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I got a new wheel!

I am the proud owner of a new rear mtb wheel! The other one was shot! The end of the summer last year I was hitting a loop in Allamuchy regularly and timing my "lap". Well, the lap end with this long rocky downhill and I new I had a good time going. So, I pushed it. WHAM! Pinch flat and dented the the heck out of the rim! Being a former bike mechanic with 10+ years experience in shops and a real cheap SOB, I "removed" the dent and actually got it pretty straight. The last ride I did on it the hub was making an awful racket... the hub is 10 years old? Time to break down and get a new wheel. What did I get? See, the comment above about me being a cheap sob, I got an LX hub on a 517. Nothing special but it will work.

I stopped by the shop in Byram to get some rim tape, and asked about the Running of the Dogs. They apparently no longer have anything to do with the race, but they said the two person teams are not for a relay but that the two teamates have to ride together. I guess that is cool? I'll have to see what Cheffery thinks about that. We may have to "race" eachother...

Later.

St Patty's Day- Weekend

I went out for beers with the boys on Friday night! OK, more like Friday evening...
Met up with D and Chefery at the Barn in Randolph or Succasuna. The place was not overly packed when we got there but it sure did fill up! They even had a guy walking around playing the bagpipes! Being that it was a Friday during Lent and I was having corned beef and cabbage (CB&C) on Saturday. I for-went the tradtion of having CB&C on St Pat's day. Instead I had the best ever Fish and Chips! The people next to us were doing "Car Bombs" but it looked like they were doing them with just Baileys. So, I called the expert, Amy, she said the shot is suppose to have Baileys and Jamison in it. (I thought so) We didn't do any "car bombs", I still had a long drive home. I think we'll do some on our next "Hookey Day"...

Made CB&C Saturday for dinner and man was it good! It was so good in fact, I decided I'd run out and cook another batch. So, we could have leftover corned beef sandwiches. I ran over to the Giant and they were OUT! Then to Clemmens and they were out as well! Guess we'll have to wait until next year. (Next year I'm stocking up the freezer with CB)

We had visitors on Saturday, Amy and Katie came over. Katie was very excited to see Sophie. I think it made Jeb a little jealous, as Katie is his favorite!

Well gotta go... lunch hour is over...

More Sophie

Yes, I know I have not updated in a while... sorry about that. Finally uploaded a picture of Sophie:

Everyone is doing great. Jacob seems to be adjusting well to having a baby sister in the house. Kristen is also doing great. It is almost as if she never went through labor. I'd say she is already fully recovered. She's the BEST! Sophie had her first doctor's appointment, just a check up, and she has already surpassed her birth weight.

Here's a little story for you from this morning. I was changing Sophie's diaper and commented on how there was not that much poo in it. I got her diaper on halfway and... (insert fart sound here)... more poo! It got all over my hand and her sleeper. Oh great, another diaper and I have to change her sleeper too. So, I start to change her second diaper and...(insert fart sound)... more poo! This time the diaper was not on her at all! Yep, poo all over the place, it was on my leg, my hand was covered in it, it was all over the bed, and now her onesie was covered! Meanwhile, Kristen is laughing her butt off... real funny!

Just a short note on a few of the comments from the previous post:
Yes, I am Catholic.
No, my life is not over, just different. (which is what this blog is about)
Mom is not too fond of the F-bomb.
Sophie will probably get her brother's bike.
and thanks to everyone for your well-wishes.

Thanks for reading!

IT'S A GIRL!

Sophie Renee born Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 2:41 pm.
7 pounds 5 ounces

Mother and Baby are doing great.

more to come...(I mean more INFO, not more kids, at least not anytime soon...)

Slot Cars.

Funny Rik should make a comment of slot cars. We went over to the Q-mart this morning for a few laps on the slot car track. It was pretty cool. Jeb needs to figure out how to not floor it into the turns. We spent most of our time waiting for someone to put the car back on the track, but it was still a whole lot of fun.


*please ignore the pole in the middle of the picture...

Maybe when Rik comes up to babysit we can run over to the track for a few laps before Kris and I leave for the weekend. Slot cars could be a whole lot of fun with a bunch of guys racing eachother. I think they had 8 "lanes", so 8 people could race at a time.

Still no baby... any day now...

No baby... yet.

Well, still waiting... we are definitely going to see the baby by next Tuesday/Wednesday, though.

Kristen is quite the "trooper". She had been picking up extra Saturdays for the past year or so and she kept going until this past Saturday, 3 days before her due date. Then she went into work for her final two days before maternity leave. Yep, she worked on her due date! Amazing...

This past Saturday, while Kristen was at work, Jeb and I took the Mini around a course we had set up. We were really pushing the car to its limits! There was one point in the course where you can get some serious air!




Not to mention the LOOP-DE-LOOP!

Any day now...

The baby is coming any day now...

...I have to go get some things done before the baby gets here.

Later.

It's snowing...

I was kind of bummed when I heard it was going to snow this weekend. Sunday's are the one day of the week it seems that I am actually able to get out on my bike and ride, and if there was snow on the ground, so much for that. But then came my dad to the rescue! He said he needed to stop by Lowes, which is right down the street, and he would watch Jacob while I went for a ride! Another benefit of having Lowes right down the street!

I went down the High Rocks again. That place is a lot of fun. Technical, with a lot of drop offs and rocks, that's my bag! The loop there, that I know of at least, is only about an hour, but boy is it fun. My bike has been ridden hard and put up wet for the last 5 times I've been out. Needless to say there were a lot of funny creaks and moans, I think that rear wheel is finally shot.

I was thinking while on the ride that I've had that bike since 1996, that makes it 10 years old! Holy Crap, time flies!

So, thanks to my Dad for coming over so I could go for a ride! Thanks Dad.

Harry Potter

Well, I finally finished the available Harry Potter books on cd. Probably took me 5 months to listen to them all, between waiting for them to become available at the library and actually listening to them. The last book was 18 hours x 6 books equals 108 hours, that's a lot of driving! After the the end of this one I'm a little bothered by the fact that I'm going to have to wait for the author to finish it. Damn, am I going to be waiting in line at 12:00 to get my book... who knows I might actually read it and not listen to it? Anyway, can't wait for the next book...