The Joy of Neighbors

Hi all
squid here, and im going to tell you a recent story that is kinda funny

so grunt and i lived in a very "different" neighborhood as children
we both had our fare share of werid and demented neighbors, but we also had a good share of really great kind and helpfull neighbors!

but enough about the past
this is a yesterday story.... wait that is the past, or should it be that "was" the past. hummm... will have to think on that one for a while.....

but anyways

across the street from me are some neghbors, they are very nice and chat to me everyonce and a while, but i tend to keep to my self. but i do like to watch what goes on when they venture out in to the yard.

so before work today, i was on my couch playen a game on the mac when i saw the nextdoor neighbor's boy in the street

now this cat is not the noraml teenager, well maybe he is, but in my eyes he is still in the confused stage! so here he is, usually dressed in total black, but today he is in his black jeans and sneakers and thats it
no shirt
and he has long black (sholder lenght) hair and he is tryen harder than i to gorw a mustash and gotie (which lookes even wourse than mine)!!!!!

so here he is in the middle of the street with a stick, well a tree branch, i would say about two inches thick and about 4 feet long.

this kid is now tryen to through this thing around like he is a nija, all slick and smooth,

so of couse i chuckle to my self and go back to my game on the mac.

then all of a sudden i hear "THUNK"
and i look up to see the stick bounc off the kidds head, i mean i could have heard that thing hit his head if i had my ear phones on!!! thats how hard he hit him self

it was so fucken funny, fisrt he dropped the stick, and started to rub his head, then he said "oooouuuuuhhhhh.... ouch" then he did the look around to see if anyone cought his display of talent!

after he didnt see anyone, (couldnt see me, i was inside) he proceeded to walk back to his house, but then decided to keep praticing with his home made nija weapon, that fell from the tree.

so there he is again and tossing this thing around and around, then he tries getting faster and faster... then WAP, hit him self right in the face, i mean he really hard too.

the kid stumbled back and fourth for a second, holding his nose,

i couldnt help it, i started to laugh out loud, i think he heard me cuz then he looked around and decided it was time to go inside and get a shirt on and go for a walk.

buy the time i recovered from rolling on the floor, it was time for work,
so i got my snack and left the house

this is squid signing off sayen
stay conected like ninex
and keep praticing thoes nija skills, but get padded weapons, not the ones mother nature give you!

Grandby of Vermont

i took the p2 off raod the otherday

oh sorry.... hi all
squid here,

well the otherday my friend who is barrowing the horse called me up
or i called her and she told me she was going to go riding
so i was all up for that
so we went
she took me to some state forest in vermont
it was just like masachusetts riding
i cant wait to show grunt, i found good riding with the help of a new riding buddy

we will call her "Twolegs" from now on
cuz that is all she is..... two legs
and a great rider
she told me that she use to be a hardcore cross country rider
and now primarly road
but for the second time back on a mountain bike
with a few pointers she was doing great!
i mean she was keeping up with me on the down hills
not right on my tail, but right there
i was truly impressed, and now grunt and i have an enthuiastic (spelt right?)
fun loving nurse to go riding with
thank god we got some one to fix us up out on the trail now... lol
just kidding, we both know frist aid
but anyways, it was great, the down hills where super techincal and so where the climbs,
the only problem, the p2 is not made for climbing, so i walked most of them, plus i overheated at one point, i had the pads on, so took thoes off and i was fine, i really need the clipless peddals back!

on the other hand

the apollo
the road bike is now kinda road worthy!
i put new break leavers, and cables on it
i put new bar tape on and my crank bros egg beaters on it and
i took it out
now the tires need to be replaced, but that can be done, they are old and cracked up
but i put air in them and they held! i was super surprised
the breaks are hard as a rock as well so i was super carful where i was going cuz i really didnt have much stopping power!
kinda scary, but i got home!

this sunday i think im going to ride to the plant and back for fun
do some work on the breaks frist!!!!!

but i am supper happy with the bike, it is the right size
the components that came on it are super high class
and all for 20 bucks, and i got a a ross bike with it, using it for spare parts
two extra wheels for cycle cross and winter riding
crank arms for spares
shifter leavers for just in case
and plunty of crap cables
plus a huge frame that is too big for grunt or i or anyone that wants an old ross frame
may go on the wall as decoration
could look cool, needs a little touch up frist
but anyways, im excited about that, i got 4 bikes inthe house
the p2, apollo, ross and the giant
the giant is still in construction phase
but will be done before grunt is home
this will be a mono cog straght bar round town with slicks to get to places quick
nothing special!!!!

