Post "Holidaze" Thoughts

So.
Another Christmas in the books. Another onslaught of bad holiday music, media-fueled shopping madness and travel.

I really don't like it that my first reaction to the "How was your Christmas?" question is that I survived it. Seems way too grown-up / world-weary / cynical............hell...........too bitter to be me, y'know?

Still...........there it is. I gotta figure out a way to change that...pronto... before I see an old fart in the mirror that I don't wanna see.

Other that that (kind of a cop out, huh?) things are pretty cool here @ Ye Olde Cool Bike Shoppe. We did have a pretty fun Christmas and we really don't have all that much added stress or angst, (making the previous bitching even less appropriate - we'll see if I leave it in there) and it's been cool having folks that we don't see all the time stopping in. (Travis, Tim from Colo. Springs, Hedgpeth!)

The Indoor Rides are rocking..........we're getting 12-14 every time and the sweat is flowing free.

I've missed the last two Crazy Bastard Rides and that's not cool............I need to get out w/ them boys and grrls and slide around in the muck! Next week for sure.

Next week is the big shut down for the inventory / computer deal. Ted and Jeff have been encouraging me to get outta here for the duration, given my lack of empathy for and/or tolerance of computers in general and our point-of-sale system in particular. I have the same malady that my friend Heather calls "that damn work ethic thing" so it's not likely but I will try and stay out of the way! We'll be closed from 3:00pm on 12/31 through the rest of the week.

Cool stuff comes in every day............we just got a few Co-Motion tandems, the first of the Salsa frames and our Surly Cross Check project bikes are gonna get built up as soon as we re-open.

Gotta figure out what to do about the website..............yuck.

Jeff's getting the Velo Ventures stuff lined up, that'll be way cool.

The weather for the New Year's Ride looks appropriately iffy. All the better for the main reason for the ride. (To gain the moral high ground, silly!) I hope we have a big turn out.

We're tryin' to put together 4 teams for the Ultimate Cycling Challenge from our little community and I'll be ridng on 3 of 'em and organizing 2. We'll have teams representing the local club (M.C.C.), the shop, the JDRF Team and the Velo Valeo Vixens, the women's tri team/club that Jess and I got roliing last year. It's a good cause and a ton of fun so If you wanna ride on any or all of these teams.....let us know! (Me for the MCC and JDRF teams, Jeff for the VCC one and Jess for the Vixens, but I can hook you up w/ whomever)

Jeff and I put together a tentative Fun-Raiser schedule for '08. I think we'll schedule them 3-4 months out instead of for the whole year, that way we can schedule around 'cross races and tours and such. Watch the website and the newsletters!

Gotta go..............sorry 'bout the post-holidaze whining there. Workin' on it!

MC