Alberto at the internet cafe……………the cafe is located outside our front door and it is the only place we can pick up internet until we get ours set up. It gets rather chilly at night and I am sure the neighbors think we are weird. Not that they don’t already with three guys living in a two bedroom apartment who wear spandex most of the day.
Alberto and I at the cafe.

Alberto(right) and Hollywood (left). Alberto cooked us dinner last night which was rather tastey.
The new entertainment center that we bought off of craigslist. As much as I don’t want to admit it I guess it does look better than the sterilite containers we had been using but definitely not as cost effective.
Chilling with Menzies fur coat on our new sofa that was extracted from Mike Sayers neighbor’s garbage. It really is not as nasty as the picture makes it look…….honestly.

Day 90 = No Diet Soda

I had a few requests to post some pictures of the outside of our apartment………..well actually………..one request and that was from my mom. Anyway I fullfill all requests…………are there any others?

I forgot to mention in my last update (Mike Jones and G’s Coffee Talk) that Mike and I are going to try and make “Coffee Talk” a regular phenomena. I am not sure how often “Coffee Talk” will occur but it will happen again. Mike had also suggested that any ideas for topics of discussion are welcome and will be useed. For example…………what fashions are going to be in for 2006 (Nora is sooooo 2006!). That was just an example and has already been covered so no repeats.

Aside from that I went to the local bike shop today to check out smaller stems (bike stems…….to clarify). The local shop (Bicycle Plus) is going to order me two different size Ritchey stems. I am getting 90 and 100 mm. That way I can try them both and decide what I like better becuase the one I have now is too long:-). I know our team mechanic Eric reads this and I could probably just ask for one from the team trailer but I feel bad asking because I have already changed and re-changed soo much shit. Don’t worry Eric of Chad I got this one covered.

I also set up a myspace account but I think I screwed it up or at least my URL. My URL is not a name…………I am only a number………..and it is not a low number. I think I am myspace #573298772……..but I guess it is better than #573298773. Now I have to figure out how to use the thing.

I think we are going out for bugerst tonight so I have to run.

later,

g.

Garrett, so to start of this conversation, i would like to be serious for one second, i am happy to have you on the team this year and look forward to traveling and racing with you . Ok, now you can wipe the tear from your eye and start talking. Lets get to the important stuff here, are theyre any hard feelings from the fact that Karl Menzies was quoted as saying at camp that “mike jones is absolutely the best roommate i have ever had”? I mean, maybe he didnt clarify it by saying Mike Jones is the best Division Two roommate i have ever had? But it sounds like you two will have a few weeks to clarify it as i hear that you two are sharing a bed in your apartment in Folsom.

See, heres the thing Garrett, you just said tonight while Menzies was checking out swatches of synthetic comforters at the Comforter Corral, that you slept with him at a race last year, so i dont believe you, agree to disagree. My place is good in NY, where else can you get a mortgage that is less than the loan payment for the audi that i think i still own, but never see? only in binghamton NY, but most likely you wouldnt love it unless you grew up there. Yeah, so dont get too excited about riding with the Health Net team cuz i was talking with Jeff about the rider matrix for this season and I know that he told you that you are on the late program and I think his first race he has you doing is Univest, so you have several months to get excited. You gotta ease into it, and get really excited the taper like an IronMan and by that time youll be in late september and hopefully youll come around with some ragin super duper form for univest. No i didnt witness anything interesting, unless of course showering once a week is interesting, but i figured thats what happens when you grow up on Alcatraz. And as far as sharing a room, i am looking as I type and there is ONE bed in your room, you can deny it all you want, but half of Folsom knows the deal. Well at least the Barista knows at the coffee shop next door knows cuz i told her when you guys were in line behind me. So on to a serious subject, When are you going to do a long ride? And before i leave dont let me forget to talk to you about what day we should actually take a pull and stop letting Sayers and Menzies pull us around all day. So if you do a long ride anytime soon, you should think about adjusting your seat to a better position, a more comfortable recreational cyclist position.

yeah, actually, there is something I want to add. The same house that your Sofa came from down in Sac burnt down last night, or at least was on fire around 11pm. So they might be calling for their couch back soon, so dont invest any money into it. And you have a good track record with giving stuff back, i remember when 2005 called at camp and asked for their popped collar back, and thank god you gave it back. Ok, my coffee is gone and this couch smells like cigarettes, so i am out of here, till next time buddy.

later,

Mike Jones and G.

Store stop on yesterday’s ride……..that is me on the sccoter. I wanted a better workout but know my left shoe is worn out.
What is Hollywood doing?????

Karl, Alberto and I made it back to Folsom last night and today is errand/move in day. Basically, I get to move in twice since everything in the house it getting rearranged with two new people in the house. I am going to officially say that I hate moving!!!

Some good news is that I just got off of the phone with the cable company and tomorrow by 5 pm our house should be equipped with cable television. Wireless internet is also on the way but we have to wait for week becuase the router and modem are coming in the mail. I could have got the internet installed with the cable tomorrow but by setting it up myself and waiting a week it is cheaper!!! I wonder how much cursing I am going to do when I set up that damn thing!

Another piece of good news is that Mike and Jonesie found us a leather couch that the neighbor was throwing out. I guess it is true………one person’s trash is another’s treasure!

Nothing can go too smoothly though……I got a frickin virus on my computer! I am going to personally go out and kick every virus making persons ass!!!!!

later,

g.