Links in the fence

Well this is goin to be two stories in one.... no wait for it... wait.... three stories in one.

this one will date me a bit and the next two are ones i walked away thinken i had broken ribs, i really thought i cracked my whole chest open, and grunt can tell you i hit hard that time.

well frist story, this is not involving me but by good friend Gus, big brother to Smokey, nick names thier parents gave them by the way. Well Gus got me in to mountain biking, which i thank him for, but my wallet does not! haha

so it is 3 or 4 hours befor our ninth grade social! this is 1997, so im not as old as dirt, but im old enough not to be chasing 18 year old girls! so anyway. 3 or 4 hours befor this social Gus goes for a ride, normal stuff, and he rides through some construction at the high school, he told me there where some great jumps there! well time is running out and he needs to come home and shower and change. while he was out the construction workers put up a chain link fince where he was riding through before. on his way back it was getting dark, so he did not see the fence and wam..... he rode right into it, got flipped off his bike up and on to the top of the fence and pulled 2/3rds of it down. pulled the fittings right off the posts and pushed thee of them over. he came out with two big gashes on one shin and metal crapes on his teath from the top... he showed me, it was crazy the silver scrapes on his front teeth. but it was really funny watching him tring to to bleed on his niec pants! haha.

next story.... me and grunt, in Burlington this time, not grandby. so when we ride i always park at the ferry company (where i use to be an engineer) and we would ride all around, up to the top of the hill and back down. where is one plaace where you can shoot down this long side walk and hit some major air off stairs and small drop offs, it is a great run! but there is a choice you can make. you can either trun off early and go cruize the dock for some hot chicks sun bathing, or you can get to the ferry dock and go home..... what do you think two guys with nothing to do did..... we went home...... hahah just kidding, we made the turn, grunt was ahead of me and gave a shout back, CCAARR! which means, go wide on the turn so you can see whats comming, and i did, a little to wide..... i came off the side walk out in to the street and leaned far over but i had too much speed, if i layed on the breaks to hard i would have dumped the bike, so i tapped the rear braks put a foot down and hoped i would make the turn, if i didnt i would have hit a chain link finec head on, if i did make it i would have hopped back on to a side walk that was perpindicular to the one i was on. i kinda did a half and half, i was so far over that i could not hop the bike but i made it up that little wheel chair lip. i got lucky!!! but i had so much speed that i was still turning and i went right into the fence, side ways and skidded along that for a while. i was super lucky i didnt hook anything on it, but i scraped my left arm and leg a little. some older people where in the side walk infront of me, i scared the shit out of them. I was heading right for them at a good speed and scraping the fence. they had terror in their eyes and i was proboly lookin out of controll, but i was holden my own. I pushed off the fence with my sholder and went off the side walk about three feet infront of them. they were scared stiff, when i as off the side walk i heard from behind me "crazy ass hole" and i shouted back "thanks!!" grunt was turned aorund by that point, and missed the whole thing, all he saw was me shoot off the side walk and he was like "dude what happened, it had to be something for some one to call you an ass hole that loud!"

i told him the story and he was like "damn i missed all that action, it must have been great! idiot"

ok ok ok... so this is not the end either, one more stunt on me, we where done crusing the dock, and got some tricks in here and there! it was all good and time to go home. sun was goin down. so we got back on that down hill and made the turn to the ferry dock. there is one more turn decision you can make, if you take a long right you can make it safely into the ferry comapny parkin lot! if you are carful you can shoot through this little opening in the white picket fence out frount..... what do you think i did!!!! yep the little hole, and again grunt was ahead of me. but he cought some of this one. now this is not little hole, it is wide enough for fit a bike through in a small turn but it is not just a hole in a fence, it is more like a path through a garden. ther is fence in the frount and the path has fence on both sides, then it is into the parking lot. grunt was far ahaid but he took the long way round so i cought up to him.... kinda when i atempted the short cut.

now if any of this gets back to the ferry comapny they will not be happy with what happened, cuz i was working for them at the time, but they never found out, just grunts better half knows and she works for the company!

