Well its now the end of February, and my season is coming to the end soon. Nationals are in a month. The AAS team has a house that sleeps 26 people and should be a blast. all day riding and all night partying. its good for the muscles and bad for the liver.

UPDATE:

I got my Forum gear and it totally rocks. its very intuitive and responds oh so sweetly. They hooked me up with the youngblood wide, faction bindings, and destroyer boots. I ffel like such a pimp.

UPDATE part two:

Qualified at Raging Buffalo for Nationals at Copper a couple weeks agao. took first in my division.  I now have a good understanding of competing. its as much strategy as skill. of course it only took two plus years of competing to figure it out.  So compared to the years where I threw my hardest tricks - im going to plan a concise plan or as bush calls it “Strategery” and work my run so its clean, concise, and stylee. Not hard trick thrown then barely land or slide out. We will see.

 as far as my suck and blow comment, I was just thinking about my work.

So I was all pumped up, we got good snow and I built the backyard terrain park. they say if you build it they will come, and evidentally the “they” is 60 degree weather. What the hell.  When did we start getting 60 degrees in January.  so my six inches of Flat Pow, my four foot drop  in and my two foot booter to 8 foot box is now a dirty pile of ice sitting in the middle of a brown yard. So of course pray to, drink to, smoke to, dance to, jiggle to, and anything else you can do to get the snow god awake and flurrying all over.

I wrote this once but my work internet crashed. so lets try again.

we are getting bombarded by freezing rain right now. it totally sucks. my dreams of having my backyard terrain park is melting away. I had the jump going up to the box all carved out, plus a dog excrement free landing zone. I was planning on building the drop in this weekend and hopefully riding by Sunday. Well now all the snow is melting away and my launch is getting shorter and shorter.

On the lighter side we traded in our 4d 4wd explorer for a AWD Cross Country. Way better on gas and very luxurious for a wagon. now making it up the mountain will be safe and affordable. what a great combination, if only beer and lift tickets would follow!!

nothing else is new at the twilight of the season. My dog had knee surgery- She had a luxating patella. that means that her knee ligament or tendon would fall out of the groove. We had a Orthopedic surgeon in Aurora do it.  Whats crazy is that not only did the vet place have an orthopedic surgeon, but I saw on the sight that they have a dermatologist. Evidently here in the Chicago suburbs there must be some serious money with some serious pet care goin on.

more to follow- www.myspace.com/blindbadassboarder

from the album Sailing the seas of Cheese the song Los Bastardos all though may not seem to apply to life. it often does. and when dealing with difficult people, I always think of that song. The artwork below was in a show in Chicago. It didnt sell or win anything, but it was at a large gallery just south of downtown. at some point prior to pick up this sunday it was damaged. and the gallery people gave my wife slash manager a hard time. they asked “well how do we know that it wasn’t like that to begin with” and my wife/manager replied because we have the insurance form that proves it wasn’t damaged. so now they want us to produce the paperwork and send them an estimate. well we did so right away. the quote is for 120 bucks to replace the frame. and they bette pay up. so the lesson here is always keep your paaperwork, and if you cant keep it, then scan it and save it on disc or hardrive somewhere. people are shady and tend not to take responsibility. so be ready to prove yourself.

ok sorry about the rant.

all I gotta say is comeon snow. Ive already got my yearly cold out of the way this weekend. I tend to get a cold or flu every year since I work in a hospital and it is better to get it early then in the middle of the season. pray snow everyone.

The 10th Annual Chicago Art Open will take place:
October 4 – 27, 2007
Iron Studios

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I have recently changed my sunday football beer of choice to bud light. (hey budweiser wanna sponsor me?) and have found it to be tasty, refreshing, and doesn’t blow me out before the 3:30 game (central time). It also doesn’t make me a hazard while grill on a sunday afternoon. However, it takes many beers to, let say heighten ones numbness, and thus makes it pretty expensive for a domestic beer.

Why the switch you might ask? well, cant have extra weight just before the season kicks off. its a troubled battle to try to keep the beer belly to a minimum, and yet parlay during the three guaranteed football games on sunday (now that they added Sunday Night Football). Although the weight helps  when it comes to picking up speed in a short distance on the hill, it also takes a lot of pop to turn this thing around.

We (meaning my wife and I) are moving to the Chicago suburbs. We will have a rard and I am plannin on building a mini terrain park. I will build a rollin and I already have a skatebench. mini jib sessions will be a plenty. if anyone has made one before please clue me in on any mishaps or misconceptions for building such a thing so I wont have to do much error in my trial and error.

It was actually CPR, Chicago Public Radio, but if I said CPR people would think I was dying. anywho, I was in a Juried Art Show in Downtown Chicago in one of the River East Center’s Galleries. I didn’t place but I was on the invitation and was also mentioned in a news story that was brodcasted on CPR/NPR/ follow the link to get there and click on listen. http://www.wbez.org/Cityroom_Story.aspx?storyID=13177

or below is the story: