Back into the swing of things in yet another semester. Right now J-money is making his way out to Flagstaff to start his new job.

As for the rest of us…we’re getting by. Right now we’ve had about a week and a half under the belt. Suprisingly the weather has been rather pleasent. As pleasent as it can be in upstate NY in the middle/end of January. Even with the weather in the upper 30’s and 40’s I still manage to bitch about how I think it’s a little too cold to ride. Apparently lots of other people feel to the contrary. I guess I’ll just have to man-up and venture outside. Or just stay in on the trainer and continue to bitch and moan. I like the first option but the second one is much easier. Dilemas, dilemas.

I actually will be heading outside to race this weekend. What kind of race you might wonder? Check it out: http://www.precisionaccidents.com/. Good old Rob Thomas talked a bunch of us into pulling a shopping cart from somewhere in Brooklyn to somewhere in Manhattan. It didn’t really take much convincing, all he had to do was mention booze and NYC and we were all in. Now all my fat ass has gotta do is manage to survive the run. We are supposed to come up with some kind of theme for our teams. I was looking at some of the last year’s ones and they were pretty good. Nothing like a chain gang running around Manhattan tied to a shopping cart. So far we have a couple of ideas: Pac-man with the cart as Pac-man and the runners in front as ghosts and the other is a firefighter type scheme.

If anyone has an idea for a costume theme it would be greatly appreciated (since I think we have 3 teams and only 2 ideas). Basically think of something that would be hilarious to see if you were just sitting in a taxi in Manhattan and you saw a group of people dressed as whatever run past. There will be pictures and a full race report from this one. Thanks and PEACE!!