ok so i realy cant sleep.... again

hi all squid here
its 1216 right now at night
soo for grunt and i tahts 0016
a good round number
and my lucky number.....

see..... im bored and i cant sleep
normaly this is no problem
i would pop in a dvd or some game cube would do
or play with the cat
or what ever, surf the web

but no i got to work tomaorw
12 hour shift,
which is not as bad as you think
but i know it going to be a long day and i would like to sleep a little
working on no sleep sucks
its about ok for 2 hours,
but then you hit that wall and the rest of the day drags on like for ever and it sucks


so now im surfing the web
eathing lunch meat out of the package
and now im going to blog
i read about 30 blogs already
made some comments
one was about engaugement rings
wow was that a bad comment on my part
sorry who ever got that one

other where about people being lonely
or people wanting to be lonely
man, sorry to thoes people too
my comments sometimes get alittle personal
but hay
if you ask for comments, i leave comments, and well....
yeah.....

so more on eating the lunch meat, ham
so im eating it right out of the little box here
and the only reason is
im to tired.... no make that lazy to get the bread and make my self
a sandwitch
really i just want the meat
but thats it
other than that i really have nothign good in the house
i got some snack food
but nothing i want
yep just finished the lunch meat

moven on
so.....
yeah i was helping coach ultimate again today
and that was good
kinda.... in the rain and i was the time keeper for two 45 min games
and my waterproof jacket, well it became unwater proof cuz i was in the rain
for like 1.5 hours there
so i got cold and wet
aaawww he got cold and wet.... pooor baby
well im not really complaining
but i would like a non rubber jacket that is totaly water proof for like ever
not like 1 hour
but hay, you cant have everything in life right.........
so moven on again

i guess i should put a story in here or something sometime soon
so thinken of a story that involved grunt and i
or something stupid that could put a simle on your face (the reader)

oh i found this which i thought was funny

The mathematical proof of what we already knew.
- Women = Time and Money
- “Time is Money”
Therefore, Women = Money x Money
= Money2
- “Money is the Root of all Evil”
Therefore, Money = √Evil
Money2 = Evil
Therefore, Women = Evil

some engineer or math person thought this up
and so far.... well im not going any further with it

so talking about my female situation
which is nothing
except that big black furry pussy i come home to every night
and his name is november..... my cat, get your head out of the gudder
you perv

so i have no girl friend
havent had one for ooohhhhh a while now
actually since grunt left, about a year
ooohhhhh
sigh
so my buddy and i go out alot to try and pick up chicks around here
i mean we are really nice guys
we make some good moeny
and it shows
and we treat girls well, well i do ask around i just do
and so you know i thought well
if i keep up the good work i could clean up around here
find a nice girl
and there ya go,
not lonely everynight spending time with the cat
but no, living here in the small town
well every one knows everyone
except the new kidds
which is my buddy and i
we are kinda new here
well ive been here a year
my buddy about 6 months now i guess

so anyways every bar we walk in to
every one, and i mean everyone turns around and looks at us
and they are like who the hell are thoes two
and then they stare at us for like 5 min and never give us any attention after that

occasionally some girls come up to us which is refreshing
and they start talking and
drinken and play pool or darts or anything
and it is all good
till i dig a little deeper

squid, so what are you girls doing out tongiht
hot girl 1, we are having a girls night out
squid, thats good, sounds like fun time
hot girl 1, yeah it is good, we dont get to do it that often
squid, thats to bad why not (BAD QUESTION)
hot girl (The one i as intested in) well cuz this is the frist night i had a chance to get out after having my kid
Squid (in my head) GOD DAMN IT

i dont want to date a chick with kids right now!

hot girl 1 (Buddys intrest) and have a husband and a kid too
buddy (Out loud) sun of a bitch
hot girl 1, what did you just say
buddy oohhh man i got an itch
not so hot girl 3 (shooten pool) yeah and........(consintrating)
buddy, hay your tit fell out (good timing and good joke)

the not so hot girl springs up and looks down
no of course it didnot fall out of her dress, but my buddy saved us from a disaster there, and i started to laugh histarically
the not so hot chick didnt think it was that funny
but my buddy did, and he was laughing but not as hard as i
now i would have never done that but hay, it was funny
just to see the look on her face
the other two girls there didnt hear what my buddy said they wehre way drunk too


so the moral of the story is, dont dig deep, well if you do be perpaired to be dissapointed and be perpaired to run!

moral of living here in st johnsbury vermont

the girls between the age of 19 and 25 are either divorsed all ready, they have one to three kidds and are single still, never married, or they are golddiggers,

i really dont know where to look for a mate
but i digress
and its raining out again
and it is now 0036
and im still awake
sigh


squid out

p.s. i am really a nice guy, just ask grunt..... please

Kidds Next Door

Hi all squid here

grunt and i grew up together, and we still reflect on our childhood alot cuz we ha d a great time, well not all the time, but we had some crazy adventures.

