A Sick Acceptance

For those who don't know today is Black Friday, which is basically a holiday that that was created in leu of when to officially start the Christmas shopping season. Any other year I'd probably just be pissed, upset about the various ramifications of what it means to actually have crowds that trample each other just for a deal, and yet this year I didn't see any of that, (in Portland anyway). I went to Pioneer place to crowd watch, seeing as today would be a particular good day to do that, and even in the masses of various people of different colors and creeds all I saw was a bunch of people shopping. Yes, I'm sure there was intense deal mongering between more than one late forty year old that I probably missed, but overall I was actually left quite cheery.


Which led me to my this next conclusion,


1. Is Christmas intensely fueled by capitalism, yeah I would say so
2. Do people over over-indulge, probably

And even with these shortcomings, I'm really amped about this years holiday season. I'm ready for a pleasant reclusiveness brought on by the seasonal cold, a chance to be able to appreciate those who I've met, and a willingness to meet so many more new individuals; all carrying their own specific eccentricities.


Hellz Yeah Holidayz


Danny

Sauvies

As cyclocross season comes to a close, winter begins its initial decent upon Portland, and subsequently my existence. However, before that whole process actually commences there's still the Kruger's Farm race on Sauvies island, and in terms of races its basically designed to make one feel better about themselves after a hard season of racing and possibly losing.

You can have the worst season racing the Cross Crusade, never truly doing well, but if you race Sauvies things are basically guaranteed to end nicely. Its flat, quick, there are no call ups so you can just go to the front of the line of racers, and most importantly, almost all the fast people are too tired to show.

Its like being Hershey's and going to a chocolate contest only to find that Nestle didn't show up.

SO great

Pissing Rain

I just thought I'd get that out of the way considering it would inevitably come up in the posting. For the record it rained from approximately "all morning" to "most of the afternoon", so yeah.

My return to 'cross occurs tomorrow, and when I say return I mean I took a week off last week and I may/may not be able to keep up. I strive for a lack of ambiguity in my race predictions and from what I've calculated, the previous sentence seems to be a mostly accurate summary of how I could perform.

Mostly


Danny?

Unholy hard to fucking find Grail

Cross Crusade Grail hunt; you are a bitch

today I decided it would be a good idea to wander around some of the map locations and see if I could find any "medieval grail weapons".

HORRIBLE IDEA ON A BICYCLE

I mean its not like the landmarks are "that" inaccessible but damn, I rode around a bunch, and of course I came up with nothing. I'm not that tired now but I probably will be tomorrow.

SO tough


danny