Finally

Finally got the Phil's all laced up and ridable a few weeks ago. Only now got around to taking pictures since most of the time I'm playing around on the bike in the parking lot. So many skids on the slick pavement....

Anyways... here is a picture of the rear wheel.. I love bolts too.. since I don't have to carry around 15mm wrench, rather just a 5mm hex. Significantly more convenient to deal with.



I'll try to get some pictures of me tracking standing soon.

Later

3.5 hours

That is how long I was on the line with AT&T. Well, on hold actually. Our DSL line went down at the office last night, so I called AT&T for help. Get an automated machine answering the calls. This politely informs me that "AT&T is experiencing a large volume of calls currently, it would be faster if you go online and submit your issue there."

I thought that was pretty cool, pushing people to use automated electronic submissions from an automated answering machine. Unfortunately for me.. my issue was that I COULDN'T GET ON THE FUCKING INTERNET! So this option was useless for me.

So I sat on hold for 3.5 hours.. and you know what happened? Our DSL line came back up. All on its own. I reset the modem, logged and.. and bam! Internet.

I have since hung up the phone... fucking AT&T.

I'm going to go get lunch since I'm starving. Was going to go out for breakfast but got wrapped up in this. So now I'm going to go eat for the first time today.

later

Balls to Paint to Play-doh

There is a new Bravia commercial out. Go check it out. How they can convince their bosses to let them do stuff like this amazes me.

Later

Interbike

Vegas was fun.. work was tough but enjoyable. Meeting with dealers face to face and finally putting faces to people I've chatted with on the phone was a nice change.

Only spent a short period of time actually at Interbike. But it was cool none the less. A lot of new stuff coming out next year, and I'd say a large percentage of it is crap. So much heavy stuff.. companies need to learn to drop the weight a little.

I did get to shake hands with Magnus Backstedt. That was awesome.

Also got some Chuey Brand cycling caps.. very nice.

Ok, I have 600+ e-mails that I need to attend to.

Crap.

Later