so any ways i was in the small turn and i was goin to make it but i pulled a little to close to the inside and hooked my bar end on one of the pickets, that swong me around and slowed the bike a tun, the back tire hit the other fence and stopped the bike, by that time i was still moving and started to lift off the bike, i put a hand out to try to see if i could save this, but nope i broke a picket off when i hit it with my hand and i was air born, superman style! now my bike broke one more pickt off and then tumbled below me. grunt heard the bike and made a skid turn to see what was goin on and saw me in the air. then the PAVEMENT came up to kiss me. wapppp right on my chest and i bounced and skidded to a hult on my chest and hands. this is why i wear full fingered gloves, it saves that hands! (life lesson)

he came right over and siad "DUDE wow, look at what you did... holy shit, haha, dude... man... you ok....? idiot what happened"

squid "i think i broke some ribs.... i hooked a bar end on the fence.... oooohhhhh" as i picked my self off the ground.

i looked back to see the damage i did and said, "aaahhh shit"
i walked over and picked up the two tops i nocked off, looked aound, the security guard was not out yet! thank god, and i pushed the tops back on.

Squid "there good at new.... we got to go... like now"
Grunt "really... idiot"
Squid "yeah fuck you too"
Grunt "you broken?"
Squid "eeehhh we will find out tomaorw if i swell up"
Grunt "no er for you?"
Squid "hell no not tonight, i want to go drinken!"
Grunt "haha ok..."
Squid "i dont think they are broken, i dont feel anything lose."

as i was poking and pushing on my chest and sides.

the next day i had the late shift on the baot, when i pulled in i noticed that the tops of the fence where off and not there. when i pulled in i saw some one with a stape gun and two new post to put on. when i got on the boat my chief ask me if i knew what happened last night cuz he knows i park there when i got riding and drinkin.

my responce was "well....um..... kinda.... sorta... who you goin to tell."
Chief "not the front office"
Squid "yeah... it was me what do you think. i was riding"
Chief "break anything"
Squid "yeah the fence"
Chief "hahaha, you know they are super pissed"
Squid "that all right, i gave my two weeks notice yesterday! hahaha"

and i really did

squid signing off... remember stay conected like ninex

Top Of The Table

Finally yes i know... it is here, the post ive been promising!
but first a little side not about my stich through my nail,
which comes out monday (hell yes i cant wait)

ok the best thing about this stich is when at work and my boss comes to talk to me, and i really dont want to talk to him, i just bring up the subject on how the stich got put in and how painfull it was, and he just wiggs out and walks away.... it is soo cool and what a weapon against doin actuall work! yes i love this and use it way to much, but hay, i like getting paid for (excuse my language) fucken the dog!

it is great to see him quiver like a leaf on a tree on a windy day, then goo "UUUggghhhh" and quickly walk away, my superviosr even ques me to do it when he is aournd, we work well together! haha.

ok ok ok, on to the true story! haha i make him walk away! ive done so little today!
ok....

so this is a squid and grunt mountain bike story again... and it is in grandbe again
and it is at the slate drop off... again, i really promis that there will be only a few more there, and hope fully no more at the slate, its getting old to me.

so i was riden and ahaid of grunt, and i decided to go down the slate, and i did, no fall.... untill.... i saw the huge fallen tree limb 10 to 12 feet after the drop off. I had too much speed and not enough room to manuver around it, so i decided to bunny hop the thing. but i was also making a turn at the time, now for a pro this is cake! and any one could do it, except me at this time. the squidster was not that good yet.... but i dont think i could do it now either... anyways. so i get a foot infront of the limb at a good speed, im guessing 25 to 30 mph. i was so lucky it was a pine needel and dirt landing after it! when i hopped up i made this beautiful "table top". that is when the rider hops the bike and makes it parallel to the ground underneeth him or her. the trick is to pull the bike back onder the rider and land it. and you guessed it, i made the table top and kept it there till i landed it, on my god damn side. wappp, me and the bike landed on our sides and slid at least 10 feed in the dirt and pine needels! it did not hurt that bad, my leg was all cut up and my for arm was all cut up, but that was odvious. My bike, not to bad either, just one bar end got pulled almost 180 degress from where it was, it was more like 75 degrees, but that is a lot!

