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We went to the Allegan County Fair yesterday. It was just as I remembered it as a kid. Same sketchy rides, same freakshow people, same bad food.
Noah had a good time though...
He likes him some motorcycles.
One other thing I remember about going to the fair as a kid is suffering miserably from hayfever while there. Hayfever is awesome. Every year, for my entire life, around the middle of August, hayfever hits me like a truck. Lots of people suffer from allergies so I'm not singin' "Poor, poor, pitiful me", but it still sucks. Medication is available, of course, and without it I can barely function. Unfortunately, Ol' Isaac Newton's "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" laws come into effect. There is no up with no down. I've tried everything over the years but this year I'm on Allegra. It works pretty well, but of course has side-effects. One of which is "weakness". Weakness! I've decided it's really a feeling of weakness. I feel weak, but I'm really not if I hunker down and power through. Most importantly, it doesn't cause irritability or irrational behavior, like Claritin-D or other Pseudo-ephidrine meds. Not to mention the hoops you have to jump through just to buy the stuff because of its use in the production of meth-amphetamines.
Another thing that is awesome about this is that I have to have my father-in-law get the medication for me. Because of my great insurance that I pay through the nose for, even a simple prescription costs me full price. Ridiculous. Hooray for healthcare!
Uh, yeah. Bikes or something. I mention these "trails" that I've been working on and it probably seems like I'm just talking about it, but I've been getting some work done.
This is the first set. I've been jumping these for awhile, but I've built them up a bit and added a lot to the berm. They're small, but keep in mind these are on rough, virgin ground. The run-ways are the biggest obstacle.This is the "over/under". I jumped the under part for the first time this weekend. Still on the freeride bike. The jumps are fairly smooth, but the run-up is too rough for the twenty. If we keep getting consistent rain, I'll be able to get it all dialed, I hope.
I wasn't too happy with how my bike looked and I changed it up a little, so I put some effort into a real deal paint job.
Again, it took a couple attempts to get it right. All brown was too blah and all purple was too...uh, purple. I like the contrast of masculine and feminine, earth-tones and art-tones and the 70's metal-flake. I like how it came out. I rode without brakes a couple times last week and it was good. I thought about keeping them off, but I'm going on the road this week and no-brakes on unfamiliar turf is sketchy.
I've been listening to This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb for a couple years, but I'm almost obsessed with them of late. I think it was the Props Rock and Roll video that drove them home for me. They seem like cool people and I really dig their folky/punky styles. I listen to them constantly and even sing their songs to baby Dylan. Lullabies him right to sleep. Maybe not. Don't look for them on Itunes though, they are apparently too punk for that. Ironically, I was able to secure three CDs of theirs via the internet and using Paypal to purchase them. Too punk. As with most bands I love, others seem to really love or hate them. I was playing TBIAPB in the car and my wife said "What is this? It sounds like a church camp jamboree". It made me laugh because it was true.
Pictures of jumps and pictures of bikes, but none in use together. Kind of a theme around here, isn't it?
Updated: Monday, 10 September 2007 11:51 AM EDT
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