Joe’s Blog!

Yea, Froze Toes. Regardless of any excusses, I’m slow. Period. It’s too bad but true. I lasted almost a lap, roughly 25 miles. I talked to my boss about it at work, he said that “the real world is catching up to me.” I suppose thats true, I am slower than I used to be.

My next hurdle is Hillsboro Roubaix. I would like to be in at least decent shape for that and finish, hopefully with a group (since the main group usually shatters). After that it’s all about McMinnville and getting over the big climb there…twice.

Ok, time to sleep, ride, work all over again.

I love my cat and I would never let him get like this. 33 pounds and has a larger waist than I do! If anything this cat needs to have surgery, not to remove fat or reduce its stomach size but to remove it’s fat brained owner. At any rate, what an oddity!

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Here is my (hopefully winning) ticket. The crazy part about this drawing isn’t the money, it’s the people. I got to Schnucks around 6:30pm and there was a line of about 25 people waiting to buy tickets. The lady infront had all of her little scantron sheets numbered and collated like an old pro. The cashier told her the total, in all she bought $220 dollars worth!!! I can’t help but to think that too many people have a false sense of hope when playing the lottery. I just hope they don’t plan on the money. Dreaming is fun though.

After paying back my student loans and taking care of friends and family, here is what I would spend my money on:

I found this island real estate website.

Even without winning maybe someday I could buy a speck of land somewhere in the Pacific. Who knows?!

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I came up with this today. It’s kind of a twist on lasagna. I replaced the noddles with slices of Italian bread. Each layer is bread, sauce, parmesan, a little olive oil and chopped baby spinich. With the middle layer having three cloves of crushed garlic.

Pretty tasty!

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Here are my new dubs for this season. Zipp 404 rims, Hugi 240 hubs and Sapim CX-Ray spokes. They weigh about 1400 grams for the set.

I am stoked that I finally got them built up and can’t wait to ride them!

There are more pics on my Flickr site if you are interested. (They are super hi-res, so attempting to look at them on dialup might suck horribly, sorry)

Also a big thanks goes out to Alex (and everyone else) at The Hub Bicycle Company for building these bad boys up!