Dead Riding

spine
Originally uploaded by snt16.

Though it would post a pic with this
ok so this is me going over the spine, but thats not the story here

so this morning i got home from work, the day after christmas, and my parents and sister wanted to fo out to breakfast before they went home, so i said yes, even though i was tired, and just wanted sleep, so short round (roomie) was up and she got ready, as she was doing that i replaced the peddals on the ghetto cog and then found that the BB was not up to par, i found after taking it appart i got to replace it , bummer but ok. still this is not the story, so at breakfast i said "well, do you guys want to see the vert park?" and i got a yes,

so on the way home i stopped, let them in and good ooohh's and AAhhh's and then i hopped on the p2 and started to show them what i could do

at this point i am half dead, balance is off and i am super out of it, i could not track stand and could not keep a straight line. good time to park ride.... no i dont think so

but i did, and went over the spine like 3 times, alsmot ditched a couple but in the end i scared my parents and sister so im proud

this pic is kind of old, i was awake when doing it and wearing padds, when i did the spine today, yeah just a helmate and gloves, yeah not a good idea

chat later
booyaa
squid out

Late Night Reading

Hi all squid here
hope your christmas was good
hope the family didnt piss you off too much...

so i was at work christmas eve night and
i am here again chrismtas night

so what am i doing
well now im blogging
what did i do these two nights of work
well it was christmass
so i read some books
played my gameboy
read the three playboys that the other shift left me (which was thoughtfull)
and played around the internet

this is what i learned

-the xbox 360 looks kinda lame
-the ps3 comming out looks kinda good, but has a really ugly look
-the new nintendo revolution looked super different (maybe too different) (im going to get one)
-i like the new ironhorse 7point7 free ride (going to get one)
-i got one surprise at christmass (i just really forgot about the present)
-i think i broke my gameboy
-it is nice to have a roomate back in the house
-november is still afraid of my family but not my friends (smart kitty)
-people dont realize the only reason christmas is is because a guy name JEASUS was born, who cares what he did, but realize it is a religious holiday! (retarted people)
-im still single
-and finally, i really wish i had this holiday off, i would have rather spent my time with my family chewing my ear off, hurassing me to fix things and put christmas gifts together than spend my nights working all tired and annoyed that i didnt get to see anyone again for the second year in a row!

here is something for you
money is not everything
time off is worth more than gold
friends and family are more important than you think

so again
hope you had a good holiday
have a great new year,

squid out

Sigh.... You Beat Me, I give up

Squid here

so it is 0014 on the 25 and i am feeling more christmas'ie
so here ha go for all the people out that in blogger land

The sun is not up yet
but santa is flying over
how do i know
i am one of the few that stays up with him
i dont do it to wait for gifts or to see if he is true
i do it to make power for me and you
so your tree can glow green and blue
your lights will turn on when you get up
to see your friends and family open their gifts

so happy christmas
happy holidays
have a great day
and dont for get to thank
the people that are in the sand box
or that just got back
your local supporters
your engineers
your cops and fire fighters
doctors and nurses
gas pumper and clurks at the mobil
they are working today for you and for me
just to make that when you forgot your milk
you dont need to go with out
and when you need your freedom
to celibrate or not
you still can

Thank you
squid is out

BOOOOYAAAA

A Wonderfull Christmass Pressent

Hi all
just jumped on the web tonight
the eve of christmass

so here is one of the only post that i will write about a sport that does not involve me or grunt, and the people who play get payed tooo much

ok some information to make this story clear

i hate the redsox
i hate the ny yankees
i love the Angles

i hate johny damon
for 3 reasons
one the x bitch liked him
two he played for the red sox
three he now plays for the yankees

so here is my theory
the redsox are a ragtag bunch of players, the club has no money but had a good team, they got lucky

new york can buy anything so they do, when they loose a chance at the series, they buy the players that made it lasy year.... there ya go

johny damon is a sell out, reason 4 i hate him

so he was a long haired hippy, and now new york will not tollerate that, so what do they make him do, cut his fagy ass hair
hahahahahahah fucker
now he looks like a real retard
clean cut, shaven and a sell out
hahahahahaha looser

this is a great christmass present to me
for many reasons
now johny damon can be hated by all newenglaners cuz he is a sell out
i hate him more
i have more respect for the yankees cuz they can mold their players any way they see fit
he lookes more like a looser now than he did with the redsox
and the redsox lost a good player
so they are going to loose again
and again and again and again

so here is to sell outs, that cut thier hair for a bigger pay check

THIS IS WHY I DONT LIKE TEAM SPORTS
they peer presser you in to doing stupid shit

well... grunt and i do that to each other, but we dont get payed a mill a year to do it.


so merry christmass
ride hard
dive deep
climb hi
ski fast
hike far

thank you st nick, i still am going to shoot you when you come down my chimny though, tesspasser

squid out

Bring our own food

Bring our own food
Originally uploaded by snt16.

for $13.30 we got two tubs of the red stuff, 5 nuggets a small cup of fries and a coke, also a piece of paper telling us we got ripped off and that we should bring our own food next time.

