To: a couple people

To the guy who leaves the newspaper on the bathroom floor in a public restroom-
Seriously, the gesture is greatly appreciated. Your concern for my interest in articles in the IDS is truly inspiring and lets me know you care about me, your fellow man.

But in all honesty, consider this, the bathroom floor is not necessarily something you want to touch, much less stuff you get pick up, fondle, read and attempt solve the daily crossword. I mean if something of mine hits the floor, it is thoroughly sanitized before it comes into contact with anything else. Something tells me, a news paper would not survive the same cleansing process.

So while the concern for my thirst for knowledge is very valiant and honorable, I don't feel the bathroom is the place to share you civic mindedness. Try donating a can of soup.

Thanks

The day and stuff

So today has been delightful. Woke up at 7:15, after a great night's sleep.

Had breakfast in bed. Had the news paper read to me via Channel 9 News, then hopped in the shower. I'm a king.... Admit it!!

Then I went and showered up and headed down to math. Kelly was yammering on and on about probability... I got a tough quesiton for yuh, what is the probability I care? 0.00. Ok that was a little brash but, seriously she gets off on the fact that we get ahead on the notes. She let us out early and you would have thought this was her gift from god to us. Whatever.

Went over to the union and napped on the couch until 9:25, then headed to Economics with the BOSS. This man cracks me up, seriously like one day in his class you would die laughing. Understandably I am the only one that laughs cause everyone else is like WHOA too cool for laughter. Whatever, they can have it, I will get an A in his class, he likes me...

Then went over with Intercomm. nothing too special, just hanging and watching the teacher... my oh my.

Then called it a day, and headed to gresh, had lunch. and headed back to the dorm to work on math.

Then I suited up to ride the rollers. Hindsight, I could have been outside but, I don't know 20 degrees makes it a little unbearable. So I did three sets of 10 on 5 off which were preceded by a 50 minute TT. So I logged about an hour 45 and plan to get some more riding in tonight, assuming all my other stuff gets did.

Then I rode out to Fountain park, signed a lease and came back and that brings us to now. I have a head ache and I need to read about how I talk... EXCELLENT!

Sunday and baby pagers

So after sleeping in that queen size I woke up from rolling in every possibly direction and had breakfast with dad.

We discussed the usual; economics, external hard drives, and stuff like that.

Then Mom came out fully dressed and ready for church, and I felt a little guilty and I had wanted to go to church anyway, so I got dressed wicked fast and we went to church.
Check this little fascinating piece of technology our church has. Baby Pagers. So I guess I am confused on why we would need pagers for our young church goers. Is it in case you forgot you left your child in the day care? of it is in case your child gets ridiculously out of hand? Regardless of the reason, doesn't it seem a bit much for a church to be using the same technology that is used to let people know that their table is ready at a busy restaurant ergo Chili's. "johnson family of three your child is ready."

Then Mom and I went to the Mall. NEW jacket and shoes. they are so sweet.
We tried on a ton of different shoes, but these things just screamed me, eh? note Jamie's finger... SKANK!

But then I came home and sat on the rollers for about half an hour. I am pretty gassed at this point, I needed just a little bit to just be active but physically, I just needed a spin.

So then I came in from the garage and watched the rest of 1408, which I am still perplexed on.

Then Jamie came over, she studied, I blogged. Grandma and Grandpa came over to get their taxes did.

I am driving back tonight, apparently it is supposed to storm ferocious but I'll live.

Better Blogs tomorrow/this week.... you're lucky you got a weekend blog SUCKAS

Saturday and my thoughts

Well today was saturday and I took full advantage of it like a like it was my prom date... HA!

So I woke up at 9:30. and it was awesome. I didn't feel like I had wasted the day, yet I had had a good night's sleep. Most Excellent.

But anyway, I didn't shower, because I was out of body wash and face wash
so I just skipped the sanitization process entirely.

Went and got breakfast from the gresh; raisin bran, banananananana, and a wheat bagel. Carbs baby.

Then headed back to B223 and read two chapters from the sports management book. How inspiring, really. I mean never did I think that two college classes could be exact duplicates but I was mistaken, this is like X100 (intro to business) only with a basketball. So I just breezed over that and then got suited up for some spandex action.

Rode for about 2 and a half hours, then went to the shop to adjust my seat, then headed back to the dorm.

Headed out to wal-mart stocked up on some food and other necesities, then packed up and went home for what was left of the weekend. It was a long week and I needed a break.

While at wal mart some guy asked me to fix his car's head light. No success, the headlight was all complicated and domestic...LAME. It had some weird mounting bracket and stuff. He used a lot of profanity and stuff I was just like UHMM? YEah F that lightbulb bracket. so he went inside and got wal mart's " help" so essentially four guys circled around this car and said he would need new alternators and a head gaskets in order to get the light bulb to work.

