The Angry Sciatic's

OK first things first, I have to say that I am digging my title for today's entry. Sure the reason behind it is cool too, well it's too bad that they are pissed off and hurting but I did push myself really hard yesterday. Anyway, I think it's the perfect name for a punk band, yea I know right - you are thinking to yourself right now "now why the hell did I not think of that?". I honestly don't know, but you should have because now it's down on paper, well digitally anyway and all mine.

Sure I know you could just jump through hoops and so on to get the name for yourself and then I would be the one that would have to remove it from this blog vs. you having to remove it from whatever you decided to use it for. I tell you what, since I don't have a punk band at the moment I may just let you use it for a small cut of your gig profits as well as a percentage from t-shirt and other swag sales. I also want to be mentioned in all albums and in a way that I only approve!

Last and definitely not least, all jewelry and or related swag needs to not only go through my wife, Cizzle's company but has to be approved by her if not. She will take your ideas and designs into consideration but she has 100% artistic freedom to take the content in the direction she feels will best suit the band as well as be the most profitable for everyone. There will be a few more things added to the contract for her "comfort, well-being and artistic freedom" as well that you can read later on. As they say, make sure to read the fine print, cross your t's and dot your i's!

I do have many other small yet feasible and important stipulations but again - it's a very small price to pay for a band that will be known world-wide and not only be raking in the money but the women and everything in between as well. Just do me a favor, no drugs - weed and alcohol I am totally alright with, but within reason. Drugs just make you stupid and get out of hand. I also will either appoint myself as the financial manager or be an adviser to him/her where-as no transaction can go through without a double signature.

I think that does it for now. I will put all of the exact information into the final draft of the contract for your review. Then we can draft up the final documents by a 3rd party lawyer that we both approve of, at an expense to be paid in full by you and/ or the rest of your band as a way of starting us off on the best foot - hows that sound? Good? Good!, lets get rockin' then!

Slow Leaks & Gouges

Okay before you guess that is not the title track to the new album you're going to cut as part of the Angry sciatic's. I went outside this afternoon to do my bike ride and noticed that my front tire was low which means it has a slow leak upon further inspection I noticed my rear tire had a bunch of gouges out of it and was probably on its way to being flat.

All of this and it up taking a few hours to repair and clean up the way it needed to be done. When going 30 to 50 miles an hour down hills after climbing the last thing you want is a tire to blowout.

My cure/solution for the rest of the day was to spend some time in the garage wrenching on the bike and becoming more familiar with the way it works as well as practicing my beer drinking. I have not been drinking much beer in quite a while. To be more precise I think the last time was a few summers back when I was still racing and spent most of my time on the weekends having to wrench on my racing karts in the garage. It felt nice to listen to some music and kickback with my tools again.

I can hear certain songs on Pandora or in my music library and they immediately throw me into a particular season of racing in my head. I can almost remember the things that I was doing at that time or the particular race kart I was wrenching on or the class I was racing in.

Kart racing was a big part of my life for those 8 to 10 years while I was racing and it was so much fun words cannot describe. From the huge family of friends and people I was racing against there was a lot of good people I met over those years and just the same there were those that I was glad were gone.

There were people that I knew for many years that either moved away and ended up getting out of racing because of life changes. There were even those that I was becoming more close to as far as a friendship and one who I considered a bit of a mentor. Unfortunately he ended up passing away several years back while I was still racing. It's a weird thing to meet someone, start to get to know them really well only to find out that they just found out they are sick.

Then it's mostly supporting them with kindness but NO "feeling sorry" for them as they were the type that would have none of that shxt. All you can really do in the end is watch them wither away to nothing because of the bastard bitch that we all know as cancer. That silent little demon hiding within a sick individual. It hides like a coward, eating our bodies but by bit.

Thankfully most individuals with cancer are so dam strong all the way to the end that the bastard bitch is not capable of taking our souls - a typical coward.

Crickets Are Out

Well I hear the crickets are outside so that is my cue to go back in the house and start prepping for the work week ahead of us. I did not get to go for a ride today and that sucks but my bike is all set and I'm learning so much more every time I have to work on it. Yes I'm looking at the positive side but what else can I do?

I have some time off in the coming weeks and have been considering taking this Friday off as well. If I do that will be the perfect opportunity for me to go for one of my long rides that I have been itching to do. Not to mention, I can still ride this week after work on the nice days when I am not exhausted.

Oh I guess I should mention, the reason behind the "Angry Sciatic" title today. It was chosen because both of my sciatic nerves have been bothering me along with the muscles in the back of my legs from top to bottom and my glutes. Pretty much began after yesterday's hill climbing ride. I think it was actually a little bit pissed off before that and jumping into a 2 hour session of hill climbing only made it a angrier.

No matter it's all just part of it and my body using muscles it never has before or has very little, so it will get better. It could be luck in disguise that I was not able to go today because my body more than likely needed time to rest.

Okay enough out of me! Have a nice evening and a great start to the workweek tomorrow.

Photo: About 3/4 of the way to yesterday's road bike ride destination I have to travel on the Paiute, Shoshone, Washoe Indian Colony for 5 to 10 miles. This is one of the signs on the way in.