Back to the Grind

I haven't posted much in the past couple days because nothing has been going on! We spent the days after Thanksgiving just taking it easy around the house. I was hoping to get some rides in the next couple days but my schedule is packed and the weather doesn't look to promising.

On the bike front I just ordered a new Chris King headset and compression cap for the Jamis! Hopefully I'll have the new fork installed soon. I've also been on the lookout for some good mud tires so I don't end up doing another messy race with the Larsen TT's next season! That didn't work out so well. On a side note, check out the pic of Ben lining up with Todd Wells at a cyclocross race in Iowa! He even got a high-five from him at the start.

I was going to post some pics of the great food I had for dinner at Lao Sze Chuan but I can't figure out how to get them off my new Iphone! Gonna have to save that for later.

I'm very excited about heading down to FL for xmas. I'm going to buy Ben's old case which will hopefully fit the Tarmac. I've never ridden on the road down there, not that its any more exciting than here, but I'm hoping to do a group ride over the holiday.

I also just got Negative Approach's "Total Recall" and Badlands' "Flame Still Burning". Never been into HC all that much but the NA album is great, real raw early hardcore with some real bad demos thrown in, great stuff. Badlands on the other hand is a little disappointing, I'm hoping it will grow on me but its nothing compared to "Hands of Time". They still have that nice early RAC sound but it almost sounds forced on this one. Also got D.Y.S's "Brotherhood" album the other day, and I have to say I've been nicely surprised. I never got into much Straight Edge stuff but this album is just plain fun. I gave a listen to their second album and I had to laugh, they basically made an overproduced terrible metal album. This in no way means I'm going to start sportin' X's or getting the whole Youth of Today discography (I can't stand them btw). Since I'm on the subject of music purchases, Leyla and I went by a record shop not long ago and of course I spent to much money! Found some interesting stuff though, Killed By Death #6 (all FL bands), Last Rights "No Guts, No Glory",Negative FX "Government War Plans" and The Templars "Pure Brickwall Oi Demos". Mind you, none of this is original pressings!!! I'm not that rich....yet. What is original is The Cramps "Bad Music For Bad People" Leyla found in mint condition! All in all it was a good day of record shopping, and I believe there were hot dogs that day also, so even better.