Grunt thinks that all the food cost us 3 bucks and the the piece of paper cost us 10.30.... knowing how ski mountains work kinda, i think he is right...
still second time skin, i fell only twice, i think thats kinda good, im hooked, see ya on the slopes

look under the snow

look under the snow
Originally uploaded by snt16.

So Here is what happens when you climb a snow covered bank in St Johsnbury taking a short cut, luckly i did not rip the jeans, but i think the blood is going to stain them.... oh well.... still going ski'en tomorrow.... i still want another tattoo

Still I Hate Christmas

Ok i lied i am going to post befor january

But its is because

BOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

GRUNT IS HOME

i got my biking, diving, climbing, hiking, camping, sking (new) and all around stupid stuff buddy back

FINALLY, i can be my self again, i dont have to worry about finding some one to do things, phone calls abour 15 min in advance are ok again
drinking alot is going to happen
probobly start smoking again (try not to) (and not pot, im a cloves kind of guy)

anyways this is what went down

ring ring
grunt "im home"
Squid "im at work, i will head out when i get out"
Grunt "ok out"
Squid "out"

get gas, 12 pack of long trail, 6 pack of hit the trail

get to grunts house
drink the 12 pack with torso, order pizza
grunt drinks the 6 pack
eat
smoke a cohiba (spelt wrong)

go to bed at torso's house
next day go sking for the first time
Torso the ski instructor teaches me how
takes me to the top of the mountain
said i did good
fell 4 times
SPECTACULAR CRASHES
like sking now
screwed on another sport
came home
went out to eat with cousins
left grunt and wify to have some quality time
went to sisters house and crashed
woke up
went to gun shop
backed in to thier new fence and distroyed it
bout a new 22 pistol to have fun with
cuz thats all it can do, shoot pee's
wouldnt stop a snow flake floading away from me
but its fun to shoot
went shooting
went home
cleaned new gun
went to bed
now at work the next day


TOP HIGHLIGHTS

1 grunt came home
2 did some great crashes
3 i finally have some one who will treat me the way i want to be treated
4 im going to be going climbing, diving and riding and now skiing more
5 i am finally happy again

Christmas still sucks
but i got a gift early i guess, so im happy
Glad your home grunt, see you the 22 proboly the 21 too

Squid out
BOOOOOYAAAAA

The Fucking Holidays

Hi all squid here

yeah no... you know starts with a b....

im more pissed than anything else right now

ok you all know i work swing shift at a power plant
and you proboly know i am working the 23,24,25,26 of december and i am wokring newyears eve and day as well

so yeah i know it sucks and yeah i know its sad and yeah i know i worked it last year too

right now it does not bother me at all! really im ok with it
i will be home alone
or the roomie will be there thats fine
wokring nights, so im going to sleep the day away

what pisses me off is i got a card in the mail today from grandma
and it said
"hope you get to make christmas this year, because you missed it last year"

THANKS GRANDMA, love that gilt trip, and hay, yeah right now, um... i dont want to spend it with all of the "loved ones" who have no time to come visit me, and remeber stuff like my birthday and what i do with my life.

also my parents thought it would be a great idea to come up after spending christmass down with the loved ones, to come up to my place and spend christmas with me at my house

IM WORKING FUCKEN NIGHTS!!!!
when i come home i want to sleep
when i come home i dont want to find people there that want to ask how my day went
how work was
and when i want to open gifts

i just spent 12 hours working on my feet
i want a shower
i want a bed with a cat in it
i want 11 hours of sleep so i can do it again the next night

i dont want to go to breakfast
i dont want questions
i dont want noise when im trying to sleep
i dont want any surprises

I dont decorate at christmas or anyother holiday except for hollween because i cant get into the sprit because i will get depressed about it

so let me enjoy bing screwege!
and just let me be i ask of you all
i dont want pitty
i dont want people
and i really dont want to be bothered

all i want is to be left alone...

and hearing my mother and grandmother cry about it makes me more pissed cus i dont feel bad for them. Truly i use the holidays as an excuse to get drunk, and yes i like it. the more vodka the better i say, and this is the second year i cant do it!