Then, I got unpacked, did laundry (all of it) - So I was walking around the house in my bathrobe.... CLASSY

Then Jamie came over, we watched some weird Nickolas Cage movie (not that any of them are different of stand out, seeing as he is the same guy in every role... an american badass)

Then I crawled into the Queen sized and called it a night.

Finally Friday. Weekend?

Well it's finally here, the day I have been waiting for, the ramp up to the weekend.... (cue drumroll) FRIDAY!

Let's take a look here at what I done did.

Woke up later than desired, about 7:35. So I didn't shower or eat breakfast and just headed to math. It sucked, I felt completely grimy and nasty the entire time, but what can you do.

We took a quiz in math, and I felt pretty comfortable with it, which was good considering I was really uneasy yesterday on the homework. Iconic (oooooo Intercom word) representation would be an elephant in ice skates on black ice.

But then I headed back to the gresh and had breakfast...MMM raisin bran.

Then I made the treck back to the dorm to do some math homework.

Val came over, checked out the frame, took back the BKB clothing, etc. It hurt a little bit, but you know you have to pursue one thing or the other (USCF or Little 5, see story below)

Then I headed down to the B-school for K201 lecture and K201 Help. The lecture blew, but the help I got was phenomenal. I am so glad I got the teacher that I did for the lab portion. She is such a doll and extremely nice and down to earth. It's nice to not have a jerk for a hard class.

Then I headed down to the bike rack to pick up the pista and what do you know? the rear tire is flat... AWWWWESOME!

So I carried the bike up to gresh for lunch and then carried it the rest of the way up the hill to the dorm. Once there, I finished my Intercom proposal and picked up.

I then suited up and headed down to bike 'n' bean for some touching up on the frame and help with my carbon wheel. Long story short, there is a crack in the braking surface, so I unbuilt the wheel and we are shipping it off to zipp to have them look at it and hopefully warranty the thing.

Seriously these guys at this shop are amazing to me, I am so glad I have them around to help me out and get me through all this crap. Seriously life savers... well bike savers!

But went out for a ride with IUCC, and broke off with phi psi's and we logged about 45 miles (give or take). real easy. But the new bike is amazing. With no effort this thing just takes off like a no body's business. It is ridiculous. Climbs like a squirrel. But as soon as I get my position dialed in, I will be kickin ass.

Then I headed back to Bike and Bean to finish unassembling the wheel.

Then booked it over to briscoe and cleaned up. Then worked on K201. I got every thing on my project done, minus one query which I asked my teacher about and should get figured out soon.

Then Maneli and I did the Friday Man date. Saw Pursuit of happyness. Which is an extremely inspiring movie and touching.

But hit the gresh for some cereal and that brings us here.

But the most important thing that happened today was my conversation with Brett Stewart on the ride today. We talked about the stuff with Isaac and stuff. He gave me some advice on how to best handle the situation. He says that Isaac and I have similar attitudes and that I need to take his advice, respect it but at the same time take it with a grain of salt. I guess it was nice to know that other people have the same problem with Isaac and that someone, like Brett (cat 1) can give me advice and not be a dick. There's a lot to be learned from him.

In other news, might race next weekend...MAYBE. I really want to but at the same time, I kinda want to get home and see Jamie, plus it will be extremely expensive cause it's 3 hours away and you have to race saturday and sunday. Granted it would be a road race and I can haul ass but, $$ is a divider and my thing about seein' the jame. I guess we'll see on weather and stuff.

But hey, I think I need to be sleeping; big day tomorrow, training, shopping, and homework. Who knows, maybe something will come along and I will just do something so out of the ordinary, minds will be warped.... SHoot, I could become like everyone else and get TRASHED>...YEAH TRASHED>... SIKE. Got your hopes up, I know.

Well I am obviously irritable, so I need to sleep. I promise next week's blogs will be better, I was soo busy this week, and hopefully next week won't be as bad and busy.

take care kids

Thursday was a good day

well in case you couldn't tell, I got my frame, which made my day exceptional. Just look at her, gorgeous. This thing responds like a cat, it is ridiculous the acceleration. Step in it and off you go, like no body's business. And the carbon weave, which you can kinda see if out right beautiful. and look at that fork... OOO LORD. I have to get another stem, that's a little lighter, cooler, etc. I need tp bring the bars in a little bit. This thing is set and ready to tear it up GNARLY STYLE!

But an overview of the day and my thoughts all the same.

