So a few tidbits...

• Check out this page. It is one I recently started to make fun of my friend who has this page. I realize that is a lot of pages to check out. Just remember, though, that this page is the most important.
  
  
• This weekend is the Firewater 50 in northern Georgia. Here is a bulleted list of things about the weekend that I know or think...
• I am driving 4 of us down there in the Element, which has a broken A/C. Hopefully the air temp will stay comfortable for the weekend.
• We are staying with the Jeffrey in downtown Chattanooga on Friday night.
• The Firewater 50 is a free grassroots 50 mile offroad "group" ride. It is not a race.
• There is no support for this ride unless you mean the cookout and beer and other adult beverages that will follow the grueling ride.
• Chris Ivory, an avid and very able single speed rider, who has ridden the Firewater 50 in the past, says that anyone attempting it on a singlespeed has to either be crazy or stupid. (My money is on Ivory showing up on a single-speed bike.)
• The Element and its passengers will be returning sometime Saturday night.
• I am unprepared for this ride.
• The Firewater 50 is actually one fella's birthday ride. It has been happening every year for 12-13 years. The firewater is a bottle of mad dog that gets passed around among the finishers.
• There are supposedly some pretty heinous climbs on this ride.
• I am unprepared for this ride.
• There is a bike shop owner from somewhere in Georgia who intends to ride the Firewater 50 on a fixed gear bike. It is the same person who started the GDR this year. I am convinced that he is delusional.
• The Firewater 50 is unmarked and the maps given to participants are minimal. The course is different this year from years past. Getting lost is highly probable.
• I am unprepared for this ride.
• So now for things I am not so sure of...
• Where the hell does the Firewater 50 start and end?
• Really..... how hard is it?
• Is there a good pizza joint around the halfway point?
  
  
• Things are still alittle topsy-turvy at work. I can't say much more. I still have a job. A big door opened for our company today, but a different big door also swung back closer to closed. I realize that doesn't mean much to anyone but me. Sorry.
  
  
• I got a new computer from my little sister this week. It is an Apple Powerbook. She also gave me a 20gig ipod. I have a great sister. But I feel a little bit like a loser for taking hand-me-downs from my sister who is 10 years younger than me and in college. I can deal.