Im single
I live with a cat
5 bikes
scuba gear
and a roomate

SQUID IS FUCKEN OUT TILL JANUARY

Dont slow down

Ok hi all
little booyaa for ya

squid here

so this is what i figured out lately,
once you slow down
and rest, thats when the pain sets in

last night i was riden the park when i missed the top of the ramp and had to ditch
going backwards i landed on my right heal frist from 4 feet
yeah it hurts
and once i went to bed and woke up this mirning
yeah it hurts
so im out
in pain

squid out

Out Casts

Hello all
squid here

its a little too early in the morning here for a booyaa

so im going to reflect on life for a little bit

when growing up
grunt and i where or felt like we where not to fit in, not that we where outcasts or rejects.... but basicaly i say we were different,

i mean different in a goodway, only becuase we turned out to be better than most people we know, and in better i mean we care more about what we do and how we affect or change the people and area around us.

when growing up i felt like i never really fit in, i didnt do the things in highschool that most did, i didnt like team sports or really participate in clubs. I did more mountain biking and scubadiving becuase i could either do these alone or share it with people that cared about the same things i did.

i did how ever participate in the yearbook, which allowed my creativity to flow freely, which was super nice. i really enjoyed that, alone i drew alot, wrote some and worked on things alot, like my bike or stuff like that.

grunt i believe was the same way, he was more of an outdoorsy person than i was and still am, but he could be alone if he wanted to or share when he wanted as well.

we both did try to participate in team sports but in the end we both either got kicked out or decided to quit only becuase we where not the typical "team players"

to win was never the real question, to participate was the major goal, and that is where we were seen to fail, ot atleast that is what i see it as. where we grew up to fail was never good, people praised us for trying but in the end never supported the effort, they just saw us as failing. where i saw it as doing something i liked

that is where rockclimbing, mountain biking and scuba diving come in here, and just being out in the woods.

you never really fail here. ok so you crash, fall, or get tired. so what. you where doing something you like and noone could ever take that away from you, and if some one said so they could never prove it because most of the time the where not there.

for example, some one told me that diving in the sate of maine was pointless, diving year round was crazy but they never took the time to try it. so i asked them, when my friend and i found the wisky bottle 45 feet under the water in the dead of january, one that we could date back to the revolutionary war, that was not worth it. that my friend and i, my sucessor at the school who took up my job when i left. to teach others the joy in the sport and and joy of friend ship after the tough cold swims we took is not worth it? that we depended on each other to keep each other safe and alive and took the risk of never comming back becuase the water we swam in was so cold, the current was so swift that at a moments notice we could have been swept in to the atlantic ocean never to be seen agin. it is not worth it.

I choose to chlaenge my self in different ways than others, to take on challenges that will in the end make me a better person and when relecting on them i can say, i did that and move on.

where grunt and i where brought up, we didnt leave our names in the mud of sports or academic greatness, which is looked down appon, we left out names in the woods and streets of our town where when we go back we see kids doing the same thing we did. riding though the woods and fields we did. taken the unwalked path and making it so people could fallow.

so i ask you, do you know an outcast, some one who keeps kinda to them selves?
some one who does things differently?
why not ask them why they do it
and why not ask them to take you on their next adventure
go to that comic shop
go on that bike ride through the woods thats going to take you 4 to 8 hours
go on that swim in the cold dark place
see what they see
and come back and tell me who the outcast really is
just beacuse we dont openly share our "field goa, and home runs" like a superstar does
doesent mean they are not a spactacular or as great!

squid out

Monkey?... guess so

So according to the internet
if i was an animal i would be a little spyder monkey
well....
um.... ok

so this is how i found it out
go here and take the quiz

http://www.cuteducky.com/cute_animal_quiz.html

i was almost a puppy or a poney, that would have been rich! hua...
me... squid a poney
well atleast i am a monkey
thats cool
hahaha, yeah
i like my 8 legs and 2 strikers
but noone knows that.... do they

ok
yeah im not making sense
so what are you

booyaa
squid out

Boycott The Cat

Ok good after noon everyone

squid here

little booyaa for ya

so here we go, i read comics right!!!!...... right....
and i read alot of comics, cuz they are funny, they have art, they make fun of things, and..... some of the ones i read make me roll on the floor with laughter!

