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Hey,

I realize that my last post said nothing, and I expect no better from this one. I’ve just been on the e-bizzl fritz some more. For those keeping track, I have already caught and ironed out my only shipping bug thus far.

One advantage E-Bay has over real-life-stores is that you don’t have to look at someone in the face and answer questions, like this one:

Q: just a precaution…but can i ask why your member location and item location dont match?….lots of scams floating around ebay, no disrespect or anything…thanks

reply formulomatic
A) D’oh, Busted

B) Since I’m e-mailing you back to tell you I’m not a scammer, I must not be scamming you

C) Respect

D) Look at my feadback and ask that again

E) I would be selling zipp wheels, Pinarello frames, ferarris would be better scams than bob trailers, inner tubes, and used $3 seatposts

i guess i could give this one a try:

F) Hi, I am a Canadian, who is in the US E-Baying.

Speaking of people who are annoying me

I have been riding Evil’s bike, which is smart, because it’s a $6000+ carbon EVERYTHING rig that I didn’t pay for. I changed the cranks after being hammered by the old men (Grandpa Van Horn, and a few others) and decided to skip racing this weekend.

Sunday I left the house for a 1-2h ride, but then decided I needed to help speed along my fitness.  So having 600 calories of food in my pocket I headed towards Caliante for the first of 4 passes on the day.  I was really thirsty after lions trail (45min climb at the 3h mark) and when I got to my only civilization of the day rode around the mobile home park until I found someone to give me some water.  Starting the ascent up the back side of Brekenridge (~5000′ vertical) I’m noticing that the snow is looking pretty low on the mountain tops behind me.  With 1300 vertical feet, and 3 miles to go the road is Snowed shut.  Return would be 75 miles and 3 passes, I ran out of food 2h ago, and need to get to the orange groves on the descent to poach food.
So I start walking.
I am wearing shorts, jersey, and decide to leave the helmet on.
There’s a sequoia down across the road, it’s a small one and only comes up to my tits (I can say that because I’m a guy, can’t I?).  My cleats are completely packed with ice and my legs are bleeding from the crust on the knee deep corn snow.

I am now in ‘adventure mode‘, which is to say that I’m excited to have another great story, laughing, cursing, and loving the challenge of it.

I come across 3 Mexicans at the top who are finishing the task of Liberating their Jeep Liberty from bumper deep drift.  They have been able to make it up following snow cat traks, which also helps me, because I can roll the bike, and jog in the shallower sections.  30 minutes, and 1.5 miles later the Mexicans catch me and drive me the remaining 1.5 miles to the pavement where I commence to de-ice my cleats and get back to riding.

Nothing tastes as good as fat orange plucked straight from the tree.

I had Evil’s GPS with me, so if I’m able to link the data, but trust me it really happened 119 miles, over 8.5 elapsed hours.
I finally grew tired of my Belgian Haircut, and escaped to the Brazilian refugee house with my hair clippers. After giving a precise description of how I wanted my hair to look (yes, yes, no problem, yes, of course) we went out on the deck, and I got clippered, gelled, and shown the Mirror.

Hello!

Well I’ve had worse

I reckon I’ll have the ACE squad dye it green for the week, and ‘modify’ it as needed.

Q: What is the purpose of the red paint on this handlebar?
A: I’m not sure of the technical answer, but I think it’s similar to the red paint on a Ferrari.
macbook update

1) It’s really cool, but that’s relative
2) Well there’s nothing like buying a macbook to realize how microsoft centered my life is.

3) Hotmail.com - not super mac compatible. Yes I googled, and found methods of trouble shooting that lost me on step 1 of 4.

4) Microsoft also has it’s hand in the e-bay pot (if in fact they aren’t the pot), so the only way of running the E-Bay Lister program is on MS software, which my $1100 ‘entry level’ mac doesn’t have the cajones to run…
5) Well I’m back on Freezy-Mc-Crash, and the mac’s spent the last 3 days on the pool table.

Luckily Amazon has a return policy.

Late.

Nat

PS when this round of e-Bizzl dies down I think I’m going to bike tour over into death valley. you know just to get the dust off my toes.