Livin' it up in Ben Franklin's town. Riding a bike in the city; damn! watch out for those trolley tracks (slippery when wet!) Whoa, that's what a hoochie mama looks like! I don't think I'm in Delaware anymore.....

Friday, December 22, 2006

That SNL christmas video

Ahh, it's a little away from most people's funny meter, but it still gives me laughs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA&mode=related&search=


Hope y'all have a Christmas!

-BC

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

East Coast Props, hidden.

Ha, reading the Fred's Eye View on velonews about the 'cross nats and I'm loving the commentary on Hat-Trick and Joey T:

http://www.velonews.com/race/cyc/articles/11358.0.html

It'll be cool to see KC's name among the starters at World's. It's just ashame we have to wait a month.

Hmm, I forgot if I ever told my Airlines as an investment joke:

How do you get a million dollars by investing in the airline industry?


Invest 100 million and just wait a few years.

Ride on,

-BC

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Bruised and Loving it!

Rode the Wiss this morning with Christian "my Muslim brother", Corlino "the Italian Stallion", and Colin "the Professor". I was one of the chumps I love to hate today as while rolling out to the Wiss on the Kelly Drive path I flatted. I'm not a chump b/c I flatted as that happens to everyone. I'm a chump b/c both my spare tubes, YES BOTH, like 1+1=2 kind of both, had holes in them. So immediately I went from having 4 seemingly good tubes (this includes what were in my tyres on my bike) to 3 flat tyres immediately. Man what a chump I was, but luckily, Colin the Professor had a spare and off we went to a rocking warm ride through both sides of the Wiss. ***Note to self, check tubes in the seat bag when they've been in there for 3 years or more***

Colin pushed the pace the whole time which was NUTS considering he and I were rocking out at this chic Marissa's holiday Party until early in da morn (I got home by 2:30, he wasn't home until 3). I was rocking out with just the homemade Egg Nog and water, but the Professor was educating us on the many fine brews. So considering how well he rode today, he's definitely the Rockstar and I'm just a Groupie...
Total ride time just under 3:30 hrs. Though we were only on the trails for about 2 1/2. I had my first bad move on the bike in 3 rides so far as I hit a rock with my right pedal and it unclipped just as I was ready to crank hard and I hit my knee cap on the stem. OUCH! As usual I'm just a little gimpy right now.

OH SuperquadroupleSnap! I found another block-rockin' beats Electronica radio station on iTunes, 1.FM-Trance. I keep finding myself turning it up and then when I'm downstairs I'm like, oops, I hope my neighbors aren't pissed! Speaking of neighbors, my crazy one, has been a ghost the last few months. It's actually sorta weird as normally I would see him every morning when I left for work and then when I got home. He's like a hermit now and luckily he's keeping his crazy dogs all quiet!

Wow, Christmas is just 7 days away starting tomorrow, the Dreidel's been spinning for a few days now and Kwanzaa starts soon too. Where has this year gone and what will 2007 bring?

Cool, it looks like the fine Ms. Compton (soon to be a Mrs.) won Cross Nats for the 3rd time in a row. We'll have to call Katie something cool like Hat-Trick Katie now. http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2006/dec06/UScrossnats06/?id=results/UScrossnats0613

And it looks like Joey T. missed being the collegiate champ by 2 seconds. Great job dude! It's been cool seeing you step up everything this past year.


And now onto a rant.
OK, I flew with Delta out to Cinncinati this past week. All their employees are wearing buttons that say something like "Say no to US Airways" b/c US Airways is planning to take over Delta while Delta is in Bankruptcy and all the old Delta faithful don't want a change in corporate ownership as that's scary b/c it will mean that the Delta execs will be pushed out. Seriously WTF are the rank and file employees smoking!?!? If I worked for a company which was driven into bankruptcy b/c of inept execs, then wouldn't it be prudent to be taken over by a more successful competitor which seems to be riding high at the moment? This was my thought before I even experienced this:

I was supposed to fly back to Philly by 6:20pm on Friday, but there were some delays and so the flight was pushed back 30 minutes. Well the plane ended up coming into Cinci on time and so they started boarding on time. Some people didn't show up as they saw the flight had been pushed back to 5pm and so the people who were wait-listed were allowed to board the plane. Well the original ticket holders showed up and so Delta then had to force the wait-listed people back off the plane and let the correct people board. Then something else happened and we just sat on the plane for another hour just hanging out. So we didn't even leave Cinci until after 6pm. This is just the beginning...
We finally get back to Philly and wallah, no bag. I talk to one of the Delta baggage claim dudes and he's like, "we put it on the next flight out after yours." I was really cool, but I was like dude, you're crazy, why didn't it make my flight, I checked in at the airport 3 hours ahead of time, isn't that what I'm supposed to do? Well it ends up that they totally messed up a flight from the day before from Cinci and that b/c of that they kept on packing each flight up with the bags from each previous flight. So what they did, instead of totally pissing off one whole flight from delayed baggage, they pissed off 5 or more flights b/c they kept on bumping current baggage out for the previous flight's. Crazy, crazy, crazy... So when you hear some sob story about Delta being bought out by US Airways, tell them it's about time someone bought them out!

