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

Fright Town

I specifically labeled this post after what I'm doing tonight so that when I frequent my homepage I'm more inclined to write. SO HELLS YEAH WORLD, more of Danny Felts spamming the internet!

In all seriousness tonight is one of the nights that Fright Town, ( local crazy ass haunted house ), is running, and while last year was fun I'm particularly looking forward to this go around. I happened to be a straggler in last years job picking and went from being a fairly harmless ghost covered with a typical uniform white sheet, to having to sit in a small room that was pitch black, with a strobe light, with fake dead bodies swinging all over the place; all this accompanied by low moaning sounds for 2+ hours.

lolz


No Astoria this weekend, as much as I would like to race I could use a week off, and I was sick for the majority of the week, which was awesome. The Crusade will have to wait

The bamboo bike project is also under way, if all goes well I should be at the very least a satisfied owner of something I could other wise never get unless I knew Alan. Should be sweet.

Wort uber,


Danny

Many things have happened

Fall is being greatly appreciated this time around.



I don't have any definitive answer why, maybe I'm more prepared for the cold then I've been in previous years, or I'm slightly more of a badass in ways I don't know, (I expect this to be the eventual truth), but thus far the only thing I've been noticing in Portland is how much I'm in enjoying the tree's change colors.

Fall/Spring: better half of the year for reals

Summer: sweet, but sweaty; kind of like raucous love making

Winter: Contains only two good things: My birthday (JAN 7, 1988), and the fact that I get my fix of video games during winter break. Otherwise it can suck it.


Cyclocross:

Been doing well lately, ironically enough with my best finish up at Rainer. 35/125 in the C's. Not that bad, although it would be cool to race with the rest of my age contingent up in the B field, after all somebodies got to get 90Th; might as well be me. Hillsboro is tomorrow, looking forward to a fast course, and people complaining about getting amoebas from falling in the cow shit. LOL



Other than that?

My feelings on people who think they are friends with professors just because they are old remains the same,

They, like winter, can suck it.




Danny

Stuff that I want to write about

For the most part I'm a very future oriented person. Most of the time I prefer to see things as how they could possible turn out, and while that is slightly pointless it doesn't take away from the fact that I find it hard to believe its already the middle of September; maybe not the exact middle but halfway through all the same.

CrossVegas is fast approaching and while I look forward to hanging out in Vegas and begining my Cyclocross season, I am worried about school. Not so much in a " oh, I don't want to go back to school because I don't want to work " kind of way, but rather the fact that if everything goes correctly this year, then I will probably be done. Which I think is a sort of unsettling concept.

And then on the other hand other people may look at it as an opportunity, a chance to do something completely different, travel new places, become integrated into society as one of the masses, yet it does not feel right, not yet anyway. Its strange being relatively close to the edge of my education, although I suppose (insert life long lesson neatly wrapped up into one sentence),


Danny