Building Stonehenge
Monday, March 24th, 2008Easy.
Archive for March, 2008
Big meeting this week
Monday, March 24th, 2008Got the boss and the boss’ boss flying in on Friday. I have to project confidence and competence.
I’m thinking of wearing a monocle and smoking a pipe.
Any other suggestions?
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Circa 2004
Monday, March 24th, 2008Donimator links to a happier time when all was right with the world and I was not as fat as I am now and Ped needed a haircut.
An explanation
Monday, March 24th, 2008As some of you may know, I work in the bicycle industry. I worked for the same company, with the same boss, since the year 2000.
On January 1st of this year my, now former, boss accepted a new position and is working for our parent company in Europe. That left me in charge of the company here in the United States.
My first thought upon hearing the news that I would be taking over operations of the company was “Holy crap, I am going to be busy.” I started to look for things that I could cut out of my life in order to make more room for work. I could not get rid of the kids and I still wanted to kind of ride the bike once and a while, even if I’m slow and kind of suck at it. It was at that time that I began to think about dumping the blog.
There was much lamenting as I agonized over the decision. Super Rookie wrote something helpful. But I finally came to the conclusion that I should stop blogging and wrapped things up with a final post.
From that point on, every time I would run into someone on the street I would hear “I really miss your blog,” or “Why did you stop blogging?” or “Hey asshole, start blogging again.” The mailman, the garbage collector, some dude who came over to install a new garage door opener, always the same thing.
So, in the past few weeks, I started thinking about it. I have been really busy with work, but I have also been thinking about how I miss this form of communication and the creative exercise of writing.
I started a Facebook page and did some writing there but it was not the same and my heart was not really in it.
I have some concerns about being responsible for a company and continuing to run this blog. I worry that it will send the wrong message to my employees if they see this site. Even though I write a lot of stuff off hours that gets posted during the work day, I don’t want them thinking that I screw off all day while I expect them to be working.
I was also worried, now that I am actually responsible for a company, that I would write something really controversial that would get someone’s hair in a knot and, since the bike industry is so small, it would come back and bite me in the ass.
I had to think about it. So I thought about it. I had to make a decision. So I made a decision. That decision is to no longer give a shit.
I do what I want. And I guess I want to blog.
Plus (dis) says blogging is the new not blogging. That means I am cool again.
Right?
Christian Holidays
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008What was Easter and Christmas like in this country in 1908? What about 1808?
What do you think these holidays wil be like in 2108? What about 200 years from now?
How long do you think it will be before Easter and Christmas are only about the Bunny and Santa and the Christian meaning behind these holidays is all but forgotten? How close are we to that today?
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San Remo
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Rebellin and Pozzato had a slight lead when the road leveled, but the group came back together. After an attempt by Landaluze, that also didn’t go anywhere, it was World Time Trial Champion Fabian Cancellara who put on the show. He took off at 2 kilometres to go and showed what he had – and what he had was a lot. He powered his way across the finish line after 298 kilometres some five seconds ahead of Pozzato and Gilbert.
Uhhh, didn’t this same guy make this same move in stage 3 of the Tour last year?
A guy with 2 World Time Trial Championships goes up the road with 2000 meters left in the race and you don’t get on his wheel?
All credit to Cancellara, but how many times is he going to burn these guys with this move before they wise up to it?
What about it?
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008I don’t know.
Lot’s of folks have told me that they miss this blog. I have to say that, when I have had the time to think about it, I have missed this blog as well.
So maybe I’m blogging again.