Grunt navigated aound the limb and stopped a little infront of me and truned around, no laughing this time, and he was serious when he said "dude you ok?"

me i just hopped up and was like "dude, did you check that! wow, i table topped!"
grunt "yeah you topped and thats about it dude"
Squid "yeah... shut up.... wow look at the bar end!"
Grunt "yeah i see that, what you goin to do"
squid "um.... dont know, we got no tools"
Grunt "really, didnt know... moron"
squid "maybe i can turn it back by hand"
Grunt "go for it!"

so i proped the bike back on its tires and pulled tuged and put all my weight on that bar end, and it did not move. not an inch. and then it was odvious, i had to ride to the car with my bar end in the totally wrong position.

what really sucks, is that i ride my bar ends alot, not to much down hill, but to rest on straight aways and stuff like that, at the base of the mountain i really rely on them, and i felt like a total retart! and kinda looked like one too.

i was really lucky that i did not bend the handle bar or crack it, or even crush it! that would have really sucked. when we got to the car i had allen wrenches and fixed it there and we drove home, dressed my wounds (got in the pool) and next day we were back at it again, and i think i really broke my bike then. this was the old hard tail too, the mongoose with nice shocks in the front. grunt bought it from me and then he sold it to elliot for a road bike. by that time the shoks were junked, and i think there was a crack in the frame cuz it flexed a little to much. and he got a $1000 road bike with racing components on it, hahaha elliot got screwed!

well then
that is that and this is squid sayen
stay conected like ninex and ride like a bat out of hell
cuz it is more fun when you get hurt!........ well more intersting!

The "Cool Kidd" (im not a frigen goat)

Well the Top of the table is goin to have to wait one more post
i for got about this story till november remindend me
and im not talkin about the month
talken about my cat.... yes he talks to me
but i still dont understand what he is saying
some day.........

but anyways! so grunt and i went to white horse in conway NH
one of the best repeat climbs we always do, it is just good
3 or 4 or 5 pitches, depends on what you are doin
but it is all good all the time and it takes about 4 hours with a couple rests for agua!

but the climb is not the story, it is the decent, man that was a long walk
some times we repell down, but some times we just get to the top and walk down

now when i climb i try to pack lite, it helps with the climb! so this time i took my flip flops insted of tivas or sneakers
i really wanted to save on room in my camel!
but that was the worst idea i had in ages! it was like microwaving milk
just does not work! turst me on this one!

so we got to the top and we were tired, and ready to go to the "Mote" for nachoes and home made beer
and it was well not quick walkin down but it was a little easier than repellin down
so we decided to walk, we took off the climbing shoes and ooohhh that felt so good!
if you are a climber you know what im talken about
your feet just kinda um... well fall apart, and spread out,
then i took out my allmighty flipflops and yep started down the back side of the mountain
i though i was goin to break my ancle, man no support and they kept fallin off.
i was a retard for thinken i could do it, and grunt was laughing the whole way down
callen me the "cool kid", but then he fessed up and told me he did the same thing once....
let me repeat that...... once.......

i did stab my foot on twigs and stuff, and it looked like my feet were pin cuishons when i got to the car
bleeding a little bit but not bad
i wish i had the sneakers that time, never make that mistake again
and man what a mistake that was, it was like a mile hike down
but the beer made it feel better!

so lesson learned..... kinda...... last time we went and we repelled down, i walked back to the car bare foot..... yep that was not as long as a walk but it didnt feel good either, hot pavement, i was hopping most of the time.

well...... squid sighing off like a blank check
remember stay conected like ninex and take shoes with you!

Fridge Chicken

Hi all.... YAWNNNN... up late...kinda
working nights than going to days kinda messes with your sleep time
but hay, it pays the bills right!
So i was goin to write "The Top OF The Table" crash
but you are goin to have to wait a day or two!

tonight i am goin to give you a great chicken dish that everyone will like
cuz it changes every time you make it! Trussstttt me on this one! really!

Now you are really goin to have to trust me, it may sound crazy and it most likely will
but grunt, my sister, krista, jilly and many many other people like how i cook this!

and i learned it from panama, not the place, the person!!

so step one get a bowl, like a cerial bowl, and a fork for mixing, the ultimate wisk
and if you dont know what a wisk is..... um just forget it and grab that fork!

now grab all the condomints out of the fridge,
katchup, mustard, soy sauce, teryki sauce.... everything even the syrup!
dont use anything like sour cream or that can curdle cuz it will.

no for dry spices i use hot sauces (i know its not dry, and i had a s, i keep more than one)
curry, chilly power, salt and peper and anyhting else along thoes lines.

now depending on how spicy you like it, you need to keep tasting it while you make it
now mix everything into that bowl, add as much as you want of everything
use the katchup and mustard as mostly fillers! to thicken it up and all.

now chicken time, get a cooking brush, not a hair brush, but a cooking brush!!!
and cook the chicken on the grill or skillet
while cooking spread your sauce on the chicken, but dont use it all!!!!!
cook the chicken the way you like it, me i like to cook it really really well!
and then put on a plate and surve!

now use the rest of the sauce and use it to put more on the chicken or save for later,
i ususally pure more on the chicken when im done, im a big fan of sauce!!!!

well try it please, dont think im crazy.... well i am...... sigh...... oh well life goes on.... but take my word for it and make some fridge chicken!!!!! it is good!

squid sighing off in the late of the night
remember stay conected like ninex, and if you dont know what ninex is........ is a phone company! or use to be at least!