growing up in a college town, college kids with thier cool toys where always moven in and out in the surrounding rental houses, growing up in this atmosphere we got the chance to see how these strange creatures lived and partied and stuff
we looked up to them, and marvled at their freedom and cool shit.

so when we grew up, and moved in to our places, we treated the neighborhood kids the same as we where treated, we talked to them, listen to what they had to say, fixed ther bikes and showed them how to do the stupid shit we do.

so here are some stories about some of the kidds around the places grunt and i have lived.

now here is about the appartment that we shared that was across the street from my sisters appartment.
so there was this kid nextdoor, that saw us on our bikes and doing stupid shit like jumpin over stuff and doing wheelies.
so one day i was out and he was riden around and i just happened to turn around to see him do a face plant into the grass. i mean he went face frist right into the grass. wapppppp, it was histarical, but i didnt laugh, first i waited till he got up and looked aorund to see if anyone saw him. i think i was out side kicken the hackysack aournd. i yelled over
squid "you ok?" snicker snicker
kid "yeah"
Squid "Bike ok"
kid "Um......"
Squid "Bring it here"

so i looked over the bike, everything was all fucked up, so i spent like 30 min tuning it up, and he was off and running after that. after that all the kids in the neighborhood where asking us to do stunts as we rode by, asking us to fix thier bikes and stuff like that. it was a curse and ablessing, more of a curse! at least they never knocked at our door!!!!

next story is about the kid that is letting him self into my house with out knocking!
lets see how long that lasts!
squid out

Dark Side Of the Middle Man

hi all
squid here

well just a not here,
some info that is usless, but hay most of this sight is
but thats the best part of it right!?

so anyways, grunt is off in the sand box
im here in hill country
and my friends are scattered round the world
e-mail, Im'ing and some phone calls keep everyone in touch
but some times these conversations turn on people
it is very easy to let your "Darker side" seep out everyonece and a while

even though it is good for the sole, some times it not so good for the other party!!

so anyways, here is alittle story for you

well i was talking to my friend, she is a great girl, tough on the out side
little bit soft on the inside
i really like her as a friend, a real trooper
her life has not been easy for the last year and a half
not saying that anyone else's has
but anyways she was having a vent session with me
and thats cool, im all for that, it was on IM by the way
so moven on
i could not get her out of her funk
it is tough, so tryen to get her out of her funk
i fell in to one of my own
i started in on my touchy subject, that noone touches
cuz i told them not to, cuz i get really ugly
i mean really ugly, my dark side starts to show its self
and when that starts up, people start moven away from me

quotes
sister "Yeah when squid gets mad, move away and let him be, you dont want to be in that blast radious!"
Mother "When he goes quiet, that means its getting really bad really quick"
mma frined "when his safity lifed, he made kids cry"
high school friend "he does not get physical, but man, you wish he did"

now this "dark side" usualy takes alot to uncover its self
but that night, i guess it had to sick its ugly head out
so i got on the issue of my x-fiance (yes i have one of thoes)
and i started in on how i feel about it, and her
now noone but grunt really know how i feel about it

you should have heard or read some of the shit that came out of my mouth
i starteled my self with a phrase or two
no four letter words where used either
this was no name calling batt
it was my really ugly thoughts on my computer screen
when i stopped, my kitten on the other side didnt respond back
thats when i knew i had dropped the ball here
i knew that i let too mcuh out again
and i scared her alittle

then i just said, well fuck it, and turned off the computer, i knew there was no saving this conversation that night, so i gave up and hoped to talk to her the next morning
which i did, she never talked about the issue i brought up, but she still talks to me, but not about the x issue, noone really does, better that way!

now i wont say it feltgood to get some of that out in the air, but all i got to say is if you have some of that in you. like some really really deep scar, that wont ever heal! you need only one trusted person, luckly i got grunt, and christina, two very close friends that i can talk to and let that out, and it wont phase them how i talk some times

grunt and i have had these conversation when we wehre living together, which was nice, we could talk about anything, and we still can, cuz one or the other will groud the other, making sure to point out all the things that the other is not seeing, and also to sometimes just listen

so moven to the end here
everyone has a darkside, and it is ok to have it
just remember to let it come out at the right times

squid signen off
later peeps, back to my goofy self

Kitty Arm Band

Hi all
squid here
sitten here with november
my big black furry pussy,

get your mind out of the gudder!
god damn it
i know what you where thinken,
what would your mother say

moven on here
so yesterday
i went out with Two Legs in the great capital of vermont, montpieler
and we just walked around
went to the bike shop
then she said "Lets go to Small Dog"
which is an apple shop, apple as in the computer
and a cool shop
well anyways on the way there i told her how i love my power book
and how apples are really nice
as chatted and stuff
when we got there it was nice, the guy was super nice who talked to her
and then walken around i saw thoes rubber bands
you know what im talken about
there are the oooohhhh so popular yellow "Live Strong" lance armstong arm bands
well i dont have one
and, well i would not buy one

many reasons behind me not going to buying one
1 i feel to wear a live stong arm band you have to either have cancer, or know some one who you are really close to that has cancer, that way you are "Living Strong for them or your self!

