Grublist Blog - Snowboarding

MC meets NYC

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:59:21 -0600

So i just checked into my hotel in NYC. cozy. Sitting in the SLC airport i got a call from Jules saying that dave was in a wreck on his board today at Park City and broke both his legs. don't have a complete story yet, but he called during my cabride to tell me he's alive. I'm really happy he wasn't hurt irrepairably.

Crystal and Brooke are prolly living it up in Vegas. Should be fun. wish i was with em.

we'll see what the big apple has in store for me.

turns and a nap

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:15:29 -0600

went and shot a bunch of footage with billy yesterday. was a lot of fun. managed to get some good pow turns in.

Went to Costco and scored a memory foam matress cover. absolutely the coolest godamn thing ever. soooooo comfy. coolest thing ever, and i have to say you should go out right now and get one. go. now.

random short update

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:24:24 -0600

so it's been quite a while, here's some of the stuff happenin in the world

-WTC went off smashingly
-loafing a lot
-Matt bought a 91 cbr 600
-finished the s3 conversion on the bike. it rides awesome
-massive root canal

there's a bunch more, but i don't really have the time or attention span to jot it all down

hardboots n sportbikes in 1 day

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:35:09 -0600

So i went got some turns in with Dave T at park city. Ran into Mark Gable and rode with him for a bit. Then i blasted home, got crystal and went down to Provo to meet up with Dave P for lunch. We went to this chinese buffet thing in provo. 6 bux for all you can eat chinese with sushi and some mongolian. It was way fun.

Went to Altiris to pick up my first paycheck. 1 day's pay. it's more than i made at PF Chang's for 2 weeks (not counting tips). Took me forever to get upstairs to find Claudette since i needed a visitor's pass.

Fri nite i went and picked up new handlebars for the triumph, and grip warmers. Went down to dave P's and started putting the new DS3 (daytona speed triple) together, but ran into a snag with the brake lines. Luckily dave had replaced the front brake lines on his s3 and had his originals lying around so he hooked me up. He traded me a brake lever bracket as well so i could mount my remote resivour for my front brake. He whipped me up a custom bracket for the resivour as well

It came out pretty damn amazing. it still needs a pixie hat and some other little tweaks, but it really is a blast to ride. i'm thinkin im going to either lower the forks in the yolks or replace the springs with the stock ones to get a better feeling.

Went for the "superbowl" ride on saturday... with a small detour. Eric, Scott and Scott's buddy Danny showed up at dave's. Scott had some bad gas from Maverick. He took his tank apart to drain it and broke a fuel fitting. Eric being the total stud that he is, he went to Auto Zone and found a compressor fitting and made a fuel fitting out of it with some cutting, some o rings and a lot of tallent.

The ride was nice, but cold. Eric got pulled over for excessive swerving, but no ticket i wish i had those grip warmers installed and maybe an electric vest, but that will be done soon enough. Just as soon as i get back from Detroit.

Big crew @ PCMR

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:28:48 -0600

So it was New Years last nite... i worked take out with becky, made crappy money but didn't work very hard. Was there at midnite with Crystal sittin at a table eating. Went to crystals, had 1 drink, drove Lindsey and Brendan home so they didn't have to walk.

Got up way too early this morning with crystal and went to PCMR with Matt, Mindy, Tate, Chris, Michelle, Sarah and her bf Scott, and Mark G. an awesome time was had, tho we had to leave early and i manged to drop my first peace of gear off a chairlift. sigh least i got it back

work tonite was weak. I managed to get my birthday off tho, gonna try to put together a wendover nite. Hope it works out.

crystal @ pcmr

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:13:31 -0600

so crystal and i went up to PCMR today for her first day there ever. we met chris, michelle, jessie, sarah and mark. mark managed to lock the keys in the van, $35 to get em out. I rode the new LSD by Rad-Air on my new bindings... both of which ROCK!!

Crystal had fun, but she was cold. i had to sacrafice my hat to the gods and make it into a gator for her. We bounced kinda early cuz i gotta work tonite, then pack for CLE and DTW. I got my DTW itin today... they spend ~600 bux to fly me up there for a third interview, and rented me a damn car! I really hope that means they like me. If i fuck this up i'm gonna be miserable for a while.

Now to finish packing/cleaning and go to work, then to CLE.

parkcity meets baywatch

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:05:42 -0600

so i went up to PCMR for my first day on plates today... and ran into david hastlehoff. weird, huh? he skis badly

i replaced dave's wifi router with a working one today, ran some errands and got my traffic school out of the way. It wasn't so bad.

i'm stoked to have all the boards and boots on the site. it's really pickin up speed now. this will be the season to see where we're going.

big day

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:58:28 -0600

so i got to PCMR super early with dave today and shot a bunch of pics... catek, deeluxe, f2, rad air. it was nice. Grabbed the co2 for the keg for the chang xmas party tonite. the fat tire is in route from wyoming. i'm stoked.

tonite should be pretty outrageous. we shall soon see

now to upload all the pics from the photo shoot and get them in the cart.

Deeluxe 05 / F2

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:43:45 -0600

so i have a closet full of f2 boards and some deeluxe boots for the 05 season, as well as some closeout rad-air's. Seeing all this gear makes me really nervous for our future @ hardbooter, but it also makes me excited, because i know when we sell out of this stuff we should be in the black

we're going up sunday to shoot pictures of everything and put it all on the site. it should be pretty bangin.

