so freakin' cold

So, this is a picture of me in my apartment riding. Seriously. I have been sleeping with a heated blanked, using 5 blankets, and still freezing. I guess this is what you get when you live in an apartment building with 12 foot windows. I read a recent issue of outside magazine. Some blond model was telling us to go ecco and turn our heat down one degree. Well, I am pretty sure hot blond models don't live in nebraska. I'll make a deal with her, she can turn here heat down five degrees in San Diego, and I will turn mine up three.

Things I know not to be true

I have been on the road and off the road quite a lot in the last few weeks, one stop in particular led me to Des Moines to see family and friends. Why, during that stay, I was welcomed in as a total stranger to a local cyclists house for a soup-er-bowl party. Some thoughts on my recent weeks experience or as the title of this column would suggest:

1. Valentines day. Silly ideas for this week include - buying into the commercialized holiday that is valentines day, auctioning oneself off on ebay for valentines day, and any thing associated with said "holiday".

2. To my friend that I talked to the other day at Costco; Don't let those cyclist freak you out. You joined the sport of cycling for many reasons, none of which involve letting someone stress YOU out about YOUR sport. Cycling is an activity that we enjoy and we make part of our life. We do it not to chase rewards, but to be healthy, athletic, competitive, and social. Racing is just one faucet of cycling. Pencil in a lifetime of this sport and with years of effort - rewards will come. And if they don't at least you were healthy, athletic, competitive, and social doing so. Furthermore, cyclist love to talk big; the ones that talk about their training are riding 1/3 of their mentioned hours, and are 1/2 as fit as they would like to be. It is cyclist way of compensation. Sort of like buying a big red truck with semi exhaust, for guys.

3. The hot tub is the not the social epicenter center of the gym.

4. waking up at 5 am to exercise is crazy and unproductive, unless suffering from insomnia.

Great Success

The boys at the crime lab with all their forensics, erlamier flasks, and science came within minutes of apprehending the thief that
had stolen the below lobster glove in question. Here is a picture of the alledged criminal fleeing from omaha's finest earlier today. As you can see he has cleverly disguised himself as a coffee grinder, to fool the police.
Upon escape, the thief dropped a bag of what were assumed to be stolen goods, and recovered was one sugoi lobster. Case solved.

Figure 1

The Case of the missing Lobster Glove

Or Two gloves enter, One glove leaves.

Lost: Single Lobster glove (see figure 1)
Last seen: Monday evening in laundry room
Reward: Booze
Contact: Me

Above is the sight that I posted in my building this week. The task was innocent enough, wash some cloths and my lobster gloves. Wrong. Someone decided that the wanted one lobster glove more than me. And that is where we stand today. Popular press tells us that a crime is best solved with the evidence in the first 48 hours. Below are a list of sinister fellows, who may be to blame for the theft.

Quote of the day

This is a quote that was sent to me last night. My friend Michelle is an avid coffee drinker and claims that this is the stuff:

f you can find this coffee i would recommend you try it. its like a kick in the face delivered by an innocent enough porcelain mug...

India Anohki (Liberica Varietal)

I would like to try the stuff, but I am hesitant to drink anything that should have a Warning:"may cause orbital blowout." attached to the mug.

But anything once... right?

New Flash! - Pavlovich named science editor

It has alway been said that business takes some unexpected turns, and this bend is forcaseted shows the business smarts of CEO of Alagomaha corp., Bryan Redemske. In an interview with Redemske regarding current market trends and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar, Redemske said this,"It was a bold move, but Alagomaha needed to some momentum and something for the shareholders to look forward too... And that was the addition of Matt Pavlovich as our new director of cycling specific research and online science editor.

Pavlovich was unable to comment regarding this new move, his press manager said that he was out doing a ragbrai fitness test. Pav, as his friends call him, often takes an out and back against the clock from Missouri Valley to ames. Alledigely, this aids in measuring his early season ragbrai fitness.

Although the number that Redemske and Pavlovich agreed upon remains confidential, Redemske is no slouch when it comes to negotioations. "He was demanding a 15% increase from his current salaried position... but in this market... with the recession... he was lucky he got a portion of what he demanded." Insiders say that in addition to the lucritive salary, Pavlovich recieved Redemske's award winning fajita recipe.

In any case, Alagomaha readers should be excited to see that Pavlovich's first science editorial will be published following his Missouri Valley - Des Moines loupe.