well i dont have cancer, thank god, and i dont think i know anyone with cancer, or anyone that is close tome or something like that again, thank god

so anyways i found a coppy arm band
but this one called to me
like a light in a dark room
or something like that

this arm band seys "I SAVED A PET"

i know i know i know,
how dorky!!!
i mean who would wear something like that?......

well..... me
and yes i bought one,

it called to me cuz, well i saved november, my kitty, he was strayed and i took him in, he is my buddy and my little furry friend to come home to, he keep me company and just a great cat
well i treat him more like a frined,

but anyways, i saved him from countless winters, cars and mean children and going to the pound and shit like that
now he has good and water everyday, a clean litter box and a good warm bed to sleep in, and yes he sleeps with me, but usually i sleep on the couch and he gets the bed, just works out that way. the old girl friend didnt get it when i said it was his house, i just pay the rent!

so anyways, i payed 5 buck for a rubber band that seys "I SAVED A PET" and i am damn proud
all of the moeny goes to the hmain society, which i will support any day of the week

need to watch out for our furry friends

which brings me to another point here
if you see some one hit thier pet, for no reason, or is mean to a animal, hit them
go out and tell them they are retarted and that they need to realize what they are doing
to hit a animal or miss treat them is bad
and when ever i see some one do that
i speak up
i start yelling at them
pets are not humans, they do not know what they are doing is bad
and some times they cannot controol them selves
so if you hit an animal its like hitting a 1 year old baby,
would you do that cuz they knocked thier food off the table
nooooo you would not, so when your cat or dog knocks their food all over the floor
dont smack them and yell at them, clean it up and put it where they can not do that
be a responsable person

if i see you hit your animal, i will get my baseball bat and go hit you
how does that sound
hum......
yeah i will dont test me!!!!!!

so to end this blog
treat your animals with respect,
treat them with love and kindness
and make sure you take care of them, cuz they cant take care of them sleves
they have no idea what flees are or ticks or worms
all they do is die from them
vets are good things!!!!

also
go addopt a pet before paying 500 to 1000 for a pet
get a gray hound
or a kitty from the pound
be a responsable human
and if you cant afford a pet
or cant take care of it
DONT GET ONE

and if i find you strayed an animal
oooohhhhh you are dead meat!

little story about november and why i take care of him and im so protective of him

the lady that got him
she said he was sparying the house
so she kicked him out of the hosue
he is nutered which means he does not have the parts to spray
so she was just being stupid
then she took him back in after telling her 3 year old daughter that this was a new cat
and the old one died
then she strayed him again
she brought him 10 miles away in a car
tossed him out at the end of a drivway of a farm
the little bugger found his way back
then she moved and didnt take him with her
she didnt look for a family
or drop him off at the humain society
she just left him
and he actually lived though a winter in vermont
tough kitty
then ifound out the story from a neighbor
november would meet me before and after wook on my front pourch
and i would feed him
when i found out he was a stray, i took him to the vet
got him checked out
and then took him in
fed him,
brushed him
and now he is my kitty
and i love him to pieces
he has toys, a scratching post and a warm bed
i saved my november
and i am proud of him
the vet loves him, they have never seen a cat so relaxed, and so animated
they told me that thay love it when he shows up

so there
i hope that lady dies a hoable death
and i hope she goes to hell

so this is squid signing off sayen
i saved my pet
and be kind to animals
cuz they are just little people in fur coats!!!!

Cooking With Calimari

Hi all
Squid here
from now on, when i post about food, im going to call my self "Calimari"
now thats a good name..... haha, thanks grunt

anyways
so here are some cooking tips for the people out here in blogger land

i have been slacking, being single and living here in st jay, im bored and when im bored i dont like cooking, so i just usually eat out alot, or make easy stuff,
but time for change, im going to start making meals for the week!
so to start off this week
i got nachoes planed for tuesday, my specialty, for work, a friend is leaving so he and i use to eat them like they were going out of style
so here is a quick easy nacho dish anyone can make

first, go out to the store
pick up
1/2 pound of round beef, if it didnt cost out over 2.50 then put it back, the better the meet, the better its going to taste
1 jar of salsa
1 thingy of sour cream
2 bags of chips,
1 bag of cheese, taco or mexican style, shredded
1 packet of meat seasioning
i new bottel of hot sauce! trust me,
1 jar of hot peppers, you know the ones you normaly dont eat, well i eat them, so anyways
1 small can of black beans
1 can of corn, if you want, ususally i dont, but some like it