The Longest Puddle

Squid here again.... and again and again and again...
hahaha
grunt will post some time i think, i got to get him set up

but on to the story!!!!!!!!

this is a short one... kinda like me, short, my sister calls is vertically chalenged, but then again im taller than her... hahaha

ok ok enough, we where on a ride in granby, on our way out, passed the river bed, past the slate drop off and no one has taken a digger yet..... yet

there was this super long, and i mean super long mud puddle that took up the whole trail, it was so big... that two cars coud fit in it side my side and it was at least three car lengths long. now i compare car size to my 99 ford f150, so that is a huge mud puddle considering my truck is 7 feet wide and really long!

so grunt was ahaid of me buy a bike lenght and i said "dude i can make it through that, looks like its got a hard bottom" and grunt said "im goin around i got to watch this" and he went around where i looked like every other mountain biker in the world went. but squid is a good rider and i had to prove it! and i went bommin in to this mud puddle.

it was goin good, i had the speed and i was light on the entry, water was goin every were and i was goin to make it, till i started to slow down... so i started to peddle.... hard, switch gears.... no help, the bottom was so soft that..... yep you guessed it, i stopped dead. now i could do a track stand, which is being on the bike and stayen on just two wheels and sit there with nothing else touching the ground, but im not that good, i only can do it for like 10 seconds. and the mud was squishy...... and had like a foot of water on top of it. so then PLOP, i fell over. just like a cartoon, and grunt had the bigest laugh of the year. i had put my arm out, dumb, but i did, i could have broken it, but it just sunk into the mud all the way up to my elbow, and the water was up the muddle of my chest..... and i was now sideways in the puddle. so if you can immagine, half of me is under water and mud and the other half was pristeen clean, yeah it was just like a cartoon you could draw a line down the middle of me and one side was clean and one was not! it was great fun. so i got up in the puddle and walked the bike to the side, the mud was up to the middle of my shins the whole way out, and grunt said "told you i had to watch it"

we had my car at the time, this is how the "trash bag" seat came to me

Ok... life lesson, take out your pen or pencil and a piece of papater, this will be on your next big test in life!!!!!

Always have a trash bag in your car in the drivers door pocket, it does not take much room and it saves your ass many a time. when you get really wet, like after scuba diving and need to dive to your next site, still in your wet suit, or you get a bloody, mudy and wey on a mt bike ride, or you are just covered in something you dont want to get on your car seat, you have that trash bag to put on your seat to keep it looken new and keepen dry. trust me it comes in handy and is better than a towel, cuz it wont leak through!!! (i kinda just sounded like a kotex comertial) and keep enough to cover the seat and the back

i take engouh to cover both driver and pasinger seat! in the old geo i had enough for 4 people, and it only took up half the diver door pocket!

well that is that, and im now clean..... kinda..... that was a long time ago
squid sighing off here with his left middle finger nail stiched back on (thanks er doc's)
remember stay conected like ninex!!!

New Frame New Pain

Squid here again
grunt is now home and ready to play, im goin to tough it out anyways, missing a fingernail and all

but he reminded me of many stories that need to be placed on this sight!
here is one of many posts commin up,

I saved my money and finaly got a full suspension mountain bike, this was in 97 by they way
worked my ass off for it too! and so it was the first day i had her, my Iron Horse G-Out, killer bike by the way! and i sill ride it.

i wanted to go riding, and so did everyone else, i think it was me, grunt, marty and smokey. that sounds right, alot of us, we went to our usualy place granby, this trail is great but one small thing that only a few know is that it hooks up with the hiking only trails on the other side of the mountain! But grunt and i knew this, becuase we hiked them and know them and we know that thay make killer mt bike trails.

