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first time ever poaching and eggs and they were a bit tricky at first. start off with a 6 pack of eggs. three made the cut and two were donated to a egg sandwich for her. they were like awesome lil gooey mozzarella balls. need to grab some pork belly or bacon next time.

poach eggs on a bed of arugula

-pan seared tomatoes with garlic

-arugula with a light vinaigrette

-drizzled some truffle oil and balsamic vinegar over everything

our first brave soldier, mr. tesh

i finally had my total thyroidectomy on aug 23rd. they pulled they sucker out with vengence. some dialog once i woke up

me "how big was it?"

doc "normally, its the size of your thumb. for you, you were hiding a golf and small racquetball up there. how are you feeling? hows the pain?'"

me "actually....really good, just a lil groggy. i can swallow alright and my voice is pretty good. just feels like someone throat punch is all"

doc "thats great to hear! i know you feel awesome and all but you can't push your body to hard."

he gives me that look..."bastard is gonna be running around and not listen to anything i told him." well i listened to him for the most part. but he wanted me to basically sit in a bed for three weeks about and walk around every once in awhile. my energy levels are a total 180 degrees, i'm awake and not always napping. i started biking again and hopefully be running and jogging in a few months.mom and pops decided to come out to my sisters which i was staying at. was kinda nice and then again it was a lil exhausting dealing with them a bit too. 

it was my best friend derek's first father's day. derek and lynda had family and some friends over for a father's day lunch. some good ol' home cooking brought back some great memories. plus i got to play with olive :)

prefect timing to get olive smiling. was super happy to get that shot.

i was lucky enough to be able to go to beaver creek to watch the tough mudder. we ended up showing up a bit later than expected. our friends were closing in on the last obstacle "electro shock therapy". they had wet rope that hooked up to some low voltage, hanging over the mud pit with a hay bail halfway that you had to get over. there were some narly spills.

i'm pretty pissed at my camera that i missed some good shots because the buffer was too small and took forever to write to my memory card. i gotta upgrade to a new body soon. 

finally got a day to myself yesterday!!! also it was a nice sunny day and damn i forgot how long its been since i had a day that i had nothing planned to do. so i decided to finally work on project fixie/single speed. i really think i'm gonna do a single speed. if i do a fixie, i just see my ass not being able to stop and find myself in someone's bumper. 

here's my first initial frame that i gotten from the denver police auction. which i have to say was really fun and i got to play with a auction bid number. i'll admit that i felt like a lil kid and wanted to bid on everything to piss people off. the only bad thing is that it had a one piece american crank and i didn't want to deal with finding the correct bottom bracket conversion kit. 

luckily i found another frame that would fit me on cl for $50 and grabbed that saturday morning. the white paint trek used was really awesome, there was a lil bit of pearl paint in there. i almost kept it like that but the paint was really beaten up.

wasn't totally sure what color scheme i should use. was running around the home depot paint area playing around with all the color swatches to figure out what i wanted to go with. finally settled on the aqua.

i'm very absent minded about things and here's a great example. after striping,  priming and three layers of base i walk inside my apartment for a quick drink and realized its a bit hazy and took my glasses off to clean and realized there's a shit ton of overspray on my new prada glasses. luckily i was able to get it all off with some alcohol. threw my old messed up pair of glasses that i don't care about on and back to painting. 

my lil make shift paint booth (don't worry i had cardboard on the sides too). my whole porch area looks like a old smurf farted blue dust everywhere. hopefully it'll rain more and wash away some of the blue funk.

very happy how it came out. only had one run in the paint and that was only in the clear. i can wet sand it out but i doubt i'll be adventurous enough to do that. i kinda was hoping for a lil more green in the paint but i'm happy with the smurf blue i found.

things i need to make it rideable 

freewheel 

tires

chain

front brake

seat and seat post