sketch of the day

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Portly 8 fingered man wearing fairie, ballet outfit with double barrel, pump action, 20 gauge shotgun and a ski mask

As You Wish

It is a good thing that computers are a passing fad and they will not be around when my kids are old enough to read my posts.

Sketch of the Day 7.9.08

Today's Sketch is in honor of the tour de france which started 5 days ago in Brest, France. Aside from one of the top sprinters in the world being un-invited to participate a few weeks before the start for an out of competition positive result for Cocaine, the tour this year has been absent of the Drama of the last few years......so far. 3 weeks is a long time for journalist to only concentrate on 190 guys riding their bikes. If they can't find some dirt on the riders, they usually make it up. It is exciting to watch as it unfolds now in this post Lance era where you don't know who is going to win. There is also something therapeutic about watching them pedal across France, especially as i lay in bed at night watching the 10 o'clock rebroadcast of the days stage. Which should not be confused with the 6:30 am live broadcast or the 10:30 am race action rebroadcast, the 12:30 race action rebroadcast, the 3:00 race action rebroadcast, or the 6:00 Prime time expanded coverage.
Either way, if done properly, it is a great healthy sport that is easier on your body than that miserable sport people call "Running".

"Oop... I almost forgot. I won't be able to make it fellas. Veronica and I trying this new fad called uh, jogging. I believe it's jogging or yogging. it might be a soft j. I'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It's supposed to be wild."
Ron Burgundy

Independence Day 08

This independence day we stuck around the house instead of going to sugarhouse park as usual.
With the new baby and construction on the bridge down there, it was nice to be able to hang out here. I realize that by it's very name, the 4th of July has to be on the 4th of july, but it sure would be nice that for holidays that have fireworks involved, they would be held on days that get dark earlier. #1 woke up early and did a kids triathlon and took 2nd place winning a $20 gift card to TARGET. There was a parade with a float for the swim team. We had family over for a BBQ and did fireworks in the street in front of the house


On the 5th, i drove up to Ogden to pre-ride a race course for a race in August. We had 6 guys that went to ride the course. After parking by pineview resevoir and riding down ogden canyon, we rode north and up over north ogden pass. we started the descent back down where one of the guys that we were with was run off the road by a crazy old lady with large blonde hair, a fake tan and a convertible black corvette. We got to the bottom and she pulled up next to us and said that one of our friends stopped up near the top but there was nothing she could do to help him so she left. What she meant to say was "I just ran one of your friends of the road leaving him for dead"
He ended up getting 17 stitched in his chin which took the bulk of the impact, but he has road rash on most of his body.
The picture of the day is called "angry man with candy corn legs"

Sketch of the day

34, holy crap that is old!

A week and a half ago i got a letter in the mail saying i was to report for jury duty on June 30th.

Luckily the phone call on friday said the case was dismissed.

I woke up and had a nice mtn bike ride and came home to some presents including a new wind up toy airplane.

then i rode with #1 & 2 to school.

i went to work for a few hours and had bagels (luckily they did not order cafe rio this time)

a couple weeks ago i got a gift certificate in the mail from DSW that was good for $10 off any purchase over $25.

I went to the store and realized i forgot the coupon. I asked a clerk if they had anyway of pulling it up but they didn't. I found a pair of shoes that were $55.95 and decided to get them anyway. When i went to check out, they rang up at 80% off and ended up costing $11.96 after tax. I would have lost money if i didn't buy them. Luckily they are completely different than any other pair of shoes i already have. See the new shoes on the right and the older shoes i have on the left.

Apparently somewhere along the way i have developed an obsession for athletic shoes. At $11 a pair things could be worse.

When i got home there were hot snickerdoodles waiting and i really should not have eaten that 4th cookie.

We got some pizza and went to the girls swim meet for a couple hours where #2 didn't have to hold onto the lane lines at all on her freestyle this week and she competed in the backstroke for the first time.
I went and caught most of my soccer game that we lost 3-2 but got to run back and forth in 90 degree temps for almost 90 mins.


I had many calls and well wishes and even a package from Long John Leather Couch full of magazine clippings that looked like the picture on the right. Happy birthday to me.






#4 did not wish me happy birthday or get me any presents.

300 warriors pre-ride

Saturday morning i met up with 15 other cyclist and pre-rode the last 3 climbs of a ride some of us are doing in august. The Tour of Utah bike race is back this year after taking last year off due to lack of ability to raise enough sponsorship dollars. The hardest stage of the 5 day stage race has a 99 mile course starting in Park City, riding on the north side of Jordanelle resevoir over a climb into Kamas, then south into Francis where it heads up another climb and down into Midway. It winds its way around deer creek res. and down provo canyon for a couple miles to the Sundance turn off. It goes over Alpine loop and down american fork canyon. It goes up and over Suncrest and then up wasatch Blvd to little cottonwood and ends at sonwbird parking lot #2. All in all it is 99 miles with 14,000 + feet of climbing. They opened this event up to 300 non-pro riders to start 4 hours before the pros and do the same ride. the difference is that we will not have been racing for 3 days before hand and have another race the next day.
We rode down to provo canyon and up it to the sundance turn off. The temperature was great for the first 2 climbs but by the time we got to little cottonwood it was hot. The alpine loop was beautiful and as i took my time getting over it, i snapped some pictures. Once you get past sundance the road for the last few miles is only one car wide and is nice and smooth. My total distance was 98.5 miles and i only went to parking lot #1. I think of the 16 that started, only 4 made it the whole planned distance for the day.