so on that note
i got ot stop fucking the dog
and get back to work
again thanks twolegs for the ride
and grunt get home soon for some riding, diving and climbing!

later
keep conected like ninex
squid is out

Squids high school tap shoes

so if you have been reading anthing in this blog you have learned alittle about grunt and i
1 we really dont care much about anything to do with embarisment
2 social lives, what are thoes
3 we hike, bike, dive, climb and many other things
4 yeah we dont care
5 about anything in general
6 except, family friends and doing cool stuff, or fun stuff


soooooo to emphisize the "dont care part" i will tell you why i got yelled at in jym class in highschool all the time.

so i would bike to school when i was warmer
cuz it was fun, i could hit a trail before school
ater school and some time (ssshhhhhhh) durring school

on most of my bikes i have clipless peddals, which means the shoes i wear with them have cleats on them
if you are totaly confused look it up on a bike web sight, you will end up getting the picture

so i use to have a pair of ritchy logics, which are great peddals, i loved them, now they are grunts, but they survived many years under my feet! all throughout highschool and college

no i got crank brothers egg beaters which in my oppinion just loook soo cool and i love them!, they are going on the new apollo road bike i got, (new to me, frame is older than me)

so anyways, i would ride to school and ear my bike shoes all day long, no bother to me, but the cleats where a little thicker than the soles so every time i took a step i would click, it is like having a tack on your shoe!

but this was cooler, cuz it was really part of the shoe and it was rather large, the size of a half dollar, and it is placed right ont he ball of my foot, well both feet,

this enabled me to do many fun things,

like run down the hall then slide on the cleat and glide past windows that viewed into the classrooms and really confuse the teachers when they way me,

but the best was jym class! all that running and stop and go and shit, i made some much noise, and slid everywhere and on the hard wood floors of the basket ball court,

lets just say i got kicked out of jym when ever i rode my bike to school, i was told to go for a ride and get my excersixe there!

haha it was a wonderful thing
guess you had to be there
grunt remembers some of it

well laters i got to go to bed,
btown is calling me tomaorw,
got to go pick up the p2 and the dive gear

squid signen off sayen
stay conected like ninex
and november has cleats that click like mine!!!

The Thrill of the Hunt

hi all
squid here at work, waisting time again
we call it "fucken the dog" but thats not too pc to say
but wait, i just said it
and wait grunt and i are not pc
cuz we dont care!

thats also why i dont use CAPITAL LETTERS
or periods..... all the time
its a waist of time, or is it waste of time
who cares you got the point right?
who cares if you did or not, this is not the story

so im here in the lab doing chemistry
it is a rainy day
so that means the bugs come inside the plant to get out of the rain
which pisses me off
i hate bugs
the ones i hate the most are
spider... just hate them, anything with 8 legs that cant swim is no good in my book
mosquitoes (spelt wrong).... blood sucking bitches, sounds like my last girl friend
flys - god damn anoying suns of bitches that just like to bother me

so here in the lab, there where three, and i decided to hunt them down with my "east bay" catalog,( i was looking at shoes) and i was sucessfull with two
the other one i scared away!

but that reminded me of a old appartment story
grunt and i lived in the gheto as you know
and we had this appartment, that i liked how it was set up, but loaction was not to die for!

so the front... and only door had no screen on it
so grunt used his misqueto netting and used the handydandy staple gun and made a make shift screen door that we used while we were at home
it was great, we had a draft through the house and it was nice having the door open!

but make shift means that bugs got in, at night too, they found the holes to the lights, then buzzed around and around and around and just pissed me off

one night there was this huge moth, i mean huge, it would creat a shadow when flying around, it was big
and it was pissing me off
so i decided to hunt the bastard down
and thats what i did, i got my weapon (home made fly swatter made out of a magazine)
and went on the hunt.
the air atacks where not working, so i was waiting till the fucker landed and went at it with all my might
wap.... miss
wap.... miss
wap.... miss
then the bastard landed on the over head light
the cealing was alot taller than i
and the light was one of thoes 6 foot covered neon lights
so i jumped and in midd air i took my swing of might
grunt was close by watching, cuz this was really good entertainment
WWAAAPPPP
crack.....creak....