I finally got my bag today at 6pm delivered to my house. Though of course they said it would be delivered between 9-10:30am Saturday. I stuck around until almost noon waiting, then I went out for a ride and came back and checked on their lost-baggage website that it could come between 9am-9pm. Then at 10:30pm last night I got a phone call at my house and on my cell stating they tried to deliver it in the morning yesterday, but no one was home. WTF? They had all my phone numbers and they could have called right before they showed up to make sure I was home.
Then today they called at 2pm saying they'd swing on by in the next hour or 2 and they showed up at 6pm. Seriously, I was going to do my shopping this weekend, but it looks like I'm going to have to again push it off until the weekend right before Kwanzaa again!

Time for bed!

Congrats to all those who raced Cyclocross Nationals!

-BC

Friday, December 15, 2006

Congrats Leech!

I literally just got back from Kentucky/Cinncinatti for a week of training (work) and after checking email, what do I do, but go to Cyclingnews.com and check the world of cycling and see that Dieter showed his true colors and smacked around the rest of the US Master's Field today.

Great job dude!

I can't wait to see the other results throughout the weekend as I know many familiar names will have some great rides. It's going to be warm in Philly, so I bet Rhode Island won't be too bad.

Time for bed!

Ride on,

-BC

PS, don't fly DELTA, there's a good reason they are in bankruptcy these days....

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Riding da Wiss

Rode da Wiss today with Christian, Russ and Rich (we're meeting 9am on Sunday's at the fountain behind the Art museum). Dr. Colin had like 4 too many waters at Christian's holiday party the evening before and his hardcore ass didn't make it out so we had a fun ride on both sides of the Wiss without him there to big ring every climb. Yet again I proved that I can do a mtb. ride without a bike toss, and HECK, even this time I totally lost it on some leaves and just slid on my arse down a hill. It was probably the first and last time you'll hear me laughing when I'm falling off my bike. It was by far the most fun I've had falling off my bike in a long time...

Christian showed he too today was a Dr., as he's definitely the Dr. of technical climbing as that dude climbed everything that was loose, off camber and with those darn reverse drop offs which get me walking every single time (whatever you call something you have to hop up while going up, but if you were descending the trail your ass better be behind the seat or it's going in the air).

It was a nice 3 hrs out, perfect on a day like today and perfect after having a somewhat late night last night. It was only my second time ever hanging out in the "Art Museum" district and it was pretty kick'n. Lots of cool streets and it definitely felt safer than Sou' Phil.



Saturday, December 09, 2006

Bullets flying in Sou' Philly

Wow, totally zonked out this morning and right at 12:59am I hear some pops outside. Being now used to Sou' Philadelphians affinity towards fire crackers I was like, man not again....but this time I realized it would be just one pop, then another pop would be down the street, then the pop closest to me and then another few pops down the street. OH MY, those are real gun shots, not those fake movie ones, not the crazy fire work kids, but gun shots, with white flashes from their pistols everytime they fired too. Probably a good 20 shots fired in total between the two. I wonder what happened last night? I checked the Philly news sites, but nothing. My cornerstreet bakery will know though, he knows everything and everyone.
Luckily my 1/2 sleep brain kicked on right before I was about to open my front door to see what the racket was, and I decided it would be smart to get to the other side of the house. The cops came quick and man did they come, I still didn't want to pop my head out, though I could tell a lot of them showed up and dispersed among the local streets to find out what happened.

Crazy...I still feel safe, but man you never know, plus being in the city you get a lot of people who don't live in your neighborhood just driving through once and a while.
Dieter, after nats I think we need you to move to Sou' Phil with that hunting rifle of yours and be deputized.

I'm going to do my first wimp-out of the year and not ride on the beautiful sunny day we are having today. Just like a virgin, I'm saving myself for the perfect ride (mtb) tomorrow out with my posse to the Wiss.

On a side note I totally ceded that I'm a corporate whore yesterday when at 6:15am my trusty co-worker SuperStritt gave me a call saying that she was cooked and couldn't get in today. See, I was out on vacation, so I definitely hadn't planned on coming in, but our office party had been at Dave & Busta's on Thursday and since being a veggie, I didn't eat the meat entrees and so the first thought in my head was that not only had the superStritt gotten sick, but so had most of my office. So I headed in, but luckily all was fine and dandy. My manager brought in another employee from one of our other offices, so I could have possibly have gone home, but being the control freak that I am, I couldn't bear leaving the office in the hands of someone I just met.
All went well, and right before I left one of the high-rollers of the office emailed my boss's boss giving me props. That felt great and made me think of the difference between my current job and my previous one. They treated me like shit and expected me to smile and want more each day, it's amazing how much better a person will work if they know management has their back.

