Tidbits that aren't PoH, and MTB Buffalo Creek

[grrgoyl]

I've got this year's Parade of Homes on-deck, but frankly it was even more lackluster than last, and my heart just isn't in it. So first some smaller news

Comments

[ms_hecubus]

Maybe his wife figures after years of raising a kid and being a wife she wants her freedom and is sowing her wild oats?

[grrgoyl]

How wild are these oats that she needs her husband out of the house completely though? As Tery said, her parents are sick to death of each other too but they still manage to co-exist under one roof.

Still, with that satellite dish he must be fixing up quite the bachelor pad for himself as well.

[ms_hecubus]

I take it as they're getting divorced and for some reason he doesn't want to come out and say his wife threw his ass out.

[grrgoyl]

I thought that too. I think saying you're divorced is less embarrassing than making your wife sound like a selfish witch who wants to pretend she's single now that the kid is gone. Unless of course he's a Christian fundie.

I see nothing about D in this post.

[kavieshana]

That $300 is like found money. You can buy some fancy biker shoes now!

Poor Mike. That guy's probably paying the mortgage on the house and the apartment.

HAHA way to live in a place where summer lasts for 3 weeks.

Love the pictures, especially the top two. Which app is that? If your life was a horror film and you were driving through that town, you would be stopped by a fat sheriff who would say "Welcome to God's country."

I knew I wouldn't be able to sneak that by you

[grrgoyl]

Haha, too late. Half of it was spent on a new office chair. But you'll have to wait for the legendary PoH post to hear more about that (as well as I SWEAR the Deb story. Our confrontation happened before the PoH, so I'm just trying to keep it chronologically straight).

I said the same thing. I swear we're using the same brain half the time. Hope that doesn't negatively impact your classwork.

Tery assures me we did "some of our best riding" last year in November, so we'll see. It just seems like fall arrived literally overnight.

Thanks! Not an app, the free PC software Photoscape (though I've seen the effects being used by lots of phone apps. I just don't have the patience to maneuver around a tiny phone screen most of the time for photo editing). LOL You just sent a chill up my spine.

[anonymous]

Did that baby aspen jump out and attack you directly, or was in an indirect-throw-a-squirrel-in-your-path kind of way?

Love, Big Scraggy

[grrgoyl]

LOL Actually the aspen was just minding its own business growing on the side of the path when I came along and landed on it after misjudging an incline. If anyone should file charges it would be the tree.

[mmmrorschach]

Next time you see Mike you should comment about how he's always wearing the same clothes, and then when he tries to walk away you should give him a flat tire and yell, "I'm on to you!"

I don't think Global Collision went big enough with their name. I'd have gone with Intergalactic Accident, where time is relative.

You've been biking for around a year? I like how super dedicated you've gotten in that amount of time. It makes me wonder what I could get done in a year. But not that interested.

[grrgoyl]

Haha, I know -- poor guy on his own after decades of marriage and the first person he encounters is this bitch who denigrates him subtly every time she sees him. If he wasn't homicidal before, I just might push him over the edge.

LOL Sounds like a Douglas Adams plot point.

Thank you, sir. No offense, but you strike me as too laid back to really intensely dedicate yourself to anything, except maybe the pursuit of relaxation. :)

[mmmrorschach]

Just give me a hammock, a milkshake, and something to make me sleepy, and I won't bother anyone. Sudden realization: there is no reason I can't make this happen by the end of the day.

[grrgoyl]

That's the spirit! I have faith in you! Go Jaime! Go Jaime!

[metatronis]

Really cool pictures! I like the muted colors in the first few.
Aww, sorry about your battle wound. Do cyclists trade injury stories a lot?

[grrgoyl]

Thanks :D I don't actually know any other cyclists so I'm not sure. They totally should though!

[metatronis]

Ah, well if you ever go to a meet up or something I'm sure you'll have plenty of adventures to talk about.