Empathy

Empathy is a big word right now, made popular again by the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. Personally, I feel empathy for her for having to put up with infantile questioning from our idiotic members of congress. Oops- that's actually sorrow I feel for her.
It's really too bad, but for a while now, I've felt I cannot discuss the goings on in the shop for fear someone will recognize their bad behavior on this blog and I'll be in big trouble. Then I ran across this craigslist entry, and felt that recently rediscovered feeling. So I'm going to suggest going here to see someone elses' experiences. I can't belive that nearly all of these things happen to me, too.
Wait, yes I can.
P.S. I can't condone craigslist for anything but humor. Buying a bike off craigslist is not recommended. I could tell you why, but it would be more fun for you to figure it out yourself. And by fun, I mean a giant clusterfuck. Oh, sure you could get lucky and get a great bike for a low low price, but it's highly unlikely. As in winning the lottery unlikey. Which by the way, is a complete and total waste of your time. If you're not smart enough to figure that out, I really wish that you'd at least stop wasting my time, when you're standing in front of me in the gas station, and all I want to do is pay for my Gatorade so I can get back to my ride, but you just have to keep checking your numbers and making sure you played all the newest scratch- off games just in case you had a few dollars left in your pocket that the government hadn't gotten ahold of yet. Oh, yeah, and don't forget your pack of cigarettes- wouldn't want you living long enough to actually wise up and realize you're never going to win.

In other news...

Can't the Tour afford security? Or is that actually what they hired Le Badger for? Always funny to see someone take their job so seriously. He's getting good at it, too.

Nobody makes a better tire

I've had these on order for a few months now, but Vittoria was out of them. Straight from Thiland, 320 TPI of supple goodness. They even smell wonderful. And they have the new replaceable valve system, so I guess I'll be ordering some longer valves soon, too. (Why would you want to use extenders when you could just install the correct length valve?)

On the other hand: What the hell do I need these for? At this point, I'll be lucky to get a road race in at all this season.