so we went riding up this mountain, a long hard hot ride, and we made it to the top, had to walk the bike the last 1/4 mile cuz it was not rideable but we made it to the top! what a view, what a time, we ran out of water too, dehydrated i said lets ride down. and everyone was for it. so i hopped back on my bike and went down frist. now remember this is my First time on a full suspenion bike, so take this lesson to heart for frist time riders, go easy the frist day on a new bike.

but not squid, i was good, well i am..... haha not really.... so i started down and the rocks made some stair type formations, i decided to hop the back tire from one to another, ive done it before on a hard tail! but this was a whole new ball game. as i hopped the rear suspension compressed all the way, then it let go. dumbdumbdumb move on my part, i did not asorb the rebound with my legs, insted my knees where locked, and the bike flung me over the bars and made me do three sideways summersalts down the trail of all sharp sharp stiar formation rocks. i ended up cutting both sides, one prity bad, from my spine up to an armpit, back down to aound my belly button. yes there was an ouch involved. but that was not it, after i stoped and was kinda balled up in a wierd position i said to my self, "where did the bike go" then it kindly reminded me it was right there when it fell on top of me. one peddal hit me in the side of the head and the handle bars came all to close to my man hood. then it was over... for me that is, not for grunt though. grunt only heard the scream i let out when i was in the air, marty and smokey saw the whole thing. they said it was a really fantastic crash! i didnt think so at the time and when the swelling started. so i picked my self up and walked to a flat landing where i could get back on the bike.

Then i heard "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH shit shit shit shit shit..... ouch ouch ouch, can some one help me?" this is grunt, he glanced back when i yelled and missed a turn in the trail, a very imprtant turn. grunt went off the side of a cliff 6 feet tall in to a really thick patch of pricker bushes, haha i remember that cuz when he turned around he call me a retard, and i heard that, then i heard the fall while i was picking my self up. by the time i got to him, his bike was being tossed up the cliff and he was climbing back up, carfully, haha that was a sight. we both where so sore at this point and dazed.

ooohhh but this is not the end, there are two more riders that need to crash, and boy did they crash, haha at top speed to. riding down got easier and easier till we all hit the loose rock of the old river bed, that is where it gets fun, the huge slate rock you could go down if you knew how it was great fun, but it was slick, and very very steep. i think i went around it that day, but smokey didnt, he was gunnin for it and his back tire sliped out from inder him, he went all over the place, bike one way and him tumbling after, not to bad cuz at the bottom was more soft dirt than anything, he just got bumps and bruises.

Marty on the other hand had a good spill, he was still in the river bed, in front of me, and i saw the greatest superman that was ever to be. he hit a big rock and his front tire just stopped, i mean dead stop and over the handle bars he went, out straight like superman, i mean he flew at least 10 ro 12 feet before the ground kissed him. and tumbling to a stop some 15 feet later he was all types of broken. cut up from the rocks, bleeding and sand and gravel pushed in to the skin, not to mension a mouth full of pebbles. oh but he survived.

we made it to the car, put the bikes back on top and on back and off home we went. now after a crash you are so hyped up you jump back on the bike and keep going, but if you sit and wait, the swelling and pain sets in, that is why we hate the 15 min car ride home everytime we go out there. oh when we got home we where in all kinds of pain. and my pops was out side, saw the bikes come back trashed and was just shaken his head. then he saw us, and told us to get inthe pool. ohhh that god sent of a pool, how that water was so cool and soothing. we all jumped in clothed and shoes and all. washed the blood and dirt off and saw all the new battle scars we had, some i still have to day! and my dad fliped open the grill and said "ok.... how do we want these cheese burgers gentalmen, mooing or dead and dark."

thanks dad, we all remember that day very well!

Remember, stay conected like ninex
Squid

Are You A Mountain Biker

This is a test to see if you are a true crazy MT Biker or you are on the trails to get in the way.

1. Mountain bike trails consist of

a. Marked trails and drit raods
b. Any where my legs take me
c. College Campuses including down stars and inside buildings
d. All trails off limits to bikers
e. All of the above

2. You replace bike parts

a. After every ride
b. When it gets broke
c. only if i cant fix it
d. i break something every ride!!

