Some stuff and Sonya Looney Picture Friday

On Tuesday an anonymous commenter had a few suggestions on how to liven up the blog without blogging about blogging. While I paid no attention to his Monday through Thursday ideas I'm going ahead with the Sonya Looney Picture Friday blog theme.

Luckily Sonya and I are face friends, which means I have access to her face photos. This relationship is going to be very beneficial in the future if I decided to continue with Sonya Looney Picture Friday. I like being face friends with Sonya. One might say that we are face friends with face benefits, well at least until she accuses me of being all stalker like, then one might risk having a restraining face order taken out on one's face self.

Sonya has informed me (via face mail) that she would not like to be portrayed as an interbike hottie or a bimbo, so for every "racey" image I use of her I need to also display a "race but not racey" image. Here she is celebrating her total dominance over me at the Breck Epic:

Maybe in order to avoid being labeled a "sexist" I will also have Dejay's Ass Mondays...

Probably not.

What else is going on?

I'm still playing with facial hair in my spare time. This is a new one for me...

I call it the Mini-Fuzzy.

Why? Because if my chin were a Fuzzy I would look like this:

George said the BWOON! I posted Wednesday would be great for his sidebar. All day yesterday The Pie was like "You need to go to the grocery store" and I was all like "BWOON!" I played with it so much yesterday that I couldn't help but take the idea for myself. Now you can BWOON all day as well. You're welcome.

I did get a small amount of work done.

Measurements are being taken for something coming that will be better than sex, beer, and Dokken all rolled into one. "Impossible!" you say. "Fuck you, piece of shit doubter!" I say. There's a process to doing things, and that involves what I know and what I don't know, and sending emails to some guy who think he knows, and then more emails, and measuring, and then some Dokken on the iTunes for inspiration, and The Pie getting sick of hearing about it and hearing Dokken in the other room, some quiet time behind lock doors with cold beer, and time going by, and more emails... you've seen it here countless times. More information as it seems prudent and when it clears the many levels of secrecy that a project like this requires. Here I go again.

Awkward segue, and...

It looks like the New Belgium Urban Assault Race is coming back to Charlotte, even though I had heard we just didn't party hard enough to warrant a return trip.

Will I be there again? Dunno. While I commend Kevin and Josh (and Kevin's mom) on their brilliant performance last year I don't know if I wanna invest my brain into a race that has an element of chance in it. Straight forward racing, a few challenges and route finding? I'd be a sure thing. Am I bitter about last June's event? No, but as much thought as I put into it I sure was bummed with our result. Not to mention it counts as an "event" on the home front... you know, only so many of those "once in a life time" events per year. Such a hard decision... such great beer, but such a nasty hangover to have at 5:00pm.

NBUAR 2010 with Big Worm for your viewing pleasure...

Arleigh posted up some stuff about the internets the other day which I do not understand. Apparently I (teamdicky.blogspot.com) have a domain authority of 80. I do not know what that means, but I'm always delighted to find out that there is one more thing in the world that makes me feel slightly more ignorant than I felt the day before. I think I shall shoot to improve that number by increasing it by a factor of five unless of course improving that number means I have to lower that number by some other factor all of which I have no idea how to achieve.

I also found this thread on a weight weenie forum that I found interesting. It started with this question:

KWalker wants to know:

"So I have the chance to take a job as a bike messenger for some extra cash and I'm thinking of doing it for a while. The hours are long, but its pretty easy back and forth riding with lots of starting and stopping. Fairly long days, but not much taxing riding.

I was just wondering if anyone else has done something like this and how it has affected their training for better or for worse. Worst case is I just get a shitload of junk miles in my legs, which wouldn't help recovery."

Someone later just posts "Rich Dillen, world 24hr solo single speed champion" and then something about "junk miles." Nothing about whether I was a good example of a messenger whose training has been affected for better or worse. I tried to read the rest of the thread, but I got sidetracked by a dust bunny being blown out of the heater vent near my office chair.

This weekend could be busy. Tomorrow is the Bike Rumor Schwag Toss in Asheville as well as the end of the year party for our local trail building club, The Tarheel Trailblazers. I have no idea if I'll make it to either. I'm thinking about going to a tanning salon instead... been looking sorta ashen, so we'll see.

Sunday is The Swank 65 and The Big Stampede swap meet here in Charlotte, NC. As opposed to embarrassing myself in the woods I'll be at the swap meet looking to buy cheap shit and searching for blog fodder.