All Things Rowdy

Today was my first time to a lift assisted place to down hill bike. And I've only had a dh bike for barely a month. I had talked to other people and was given good advice about how to start in the sport so I wasn't too worried about all of this. Excited rather. I'm going off a small pages of notes, so please bear with my fragmented, non linear ride report. I rolled into Cedar City with no hotel reservations thinking it would be easy in a small town. Wrong. Summer time and a big Shakespeare festival had the place packed. I had to go to almost 10 hotels before I found a room. It is about a 35 minute drive from downtown CC to the base of the resort. The scenery on the drive is breathtaking. No need to speed past it. An all day lift ticket was $24. One lift services all the bike trails. The chair uses a simple hook to hold the bike. It takes more time to ride the lift to the top almost than to do a run. They will shut the chair down for lightning. They did this for almost 80 mi...

Tomassi, Marco James (M.D.) 7/28/11 04:03 PM Signed Let's revisit when you return to town. If still symptomatic, will plan for picc and TPN Looks like I'll be tied to the couch for two months.

110F outside, 93mph inside. yep, my bikes are still back there. phew. not too many turns though to dislodge them on this drive. California to Nevada to Arizona to Utah. 9 hours. safely in the hotel. at least for one night.... i made no reservations so as not to be tied down. this is a summer town and everything is full tomorrow, friday.. i might be sleeping in the truck tomorrow night, hahaha

Just one more night till the adventure begins! On the road, burrito in my Taco. Self portrait, "driving" The gear The weapons Gravity Pirate

The most is Tommy Boy. Impossible to find a more quotable movie than this. The third, and this one is open to argument, is The Three Amigos. But the second most quotable movie has got to be The Princess Bride. And here is the best one for today:

if there is anything i could have erased from inside my orange haired head i think it would have to be high school. i'll keep any other suffering, illness or trouble to have those 4 years totally expunged from my life. i'm sure there are people from then if i met now i could be friends with, but it seems highly unlikely. i want my trip down memory lane to be a dead end.

I have a hole in my abdomen that leaks out from my small intestine. But yet I still ran 4.4 miles at 8:30 pace at 6am this morning. What's your excuse?* *super d gets a pass on this one.

T-3 days

If I do the math right it should take 6-7 helium balloons to lift my GoPro camera so I can get some overhead 'crane' style shots. They could be really unique in a good way. I'm really enjoying the riding, the filming and especially the editing. To me, it is looking more and more that I will have to be on TPN for my fistula. I'm not sad or mad about it, just resigned. Which makes me super glad for the times I can have fun. So this vacation is gonna be a set of great memories before I'm tied to the house and basically tied to the couch and an IV pump. It may be mainstream and summer blockbuster-ish, but I am really excited for the new Planet of the Apes movie. I have such fond childhood memories of watching the original ones on Saturday afternoons and my grandma's. Along with all the classic monster movies and B monster/sci-fi movies from the 50's.

I guess I should stop saying I'm afraid of jumping my bike.... The 1st and more importantly 3rd time of this jump went great. The second, as you can see by my body language right before landing, had me on my back headfirst on the ground sliding into a tree. Lesson learned, never skimp on your gear. My full face and Leatt let me get up and just walk away.

Click the link to the right under the "Help" and "Donate" part. It is for the Crohns and Col1itis Foundation of America. The group that actually raises money and brings awareness for helping people with these diseases. Right now there is no known cause for Crohns. There is no known cure for Crohns. If you've read my blog or know me in real life you know how I have suffered from this crappy disease. Real suffering for most of my life.... Last week if you donated more than $10 on Monday you were told you would get a treat for it. So here I am making a rack of my famous beef jerky for those who donated. And I make delicious jerky! You can still donate. I have dinner deals, gokart deals and other such things where if you go and eat or race gokarts the proceeds go to CCFA. If you feel like it, please click the link in the upper right column and donate today.

Food, family, fun. I've now been to Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, South Dakota and New York.

Of all the dudes at the Korean day spa I was at tonight, I have the least to be ashamed of....... Just saying. In some of the things I've done, like say bikram yoga or jiu jitsu, you feel lots of pressure on your body. Certain positions in both can cause your throat to be blocked. When the lady doing my massage walked on my back the pressure she could exert was so great it would cause my throat to close, stopping me from breathing. I would gurgle and spittle would come out of my mouth. Just saying.

Take the t-shirt for instance. Seemingly the most simple of all garments. At one time it was just white, cotton and crew neck. Not so anymore. I have 4 distinct types of t-shirts. (can you tell I did laundry today?) First I have what I like to call my "nice" t-shirts. Things from Gap, Banana and such. Something classic or in style right now. Solids and prints. These are all on hangers in the closet. I do live in San Diego, so a t-shirt and flip flops are something you can never have too many of. Then I have my "exercise" t-shirts that live in my dresser and fill up a full drawer, even when I clean them out twice a year. These are all my tech tees, things designed to wick sweat away from you. Running and working out in the garage give them their use. I wish this was more often. Like 90% of America. Third I have my two wheel tees. T-shirts dealing with motorcycles and mountain bikes and often they are one and the same. Normally a bold color and some sort of large grap...

can you tell i'm obsessed with bike riding right now??

The plan is set. I leave for my almost two week mountain bike roadtrip on Thursday July 28th! Watch out Colorado and Utah!

Today is the first day in the past 338 days that I will not have a bandage or contraption of any kind on my stomach.

I guess I'm kinda obsessed with biking right now.....

Kinda boring front curb. Thanks for letting me know before I stick my bare hands in this. Pygmy date palms make the front yard curb look better. Next project is to make a set of house numbers to hang from the tree so folks can find us easier.

And I plan on going much bigger.

Dude, you can do it. Fight through it all and don't stop having hope. Get involved with the CCFA, Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America. Leslie, thanks for recommending my blog, and thus me. It makes me happy to know someone else is reading this and putting it to good use. If you know me, or just want to help, please follow the link to the right about donating in the fight against crohns. Please. I'd rather be remembered like this!! Than like this.....

I love having a garage. I love having a place to safely keep all my various toys and sporting goods stuff. I love having tools and a work area. Some guys love their TV room and such. I love my garage. And I love strawberry milk shakes too! I absolutely hate the pharmacy at my HMO. They are worse than the DMV!!! Horrible management, horrible service. The worst thing ever!!! This line stretched out the pharmacy and out the front door!! See any happy faces? Not one. Now I know why I have seen two people totally fly off the handle in the past two days. Oh yeah, and in 3 days of trying at two different pharmacies they still haven't correctly filled one of my prescriptions. They are calling me tomorrow.... Lame-Os!!