3. My helmate

a. is my brain bucket
b. i wear all the time
c. has its own battle scars
d. what... helmate... oh yeah i think i got one

4. Stairs

a. yeah i walk up and down them holding the bike
b. take a pic of me goin down them
c. i can go up and down them
d. b and c are both correct

5. Endo is

a. embarising
b. a country in africa
c. they do that in europe right
d. yeah i can do that too

6. Your bike cost you

a. too much
b. i dont know, mom bought it for me
c. cant remember after that crash
d. dude.. im still spending money on it

7. Bike cops are

a. to slow
b. hahahahahahahahaha funny... really
c. cought me when i was on the side walk
d. my friends in blue

8. Suicide hill

a. i can reach 50 mph there
b. i climb for training
c. a great view
d. a and b are correct

9. winter time

a. is time to put the bike away
b. is just cold riding
c. snow men stop me cold
b. i got hit by the plow truck once

10. Have you got in a accident with a car

a. um... yes?
b. i hit one
c. i got hit by one
d. You should have sceen the dent, and a, b, and c are correct!

scores.
get on the bike path and off the trails for gods sake
a,b,b,a,b,b,d,c,a,a

Average biker
b,c,a,b,d,a,c,b,b,b

Dude give me a call when you want to go riding
e,d,a,d,a,d,b,d,b,d

Nail Bed

Squid here with another story
with out grunt... eehh this one hurts too!

this one will prevent me from doin some activities with grunt on his leave.
this anoyes me and brings me down, but it is all of my doing...
sorry grunt....

well.. on to this painfull story.
It was friday night, a long weekend for me, a tatoo at the end too, but i came out with so much more. I call the sister, she could not wait to see me and she wanted to go climbing. So we went to petra, our inside climbing spot! A good one at that, sister and her friend made it up a rout, it was great, and i was getting motivated, i wanted to climb and climb, so i got absent minded. i found a spot where i wanted to go, the one with the short rope. Sisted hooked in first, then i pulled on the wall to hook me in. Fist mistake, i was alsmot in and cliped in when i slipped, two hundred and sisteen pounds closed a caribeener on the tip of my middle figher on my left hand, the pinch was bad. the beaner spit my finger out like it was a piece of rancid meat. oh did that hurt, i didnt look at it right away, my sister and i met eyes and and she had that look, then we both saw my finger, the nail was 90% ripped off, not bleading yet but it was off. that was the pain... ohh the pain. I was cliped in and so was the sister, and the tension would not make it easy to un hook. i grabbed my finger, no words, no screams, no cursing. No need to make a sceen, to many people around and it would have been rude. Finaly we got un hooked, it took a long time, and if i only had my knife. I looked at my finger and i saw blood, my blood, i dont like that to much, and then the lights started to get bright. "yeah we need to find a place to sit!" So i walked to the front where the nice couch was and i sat. "We are goin to the er.." "Ok sounds ok to me, i was just goin to cut it off." "NO we are goin to the er and now"

a friend with us "do you need anything" "Yeah, water, and um,,, water is good." "ok"

"We got your stuff and we are about to go, do you need to take your harnes off?"
"no lets just go"

then the person who was on duty asked if i was ok, me in a joken mood now told him he needed a longer rope. and he said ok.

before i got up off the couch i answered a cell phone call, my buddy tony, he was on his way home. he wanted to talk till i told him that i was on the way to the er, with only 10% of my nail still conected to me! he then told me bye and hi to my sister.

In the truck we had two phone calls, one from the friend that was comming with us, the other from a nurse at the er just getting out of the er we were goin to.

i answered both calls and joked around, no use bing histerical, no use over reacting, it did hurt and it wsa bleeding, but hay life gives you some curve balls and you got to roll with the punches!

So we get there, meet the nurse out side, she said she was sorry and nice to meet me, she was cute too!! then we walked in and i was check in. he asked me if my nail bed usually looks like that then i fliped him the bird with both middel fingers and asked him to compare for me. he was not as amused as we were.

then we walked to get checked in legally, and the lady there was so confused that i was joking the whole time that she though some one else was hurt till i showed her my finger, and she got that great feeling when your stomach rolls over and over. she said i could wait in antoher room down the hall, so i went holding my hand above my head. when i walked in my sister asked where i wanted to sit, and i looked around, there was a little girl there that did not need to be scared, so i lowered my hand where she could not see and said over there, where she could not see, and my sister said that i was a nice guy... ha nice, me yeah maybe some day.

I decided to call ma, all she could say was "you dumb shit" three times, then i told her i was ok and she talked to the sister and she got informed on the situation. everyting was all ok in the end.