you can also add lettus and shit like that, but they quick way, doesnt need it

ok so now you got to cook that meat, while cooking it add some hot peppers and hot suace to it, then add the seasioning after draining it, the better the meat the less you have to drain it!!! if you get like 75 or less lean beef the fat makes oil which is bad for you, get 90% lean or better, its better for you and in my oppinion it tasts better, im not a huge fat of the land fan

now get chips on the plate, to cover it
then put a layer of cheese
later of meet,
then another layer of chips
and so on till you run out

now stick the sucker in the microwave and cook for 3 min tops, watch it, melt the cheese dont burn it

when you take it out,
add the black beans to the top
cover it in salsa
and sour cream second, then dump the rest of the hot suace ontop
trust me! go for it

now eat, use forks to help you out, or be like my buddy mat at work and some how get salsa behind his ear!
we dont know how it got there, but he dove in up to his elbows, he said it impresses chicks
something sexual, you know what im hinting at

anyways
so when the salsa and sour cream starts running out
add more
add more hot sauce


the trick here is not to add the salsa and sour cream till you are ready to eat, cuz it makes the chips saugy, which sucks, its like a dick, when its limp it is worth less!!!!

anyways
eat good
eat often
and then work it off to eat again
but dont eat before you go do something big
you will end up seeign it come out the inhole!!!!

calimari out
squid out
laters

since we were 7

I actually got back to my home town this weekend, my sister, and grunst sister and another friend where having a joint 30th bithday party, and with the exilent planning i asked if they had music planed for this huge party of thiers, and the answer i got was

well i will just trun on the raido and hope for the best.....
uuuggg, so i packed up the laptop after spending an hour making a party play list out of my 6 or 9 gigs of music, all i know is it was alot of sorting,

but that is not the full reason i went home, here was a chance to go early fall riding on old trails that i have not rode in about a year.

so off i was with the p2 in the back of the truck, got home and parked the truck got the bike out of the back and i was off.

frist i hit was the old grof park trail that loops around the back of the park in Amherst and leads to the bike path, Grunt and i Have been on this trail since we where seven, even eariler than that, but anyways, we have sceen the progression of this trail over the more than 20 years of our lives. it is a supurb trail in my eyes, the frist trail i learned how to ride well on!

so i roll up to the trail and i spot a sign, at first i was thinking they banned mountain bikes on the trail, but to my relief it was just a new sign for the trail. then i got closer and read what it said

Grunt, this is going to piss you off as much as it did me!

the sign said
"the Emily Dickison Trail" Built by the college of engineering at U-Mass

once i saw that i became extreamly pissed, these fucken noname engineers at u-mass did not build this trail, it has been there since for ever and it was built by kids from aournd the area and hikers and nature walkers and mountain bikers and people visiting the park. if you walked the trail or rode the trail you make your mark and made it wider and better, added bridges when the rain washed out the trail.

after calming down a bit i rode the trail, it had changed since i last remembered it but it is still the same, same bridges, switch backs and the doons are still out there in the middel. but other than that other than errosion and shit like that, nothing has changed,

so these panzies from u-mass can kiss my ass and emily dickison was a fucken hermet who fucker her brother, she never left her god damn house in the middle of town, she never saw that part of town, which is at least 5 to 8 miles away, so fuck her, the trail is not in her name. next time i go home, that sign may become my possetion or moved to where no one can see the discrase!!!!!!

anyways, so i finished the trail and rode down the bike path, which got renamed the "Rail Trail" ahhhhhh everything in this god damn town is changing for the worst! i am so glad i donot live here anymore!!!!!!!!!!!

so im riding "the Rail Trail" to the other trail that leads to amherst college, got there and rode that, amherst college fixed that up nice, it is truly a cross country trail so crusing is really easy on this trail. when i got out i rode up through the college through town and all the way to u-mass, did the stairs.... all like 100 sets of them and rode around cuttign through the crouds like a surgen. it was great, people where like, wow and holy shit when i cut infront of them and did not hit them or the people around them,

never came close to ditching or becoming our of controol, it was wonderfull,

then i went to go home and did suicide hill, what a rush that was, and the new bike did will even though it was a hard tail, the front shocks sucked up everything which was really nice, my legs took everything else out, then i rode 116 down, that was a hoot too!


but what i came out of this was,
vermont is more hilly, steeper and harder to ride, going home, the hills where really super easy than what i remembered, and the riding was a lot of fun, i had my chance to relive some things that i forgot about.