PCMR hookups

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:30:00 -0600

Snowboard season is in full swing. we've got td2/catek, the f2's and deeluxe are on the way.... dave got us 299 industry passes at PCMR, and i got some new burton bindings

so other than the couple of days at the bird, there aren't any expenses for my season. boots, bindings, pass... i'm ready to rawk... esp once i hear about wise.

dave and i are really picking up steam now, and i don't think it'll be long before we're out of everything we ordered.

overreact

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:25:42 -0600

So i'm in cleveland, and i've been camped out at the hospital. Every day i go in, grandma looks better than the day before. they're planning on sending her home tuesday, so i'm happy to hear that.

We went to this awards ceremony last nite to honor grandma and yolanda craciun for the Detroit Shoreway. Good food, nice ceremony. Too bad she couldn't accept the award herself.

After that we went to the ParkView and i got totally loaded. ended up throwing up all over madelyn's lawn after we got home. kwality.

At the hospital today grandma needed a moment to herself to use her bathroom (bedpan) so i walked down to the visitors waiting room and made a call to Jeff @ Catek. I've been fearing this conversation for weeks now, since it will decide how (if at all) we do business with catek from now on.

He explained his affiliate program to me, and then i asked about alternatives such as direct purchasing or drop shipping. I think it went very well and we'll hopefully soon be catek distributors. All this big fuss and the guy is pretty much in the palm of my hand. I walked him thru all the conclusions about distributing (price ceiling, no mention of the word "sale", etc) and he came away thinking it was going to work out great. I really hope we get to sell Catek's on the site, they're my favorites

But now it's 2am in cleveland, so im gonna take a nap and go to the hospital again tomorrow and hang out with Mary.

05 snow season starts

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:35:39 -0600

so i went to snowbird with matt, dale and crystal yesterday. had a damn great time. crystal loves her new board, and she rides pretty well for as new as she is. A lil molding and she'll be stomping this season.

Matt and i had made a bet to switch gear at the TGR film, and we did just that. I put his ski boots on and he took my snowboard boots... and off we went to the tram deck. Needless to say, since matt is a god at everything... he whooped my lame ass. Ski's are humbling, but i hold to the fact that a pair of 192's weren't really a fair trade

damn fun day. I'm now really ready for the season to start. Viva la snow!

matt's new car stereo

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:39:09 -0600

just finished putting matt's new stereo in his acura. jesus christ it took like 8 hours. but he's got some badass component speakers in his doors, 6x9's in his rear deck, a bitchin receiver and a pretty custom install. Worth the work for sure.

Dale's in tomorrow... should be a good weekend of drinking and maybe some skiing if i can afford it

mr gabel got me hooked up on some burton bindings, i'm stoked. tho chris took so long to decide on a fucking sweatshirt that i got the semi weak color instead of the pimp black/grey. whatever, they're still less than half the price in the stores

tickets, snowboards and randomness

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:06:54 -0500

so i went yesterday and talked to the proscecutor about my ticket. Plea in Abaeyance is the bomb. i pay my ticket slowly, stay out of trouble, and my insurance company will never know i was busted. yay.

so i went to REI to poke around after mediation and found a Burton Clash 153 for $160. I called Crystal and she came to check it out. She says it doesn't match her gear, and she wants a K2. I promise to dump her if she buys a K2.

Then we went to Salty Peaks (she almost bought a 04 shawn white), Milo's, and Garts. Garts had the K2 she liked, so we checked it out. I thought it was a bit stiff and goofy lookin, but had the same specs as the Clash... and the clashes they had there were like $250. So back we go to REI.

She bought the Clash @ REI, then got a Burton jacket at a screamin deal. A quick jaunt home to make sure her ride bindings would fit on that board and then i was off for home.

When i got home, i realized i was missin a serious chunk of cash. I called Garts Sports and believe it or not, they actually FOUND my cash and HELD it for me! Score one for honest mormons or something.

So i went to Garts today and grabbed my $$$$ between shifts at the chang and dropped off some chicken lettuce wraps as a thank you. Then to Terry's to grab his .45 ACP and his .32 so we could go to the range tomorrow, and then back to work for my first expo shift.

Expo was fun. Weird and short, but fun I look forward to doing it on Fri nites for like 6 hrs. Dave trained his first nite on takeout tonite, i think he did pretty well.

Went out with the canyonchasers after work after a stop at home to pull the nose cap off my bike and see it's true naked beauty. Was supposed to meet crystal but her bro has some sort of infection and needed a hospital run. As of this moment she's still there dealin with it, so i hope all is well.

Now to sort mp3's and go to bed

Toledo Sucks

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:07:03 -0600

So chris has been here the last couple days. We had a damn good time riding @ PCMR. Got his website going and vegged in the hottub tonite.

Went out with Brooke, Anna, Golnush and the rest of the crew the other nite.... to the Drink on Pierpont Ave. Had a damn great time. Wish it happened more often.

Still no word on a job. Another call to the Chang today, supposed to call tomorrow. sigh why is this so hard? it's a fucking grunt job. I seem to have to interviews inversely proportional to the quality of the job. Win2k rollout in SF, phone interview for 10 min. Grunt job @ qwest or PF Chang's, multiple interviews, bullshit, hoops to jump thru.