Then i got called in they wanted x-rays, i was up for anything at this point, still no pain meds though, i got use to the pain 45 min ago, i could do this all day! so walken down the hall i decided to wave at people with the broken hand, noone though it was that funny except my sister and her friend, i asked people tp guess which fnger was hurt when i flipped them the bird, again we were the only ones amused.

got my x-rays and taken to a different room, there i saw the hat ive always wanted and wore it! it was a puke bucket, it was so funny, i looked so retarted but hay, got to have fun some time. alot of jokes later and some strange looks from passerbyers and the semi doc came in, nurse practitioner or something. he looked at the hand, finger nail and siad well we are going to try and put it back in, and i said what ever you want to do is cool with me.

so in we go to a different room, and the work started, two shots of novicae and once shot of lidacane and i could still feel it. friends was tryin to tell me stories and both friend and sister where very interested in watching the procidure. all stories stopped when they saw the nail go back in, ohh how that hurt, everything was quiet even me, no scream or curse or yell of pain. sister said i could, but i dont, i never do, no matter how it hurts, the only time i cried is when she left me after 6.5 years of everything i had poured into her. but that is a story to long for this page.

the nail is back in, sister looks whiter than normal, i was not close to the pass out stage but i was not having fun anymore. then he siad he had to stich it, this was no fun either, one stich, from behind the nail under and up through the nail, the up through the nail hurt the most, i softly said that fucken hurt, the only thing i said. still no pain meds, sister remarked this time, and the nurse said really, oh... well here are some purkisets, and i was like.... really, cool! this will be fun! but i want to go drinkin now, and the other nurse said, um dont drink a lot ok! and i was like... ok

then the bandage and some instructions and i was off to the mexican restarunt to go for a beer and nachoes with friends, one beer and i was under the table, some tacos and i was in bed, slept till one in the after noon.

well it was an experiance and i tell ya, always be carful
and if you want to see the stich, e-mail me and i can send you a pic! or call and i can tell you the story in person and it is even more funny!

remember stay conected like ninex Squid is out like stich after 10 days!!!! haha

The hill of suicide

This is all about grunt, recalled by the Squidster

Well it was a day of biking a long time ago... long time ago.. long long...

ok so we where bombing down suicide hill in amherst on our bikes
grunt was having some little problems with the bike
but what the hell we can go riding

so we are shooting down the hill me first ofcourse
we get speeds of 30 to 45 mph, yes it is so fun
so fast such a thrill... such a thrill

i bottmed out and did a skid turn on the grass to see grunt not to far behind me
he attempted to do the same as what i did
but his attempt was less gracefull

now grunt can ride, and rather well if i can say
but today his bike decided to not agree

grunt turned his bars and the wheel stayed straight, with all his weight on one side
he just kinda dumped the bike, but his feet still in the toe clips made it a mess
head over heals, tires over tires, a tangled grunt in a bike frame and me goin
"Holy shit... hahaha arehahayouhahahahahahok??hahahaha fuckhaha"

and grunt siad "fuck you and help me up ass!
and we got him un tangles, walked the bike to the shop and got her all fixed up
that is what is so great, we know the bike shops so well
the let us just use their tools for free
plus we use to buy new parts once a week

i think we rebuilt our bikes once or twice a summer
it got expensive, haha but thanks to ma and pa, we made out lives
about riding!

thanks to pa for the pool cook outs oafterwards too
it helped ease the pain in the cool h2o!

Stay conected like ninex --Squid

The Hot Eye

This is another Squid only story
sorry Grunt

well Grunt could not be apart of this because this event happened at work

on a overcast but still bright sunny morning
my supervisor asked me to cook.... again
so i agreed becase he was going to try the hot sauce i brought back for him from Belize

i was really excited, i had the chance to take a 30 min break before my lunch breat to cook and noone was going to give me shit about it.

so i made two super plates of nachoes, so great, that i called one a work of art!!
and we cracked into the 4 bottles of hot sauce

the first was good, not to hot... actually not hot, but it was good
the second was... spicy and tasty but not hot
the third stung my eye... yes it styng my eye....

