The F the L and the A

I know it's FL now, but us southern folk are a little slow up the uptake of new stuff.

But yes the wife and I are down in FL for a weekend of warmth, family and beer. (Maybe I should have put beer first....I mean that was the first place we went after the airport...I call in inlaw prep.)

The past week up in PA was crap...rain, snow and wind....all that means no riding. I did the trainer for an hour or so each day, but to me that's not even worth bringing up. It was more so just something to take up time because the wifey was out in armPittsburg for work again.

I did meet up with Gary yesterday for a short 25 mile spin on the fix gears...everything felt good, and was nice to be outside and in the saddle again. Lastnight the wife and I got our Mex on for Vally Day, as always it was great.

Today was an early morning with the airport and all, but now here I sit at the inlaws with beer......so I'm half happy.

Strange place

That kind of sums up the past couple of days.

The weather here in eastern PA has been hit and miss for riding for the past week. But I did a MTB ride down at Wissa on Friday and to put it best it was "strange." I did an hour solo (before I meet Gary and Bud) and everything just felt wrong. The first three or four turns I overshot, my heartrate seamed high and I just felt like a "chorizo" as Bud put it. But I keep the sausage chugging along for two more hours after meeting the two Stooges, and things got a little better.

The Sat road ride was killed because of snow/wind so I meet Kirk for a couple beers and lunch at Ironhill and discussed both my loss of manhood and plans for a Sunday ride. The "loss of manhood" may have been worked out and a Sunday ride was planned.

Today's ride was a group of five down to Middle Run/White Clay, and even thou I was sporting a singlespeend things felt great.....Boring but great, we'll see how things are on the next "serious/working" ride....hopefully tomorrow morning, more on that that tomorrow......hopefully.

Holy heat wave

I know I've been saying how windy or cold it's been here over the past few weeks and I'm gonna give you a new number....67. Yeah it was 67 here in eastern PA today....freaking 67, it did rain....but it's 67 I don't care.

Even with the rain I did do a short ride, just hill repeats here by the house for forty-five minutes on the fix gear. Felt great to be in "warm" weather for a change.

But the highlight of the day was when the mail came.

Looks like the wife is getting part of Valentine's day early thanks to the fast shipping of the boys at T6. And they're even the right colors for the day in question too.

Of course something may have been in the box for me too, but I don't want to spoil the loving mood I've got going.

So I'll just show them tomorrow.

It's Tuesday?

You mean it's Tuesday, what the hell happened to Monday?

I won't go into the details but yesterday was bad. When you start the day by waking up on the bathroom floor.......the day is not gonna be good. But after a few hours of finding out who and where I was things started to get a little better, plus I got to spend a couple hours with the wife before she headed back to armPittsburg again.

I did get out on the fix gear for a short twenty mile spin today before the weather turned to crap. Hoping to do the same if not a more tomorrow, but weather could play into that one too. The rain I can deal with, it's the 30 plus mph winds that may throw a monkey wrench into things. If not it's a paintin I'll be.

But more importantly the wife should be coming home tomorrow......nothing more needs to be said here.

Super Bowl..in PA?

Yeah you heard it, the wife and I are still in PA. The trip to FL was killed, cut by the airlines. After sitting in the bar at the airport friday night for a couple hours (and killing a plate of nacho's plus more than a fews beers EACH) our flight to Florida was cancelled (bad weather here in PA.) So we rescheduled for a month from now (the inlaws we're not ready to see this manlyness.)

So here we are...... the wife and I both can't (legaly) drive, so we'll just have our own little Super Bowl. And here it is..........

Her "beer" which is the water on the left....the stuff I hopefully piss out after long hours of riding. Me...that big bottle of Chimay Blue....which is not my first today.

More tomorrow...because it's taken me over half an hour it type this and I just heard Danzig singing Mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!If you're watching the game you would have got that last joke.

Ark to Sunshine

Today is not the greastest day here in eastern PA with the heavy rains/wind that started this morning and will run thru tonight. But hearing the weather lastnight I was debating rebuilding the Ark and loading up the bikes and dogs.

But as always they got it wrong AGAIN...from the two inches of rain they were calling for lastnight, to the "may reach half an inch" today. Oh well, I guess I need to take off my waders and boots now.......

But with all that off my chest the wife and I are heading down to FL this afternoon for a quick inlaw visit/getaway. It will be nice to see her parents but even nicer to be in warm weather again. All this means a couple much needed days off the bike, but with only one day out of the saddle over the past two weeks I need it.

Off to do a little packing and preflight drinking.

Funky, paint sale

No, no, no. It's not time to stock up on your favorite hippie colors for your tie-dye collection. That's just my week in a nut shell.

Monday and Tuesday both the wife and I were in a funk. I felt like I had a sickness coming on (had a nose and throat thing going on) but after pounding the Airborne and vitamin C I feel back to normal....for me that is.

I did get a ride in both days on the fix gear thou, and that may have helped clean out the old pickle too. Took off yesterday...well pretty much had on choice with the wind. I'm still at a loss with the wind up here in eastern PA, I mean it's a normal thing this time of year to have winds in the 30 to 40 mph range and gusts over 50! Hell, in FL we called this crap a huricane..here it's just a Wednesday.

But with Huricane Wednesday keeping me in the house I did get a crap load of painting done. And believe it or not it only took the wife five shots to gets the colors she wants......not bad.

Now for those of you picking your brains on what to get your significant other for the big day next month (guys it's Valentine's day on the 14th, don't forget.....AGAIN) stop your looking. The guys over at T6 are making things easy for you.

Now tell me this does not say love.....I mean you can't go wrong with "The School Girl" for sexy.

Why do I have cheap porn music going thru my head right now?

Off to my saddle.