squid "ahhhh look out"
grunt "wow.... hahahaha"

when i hit the cover to the light i knocked the thing off and it came swingen down at me, and all the dead bugs showered down on me and the floor,

not only was i covered in dead bugs and dust, but i managed to break the light cover

i fixed the light cover with a little help from grunt and a ladder,

squid "you see that, did i get him, did i get the fucker"
grunt "idonno....... nope... look"
squid "im goin after him"
grunt "let him be, and go to bed, you broke enough for tonight"
squid "yeah but he is bothering me!"
grunt "what ever dude, just dont break anything else"
squid "eeehhh what ever, im going to bed"

then i sat on the couch and watched tv for a couple hours

this is squid signing off sayen
kill the bugs!!!.....
and stay conected like ninex
and um..... yeah i got ot get back to work!

later

Puddle jumping

so there is a "art" about accomplishing a dive sight

what i am talking about is.....
to go diving you first need to find a place to go
then you decide to go
then you pack up
then go
and get there and find you got to scale a 50 foot rock wall with all your dive equipment on
or walk over a mile to get to the water
then walk over a mile to get to water you can swim in
and then you find out that this new sight sucks

then the "art" Part comes in

a sucessfull diver knows that when diving, if the oppertunity come around to go to a better sight, you better be able to pack up quick and run with the money

grunt and i are exilent puddle jumpers
we do well with it in mountain biking, climbing and as well in camping
but diving is more of an art!!

so we are acostom to using josie
and i am acustom to going diving when ever the water calls
so i know how to pack up my dive gear quick
and josie (my f150 truck) is set up to go sporting all the time
and grunt just knows how to pack well and be perpaired!

so this is the art and how to puddle jump as a diver

1 be ready all the time, this means have your gear packed and ready to go
2 keep it handy, i keep mine close to the door or always in the truck
3 travel light, dont take any food, buy as you go!!!
4 dont care, when tarveling, who cares about trafic, make sure you got good techno music!!!!
5 travel wet, if you get out of the water and decide to go some where else, use the trash bag trick and drive still in your wet suit, if you get warm that is what the ac is for!!
6 keep your gear together, dont dissasemble anything, if you are just going to go back in the water!!, when teaching my gear would be at the pool for months at end all aired up and ready to go!
7 take it slow, if you speed and hit a bump, a tank could go!!!!!!
8 know where a good back up spot is, two bad sights is almsot as bad as just going home!
9 dont worry about time, rushing only ruins someone elses time!
10 remember to rest, eat, and drink on the way

and finally, cuz you are traveling in a wet suit, stop at a gas station, all drippen wet, go inside get a soda and when the attendent asks what you are doing, tell them you just went sky diving! idiots

ok se ya later
got to get back to work,
stay conected like ninex and all that jaz
squid

First major crash with a new bike

well no matter what you do
or where you go
when you get a new bike
it is going to happen
the frist major, tumbling
bike breaking
body brusing
crash
and it finnaly happend to me and the p2 the other day
i was riden round burlington like i normaly do
today was the frist visit to the out side skate park with the p2
got bored so i decided to ride this local little trail by the bike path
it is a nice little trail and if you push hard
it can be fun
no jumps, or dropp offs, just single track
this path is more of a walking path than a bike path but hay
who is going to stop me from riding anything right?
grunt and i are notorious for riding where we are not supose to!
soo i was doing what i said, pusing it
the path is over grown and runs along a little ridge
on one side is the lake
the other a dropp to some drit
nothing major, but about a 5 foot fall on either side
soooo im pushing it like i said,
going round the small turns
riden fast and then all of a sudden
i did "A grunt"
i hit nothing but my front tire did a 90 degree flip
sent me over the bars and down the side of the ridge
thank god it was not the lake side
i landed on my back, slid about 10 feet on my sholders
then the bike landed on me while i was sliding
still sliding i was pushing the bike off me
i finally came to a stop and the bike was behind me,
when my boddy came to a rest my legs where on top of the bike
as i lay there for a sec, i looked around,
still on my back i saw some one walken twars me
so i got up dusted my self off and say the guy still approching
it was a homeless guy
squid "whats up"
guy" not much you"
Squid "broken bike"
Guy "hum" and kept walkin by
so i was up and checken the bike
the p2 (bike) has chain stays that are supose to keep the chain
on the cogs
but i guess since the bike dragged or what ever
i pulled the chain out from under both of them
so tryen to put the chain back on was not working
this is when i figured i had to walk the "Walk of shame"
i walked my bike 10 min back to the skate park where i knew some one had allen wrenches.
got there fixed the bike and decided to go home
i was all brused up
beaten up
bike needed more work
and at this point i was just tired
riden by your self sucks alot, if you craash major you are kinda out of luck
soooo it is not to wise to try shit with noone around
and if you do a "Grunt"
and really get hurt you are really shit out of luck
so i went home.

this is squid signing off sayen
stay connected like ninex
and rike like a bat out of hell!