like Jimi Hendrix walking into a bar where you're having a great time with 19 of your best friends. He is wasted out of his mind, but decides to grab a guitar and get up on the bar and play for everyone, He's a total mess, and not what he normally is. And maybe an hour into this he falls off the bar and passes out
JORBA socks or mtbnj or both?Today
...man I feel good. Coming off a big landslide of riding often takes its toll in the short term but a few days of rest and I am ready to roll. We didn't have too much time today but we did knock out 21 miles in the post-rain mid-rain pre-rain late-afternoon-early-evening time right before dinner. Felt kind of good to get caught in the rain at the end. Solid ride, 14 in a row and 15 rides in that span. I see no real problems with hitting that 31/31 challenge other than potential life obstacles.
Today was slightly better than ordinary but not much. But you know when you feel good, things seem better? D made a pot of udon noodle soup for dinner and it was fantastic.
I ordered like 240 pairs of socks today from the Sock Guy. Got to talking to the dude and it turns out that he's originally from NJ. Also turns out that they are looking to do some road shows so I am going to see if I can connect Sock Guy Road Show with 2021 JORBAfest. More to come.
FIL update, which has been a while because we are now in the slow burn from the start of this to some end point, where "end point" is the steady state of his life after the PT and getting back home. Objectively, he is definitely improving and he is now starting to take steps forward in relearning how to do some things. With a lot of help, he was able to stand today 2 times for very brief periods. He was also able to draw a "0" with his right hand. Still in the hospital but out of ICU for a while now (not sure if I had mentioned that or not). Overall, he is slowly, but absolutely moving forward.
With that, hump day has come & gone.
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JORBA socks or mtbnj or both?
Is there going to be any MTBNJ.com swag not strictly related to the race team at some point? You know, for those who want to support/represent but don't have the competitive spirit in them...MTBNJ socks. Kirt runs the JORBA ship/shop.
Is there going to be any MTBNJ.com swag not strictly related to the race team at some point? You know, for those who want to support/represent but don't have the competitive spirit in them...
T-shirts or jerseys would have been the most obvious thing I suppose. I do remember the discussion about the Team Vs Non Team Peasants, I just thought that given the renewed energy put into the whole JORBA thing on your side (thank you BTW) maybe a MTNBJ by JORBA or JORBA by MTBNJ T-Shirt or even Kot/Jersey could be of interest. Maybe it would just be confusing.We currently have water bottles
Socks will be available for anyone
We stopped doing pint glasses
We do have team shirts just for us. We did discuss having general MTBNJ shirts but I think we would want to use something like CafePress so we can one-off those sales.
What else did you have in mind?
@Norm maybe to differentiate, we could make non-team shirts blue and orange, instead of orange and blue.T-shirts or jerseys would have been the most obvious thing I suppose. I do remember the discussion about the Team Vs Non Team Peasants, I just thought that given the renewed energy put into the whole JORBA thing on your side (thank you BTW) maybe a MTNBJ by JORBA or JORBA by MTBNJ T-Shirt or even Kot/Jersey could be of interest. Maybe it would just be confusing
@Norm maybe to differentiate, we could make non-team shirts blue and orange, instead of orange and blue.