it’s 84 degrees, not a cloud in the sky. spend the morning on the beach, the afternoon in the pool. the last few hours alternating between tv, reading delillo and napping.

florida’s rough.

i really miss all that rain. horribly.

found this little gem in my comment box this mornin’ : EGO//INC::10/24/2001: a new breed of website design. not nearly as good as ryan’s debacle, but it still made me laugh.

looks like the weather forecast for our chunk of florida has cleared up a bit. i was expecting a rained out vacation, but it looks like it may be sunny.

yes, i do have the best wife in the world. i’m probably heading down to asheville for their mountain sports festival the first weekend in june.

i’m also getting a hella good deal from jason on his redline ‘cross bike.

my amp auction ended yesterday and i’m pretty happy with the price. sat down and played for a bit before boxing her up last nite. it kinda figures that i was finally getting the sound really dialed in. eh, oh well. it’s on it’s way to orange, CA today.

The Mountain Sports Festival in Asheville – June 6 , 7, 8, 2003. Especially note the Urban Sprawl Freeride Contest.

vs.

National Race for the Cure – June 7, 2003. Kristy’s running it this year, drop some support (and some cash)

since when do ducks congregate on the edge of highways? one took off right into my passenger-side turn signal saturday night. damn birds.

still horribly sick, hoping to get better by saturday for our mini-vacation down to florida.

a little bit of me for sale: buy my amp

just got back from the doc. no strep here, but the prediction of a 7-day cold/flu extravaganza. i’m psyched. it’s gonna rock… ugh.

in the ‘feel-better’ dept, jason got his lomo pix developed from last weekend and sent me this NICE picture of some moron (me) dropping some nasty stuff.

throat hurts, feelin’ crappy. going in for a strep test at 2.

root canal for kristy.

i keep finding new bruises from last weekend.

bought a sweet Oryk road bike for kristy from eBay. virgin ride on saturday.

ordered disc brakes for the kona. started stripping the stickers off the frame. tired of the glow-in-the-dark look. black is the new black.

i feel like poop.

my latest project, DJragz.net went live today. ryan hooked me up with ragz and this project has been nothin’ but fun to work on. i’m pretty happy with the way it all turned out. this has really been the project that changed the way i think about freelancing. i realize now that if something isn’t fun, i’m not going to do it. stress is strictly for 9-5.

creaky and sore but happy.

up @ 6am, met up with the crew at 7 in the pouring rain. “we’re driving 3 hours in this crap to ride in this crap?”

rain stopped somewhere around 9am, but it was still mighty gray. 10am pulling the convoy into wintergreen’s out-of-bounds adventure park area, suited up fast and plopped my $15 on the table, slapped a tag on the bike and we were rolling.

our first run down we headed thru the new ‘freeride park’ area. absolutely blown away. picture slippery steep ladders tossing you off 5 ft rock drops with minimal room to slow down before blowing off the trail. the trails NEXT to the ladders and drops were hard to ride. i think i hit 2 or 3 of the ladders max.

the rest of the trails were rideable, super steep and very fun. i finally nailed one section that had 2 consecutive 4ft drops, off camber into a rocky creek. might have been the toughest thing i’ve ever ridden.

bike was solid throughout, but now i realize how much disc brakes are needed. they would’ve helped keep me more on the trails, less in the trees.

injury count: scraped up elbow, colorful bruised shoulder, classic hipper.

a dave’s eye view of saturday at wintergreen.

this week has been hectic, i’m all social and stuff. hung out with stephen on monday (he’s in town for a chef-training-type-thing). hung out with laura last nite at this new place in rosslyn, continental. tonite’s dog school and finish up the website i’m working on, tomorrow maybe urban ride, friday… ummm… maybe there’s nothing friday, i forget. i gotta wake up supadupa early on saturday anyway so i should get my beauty sleep.

gearing up to spend all saturday down at wintergreen’s mTb park opening day. [see pics]

s’posed to be a rainy muddy mess, but i’ve been thinking about it for waay to long to let that stand in the way.