Tuesday, July 22, 2008

lights out

So it has come to light, no pun intended, that those nice coiled florescent bulbs in our homes have 10,000,000 million time the safe amount of mercury inside and will cause health issues according the EPA if broken inside a home. Business have to recycle them by law but homeowners are tossing them in the trash. One bulb in a landfill can pollute 60,000 gallon of ground water. What next cyanide lined low flow shower heads

Sunday, July 20, 2008

starting over again

Well I jump back on the bike after a long layoff. In the past 12 week I rode twice and raced three time. So I went to the beat down on Thursday and stay with the group for 8 miles. After that I rode my own pace and did the whole route. I finished about 30 minutes after everyone but I was not going to cut it short and was not going to inflect and more pain that would slow me down even more. So many miles will be cover on the rode until the 40. I think I will skip the rest of the WORS season to heal up all the way.

Monday, July 14, 2008

keep your hands inside the ride

So I spent the day filling out forms for a direct report of mine that had an accident today. He was on the freeway and had his arm out the window resting against the outside of the door and his hand was holding onto the mirrors arm. No it was not a stone that hit him it was a S hook from a bungee cord ripped into his flesh and broke his arm. Seems it was kicked up by another car and pierced his arm mid forearm and nearly came out the other side. This was not a clean cut and the s hook was a tad rusty. So 80 plus stitches later and a broken arm without a cast he was sent home with his wife. They want to make sure a infection doesn't set in so no cast yet. Now I get to find a certified bio hazard cleaner to sterilized the front to the van.

Wait did I tell you he drove himself to the emergency room with a t shirt wrapped in tape around it.

Monday, July 07, 2008

over over

I don't think its possible to pack anymore into one weekend. Camping swimming biking fireworks bluejays at 4 am and all kinds of bugs and different brews. We camped at Lake Wissota for a few nights in prep for the firecracker. We pre rode saturday and the leg was ok for the worst cit youth course ever and a sport lap. Turns out they changed the CY course later that night but Josh was still a tad spooked from the pre ride. Sunday it started to pour 20 minutes before the sport start but it on lasted 10 minutes. It made for a perfect course. Just for a good photo op I cleaned out the carbon and pulled the group into the first corner. I sat up about a 1/2 mile in and nobody wanted to pull until a 50+ guy had enough of me sitting up a slowing down. Bubba got around me towards the end of the 1st lap and I tried to stay with him. Making sure to stay in the comfort zone and not crap the leg and to stay with someone is not easy. I could see bubba here and there all the way into the field section on the last lap. I had nothing to put out in the field and lost a lot of time. Over all I think staying off the bike for the 3 weeks was a great thing for the leg, so I am going to give it a few more weeks off.

Thursday, July 03, 2008

we got o claired

So its good to know I have a 3G wireless card that will put out sweet dial up speed in a state park in the middle of no where, I am blazing at 34k right now. A few more things

1. They got bugs up north just like at home

2. Nent week make a note to call all your State and Federal voted in clowns and tell them to drop the ethanol in the gas if you want to save money. We picked up a brand new bike hauler last week and the dealer was kinda enough to fill'er up. Well with 380 miles on the hauler it was averaging 19. Its still new and need to break in , right. We stopped at the world famous pine cone and dropped 82 bucks for old dinosaurs and a couple or more than a few Carmel apples and giant cookies and then away we went. Well when we pulled into the park last night and hit the button, holy sheep shit bat man we averaged 28. Maybe we should let Russ Fungalgold pull his head out of his ass to let America know again the mileage difference is such a small percentage overall.

3 All the f 'ing tards born and raised in the tick infested inbreed north land can take off the SOUTHERN rebel flags of the back of their trucks, The same trucks that now sport bull balls and box mounted stacks plus at least 6 other stickers mentioning fat chicks or cowboys. This appears to be a pre requisite for living in Chippewa Falls if your between the age of 16 and 36.

4 It 9:00 am and I am already drinking a New Glaris Organic for breakfast. Maybe I will go pick up one of those flags and step way down to some bud light.

5 See ya Sunday