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Wow! Sherman Alexie as poet...I never knew!

Evolution

Buffalo Bill opens a pawn shop on the reservation

right across the border from the liquor store
and he stays open 24 hours a day,7 days a week

and the Indians come running in with jewelry
television set, a VCR, a full-length beaded buckskin outfit
it took Inez Muse 12 years to finish. Buffalo Bill

takes everything the Indians have to offer, keeps it
all catalogues and filed in a storage room. The Indians
pawn their hands, saving the thumbs for last, they pawn

their skeletons, falling endlessly from the skin
and when the last Indian has pawned everything
but his heart, Buffalo Bill takes that for twenty bucks

closes up the pawn shop, paints a new sign over the old
calls his venture THE MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES
charges the Indians five bucks a head to enter.

so where have i been?

so i got a new bike and have not stopping spinning the wheels....i love it....i hit 1000 on my mountain bike weeks ago and have put close to 200 hundred on the new bike. i did my longest ride on saturday (29 miles), which included a mile or so climbing up highway 39 ( a mirror of angeles crest). I absolutely love climbing the hills. so i go about 6 miles an hour, but i'm getting stronger and can climb for longer stretches now. toby just decided he better start riding and so he wanted to ride yesterday and we did 21 miles together. be sure to ask him about the energy goo he drank. i got left in the dust...and i did just ride 29 miles the day before, but i'm not whining or offering excuses...he did great. he's actually riding home from work now...

the white buffalo show with cyrus and crew in tustin

before i forget

i was just napping and had this dream...

............i was at a hotel/slash super market and george hincapie (riding in team columbia in de france) walks in in his race gear. i drag toby over to get a picture...george tries to evade me, but agrees. tobys camera won't work and give him mine (haha...his iphone is newer!) george tries to run again with the delay but i explain how tired i am from all the riding i have been doing (90+) miles this week....he poses and gives me some advice for my legs (which i can't remember of course). then toby disappears as i try to tweet about the experience and send george a thank you tweet. i notice toby down the shoe aisle trying  to hide from me by taking his bright yellow shirt off (white under shirt on). i make my way to the front and can't find an easy exit and knock over a book shelf breaking out a back piece. i right the shelf and try to tell the girls selling ice cream near my accident. they were scooping flavors out of the from buckets and dragging them through this minty chocolate waterfall contrapion and putting them into flower shaped bowls. they give me dirty looks knowing my crime and i say hey i broke the shelf, sorry and walk out. toby is there and i tell him i know about the shoes (in real life i just bought new shorts and a shirt). he says, well the car won't start and that he broke some cable trying to fix it. i say, how are we going to get home! we have an 18 hour drive back to california! then the rain told me we were in portland....somehow we made it home, i handed toby three sweaters i bought him for the christmas photo and he picked a red on and poof, some how our bad luck of portland disappeared because he chose the right sweater, the trip never happened and the camera flashed and we posed for the most perfect picture...we had two kids...

whoa! never eat a chicken teriyaki bowl and take a nap after reading the internet news....lesson learned!

look who turned up at LAX!!!!

fun with justin!!!

  so the riot gear is what brad pitt wore in ocean's 11!!! how cool is that!!!!

the next shot is me reporting from the hot zone, i guess and i needed rambo bullets...

845

well, i just completed a 16 mile bile ride. it felt great! my neighbor called around 9:30 and asked if i'd mind changing our afternoon plans to riding earlier...yes, i'd love to ride in the 85 degree weather rather than the expected 94 degrees of the afternoon!

yesterday i got new hybrid tires put on my wheels. i am mountain biking with road bikers and have been fighting my tires for a few weeks now. for about 35 bucks i switched tires, kept the same wheels and even tubes. the tires have about 80% smooth surface and 20% knobby side walls for occasional dirt. i picked up about 3 miles an hour on them. sadly, the big hills are still torture, but i am getting very strong and know that when i get my road bike, i will be in great shape. i plan to start shopping this week...but i have to reach 1000 miles before making the switch. i've never set a personal goal like this and having a group of riders waiting for me at the top of a hill every saturday has been super motivation. (although I can put up a good fight on the down hill....top speed for them one saturday was 24.something and i had 23.6!!!)

my new reads

These are the three books I am reading currently:

1. Frommer's Costa Rica 2009:
    this winter toby and i are planning to spend a couple weeks in costa rica. some other family members will be joining us. the book is filled with great advice on where to stay and things to do. our plans: nothing!!! we want to go and live in the water and on the sand. I do want to see some macaws and maybe check out the active volcano, but other than that, no touristy bustle for us!!!!

2. Inverted World by Christopher Priest:
    i loved the prestige both book and movie, and saw this book written in the 70's by priest. it is an alternate future novel and so far i am intrigued by the beginning. apparently the city of earth runs on tracks that most people know nothing about, except the members of the guild, and the protagonist who has just become an apprentice shows the reader the world as he discovers it.

3. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan:
    i saw this book in jamba juice and loved the first few pages. it traces the origins of our current food chain and tries to grapple with the nightly question of what should we eat for dinner. fun fact: corned beef is called that because early settlers called all grains corn, even salt. another concept the author explores is the reason why americans are the most health conscious on the planet, yet the most obese...i haven't read the answer yet, but i'll post a final review

San Diego!!!

Toby and I and my dinner. Amazing wedding at balboa park in SD