Coming Out of Hibernation

We’re long overdue for a Bobo-Update around here. The winter months cause hibernation reflexes and both of us tend to get quiet and hunker down. Of course, it’s all relative, and with 13 bikes in the house you can bet that we didn’t get too carried away with much of an off-season.

Besides the whole Crazy Cyclist thing, there have been a lot of other stuff that’s news and noteworthy.

This post is screaming for a list so I’m going to give in. In exchange, I promise pictures at the end.

20 Degree Outdoor Movie Theater: Welcome to Swift-Style Celebrations

Sal and I scored another technology triumph last night, when we successfully set up an outdoor movie theater on my parents property in the mountains.

After a brief panic relating to the scarcity of extension cords and outlets, we were able to hook up our projector, DVD player, and portable iPod speakers (which we’d brought from home) to pull off the home entertainment achievement of the year.

Projected onto a king-sized flat sheet, Billy Elliot looked positively impressive as he danced his way into our collective hearts as he has before so many times.

Nevermind that it was 20 degrees outside. We huddled together around a roaring campfire wrapped in hats, scarves, jackets, and blankets. We sipped warm holiday beverages, roasted marshmallows, and watched as our wee home projector lit up the surrounding forest.

We may be crazy, but at least we’re having fun!

A Christmas Miracle

What’s it take to light up Sal’s mom on Christmas morning? Combine a little Skype, a little luck, a little MacBook Pro, a couple techie kids, and a cousin halfway across the world with a new webcam.

Bam.

A Christmas video-conference with much-missed family back in the old country.

It was truly amazing…

Ho ho ho! Merrrrrry Christmas!

It’s almost here – hurray!  hurray!

 

 

 

T-Minus 11 days ’til Christmas.

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Yay! It’s Winter.

I love winter.  No… I really love winter!

I love the cold, and the gray, and the rain, and the snow… and all the required bundling.  I can finally say this with confidence and happiness. This is who I am!  This is how it is!

Cyclocross is over.  And while we mourn its passing, we are getting a much-needed break from the long Sundays spent setting up, preparing, racing, taking down, and cleaning.  I upgraded from beginner to B category for my last race and totally killed it.  It was at the United States Grand Prix race (a national level event) which occurred on the Sunday of the “Storm of the Decade”

It was epic.  The full race report is here.

We put up Christmas lights three weeks before Thanksgiving, but we are still managing to lag on getting the cards out (we hope you’ll think they’re worth the wait!). 

Bring it On. (Phlog.)

The same thing happens every year.

The summer wears on and our social calendar whips into a veritable frenzy. Every weekend is booked with traveling, tournaments, or races. And now, there’s the whole Heidi-shooting-weddings thing to contend with.

And, um, that pesky business I went and started.

What I’m trying to say is that we’re charging full steam ahead and kicking August’s ass so hard it doesn’t even know what hit it.

If pictures are worth a thousand words then I’m about to bust out a 6,000 word manifesto on what’s what with recent rumblings:

The work studio is finally ours! We picked up the keys today. It was shiny and empty. We’re moving in this week.