so for good ride, go to grof park in amherst massachusetts, park in the parking lot, go to the bottom of the hill twards the swings and you will see the trail sing, drop in and ride the trail, little up hills with quick down hills, some bridges and good single track, when you end, ride it backwards for a totally different ride to get back to the car or take a left on the "Rail Trail" and ride to amherst college, once you see tenis courts you are there, ride around them and you will see a super hill, if you are hard core ride up it, grunt and i can do it twice in one day, then ride it down, guide right, and you will see a 12 foot dropp off, if you slow you can ride it down, if you dont you can clear it, make sure there is no field hocky games going on, and it is an easy land!!!!!


well squid out
remember, today is the tommorow you dreamed about yesterday

The Day I Will Never Forget

Hi all
squid here again
to day is 9/11
and surfing the web, there is very little said about 9/11
to me this is not good
to day should be a day noticed by the country as a day of morn
for ever,

so here is my tribute to the people who lost thier lives that day
it is also on my other sight
www.novembersengineer.blogspot.com

I remember

no one seems to remember what today is
but i do
i remember where i was
what i was doing
where i was standing
who i held
who was crying
what i was feeling
and i will never forget
i will never not remeber what day today is
it is early morning
and its a long day ahaid
but i will stand up straight
i will move with grace
and i will remember all thoes who fell
who severd knowing they will not make it home
to say good bye one more time
to kiss thier kids
to hug their wives or husbands
to never see their loved ones again
i will never forget what day today is
keep fighting the good fight where ever you are
i envy the courage you had
and the people you did save
Thank you, and god rest your soles
you are at heaven's gates
ST peter is there shaking your hand
with a tear in his eye
and a smile on his face
you have made it home
but left so much behind
with no questions asked

Thank You

please remember this day for the rest of your life
we owe it to the people who died that day
and the freinds, family and loveds ones left behind

Charictors

Here is a list of The People and brief bios on people in this blog
for the people
by the people and
um, for the people again, hum

any ways

Grunt,
Male
Married to his wife, i think we just call her wife on here
one of the two authors of this blog, us army guy, my best friend, close enough to be my brother, thats why he calls me his brother

Squid
Male
Currently single and going to everyone elses weddings
other author of this blog, engineer guy, grunts best friend

Torso
Married to Jess, who comes along to hiking and climbing events
friend of grunt and squid, grun intoduced squid to torso, he is short, and just looks like a torso, thats how he got his name, also he is a great drum player

Two Legs,
female
currently single i think,
friend of squid, who now has his iron horse, she going riding with squid, and she is all legs, thats why i call her two legs

Sister
female
dating
Squids older sister

Grace
male
dating
Sisters boyfriend, tries to ride with squid, wants to rock climb with him and grunt (we'll see about that one)

November
feline, male
nutered but has an out side freind, who is male
Squids cat, yes i named my cat November, now you think about it, its a great name for a cat

its wheely time

hi all

squid here
and i got a story this time to tell ya

i dont know if i told ya, but here we go
its funny
kinda
well i think its great

before we move on, one thing i like to do is wheely's i think its fun, kinda impressive, even though i cant hold it too long, i can pop that front tire up real high and its just fun, it is also helpfull to know how high you can get that tire so you can kinda get up on top of anything!

moven on here

so my sister had a boyfriend now
and he is ok, he is nice to her and she is happy
so im happy for her

so he told me he got a new bike and wanted to go real mounting bike riding
and he watned to go with me
so i said, sure, lets go
so i show up in btown there, and call him up
he said he wanted to do trail riding, and no urban
so sure, i took him to the burlington highschool trails
which i havent rode in a long time
so we head out and we hit the trail
the first thing i go for is the larg hill with a huge up hill and
a super techinal end
which i love, so i shoot down the hill
race up the top, clear the frist set of rocks, at least 2 feet of the ground
i put the rear tire on the rocks frist then come to a stop
i look over my sholder to see my sisters boy, we will call him Grace for now
he is still at the top of the hill one foot down squeeking down the hill with his breaks, not behind his seat and looking like he is going to endo, still sitting

so he makes it and rolls down the hill and up and stops at the rocks and gets off his bike and walkes it by me

grace, what are you doing, trying to kill me
squid, you said you wanted my kind of mountain biking
grace, yeah but i dont want to die
squid, ahhh crap i knew something was wrong,
grace, what
squid look at my tire (it was flat, pich flat)
squid, i knew that was going to happen sooner or later, small tube

so i broke the bike down and replaced the tube, with anotehr tube to small for the rim.

