. Have not heard from you in quite some time.

Hope all is going well and you (MLA, Chaya, lizzy)are staying as warm as possible. Not to mention the millions of others who call the east coast home. Feel free to throw your two cents in.

Congrats to Shriver

Matt Shriver was the first to get the nod for CX worlds after the automatic selection of National Champ Ryan Trebon.

Now for the rest of the team that is due to be announced tomorrow...

Way Cool

Not to mention at least some of the bail out money being put to use because of someone actually using their head and hoping to make a difference.

Bike to work.

As I said before I love bicycles...

I love bicycles

Anchors Away

We don't talk as much as I would like. Life gets in the way and we both realize this. More so with you, as you have a family. However the texting back and forth and the comments via Twitter are a great relief. Even with it being a long time since we saw each other at the Bremerton airport.

With that I sure am going to miss being able to talk to you by texting something random like what size do you ride? Or talking about the "very hard training". I understand that it will not be forever but 7 months is quite the spread. I know I have a few more days so let's just make the most of it.

I wish you the best with the deployment, being away from the family and the endeavour that will be in your mind that you plan to tackle upon arriving back home.

With the country facing a poor economy at the present, unemployment is through the roof and businesses are closing left and right. With that a question comes to mind. Do you think the major corporations will be spending millions of dollars on 30 seconds of airtime for commercials during the Super Bowl this year?

To me that sounds no different than the GM executives flying to D.C. on their private jets to ask for Bail Out money. Then again I think I am getting the Jane's Addiction syndrum.


I will leave with this. It is interesting and wonder if it actually has a hope of getting off the ground.

You have got to be kidding me...

I thought I had heard just about everything that had to deal with the bailouts. Then I come across this. Absolute ridiculous but why should I be surprised honestly?? Hope Chaya doesn't mind me stealing her blog topic.

Unibrow anyone?

No, this is not a picture from the movie Nerds or the Italian I saw with Russ one day. This is good ol' cycling in Venezuela.

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold

Sorry but I find it catchy...

I did not intend on ending the year I did with a serious lack of blogging. Things don't always work how we want however. I had a wonderful holiday season, I just didn't make the time to put anything here. How were your holidays by the way? Make any new years resolutions? I made a few but with no offense to you, I am keeping them to myself.

I don't believe I ever shared this before but started going to the new gym here in town and I can not get enough of it. Today is my off day but I was there yesterday and Sunday.

Do you guys twitter? Or have you heard of it? I was introduced to it and that led partly to my lack of blogging but I'm not complaining.

I plan on blogging more this year than last year, wish me luck!

Let me know how you are all doing, would love to hear from you.

In closing, I have to say Thank you very much to the Chief for finally successfully sending me a Christmas card.