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

Golf tournament at Jester ...
Then off to Big Creek .....
Then the Tunnel Ride...until I have to get the kids. Actually able to get more of that in as Austin has football practice till 9:30pm tonight.

No biking for me last night, but I feel like I did. Maybe it was the routes I ran so Austin could practice his throwing.....

Behind Sherwin-Williams


Deep Thought of the Day: I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.

Kamikazes were playing it not so smart last night. After riding to Redfield and stopping at the local adult eatery. Tweeter, Pimper, Lightening & I left to head back to Waukee ....small thunderstorm catching us as we pull into Adel and in true Kamikaze fashion we flew back to Waukee . I'm pretty sure it wasn't very fast as I was spent! Barring unforeseen circumstances I should have my miles in before next Saturday and be able to hang with no problems.

Marcus, Laura and the girls are in town for the next day...about time....I guess I need to find the time to get down there.....






34 miles

What a long disappointing last five days .....

It did seem that we got a lot done Saturday and Sunday.

Finally got the wiring to the garage done, now I actually have an outlet a light, and garage doors...all at the same time. Before they all ran off the light switch. Even more importantly than that the extremely dangerous low hanging wire outside is gone and the electricity is buried in the ground to the garage.

The IA Cubs game-tailgate was fun the boys all seamed to enjoy it, I think they enjoyed the bus trip more than anything.

Blaise is fine I think he just had slight food poisening on Friday.

Austin had his first football practice last night.

I finally got some miles in yesterday, 41 of them....and I'm slightly hurting. A small bike crash too....the earth’s axis tilted at that precise moment which caused me to fall off my bike.

I also knocked 100 golf balls out at the driving range, first time I've touched one since last year. When I got ahold of the ball it looked great, when I didn't not so great.

Had to turn three hotties away from the team yesterday as we are full

This is funny:
In addition, Fathead.com, an online retailer owned by Cavs owner Dan Gilbert dropped the price of its LeBron James Fathead wall decals from $99.99 to $17.41, which happens to be the same year Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold was born.... more of the same

Deep Thought of the Day: The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

41 miles