Barbarism Begins In The Stankment

Jay: Are you bent?
Simon: What?
Jay: Because right then you sounded really, really bent.
- Inbetweeners 1.6

What a difference a week makes. This time last week I was lamenting the downfall of civilized American society, and yesterday, with the sun shining and the ballz deep snows starting to melt back a bit, people were like over the top lovey. Waving, making small talk in line, smiling... I was mildly uncomfortable with the situation.

The week has been a bit madcap. Working to tidy up Issue 2.1 of XXC, picking up T Shirts, getting it all up on the web site, and obsessing about the readership, etc., On top of that, I've been putting in at least an hour a day on the trainer, which is about as fun as smelling a fat mans undies.

Random chick: Are you bent?
Jay: What??
Random chick: Because right then you sounded really, really bent.
- Inbetweeners 1.6

Funny thing about the week before I put the mag out. I become a total spaz. I find myself just arriving at destinations when driving, with little to no recollection of driving there. I take empty water bottles to the Stankment® for my workouts, I obsess over the amount of readers that went away upon moving to the pay per download, I second guess, I ponder, I over think. I'm spaztastic!!!

But, I bounce back, get focused, get my work done, and get generally pretty freaking fired up to unleash XXC 2.1. It helps that I have some great folks contributing to this issue (as per usual).

As I mentioned earlier the snows are melting back a bit, and the roads are getting clearer to drive on, but the sides are still pretty ice-tastic for my tastes. I'm sure many folks headed out to ride today, but in my opinion road riding is dangerous enough 'round here without having to ride down what is practically the middle of the road. I'd rather live to ride another day thank you.

I needed to get some saddle time in. So it was time for me to bust out a 2 hour trainer session. I upped the mental anguish of riding and going nowhere by listening to 31 live Smiths tracks in a row whilst doing it. It was great! In that "could this be any worse?" sort of way.

John the geek: You didn't say please! What about opening up and trusting??
Jay: Oh f*ck off, you fat wanker!
- Inbetweeners 1.6

I got 7 hours of riding/jogging time in this week and not one bit was outside. Next week will have me slogging through the woods in WV with friends doing God-knows-what, and the week after will have me in "Vadge" for the first race of the year. I weigh more than I have in 10 years, I haven't been outside to ride in over 2 weeks, and I have a mag publishing in a few days. This is gonna be one f*cking bloody train wreck!! Fun, but a mess! LOL!

Later.