I'll tell you a story about Jack of Knorr, now my story's begun. I'll tell you another about his brother, and now my story's done.
-Gage S.
My great grandmother would tell me this sometimes at bedtime and she thought it was the funniest thing ever. Now I do the same with my niece and I see why it's so funny. She gets the same frustrated look I used to get.
The 2010 Tour de France is in effect. As of stage 6, David Millar was in 15th place. In stage 3, he was taken down by a dog.
David Millar competed Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour de France today in 05:37:45. He ranked #157 for the stage. Mark Cavendish won the stage in a sprint.
Including the Prologue and first 6 stages of Le Tour, David Millar is now ranked #15 in the overall general classification. His current GC time is 04:39:36 and he has a total gap of 00:02:06 from the yellow jersey.
David Millar is riding for Garmin Transitions and is managed by Jonathan Vaughters. The 2010 Tour de France kicked off on Saturday July 3rd, and ends in Paris on July 25th.
My birthday is officially the most depressing day of the year.
(I KNEW IT!!)
Blue Monday (date)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blue Monday is a name given to a date stated, as part of a publicity campaign by Sky Travel, to be the most depressing day of the year.
This date was published in a press release under the name of Cliff Arnall, at the time a tutor at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, a Further Education centre attached to Cardiff University. Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre reported that the press release was delivered substantially pre-written to a number of academics by Public Relations agency Porter Novelli, who offered them money to put their names to it.[1] The Guardian later printed a statement from Cardiff University distancing themselves from Arnall: "Cardiff University has asked us to point out that Cliff Arnall... was a former part-time tutor at the university but left in February."[2]
According to a press release by a mental health charity[3], the formula is:
where weather=W, debt=d, time since Christmas=T, time since failing our new year’s resolutions=Q, low motivational levels=M and the feeling of a need to take action=Na. 'D' is not defined in the release, nor are units.
Arnall says the date was calculated by using many factors, including: weather conditions, debt level (the difference between debt accumulated and our ability to pay), time since Christmas, time since failing our new year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and feeling of a need to take action. Writing about the calculation, Goldacre stated: ... the fact is that Cliff Arnall's equations ... fail even to make mathematical sense on their own terms.[1]
This date allegedly falls on the third Monday of January. The date was declared by Arnall to be 24 January in 2005,[4] 23 January in 2006,[5] 22 January in 2007,[6] 21 January in 2008,[7] 19 January in 2009[8] and 18 January in 2010.
Mr Arnall also says, in a press release commissioned by Wall's ice cream,[9] that he has calculated the happiest day of the year - in 2005, 24 June,[10] in 2006, 23 June,[11] in 2008, 20 June[12] and in 2009 19 June.[13] So far, this date has fallen close to Midsummer.
you know what, i haven't yet found a website that is pleasing to me in an all-encompassing, one-stop fix. there are a couple that are really fun for their own specialties, but not as a single sweet spot.
i'm thinking that maybe i have to make my own. bikes, music, literature, film, cultural geography, comedy, a dash of politics, maybe some sweet photos... you know, life.
but i don't want to do the work. and i have a.d.d.
its been almost 2 years since i posted anything on this site. i'll have to figure out what this means for me now. back then it was something to keep me from losing my mind in new england. now i live in durango, colorado.
i can ride my bike if i want to. i listen to the music i like. i read a little here and there. i hang out with my girlfriend. we walk the dogs. i get my feelings hurt sometimes. sometimes she does too. we tell each other "i love you." we have drinks. i hang out with friends. we go for rides if we want to. we listen to the music we like. the only part that's tough out here is the money thing. everything else is pretty golden. people out here have to work shitty jobs and say, "thank you for my shitty job."
i have a dog now. miles jackson. he's very handsome and makes for a great friend. i hope the feeling is mutual. i get to see my 2 best buds alot. one lives here (chinatown, currently) and one in ridgway. 
i get to talk to my niece every week. she tells me what is hers. i miss her so much. i look forward to her visiting me out here when she is older. i have a feeling she'll love it out here too.
i guess in a way this is a journal. of sorts. and a celebration of what makes life worth living, for me, right now. this is what always gets me. i have this strong compulsion to write but i never know why i'm writing. fiction seems the logical choice but this stuff i do is almost always first person....
i just ran 42 circles around the house trying to figure out what i wanted to do next.
all my good friends have failing relationships. my girlfriend broke up with me this week. we got back together the next day. i broke up with her last night. we're back together again. i'm really trying not to take myself too seriously. i just watched the fountain for the third time. cried my eyes out again.
all i really want is to spend several hours a day on my road bike. i drink a lot of coffee and even more tea. i download music from soulseek. i don't pay because its not possible. i drink different things at night. gin and tonics if i'm home, beer if i'm out with a friend. pastis or absinthe if its a writing night.
i keep telling myself over and over that i just want to write what i would want to read. the closest i've ever come to reading what i would want to read, so far, is eileen myles. well, maybe mark sundeen. yeah. guess its a tie. and neither one has much out.... brian said i'd like michelle tea if i liked eileen, i don't know.
mom's coming out soon. it just turned daylight savings time. its 7:10pm now and still light outside.
