Just picked up two cases of Yuengling, love you KARI!
Awesome of her to pick them up for me in PA....

4 Days till RAGBRAI XXXVIII!!!

An actual 1999 Advertisement which BP would like to forget. Doubt their p.r. folks will dust this one off for reuse.


Pockets of Kamikazes are working on the bus tonight.

Austin has a basketball tournament this Saturday. I guess the good thing is I don't have to rip my shirt to wrap Keegan's knee this time.

Not a good thing, I don't think I'd group them all in here.

Slightly depressing, there is at least 6 of us. I thought it was bad when I found out there was 2-3, but 6....darnit! Maybe time to change my name.

Original Mac Software Source Code Now Available for Download...Kinda cool, if you're into that kind of thing.

Flashback: What was happening three years ago?
Mom retiring.

Deep Thought of the Day: Is there ever a day when mattresses are NOT on sale?

Knocked off 24 miles Friday night, (Mingo trail) and Sara ended up in the hospital to receive 5 stitches...not my fault.

Tour de Arrrghhhh was just that! About half as many as last year so around 50, 14 hours later I'm finally headed home. Three Kamikazes made it. Some nice training miles. I even had considered taking Dan up on the breakfast ride before that, but 6am????

and Tom is awesome! those Mojitos were sweet! Who else even owns a stagecoach? His new coffee house will be opening soon!

Tip of the Day: When caught in a current the natural reaction is to paddle directly toward shore instead of swimming parallel to get out of the current.

Inception...... WOW...and I still don't fully understand everything that happened. Fast paced, exciting, different, never looked at anything like that before. I'm very glad we saw that yesterday....

Laying around this morning with the thunderstorm waking me about 4:30, just listening to the rain and thunder my mind started up thinking about(mind always racing, I do love it when I can slow it down, but then someone whats it sped back up or I'm a jerk or something)....my boys, my job, my businesses, RAGBRAI, women, farm, that ticking sound my truck is making, the bus, shirts be done, how can I just clear my mind of all this stuff and try not to be rude when I do it, new job, rest of my family, what was the name of the guy that played the alien on Star Trek episode 7 from the first season that had the ray gun and could melt anything....Just kidding on that one!...cause it was a woman..

Got to Gwens yesterday morning to help fix her PC and of course she was one of the 35k without electricity. So we sat around and talked for a couple of hours, she is so awesome! I hope she lives forever! Of course I did miss the dutch letters by 30 minutes.

Talked to the boys last night from LA...they love it. Even Austin, but he doesn't know why. Which surprises me, because he is a usually more realistic then most when it comes to feelings like that. Blaise had problems with his ears on the way, so they will be compounded on the way back most likely. I feel for him, same problems I experience.

John Oats(Troy) isn't making it back to Iowa for RAGBRAI, apparently had a baby daughter and can't make it. It will next year unless I go to CA to visit.....



Did anybody think that the picture of Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lateran looked similar to Automan...Anybody else remember that show??

Deep Thought of the Day: Instead of sitting around a hot fire in the middle of summer, can't we sit around cold ice or something????


24 miles
41 miles

8 Days till RAGBRAI XXXVIII!!!

Boys leave this afternoon for LA

Lane lost his championship game last night in the tournament....

Bike riding tonight, tomorrow...maybe take Sunday off.........

Deep Thought of The Day: A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

Yesterday was a blast! Haven't had that much fun for a while. Even goto go run on a catamaran...not much wind, but still.
Golf we went one over. I may need to practice a little! Big Creek was very nice, may have got a little too much sun....but damn it was fun! After that it was even more fun!


Saw Blaise at lunch at Incredible Pizza , hes so adorable...of course he's all about trying to get tickets to buy junk, but who doesn't.

Pirate ride Saturday.......
Brewfest at Sec Taylor on Saturday.......


Billboard in Mason City.....


Flashback: What was happening four years ago??
Marcus has landed