Let's see, woke up at 8:25 and did my good morning dance. Had breakfast, and went to K201. As soon as I got down the fee and 10th, I realized I forgot my books so I hammered it up the hill to get my stuff. realized this at 9, in class by 9:05. FAST and it hurt.

Then went to dance... natrually fun.. Worked on Cha cha and jive and some other step but I def got it. Everyone wants to dance with me, cause i just have too much fun. even the guys hahaha.

Then I went to Sports Management, which was boring, it is just a regurgitation of x100 only he brings up football and basketball.

Then went and had lunch, and took the crack'n'fail to revolution to get it stripped naked and set up the CR1. SO They gave me brad's bike.

So then I came back to the dorm after chillin there for a bit, and did some reading and research and knocked off a few little things.

Then Ren-Jay and I went out and did sprint work outs... PAINful and I know tomorrow is going to hurt somethin fierce.

Then I went straight to the shop and chilled with kyle and brad while they finished my bike.

Then took the bike home, did some more homework and then went to work.

Work was incredibly slow tonight due to the game, but hey I am not complaining. I dropped a shift, cause I need a little more time, so now I only work every other sunday. Which will be nice especially if K201 keeps hammering me to pieces.

Then I came back, and called Jamie, had a good little talk and now it's time for bed.

i realize this blog sucks but It is late and I am gassed but I leave you with this.
REALLY?

it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here

Take it in

Bask in it's glorious glory.

Just imagine that thing built up..... OH SEXY!

In the mean time I am riding this

Yes ladies, that is my bed... EH? Will have the new bike... Tonight ish?

tattoo

So this is the tatto I have been thinking about getting along my spine where I broke the 5 vertebrae (hence the five letters). also it is derived from the nickname I was given by the proctor boys. I think its skill but it is super expensive and probably hurts like hell, but I don't know, it is something pretty significant. What do you think?

whizzing on the cream and crimson

Well I figured I would take a picture of the arsenal. The Crappondale will be gone by tomorrow hopefully. But it was a good frame until it cracked 3 months later.... SKANKs. But that thing has gotten so many showers lately, it's usually cleaner than me.












SO I had the urge to use the restroom today while I was at Teter so I frame up the urinal, look down and LOOKY THERE! Ok, let's consider this logic, the IU symbol below a urinal.. must have been a Purdue grad.. SUCKA!



I park next to this thing everyday I have Intercom, I have to wonder if it like a '64 impala... a classic, it looks pretty legit but at the same time, I doubt it.










I will try to get better hunting pics later this week, hopefully a full photo shoot of my new rig tomorrow. (cross your fingers)

Hump day.... but what to hump?

Well today was Wednesday and I can honestly say this week has been flying.... Thank gawd.

Well I didn't want to get up this morning, I was pretty fatigued from the late night and my work out. But what can you do? SO I slept in an extra ten minutes then got up and did the morning routine; shower, dress breakfast.

It was monsooning again, which I always love... you know gettting completely wet right after getting out of the shower.... DELIGHTFUL!

But I did the FEE Lane FLY-BY to Math and got there a little late but better than nothing I suppose. We started an extremely hard topic today. Not so much hard but more complicated. And naturally the teach felt the need to rush through all these notes. Which is the other down side to her typed notes. She FLIES through all this stuff. It really isn't fair but to each their own I suppose.

But then I had Microeconomics, which I am feeling pretty comfortable with that stuff. I stay up on the reading and make an attempt in it. So I guess that won't be so bad but the test is going to be a monster, I think we are covering 9 chapters. But the concepts are pretty simple and build upon a basic idea all throughout.

Then hustled to Teter for Intercom. I don't really like the class; the concepts are just like DUH. SO essentially, what happened was, these people that developed these concepts were professors who were in danger of losing their jobs, so they elaborated on these basic ideas to make it sound important.... but it's not. For example, we read like 20 pages on the concept of vocal inflection... Really? is that necessary. NOPE

But then I came back, had lunch, studied and went for a ride.

The ride, Ren-Jay and I went out for a ride. We did 80 minutes of tempo, and went through, dry, sprinkle, rain, hail, rain, dry, hail, dry (weather pattern). It sucked. So I just followed him home and had him take me back to the briscoe (gawd it hurt).

Then I came back, cleaned up, and studied. Went down and got some help on Math from the tutors, then Worked on K201. I am actually making head way, I have two more queries and then I am done. That's pretty good, going from half to only two to go... SOLID.

Then I went to work. nothing special, just the regular grind. I keep having the urge to make Phalic pancakes but I am attempting to control myself

Then came home, cleaned up and surprise we are here.

I miss you all, and I want to come home.. if I ever have a weekend where I am not living in fear of homework.