this is where it all starts, my supervisor was shaking up the third hot sauce because it was really thick. he poped the cap off and started to try and get some on the plate of nachoes, it was not working. so he shook harder and i went for a bite and sploosh..... a bunch came out, and it was on an up swing now a down. i dont think any of that got to the nachoes, but me bing so close and the luck that i have, a big drop went into my right eye! yep thats right i got hot sauce in my eye, and the bottle said it was one of the hotter ones. So the frist thing that happened was we both kinda looked at each other, me with one eye shut of course. and then i said "shit" and grabbed a napkin. too late of course because the hot sauce got to the courner of my eye and just saked in. i wiped as much out of my as i could and then the heat sunk in. i could tell this hot sauce was going to be spicy, not to hot but it did eat my contact... yeah, part of it. so i went in to the kitchen to wash out my eye. that took care of most of the stink, but i has a little buring and tingling for 15 min afterwards. what my supervisor told me that i should have been wearing my safety glasses! and i said this is going to make an interesting lost time accident report.

but there was no damege... except to my contact, i can still kinda see out of that eye and... the hot suace was good. leason learned, when shaking hot suace, stay far far away and wear propper protection!

This is squid sighning off, remember, stay conected like ninex

Diving, Belize,

This is a squis only dive trip sad to say
would have been better if i had a grunt to come along
but..sigh... he is in the big sand box of the round rock
next time

so i took an 8 day trip to belize
san pedro to be exact

i dove the blue hole
half mook key
the aquarium
Hol Chan Marine Reserve
shark ray alley
and some others

8 dives total, deepest was 139 feet for 8 min
blue hole! great dives, if you have the chance i would highly recomd the trip

i went with sister, mother and pop
a good time
we also went river cave tubing, yes you read that right
we also went Mayan Ruin temple climbing and walking around
it was so great
all that you read in history books, i was there and on top

here are some links for you
stay here
http://book.banyanbay.com/index.php
look at all the links and book everything through elie at the dive shop
she is the greatest
she knows everything!! and she is fair and cool
just tell her Bryan seys hi and i will be back as soon as i work up the money

here are the dive websights, dont worry elie will get you with them
http://www.sanpedroholiday.com/dive.html


Any More Questins E-mail Squid and he will conect you like ninex

Home Made Peper Spray

Well lets get started, Squid here tellen you a story

"He fucken drinks Tabasco" Brett Saltsman

My quick experiance with shipping and the o so teriable food has made me imune to hot things, not saying the temperature, but spicy foods dont phase me. i use to use one bottel of Tabasco a day on the State Of Maine (ship) when i was on my Junior Cruise, and i use a bottel of Frank's Red Hot once a week on the Pitsenbarger (another ship). So my toung has no feeling, you could stab it and i think i would not so much as flinch

but that is not the story to tell,

One day after a long ride in burlington, or maybe after a workout or something, my sister came over and i offered to make her lunch, snack, or dinner, what meal it was i dont remember, but it was food that i was going to make.

usually im a good cook, but today... that day... um i did not make food, i made peper spray. the same stuff used for self defence... yep i made it. just ask grunt and sister!

So i took the chicken, enough for me, grunt and sister. but the only spices we had were pepper, salt and Life After Death Sauce (My fave Hot Sauce)

so i made grunt and sisters chicken, some pepper and salt, sister said i used to much pepper, but she ate it and drank lots of water. Grunt ate it and watched tv and cleaned one of his rifles i think, or played Ghost Recon.

then it was on to my dish, I tossed the chicken in the hot cast iron frying pan then i dumped a little too much hot sauce in to the pan, it did waht we Engineers call Vaporized, it did not touch the chicken it just went into the air. hence home made peper spray. it did not bother me but grunt started to sneeze and could not stop and my sister's eyes started to water, she start to basicaly cry. I finished the chicken and sat down and ate it and watched the two figiting around. The grunt said "god damn man, you made pepper spray" Then opend all the doors and windows int he appartment and took three fans and turn tem all one in one direction. my sister then started to get ready to leave, she could not take the heat..

the wind took the tanted air away and sister sat back down, then i relized i may have staned the frying pan, and grunt reconfirmed that i did, we all laughed and i finsed my chicken and relized that if i hurass some girl and she has pepper spray and decides that it would be a good idea to try it on me, i may just take it and put it on my chicken!

Dose Amigos

Well we grew up to gether, we went to school to gether for 12 years, Grunt is serving his country, I did for a little bit, a blink of an eye. Now i make power. But no matter what we do, where we are we both have adventures, some are lame, some are glorious, most end up painfull in some way. In the end we both look back laugh, learn and become better people. As you can tell one is more earth and one is more water but we share and help each other when needed.