I Belong To the ___________ Generation.

I think I've over romanticized the Rotorua winter somewhat, and find myself mildly put out as we charge headlong into our fourth straight day of rain. Rain was s'posed to be a Dorkland phenomena, it was all clear crisp mornings and frost on the brochure. Sigh. Thus far I've avoided riding since Satdee, as A)it's been pouring down and the trails are stoked B) I'm spoilt and can ride here every day if I want C) I'm enjoying hanging out with my family whilst I'm on holiday D) I don't want to have to shell out more coin for some new pads if I can help it..yet.

Rarely do I have time to potter around, and this morning has been one of those rare occasions. As we only moved here 8 months ago, I find myself still tidying away stuff, music mostly. I was charged with clearing a big bag of CDs into the garage this morning, and to my wife's imminent disgust (she doesn't know yet) I've returned with AN EVEN BIGGER BAG of gems that I haven't played in years.. amongst them, but not exclusively early TVOTR, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Antibalas, Pavement et al.. My Itunes library aint gonna know what hit it. Turns out that I also had a massive stash of spare tubes of the tiny wheel variety. I've heard they'll stretch.

I've also been thinking about my riding this year. I'm still stoked on Saturday and have been thinking about my deliberately parochial/regionalistic(is that a word) approach to events thus far i.e. I've stuck around home and gorged myself on the events put on by the Nduro crowd. I've done four out of the six events on offer this year (missed the first summer cup round due to a christening and the 24hr due to disorganization + it was the week before the highlander). So far that's equaled all the races I did in 2008. I've got the Winter Series coming up leading up to the Whaka100 in October. 2010 has got me thinking about 12 hour solo's and possibly some races across the ditch. But who knows.
The Old Man is coming down over the weekend, so a good time will be had there for sure.

Richard Hell. There would be no Pretty Vacant without The Blank Generation




Aaand, without that carry on, you could make the rational assumption (the mother of all fuck ups?) that this would not have happened in the way that it did...



Then there would be nothing like this...



Then what would I do?????