we then went down the trail, i was on the bike, grace was off and onn going around the techincal stuff till we found some hard packed single track
we went shooting down the hill till i hear
ring ring ring ring,
graces cell phone, which was in his pocket was going off
so we stoped and it wsa my sister, she talked to grace while i put air in my tire
it was a little squirly riding, what i didt realize is that it was because the tube was way too small for the tire, and the tire was floating around over the tube
so i put three more pumps of air in and pissssssss
i over inflated and poped the tube

squid, shit, god damn it
grace, what
squid, i poped another tube, and now i got to walk it back
grace, haha, well i guess its back to the truck
squid, yep i got tubes back there too
grace, ok

so while i waked the bike back grace rode, we talked about some stuff and he was all excited about riding now
so we get back to josie and i break down the bike
place a tube in there and was unhappy about how it felt, so i took it out and was putting another one in

grace was riding circles around and poppen wheelies, he was doin ok till
thump, he ran in to my truck, it was great, i was just there standing with my wheel in my hand looking at he, he poped up an did the look around to see who cought him
and he cought me looking at him

grace, dont worry i didnt scratch your truck
squid, im not to worried about it (it would have been worth it, but good you didnt)
grace, so we riden
squid, hold on
grace, i want to do that trail stuff again, not the hard stuff
squid, um.... that was all trail stuff, you want to do the hard pack single track
grace, hum... yeah, thats what i ment,
squid, ok i can do that,.... shit
grace, what
squid, i stripped my axle bolt or the nut
grace, so no riden,
squid, nope sorry, we can shoot to the bike shop and i can get a new one,
grace, ok

well we got there, time was running out so we jsut went home after i got a new axle nut, but it was fun, he called and wated to go ridin this weekend, but as you can see im not doing that, im working nights,
but i will try to kill him soon again

but i call him grace cuz of the wheely incident
hope you like that one grunt, you are going to have fun when we go and take him along with!!!!

well im out, got to do some chemistry here
squid out

fragile life

Squid here
i havent talked about this yet here cuz well
its about a friend of mine and its depressing
but it made me think about life
and how fragile it is
and how i worry about grunt over seas
and how i worry about my friends

so this is what happened
a friend of mine was shipping out
she was by a steam pipe when it broke
and was burned over 60% of her right side
she is now at mass general, and doing good
she just made it off her ventilator
but the fact that she got that hurt, and hurt really bad
she is a great engineer, and a wonderfull person
and all i can do is sit and wait for news about her
from her boyfriend who is a friend of mine as well

so now that you know that news, i will finsih my thought
when grunt and i do things, like biking, rock climbing or diving
it is kinda dangerious and to remember we do take most of the percautions
what is a story when you cant come home and tell it right?

but thats not it,
grunt is in harms way
and that worries me
and my friends are in harms way
you want to know one of my bigist fears
the phone ringing and some one telling me
that some one got hurt or died
that scares me the most,
not riding down a hill at 50 miles per hour on a bike
or diving 100 feet under the waters surface
or hanging from a rock and knowing i could fall to my death
i fear hearing about a friend hurt or dead
i wake up at night from nigmares of this
when the phone rings late at night my heart stops
that is how i feel

life is fragile
so please take care of your selves
take care of your friends
and try to keep safe
loosing a friend is hard
and noone recovers from that

from everyone here at squidandgrunts guide to life
please keep safe
please watch out for your mate
and come home to the people you love

squid out

november's second trip to the vet

So yesterday was an event full day for my and my kitty
oh sorry, squid here

so anyways, i had to take november to the vet
and to do that i got to put him in his cat carrier
after trying it for about 10 min and him getting a good couple scratches all over me
i got a white sheet off my bed and tossed it over him
i currled him up so that he could not get to me
well i guess in the strugle he got kinda well
not happy with me and
well he pissed all over me
sooo i got him in his case there and got a change of cloths
then off to the vet, with a sample of his shit too
in a plastic bag

so i get there and the attendent at the desks asked me who i was
and i told her squid, and she said and you have november here too
and i said well i hope so, i dont need a check up that soon
so then she asks for his shit
so i handed it over

attendent, this does not look like kitty poo
squid, oh you wanted his crap, im sorry
attendent, ummm.....
squid, haha, its his, i knnow that come on here, what do you think i am
attendent, well.... i dont know
squid, well its his, trust me, i dont burry my crap in sand for fun!
attendent, haha ok you can go over there, put november on the scale

so november got his check up, he is 3 pounds over weight
so not i got to make him loose weight,
any ways, thought you would like the fact that
again the kitty pissed all over me or something of mine
hes good at that, pissing that is

aaahhhh my big black furry pussy,
i couldnt live with out him

squid signen off sayen
im out

smoother than dirt

hi all
squid here

well i went for a road ride on the new "old" road bike
it was nice, the first ride with with my up stairs neighbor
which is nice, to finally go with some one
riding alone gets, well old.......
sigh, i miss grunt

but anyways, i found a nice loop that takes about an hour,
one major climb, that kills the legs, but gets me in that mode where i can ride for a long time
i think i will do it again and then ride to NH, which is only 5 mile more
but that ride with the neighbor was nice
i was in kinda of a mood,
a low mood and riding with someone is nice
cuz you dont talk you just go
and when you get home, you are tired
you legs feel like jello and you want to just lay or sit
on my ride, with a partner he, she pushes you
you climb that hill and get out of the saddle and push to get to the top
when we finally stopped this is what went down

