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The Life and Times of Joe

   Here's my personal blog for my friends, no rhyme or reason to it, but it's here anyway.

Summer eh?

Monday, July 03, 2006
So summer has fully and completely arrived now, and it's wicked. Sure I might bitch about how it's "so damn hot" but I bitched about the rain too, so apparently you can never make me happy unless it's puking snow all night then sunny the next day. I'm pretty sure the temperature here reached "surface of the sun"°C the other day. Actually it's pretty wicked, I've been mountain biking a ton, and we've reached new heights of Bocce ball radness (including water holes).
 
Speaking of biking, damn is it fun. I've got a Brodie Holeshot that is great, though I do wish at times I had a full suspension (I'm not so smooth and the dualies kinda cover for me), and I bought my Whistler Mountain bike park pass on friday. It's so amazing up there, the Garbanzo chair expansion means there is 3400 vertical feet of mountain biking to be had on dozens of trails. Some of them get pretty tricky, especially on a bike not built for the park (mine) and I found that out on friday. After having an amazing ride, including "Original Sin" and "In Deep" off of the Garbanzo chair, we decided to do "Schleyer" on the lower mountain. I tried to take a "not so hot" line on one of the rock faces and managed to endo over the handlebars and land on just about every part of my body, including my hip, both legs, shoulder, back, elbow and wrist. I was very lucky that I had borrowed a full face helmet from Fanatyk Co bike shop, because all I remember is my face and head sliding across the rocks. Thanks Jon! First time I've ever really knocked my head too, guess I got a mild concussion, that was interesting. Oh yeah, and on a sad note, I was a dumbass and took my cool nerd phone up the hill with me, and managed to smash it to pieces when I fell. D'oh. Ah well, I got back up there yesterday and it kicks ass. Back at 'er again this week.
 
 
Have fun y'all!


Tags:summer, fun
Published by JOE: 4:50 PM
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Posted on Jul 06, 2006
ONLINE Karma:
From: perrik
32, Vail Valley, Colorado, US
Holly shi*t man. I loked at the park website and it looks pretty extreme! We don't have anything like that in Wisconsin but I also like to bike a lot. I do it in single track trails in the woods.
Have fun and keep wearing that full face helmet eh!


Carpe Diem baby, carpe diem!

Posted on Jul 05, 2006
OFFLINE Karma:
From: coco7
28, Madison, Wisconsin, US
THE NERD PHONE DIED!?!?! thats a bummer, but you sound like you were at least having lots of fun while breaking it.....and you look dirty in that photo, maybe smelly too
Posted on Jul 03, 2006
OFFLINE Karma:
From: angelo_19_75
34, Lausanne (and Milan, Italy), Vaud, CH
haha, it's just bocce, that already means balls  although if you come to italy, it's also used to refer to nice breasts
 
oh and sorry for your phone, I dropped mine in the bathtub when answering to it about a month ago...
 
Posted on Jul 04, 2006
ONLINE Karma:
From: tooscoops
29, in the bushes, Ontario, CA
oh no!!!! you lost the phone!!!??? what about the lesbian porn?.. hopefully you had that on a travel disk or something! heh...  glad you didn't hurt your noggin too much.. but then again.. i think you'd have to find one large rock to put up a fight against that virtual plantoid you call your skull....


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