Ho, Ho, Ho,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Merry Christmas!!!! I love Christmas, I am like a little kid when it comes down to it! It kinda dawned on me last night!

It's finally here, I wait all year for this and I am a grown adult! All the gifts are bought and the family is coming! Good food, good times, the kids get to open all their gifts and Santa will be stopping by!

It's Christmas!!!!!!!! Believe me, I will wake up before the kids on Sunday. I always wake up first! I get a kick out of being their when they come down the stairs!

Don't forget, my favorite movie will be on TV all day!!!!! Christmas Story... The worlds greatest movie..

Merry Christmas everybody, hope you and your family have a great time and I will see ya next week....Ho,Ho,Ho.......................

Bored......................

Yep, the rain has been around just long enough to make me bored as hell! The kids, same situation! Cody said he would just as soon be in school than to sit around all day. He has found a few things to do and has plans today but overall he would rather take just a few days off!

Chase, he has his video games; XBOX live. So he has a hobby. I guess that's the difference in an 11 year old and a 16 year old. Tomorrow i will only work half a day and Karen will be at work all day. then we will both be home Monday.

I still need to go shopping, so Friday afternoon I will have the kids out and about for awhile that will help make them happier. Saturday will be Christmas eve so they will be excited, then of course Sunday is Christmas! Kids love that!

Our plans are the usual, Christmas eve my moms, Christmas day with her family. It seems to work so no need to rock the boat!

I must be bored, I am sitting here telling you all about my plans for the holiday's. And the best part is I know you really don't care.....

This is what happens when I am stuck in the house for an extended period of time. I get bored and have nothing to write about! Do you really want to know what I watched on TV last night...I need to stop writing now before I run all 5 of my readers off...............................

Tonight I will at least go plan in the street,,,,wish me luck....................

Are You Getting Ready Yet ????????????

Yep, Christmas is here and I know everybody has been getting ready. But that ain't what I am talking about! It's time to start building the doomsday shelter! My business should pickup this year. So if it's true I will at least have a pocket full of money.

What am I talking about you ask? The end of time! Yep we are finally on the last year of time according to the Mayan calender! 12-21-12 is the big day. Start getting ready!

Full disclaimer: The author of this post is full of s... , nothing in this blog is of real relevance to what happens in the rest of the world. The only world that matters is mine (the author) and the rest of the happenings are just that. For what it's worth. If you go sell all your worthless belongings and the world dose not end, tough shit!!!!

Now since I have the disclaimer out of the way back to my story. (Fiction that is!) If you believe the hype we are going to have a meteor, earthquake or my favorite.

like flat tire!!!!

The once in a billion years line up of the planets. Worst case scenario a big hole will blow through the middle of the planet and we lose gravity and all us float of into space! Like a flat tire!

Then we have the polar swap theory. The earth is going to flip and all the magnetic fields will be all screwed up! Then nothing will work; no power, water, gas. Planes won't be able to fly, the whole collapse of society! Can't wait for that to happen! 

Hope I haven't ruined your day..........LOL..................

Day 2 Of Testing...................

I got dropped!!! LOL Like a bad habit!!! That's what I get for riding with the fast kids. Sunday came and I picked up Charles and headed to Sherman Branch. We got there and ran into Chris W, I knew then I was screwed!

So there I am pedaling along and trying to act like I had it under control. Behind me Charles and Chris are riding along talking and laughing like we are on a Sunday social! Oh, wait we "where" on a Sunday social! To be honest they weren't killing me so it was fun. But anyhow, the second lap was the same pace I just ran out of gas. I cut the course here and there to stay with them but I still ended up being dropped!

I am a big boy it didn't hurt my feeling to bad! Actually it was kinda fun pushing myself that hard. I have been on a different training schedule, one that does not require me to kill myself on every ride. I am shooting for more of an endurance pace than I am a race pace.

Now back to the bike! If I could round up the coins I would have one tomorrow! This thing is the bomb, it rolls everything so fast and smooth, stuff I would normally stand up to get over I can remain seated on. The 2x10 gearing is perfect. It seems like you are always in the right gear, if your not all it takes is a quick hit of the shifter and you are good to go! Bottom line, the XTR shifters are sweet.

So that's about it for the Felt Edic pro test. Now it's back on the Specialized Epic.. At least I ain't slumming.. 





Testing Again.................

So I bought the Cannondale and have been trying to ride it and make it work. Well it just ain't happening I have tried and Charles has tried to make it go, I am not quite sure what the problem is . I love the fork and overall it's a fun bike to ride, it just doesn't like to go fast.



So it's gonna be sold and replaced! With what you ask? How about a Felt 26in Edic Pro! Oh yea, Bicycles East let me take one home for the weekend and I have been testing it! So far, all is well! This thing is fast and I swear it rides better than any full squish I have ever ridin!

 

Uhwarrie in winter mode

You can really haul ass on this thing. Saturday I took it to Uhwarrie and rode 2 laps. By the way all you fair weather riders who sat home all day because it was to wet! Your loss, Uhwarrie was perfect. Back to the bike. At first I thought it was to soft but that's because I have been riding the hard tail so much lately. The Fox float fork and rear shock work perfect together.

The rear end was rolling over stuff without a complaint and you can get so aggressive with the front end I swear it feels like I am riding my RM 250! It has a "tapered control" head tube (never heard of before) and I don't even know what that is supposed to do but I like the front end! When you are centered on the bike and just kinda bounce the bike, both ends react in perfect unison. I know that means the shocks are set up the same, but you don't get that very often on a bike.

That was day 1 with the bike. Day 2 will start shortly!

It's Friday,,,,It's Friday,,,,,,,,,,,,,

We all know what I say! It's Friday!!!!!! I work all week just for this day, 2 days of play! It seems as though we are getting screwed if you ask me. We work for 5 days and then end up with 2 days off. Seems like we should get 3 days for every 5 days.

Oh well, might as well enjoy what we have. Saturday the whole crowd is coming. Me, Kelly, Scott, Dane, and Charles. This ought to be fun! I haven't ridin with all of them in a while. Looks like we will only have time for 1 lap, but at least we get one. Charles has a funeral to make so we gonna keep it short.

I think I am gonna come home and ride the road bike afterword. I need to get in some more miles. Then Sunday I am heading to SC. I am gonna put in a long ride! By long I mean about 75 miles. The plan is to park at Rocky River School (south of Monroe) and head down to Mcbee and back. It ought to be a good ride.

Besides that, it will probably be a slow weekend. Karen is home sick today and the kids get out of school for the next 2 weeks. They will be wound up today but back to normal by tomorrow.

Stick with me, I will get pictures this weekend! I know I have been slack about picyures this week.....

Yes Dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some days, just don't go as planned! I actually got home early yesterday and thought I was gonna get out and head to the trail earlier than I had planned! FAIL...

It was not to be! Of course the wife had a few things she needed to get from town and asked if I would go with her. I bit my tongue and said "yes dear" I will be glad to go with you! Glad not really, mad not really. But that was the beginning of the end for my planned night in the woods!

So after out trip to the big little city of Monroe we headed home. Chase had a project due and she was helping him. So there I was, Cody still needed picked up from therapy and she was working on a project with Chase. Dilemma, dilemma!!!

Pick your battles!! That was one of the life lessons I learned a long time ago! I had nobody meeting me and it wasn't gonna be the end of the world so I went and got Cody and came home and did a little laundry. She is a little under the weather so I fixed the kids dinner and just made myself useful.

I swear, I must be the best husband ever!!!!!!!    Hey it's my blog so I can tell the story anyway I want!!!!