Friday Night:
Ms Katherine and I had a big date. First, her swimming lesson was canceled due to a high school/club swimming meet at UNO. We stuck around and watched for a half hour before going out to dinner (Great Wall) and grocery shopping. Whew! What a date. If I said that we then went home and watched disc 3 of Heroes Season 1, would that be sharing too much information about my personal life?
Saturday
After house cleaning, Katherine studied while I took Emmylou to the park for an hour walk. Then, I went hunting for components for the yellow GT. Stopped by Bike Masters, saw Bryan's poster, and talked shop with the older guy with the British accent while he shoveled some mean looking stew in his pie whole. Among the bikes there, there was a $10,000 Felt TT. Meanwhile, NU was getting their ass handed to them on the shop TV. I then went to Powerpro sports to drool over some Honda Interceptors and Suzuki Bandits. It's funny: those bikes cost $6,000 and you get one helluva rush riding them. The highlight of the rest of Saturday night: Ms Katherine and I finished disc 3 of Heroes. You can stop here if this is too personal.
Sunday
Church at Glad Tidings in the morning followed by a trip to the Donut Professor.
Perhaps the Donut Professor could be the home of Shabbos +1 during the interim. Donut shop culture is like cycling anarchy: coffee made from dipping a brown crayon in hot water and artery choking deep-fried flour pucks represents an interesting dichotomy to livestrong. Just a thought.
Then, I did yard work. The highlight of the day was going for a 9 mile run from my house to drop off videos Season 1 Heroes discs 2 and 3 at the Blockbuster on Cass Street.
Along the way, I noticed a foreboding sign: "River City Hockey is now closed" on the shop's door. I liked Ted and his shop. Times are bad. It seems like small businesses are closing left and right.
The remainder of the weekend was spent on a walk with Emmylou, dining on take out Cantonese noodles from the Rice Bowl (four out of five stars) and studying with Ms. Katherine.
Congratulations. You made it to the end of this blog entry.
Something for Fredcube
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With football season in full swing, I figured it was time for me to dust
off the tale of my greatest moment on the gridiron.
It was while I was in High Sch...
5 years ago
(sarcasm on)Man, I was on the edge of my seat for that entire post! I couldn't wait to read what happened next. It's almost like I was living someone else's life with every word.
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My weekend was pretty much uneventful also. A ride here, a team meeting there. An hour of cyclocross race watching thrown in for good measure. That's about it.
Was the Nebraska game televised on the bike shop tv? Weird.
ReplyDeleteHuh. there was one?
ReplyDeleteI swear that I saw the Oz on the tube while at the shop. Perhaps it was only a mid-slaughter report from memorial stadium.
When my weekend consists of watching two discs -- eight episodes -- of last year's NBC hit show Heroes you can see how I could pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Mike:
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Man, I was on the edge of my seat for that entire comment! I couldn't wait to read what happened next. It's almost like I was living someone else's life with every word.
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Yup. The winter is time for slow livin.
ReplyDeleteSo did you decide on those cranks? That's about the only thing I have to look forward during this time is working on bikes. I wish I had a heated garage though. Tools and bikes get a little chilly when the temp drops. Well, I guess I could solve that by going to full carbon. Even the tools!!
How bad-ass would a carbon cone wrench be?
ReplyDeleteAnd if River City Hockey is closed, where is Galata going to get his orange-and-blue tiger stripes?
Brady, I can't believe you just watched TV shows all day. That's like getting the Seinfeld boxes for Christmas and then watching a whole season in one day.
Mike: Not sure in what form, but the crank will be coming soon. Otherwise, your 105s would get very little use on old yeller.
ReplyDeleteBryan-I was wondering the same about Galata. Maybe River City is going online?
I have nothing to do this weekend, so if you have it, I'll borrow your Seinfeld box set.
Finally, I used "fook" in the original posting of this blog, but I edited it out. Just didn't sound like me. Thanks, but I'm returning it to you.
Seriously, if you do want to watch them, they live at my house. Well, except for the newest one. I was in the middle of spending all of our money on bike stuff when that came out.
ReplyDeleteI think it'd be funny if Fred had to be sponsored by, like, Scheels or something.