Ride on!

-BC

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Rocking out with the Pepster

This past Saturday myself, my neighbor Nick, and my old coworker Pepster rocked out in Ol' City! It all began when Nick dropped me off at my old building where the Pepster was studying for his PA insurance license. He had been there all day and when I caught up with him, he had already downed 1/2 of a 1/5 of some smirnoff. Dude was ripped in my old office, I love it, though he still didn't let me phunk without anyone's offices. Man it was so tempting to put the rest of the bottle of smirnoff in the kitchen's fridge...
Nick was a good sport and drove us down to ol' city. We first hit up Mad River, though only for a drink as it looked like a Snap On convention with all the meat head tools there. We then when to the bleu martini where the Pep used to work. It was already a wee bit rocking as it was probably 10 or so. I was already a little lit up after 2 drinks as I'm not much of a drinker. The DJ was rocking again and so were all the fine ladies. Pep was getting all psyched up as he and his hoochie mama herem were going to catch up with us later on. Quote of the night, "BC make sure you wrap it up" What dude??? I hadn't even met his ladies and he was thinking I was going to take them home...whatever man!
Nick had to roll around midnight as he had to work the next morning, as soon as he left Pep's ladies rolled in. They had a table in the back and were totally rocking out. They kept buying round after round and I was in way over my head as these were definitely rockstars and I'm no rockstar, not even a groupie, so luckily Pepster had rolled to the bathroom and had been gone for a long time so I crept out and hit up Windows (aka rindos) next store at 32 degrees. I had tried to go in, but the bouncer was a hard mofo and since I didn't have a skirt on, or was with anyone with a skirt he pointed to the line. I was like, I'm boys with Calltilli, he was like, sweet, back of the line dude. So immediatly I hit up windows and he was there to save a bub from freezing in the line. He had a table in the vip section and was rocking out with his boy Cash (real name of a dude) they were totally ripping it up in there and it could have been a gangsta rap video with the ladies hanging off these guys. Windows hooked this brotha up with a redbull and ice to clean out the system so Pep's ladies' back at Bleu wouldn't take advantage of me. It worked well and I was feeling good again, though Pep was getting all worked up and wanted to roll, so off I go again, not able to chill.
It was about 2am so once we left, we couldn't get back in to Bleu. I was annoyed b/c Pep's ladies had expected me to come back with him, but b/c of the time they weren't letting anyone back in. So alas Pep and I meandered around for a good bit outside as the mass of people streamed out into the streets. It was a pretty crazy sight as the Army-Navy game had taken place that day and so ol' city was packed with all the fans.
I decided to walk the 10 blocks back to city hall, as all the cabs were taken (who would have thought???) and luckily a few blocks into the journey was a late night pizza joint. I hadn't eaten for about 10 hrs. and so I stood in the loooong line, luckily next to 5 college hotties, though the dudes after me were from Army and totally going gaga over the ladies. I was the mediator the whole time as the dudes kept on pissing off the ladies and I would tell the ladies it was ok, that the guys meant something else and not what they actually said. After about 20 minutes we finally got our slices and I hooked up the Army dudes with their pie as they mentioned they were nervous as all can be about graduating and going to the Middle-East. I avoided asking them about that, but the ladies just couldn't take the hint and kept on pummeling these dudes with war questions.

Anyways, made it back home about 6 hrs. after my normal bedtime. Woke up the next day feeling good, though a wee bit tired and wanted to watch a movie. I had a pleathora to choose from (danke frater). I wanted to watch one I had never heard of so I picked alfie, some movie I had no clue what it was about, but figured it would be a chic-flic. It sure was! Crazily I kept watching it and thoroughly enjoyed it, yet it made me feel shitty as I definitely sympathized with my homie alfie as we seem to have had the same life with women. It was pretty much my life story with the ladies.

Time to hit my office's holiday party. Should be fun as it's at Dave and Busta's on Delaware Ave.

Ride on!

-BC


Friday, December 01, 2006

Skeeball Fun at Tommy Mc's

Dude, I dig it, nothing like Tommy Mc getting props from Jeff Kabush for his Skeeball machine.
You go Tom!:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2006/diaries/geoff/?id=geoff0607


Good luck down in Reston to all the crossers this weekend!

I'm rocking out tomorrow night, anyone up for joining, drop me a line. I'll be in Old City when the sun goes down.

Ride on!
-BC