Growing up i loved Garfield, i mean loved as in i devowered every garfial book ever printed, i would read and re read and reread again cover to cover, backwords even.

and i mean it was a GREAT comic till about i feel 8 months ago! I am sore to say and sorry to say

SQUID IS NOW BOYCOTTING THE GARFILED COMIC STRIP

it has gone down the tubes, i dont find it funny anymore, insted of a loving cat that is quick witted but still loving, i find that he has turned in to this little furry ornange ass. i guess thats what happens when you go big time and do a movie! anyways

about a year and half ago i was introduce to Get Fuzzy, which is by far one of more histerical comis i have ever read! i mean i roll every time i read it,

so moving on
read get fuzzy daily
and dont read garield

but actually do what you want, be happy and live life,
im going to boycott garfield untill he turns funny again

but god damn it, get fuzzy make me smile, little does anymore

except my kitten, sarah, november, getting huge air, or doing a great trick or just down hill riden, or diving or climbing.....

but mostly it is.... well lately it is kitten (you know who you are), sarah or november!

my beloved cat november

squid out
booyaa
and all that jaz

You now know my name

hi all
well my friend sent me this e-mail
out of the blue, it was more of a thanks for the christmas gifts i sent her
but here ya go
it has my actal name in it and rather than mess up what she wrote
i will let you see my name

Ode To Bryan- (basically why he is a cool friend)

Ode to the mountain bike guy
Who loves to do crazy tricks all day
Even after the pain hasn't gone away

Ode to the adventurous dude
Who takes steps and trails with ease
And always rides in shorts

Ode to the repair guy
Who makes awesome mono cogs
And loves to mix and match parts

Ode to the engineer guy
Who always has an answer for my odd questions
Who can fix just about anything anywhere

Ode to the good guy
Who always listens when we chat
And has a great story to tell

Ode to the character guy
Who always knows a loser when he sees one!
This line is the best!

So, this is why Bryan is the cool guy and he is awesome.

Okay, I had a moment of poetry! Sorry if it is a bit silly. Thanks for the shoes covers. They are great especially since it poured today on my way to work!

Have a great day.

Sarah


Thanks sarah you are the coolest!!!!!!!
squid out
and here it is for you


BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i like my friends

Called it a night

Hi all squid here

no time for a booyaa

anyways, so yesterday was yet another day for the virt park
the day before was an all nighter, got there at like 500pm and rode till 1115pm it was a great time

yesterday was a bit different!!!!!!

so this is what happened

got a call at 410 from my buddy,
hay go to the park, dan wants his bike too so can you bring it??
yeah thats fine, be there in 10

so i got there and brought his bike that i fixed
started to ride, getten the feel back, but i felt off, just something didnt feel right
so i kept riden and another buddy came
he started riden

then i hit the spine and i got some cheers
i hit it again, got some moer cheers, then i got trip a little hop and you mnight get what you want
so i did and booooooom

i cleared the top and the bottom of the spine, to transition, man i was lucky to have front shocks, but some rear shocks would have helped too

so my legs are the suspension of the rear of my bike and my seat is soooooo low that it is resting on the frame and about an inch or two from the back tire!!! so when i hit i dropped my ass over the tire and pulled in alittle and my inner thy got cought between my seat and my rear tire, Stopping me quick and i was going fast


oooooohhhh how that hurt, so i stopped riden and took a rest


then i gto back in to the groove and went again, next was the wedge crash where i went tooo hi and turned to come back down, but my turn was too steep and the bars went sideways comming down the wall, about 4 to 5 feet of the ground my bike stopped on the wall i luched forward hit the stem with my chest (which now i have a great broose) then i went over the handle bars and landed on the pavement on my back to watch the bike come right after me!!!!!

then i got up and every one said
oooooohhhhh you alright

yep yep yep,,,, oooooohhh that hurts

then my buddy went and transitioned from the spine to the fun box, got too much air, misssed the landing hit, over the handle bars and then face frist on to the pavemnet, he got up howled for a bit stumbled around then flat on his face passed out

we thought he was joaking, it did look that bad of a crash, untill he fell back down
then we went over and he was moven again, and moaning, we sat him up to see a scarped cheek and a bit lip and then he spit up about a table spoon of blood then tried to get up, looken everywhere, he had no clue where he was

we sat him down let him calm down and then he came too
he asked what happened after the cash and then we told him what oyu just read
then he cleaned him self up and went home

that is when i decided it was not the night to keep riden it was just not right
so i went hom S curve to it, it is not 100 % fixed but alot better, took me two hours to retrue it but i dont think i can get it any better cuz it is fucked, so i will ride it till it does it again, buy a new rim and re lace it! i mean it was moven a half an inch one way then the other way, it was bad


well squid out, i will be back at the park tonight to see if i can get the feel back
later squid out
booyaa