the hamster wheel...

Do you ever wonder where weeks and days go....it feels like you wake up and you are doing so much, but not really getting anything done or going anywhere. Lately that is how I have felt....i wake up my days are full, but not much of any note get accomplished...I am working hard, in the last two weeks I have had one day off and worked almost a 120 hrs behind a bar sling suds for the hard working folk of seattle. Oktoberfest then Hopfest...I much prefer the beer geeks of hopfest, where we replace all of our taps with IPA's, the northwest drink of choice, to the frat party that is Oktoberfest...that said on Sunday my day off I went and raced cross, the legs were just not ready for the effort, how could they be...I had fun, drank a beer mid race and finished 8th out of 30 or so, 4 of us finished within 20 seconds of one another. Craig, the energizer bunny, Ethridge put us all to shame winning easily, by over a minuete. I am signed up for Single Speed Cross Worlds in Portland again, this was one of the best times I had on a bike last year, if you can be there you should....it will not dissappoint. I should have a new sweet bike real soon...that is if everything works out and they make it to our shores sooner than later....click here for an idea. You will have to scroll down to see the goods...it looks to be one amazing cross season, we have so much planned, now we need everything to fall in to place. I hope to be headed to this or this or both in the upcoming weeks, although it will probably be one or the other, that is a lot of traveling to Oregon to ride my bike, travel to ride, burn petro to ride always seems a bit odd, but necessary... Maybe I could take the train to one....but fitting everything in with the new job and all the other commitments I have isn't going to be easy....one is better than none....I must go run errands and then head to work...as always keep pedaling.....

life can seem like a treadmill....

Do you ever get that feeling that each day is like being on a treadmill, lots of work, and not a lot of going anywhere? Here is the thing....I need, crave, excitement, movement, the general day to day of life has always been something for me to push through, kind of like that treadmill. For those of you that work in the service industry the analogy to being busy, things fall in to place, I thrive, when it is slow my brain doesn't work as well and I forget more things. You might think that is not the case, but with more things to pay attention to less things are forgotten, make sense? Probably not...I don't really know what I am trying to say or the real point I am trying to convey, but I found the need to write, to attempt to express how my brain works, inviting you along on my journey.....
I have been trying to move in to my new apt, and it is such a pain to look at all the stuff you have, do I really need all this stuff? How much of it do I really need, or am I going to use? I just carry it from place to place, I try to keep thinning it down, pairing it down to the bare essentials, thinking, all glassy eyed if I could use only what I could carry with me that life would be better, simplify they say, have any of you really tired....how much of your stuff do you really need in your day to day life, how much of your clothing do you really wear? how may coat hangers does one couple need...space...how many pint glasses? growlers? books? I forget what all of this has to do with a treadmill....but somewhere in all this if you look closely you might find it and when you do, let me know.....I had a great "other things/lessons learned in my 5 day sswc vacation, but that will have to wait.....
All in all I wake up unpack, go to work, get slammed, have a few beers to unwind, sleep, get up eat, go to work, come home, have a few beers, unpack.....my bad habit of taking on too much and then wondering why I feel overwhelmed but at the same time, not being able to say no, to not take that new job, not stay out late, not move....it will all make sense later on when I can gleam what life is trying to teach me...maybe if I learn to slow down enough I will be able to gleam those little lessons, simplify, less is more, and all those enlightened things we say to make it all make sense....well thanks for reading my rant, my very disorganized rant about who really knows what, a brain dump so to speak...as always keep pedaling...