squid, im going to go get a sub, i will be right back
neighbor, ok im going to wait out here and watch the bikes
squid, naw come on in, we can see them from here
neighbor, naw im good

i went inside and got my sub

squid, ok we can go
neighbor, i almost blew chunks out here
squid, really, you ok did i push you to hard?
neighbor, you got me after supper
squid, what you have
neighbor, fish
squid, aaahhh that would do it
nieghbor, im going to go home
squid, i will be there in a sec, you sure you ok
neighbor, yeah i think it passed
squid, ok

so i went inside and picked up my sub and rode home

from his window
neighbor, hay when i came in and smelled the fish, i almost puked in the door way
squid, ahhh im sorry, i didnt mean to push you that hard
neighbor, its ok
squid, well im going to go in a rest, you do the same
neighbor, yep later
squid, yeah see ya later

i guess i pushed him really hard, but hay i needed the ride, to today i went by my self
and i pushed my self to my limits, well not really but i did push

well this is squid signing off sayen
i miss my friends
squid out

Other People's Stores

hi all
squid here going to talk some more about nothing really
but it is kinda enjoyable, i hope for you

so anyways this post is going to be about how out stores become your stories
and what happens to them when they become your stories
now remember this is what we wanted to happen
for you to read our blog here, and tell your friends
and they read it
and then tell more people
and everyone gets a good laugh, or maybe finds a new place to go rock climbing, diving or riding
or maybe a good place to eat
or what ever
or an idea
or what ever..... again

so anyways, i went to a wedding this past weekend,
it was good
but i over heard two of my stories being passed around the room like a deck of cards around a poker table
and it was intersting to listen to how people talk about myself and my stories

they ended up getting kinda imbelsihed which i thought was funny
one was about how i got acid on my self at work
and how it ate through my cloths like ants to a piece of candy
it was there one second and then not there a second later
but as time went on, i was walken around work naked, which never happened
but hay
it got some one to laugh

though i would share that with you people and see what ya think
so read on, and tell some one else, and tell them to pass the word on
grunt and i are invinsable and we live underwater, or something like that

laters
squid out

the wind through my scalp

hello all
squid here

well this labor day weekend, or what ever weekend it was, was intesting
i had a family wedding to go to which turned out great
i took an old college frined and we had a great time
danced the night away and i drank a rum drink by mistake and almsot had a bad eppisode
(im alurgic to rum)
so after that we went to the casino
with my family, but my date and i dont gamble so, we did gamble the slot machines
but we gambed 1.50 between us
thats 75 cents a piece
then we went to the arcade and played the little kid games, where we had more fun
we won her a spong bob key chain and a stuffed posable guraph that stands about 2.5 feet tall
we named him Chief Ritchard Long Legs of the Mohecan tribe!
we call him "Dick" For short, cuz well he proboly had a huge one.
then we travled home to her house where we rested ate and slept
then the next day was just chillen out and rode bikes
which was a good time, then i had to leave, it was time i guess
it was hard to leave a good friend again (she is moven across country)( thats is what dick is for, a tarveling mascott)
but i know i will visit her
so i got home yesterday at 1800 (600) and found that my house had an attempted break in
which was rediclus, i mean what would they get
i had the lap top, and my good bike,
they could have gotten my dive gear, but they would have no clue what they got
so i called the cops and they came over
i found out we got some hot chick cops in town
jennifer, did catch her last name, but blue eyes, long blod hair, under cap there
and man a killer body, i got to get pulled over more often
so then i went to bed at 2330 and woke up to the phone at 0930 today
it was the plant
they wanted me on stand by all day today and tonight cuz the feedreg valve failed open
and they need to controll it by hand
which is stressfull
so i stayed here all day,
i went out for a my mt ride at frist, kept the phone in my pocket
then i decided to come home and watch a movie
then at 515 i decided to get ray, up stairs neightbor and go for a road ride
it turned out really good, we went out for an hour, it was a long good ride
we stopped at the st jay house of pizza so i could get somethingn to eat, but ray had already had supper
but supper was haunting him, comming up to meet him again
bu he held it down, which is good
i hate puking after a ride
it just sucks, thats why i always ride on an empty stomach,
not after a meal
but he was kind enough to come with me, it was good i had a riding partner
kinda have some one to talk to and try and kill the depression of my friend movin so far
that sucks, i know i will see her again, but im going to miss her too
but anyways i got some food to eat now, but im not hungry haha
and i put new break pads on the raod bike which turned out to be great
i had more stopping power and im not worried about down hills
which i took alot

