Meet my two best friends..

Cynicism and Negativity

Make sure and use them for evil not good, ya hear?!

2-frickin-am and I have litres of snot to spare for anyone with a bucket. The tissues aren’t holding up well to the onslaught so I’ve moved on to firing snot rockets into the sink! Poor hatchback (who was keeping me warm by sleeping on the bed) think it’s brekkie time and gets up to see what all the noise is. “Just early morning hippy draining” I tell him.

This roadside “fountain” greeted me on the way home tonight:

Hatchy tells me to piss off while he looks at ‘kitty’ porn..

It’s been a while… but my blog is back up and running after a server change and some permissions issues.

Meet Hatchback the cat:

Steve and Chris have been taking care of this stray for some time now. He is super friendly and appears to have come from a domestic-cat situation before being strayed. Formerly known as Panther, Black Cat or Half-Tail, I named him “Hatchback” due to half his tail being cut off at some stage. Just like a hatchback car, he has a shorter rear end!

The official Powerball website:

www.powerballs.com

Our office scoreboard:

OWA Powerball Scores

Initially I thought the Powerball gyroscope was the silliest toy I’d seen a grown man purchase in a long time. I was wrong.

It’s THE most addictive thing our office has seen!

Start it with the string (most of us can start it with a thumb flick now) and then rotate the ball-gyro at the correct speed and “circle size” with the emphasis on using your wrist, rather than your arm. The idea is to get it going as fast as possible. An LED counter on the side tells you the fastest RPM for a “go” and can also give a figure for the power/endurance over a 30 second period of frenzied spinning.

Don’t ask me why – there’s no good reason. For me, attempting to move to a Vegan diet is silly. It’s silly because I don’t have the knowledge, time nor patience to stick with it and correctly execute it.

The best reasons I can come up with for even trying it are:

– boredom

– wanting to challege my own ‘will power’

– watching “Super Size Me”

– reading “Endless Summer”, Sean Grady’s vegan-fueled singlespeed tour across the United States

So it’s been a week now and I feel… weak 😛

But I haven’t given up like I thought I would. I can’t believe I haven’t eaten chocolate in a week!! Previously that would have been unheard of for me.

I think I will try and stick with it for a while longer and do my best to improve my diet while I’m at it.

This little experiment may not last but hopefully I’ll come out of it with a better understanding of my own nutrient requirements (and hopefully not an excessive lack of iron!).

Without all the sugars and meats I ate previously my riding feels slower. It’s taken the edge off a little bit and I run out of steam quicker but I can still fend off a few roadies whilst out on the singlespeed! 😉