Monday, November 21, 2005

FUH2

I think this sums it up. Blunt, but effective.

http://www.fuh2.com/

while you're at it, you might as well check out http://www.engrish.com

Have a Rice Day!!

Monday, November 14, 2005

"Sporgy"

Talk about allot going on! This weekend was a smorgasbord of athleticism in the fair state of Michigan. College football, Pro football, Pro hockey, Mike's men's league, My hockey session and of course the 1st annual P.O.S bike ride! Needless to say that spot in the hallway carpet I've been meaning to clean up will have to wait another week.
Saturday literally blew in with winds that would have sent Mary Poppins over the Atlantic. The event this day: The 1st Annual P.O.S. 100. (not really a UCI sanctioned type of event...it was actually just a group of grown adults on kids bikes loaded up on Milwaukee's Beast) As the afternoon rolled around I gathered up my bike, clothes and dog and headed to downtown Rochester for some pre-event downhill runs. The runs were fun, however I didn't go away unscathed. I showed up to the start of the event with blood running down my knee from a not-so-graceful crash off of an earlier jump. Every successful ride causes bloodshed.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll save some typing.
  • Here are 10400:

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  • Here are a few more:

  • An award was given for the best crash of the day. The recipient: The 7 year old kid who opened the door and fell out of the minivan while his dad was roasting the tires.

    Wednesday, November 09, 2005

    Gym Rats

    So I'm trying to be better and actually get into the gym now that summer's over. I've been moderately good the past few weeks. Yoga, abs class, step...today was spinning. I attended a noon spin class at the hoity-toity gym for my lunch break and to force myself to get away from work. (not much forcing there)
    I enter spin studio stage right and am accosted with blaring dance club music. Now, I like the stuff just as much as the next person however this was a bit over the top for noon on a weekday. So the instructor is pedaling away (his seat was way to low, shoulders were pumping way too much and he was way too big to be talking with the effeminate lisp he had...I can only assume he juiced for the aesthetic benefit of someone named Guy or Stephan)
    We spin along to his instruction and I'm catching odd random movements to my left. The guy on the bike next to me (clad in baggy zebra striped pants, doo-rag, and leather yard work gloves) is shadow-boxing!
    Now we've got "sauce-gut" in the front, "Mike-Tyson-on-a-bike" to the left and now the lady who came in late and faced her bike perpendicular to mine is BLOWING ON ME!!! I've found there's nothing really worse than going anaerobic while breathing in someone else's exhaled lunch fumes.
    Mercifully the class ended. It really wasn't a bad class. It made me work which is what I came to do, but I think next time I'll get there a bit earlier and secure a better spot.