A Helluva Week!

Man! If there was any way I was gonna survive a week w/out my One True Love (who flew down to Mexico to visit our son) it would hafta be a week filled w/ rides and other Cool Stuff. Lucky for me - that's just egg-zac-lee the kind of week I've had! Actually this week sorta started last weekend - the band played a gig @ the Saugatuck Brewery that was a complete hoot - great crowd fulla friends and buds, we played well .........'twas pretty much perfect. Then Sunday Lin and I got out for 2 hours in the afternoon w/ good buddy CD in the warm part of the day and that was awesome. ( I do so much of my riding in the a.m. that I hardly ever hit the warm part of the day here in the Spring) I'm SO pumped that Lin is diggin' her new road bike and seems all about gettin' ready for her first JDRF Ride this summer. (As a rider anyway!) Monday 'twas her B-Day and then she left for the airport @ 4:00a.m. Tuesday. I came down to the shop after she left and f-i-n-a-l-l-y got my Seven back together and it is beautiful! 16 pounds & 2 ounces of fixed gear fury! We had a small turnout for the TNR - it was wet and cold - but we rode and it was great. Then the weather broke (about damn time!) and 'twas sunny and warm! We had a great ride Thursday morning, an even greater one Friday morning and then the 1st Sprint Ride yesterday was a blast too. Jess and I were a factor on the tandem, topped the climb up Beeline Hill w/ the group and laid down the law a bit on the return leg. Then after work I met up w/ C.P/T. for 30 miles on the White Pine (in shorts and a s/s jersey!!!!!!!) and then burritos. Now it's time to head over to Grandville for Team Ride # 2 and a Ride Committee meeting.

Somewhere in there (Thursday night, to be exact) a goodly chunk of the JDRF Team joined about 200 other folks @ Celebration Cinema in GR for the freakin' World Premiere of the movie that Tom made about our 2008 ride season. Words fail me.........it was SO well done, SO powerful amd brought forth SO many memories and feelings that I've haven't even come near to comin' down. We'll have DVD copies here @ the shop - feel free to come and get one - it's something else!

I've been too busy to miss Lin! (Too much anyway!)

Sounds like the weather's gonna turn to crap again for a few days but they're talkin' 70's for the end of next week and in 2 weeks I'll be in the desert w/ some good buds so it's hard to feel to blue about anything. The shop's been WAY busy, my staff is workin' hard and kickin' ass and I'm feeling pretty good about stuff in general.

Here I am again talkin' about how I'm gonna do a better job of keepin' up w/ this blog-thing. We'll see!

Later, MC