Not so nice

Well I messed with mother nature and mother nature won...this time. I spent the weekend tuning up my road bike in hopes I could finally get out of cold storage and ride to work this week. Well thankfully I decided monday was not the day for it. Then mother nature decided to drop a little march snow on us. So now the road bike is back in storage for a little longer. Mother nature 1 Me 5. Im winning because I biked multiple times this winter in weather well well below zero.

During the cleaning process I found a huge compression dent in the frame of my road bike. I guess one to many wipe outs on it. I have had it for about 10 years. Thats not so bad. So looks like this will be the year to turn it into a single speed and upgrade my frame.

Nice

I know it was only like 43 out today but it felt great. Somehow it seems as if I got to work so much faster on my slow ass mountain bike.

I have a business trip to Honolulu in a little over a week. Let see with HPD I traveled to the middle of nowhere. With GE I travel to Honolulu. Score one for GE. One thing I find never endingly amusing is that people at work telling me all about travelling and where I should sit and how I should do it. Or better yet how much it is going to suck to fly to Hawaii for 4 days. My categorical response to everything...in my head of course.. is that they have no idea what suck is or means. They all know I used to travel like crazy as a service engineer so I just find it amusing.

OK!

Alright so a I had a bit of a hiatus. I was totally swamped with work and child rearing that I just didn't feel like typing anything here. All is well here. Isaac still doesn't sleep. He did however on Saturday decide he would sleep 8 consecutive hours. Which is well beyond what he has ever done. It was great except for the constant worry that somehow he had suffocated himself in an empty crib with 2 nooks. Though to make sure Kari and I didn't get to excited about that Isaac decided to wake up at 1:30 this morning and stay awake for about 3 hours. I guess the point I am trying to make is Isaac doesn't sleep much and whenever we think we get hand he pulls something like this to show that he really is the one who has hand....

One interesting story while I was away is one morning at about 6am someone tried to steal my car. It was a freezing cold morning..something like 10 below. I decided I would go start the car while I got ready for work. For some strange reason I was munching on a wasa cracker while staring out the front window. I noticed a pickup truck stop right next to my car. This obviously got my suspicion up slightly as why would someone be stopping next to my car at 6am. I then saw the break lights on my car light up as in someone is stepping on my brakes. I then bolt to the door and yell "Don't even think about it!" Why I yell this as opposed to the million other things I could have yelled is beyond me. I guess it is all I could think about at 6 am. The person then jumps out of my car and starts running down my street. One may ask why wouldn't you just drive away with my car. I mean he is in it at this point. I would like to think that my STERN warning scared them away but my guess is that in this day and age is that he didn't know how to drive stick. Stick pays off again...anti theft...and better gas milage! I think he was about 15 maybe 16 at the most. He was running to his waiting buddy at the end of the street. At this point I have a decision to make. Take of running across my yard and into my street in my bare feet when its 10 below. Or just stand there and watch him run. I hesitated and then hesitated more and decided I wasn't going to run after him. Though I would have caught him easy I am not sure I wanted to catch him for fear of what would happen if I did. I then went out to my car at about the same time the kid got to his buddy waiting pickup truck at the corner. I then proceed to chase them down 13th avenue at much higher then safe speeds. I chased them all the way to Powderhorn never really getting close enough to get a plate number. We turned on 35th at which point I decided the chase was no longer worth it, because of the speeds we were traveling at. So that is my big story while away.

Awww...Isaac on his first date...Some drool..some cross eyes...Good times had by all=)

Isaac pictures

Ok I know I have been remiss but this will make up for it I promise... Check out some pics of Isaac here http://picasaweb.google.com/nussmier/Isaac

Soccer anyone?

So I was reading a little over at Tsjaz and it reminded me of something I wanted to write about. I know everyone wants to hear more about this so lets talk about US womens soccer. The back story is that there is a goalie named Solo who was the starting goalie for the entire world cup and many of the games leading up to the world cup. She gets benched for the semi final game and the US team goes on to loose. This wouldnt be a story if (1) the US didnt have one of its worst loses in team history and (2) she didnt bitch about being benched. Something doesnt make sense. Specially when it happened a bunch of X players came out and called for the coach to quit. I mean think of it in terms of football. Ok you team has won 17 games in a row and is in the confernce finals. And the coach benches Peyton Manning and puts in Travrius Jackson because he belives Jackson is quicker then Peyton. I'd be pissed if I was Peyton. So why shouldnt she be pissed? I had to write about this because it hits close to home. My buddy Ed was an amazing goalie. He played what amounts to semi-pro soccer and had some amazing goals against record. He was player of the year for like 2 years in a row. Though everytime this pro goalie came to play for the team who was the same nationality as most players on the team Ed would ride the pine. One would think thats fine the other goalie was a pro. The problem is that the team lost way more with the "pro" goalie then they ever did with Ed. To this date he is still one of the best if not the best outdoor soccer goalie I have ever seen play and he didnt even start our freshman year of college? Why you might ask? Politics I will answer. It was a joke. He was way way better then the other goalie. The problem is we were all good players and didnt bitch about it and tell the coach and everyone else who would listen that it was a joke. We didnt want to hurt the other players feelings and because of it we were a worse team. Political crap like this is why soccer will never ever be big in the US....Well that and the fact its boring as hell to watch. Play soccer = fun.. Watch soccer = full frontal lobotomy.

J B-day

Before the birthday celebration we went to Fujiya for some sushi. I was craving sushi like a supermodel craves heroine. It was really really yummy. Koogs then went home and me, Scott and Marg went to Gasthoff's J's bday. It was octoberfest and really busy outside. After a while we found everyone inside and to my suprise it wasnt that crazy inside. We had a couple boots of beer which was fun. A crazy german guy played happy birthyday song to J that went something like this....Jason, Jason he's so hot. He wants to be an Astronaut. Repeated again and again and again. I found it amusing every time.

Played some soccer on Saturday which was nice. The days of outdoor soccer for the year are coming to an end so I must enjoy every chance I get.

Isaac is doing good. He had a doctors appointment and he is up to 9 lbs 4 oz. 1 lb 10 oz in the last 2 weeks. He is a chow hound just like dad... He actually is starting to show signs of having baby fat. One of these days Ill post some more pics. Just haven't been properly motivated yet.