but to tie the "Wind through my scalp" part of this
riding is fun, and i guess it is alot like running, the frist mile or up hill is the worst
you start huffing and puffing and fell like you are going to die
but if you push your self through it and make it out
you get to this point where hills and flats and down hills just run together,
you keep pushing and going
and you feel no pain
the wind is wipping though your hiar, or me my scalp cuz i cut my hair so short
and you are just goin
thinking or not much, a thought comes in your head and goes out
you think not to hard
and push your body
it is the same in the woods when you are riding, but usually the down hill is so thrilling youdont think of much
but thoes up hills you have a chance to think
it is where i kept my self sain and kept my self going
it is nice having a partner to go with cuz they push you
even if tehy dont say a word, you dont get off your bike cuz you dont want to let them down
you want to keep moving and going
and you want to keep together
you slow or speed up and make sure they dont get to far ahaid of you

so the road bike made it on an hour ride, she needs new tires and probobaly new tubes, but josey needs breaks frist
we will see what happens
and we will see how far i got tomaorw
got to wash the bike shorts frist
they smell kinda

well this is squid signing off
im going to try and stay conected like ninex
rena is getting better by the day (get better soon friend)
and im going to go try and get some freinds around here, i think im going to be here for a while
and im tired of being alone

stay happy people and come visit if you want
squid out

Whats in you Pack?

So i went out riding with my sisters boyfriend
it was an experiance, i got two flats and striped an axle nut
and almost killed my sisters boy
but hay, he said he wanted to go riding

but he asked me when i threw on my pack what i bring with me
so here is another quiz to see if you are a mt rider, or a wanabee

1, what kind of pack is on your back
a, hidration with extra pockets
b, some sort of old school back pack
c, currier bag
d, bag hooked to the bike

2, does a cell phone come with you
a yess in the pocket
b yes stays in the truck
c yes in the pack and off
d stays on my belt where it always is

3 time piece
a, yes its time for peace
b, attached to the sholder strap
c, on my rist
d, in my bag

4 water
a, in a bottle in the pack
b, hydration pack
c, in a cage on the bike
d, im lance armstrong, i dont need water

5 tools
a, what?
b, just what i need to make it go just in case
c, tubes, allen wrenches and a chain tool, anything else needed
d, i got a leatherman

6 Tunes
a, i have to consintrate, no out side noises please
b, i spent 250 on an ipod, sure why not bring it along
c, cd player, it shoulndt skip right?
d, i play my own tunes in my head hummmmhmmmhmmhmhmhmhmhhhm

7 map
a, only if i need it, usually not
b, if you get lost back track
c, bring a road map? i thought we where on a trail
d, i use gps bitch! haha, shit i think i droped it

8 wallet
a, in the bag
b, in the truck
c, in my back pocket
d, moved to the front pocket

9 sun glasses or eye protection
a, only when it gets muddy
b, all the time
c, i ran over a pair of oakley's, learned my lesson
d, put them in the pack, take them out when we stop for a rest to look cool

10 food
a, money in the pack for when we stop
b, power bar or something like that
c, candycandycandy
d, full lunch

so i hope you can figure out with i bring.... but here is what i bring anyways
i use a northface day pack with a hydratiuon pocket and built in raincover, it has straps to hold my padds on the out side and compression straps to keep it tight. inside i got a 15mm wrench for the axle bolts, and a set of park allen wrenches, two tubes 26x2.10-2.50DH, a masterblaster pump, wallet, cell phone ina deep padded pocket off (just in case i really get hurt) quarters nickles and dimes, cuz i put them in there and never got them out, now they jingle around. and finally a bottle of water or two, i havent cleaned out my hydration bladder and hose, its kinda nasty!

hope that helps
squid on hold

protection, not just condoms anymore!

ok up and at emm people

squid here and im going to talk about "Body Armor"

now this is a new thing for me, this spring i got a new bike, the p2, which is a free ride hard tail mountain bike
i also got a tattoo of a squid on my left shin a while back
sooooo knowing that when i crash the bike that i usually tare up some skin in many places, and the shins are usually the frist to go.

so i got a great idea of getting some mountain biking body armor

WHAT A GOOD BUY!!!!

im a big fan of SIXSIXONE brand aromor, and now im looking to getting more, well difffernt pieces, right now i have the 4x4 knee and shin and the 4x2 elbow and fore arm (which i dont use a lot) i plan on getting a flack jacket some time soon (chest plate, sholder cups, spine guard and kidney belt)

pads (body armor) is a good investment if you are riding downhill or free ride or doing stupid shit while trying urban stuff

pro's
1 you feel that you can do anything and push your self more
2 you leave less skinn when you crah
3 you now ride more of what you want, and less of looking for other shit
4 you look like a bad ass

con's
1 you over heat going long distances (no more xc riding)
2 its more stuff to bring with you
3 it costs some money
4 now nonriders are more terified that you are going to hurt your self

but other than that, if you want to go the extra distance i sujest in getting some armor..... dont worry grunt i think you have some waiting for you when you get home, we goin free riden in the snow!

squid outtttttt