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bill

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About Me

good times, bicycles, travel, music,and beer. married just enjoying life for now I guess. Sounds like a good plan to me. GO CUBS GO! Oh yeah I wouldn't mind having a little more cash. Also I have a Laetitia Casta and Jessica Biel addiction

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My Interests

Bicycles, friends, going out, staying in, travel

I'd like to meet:

the 18 year old I used to be, and the old man I will become.

Music:

I'll go in reverse alphabetical order: and I'm sure there's some I'm forgetting. Pete Yorn, XTC, Dar Williams, WILCO!, Widespread Panic, The White Stripes, Violent Femmes, Uncle Tupelo, U2, A Tribe Called Quest, Travelling Wilbury's, Toad the Wet Sprocket, They Might be Giants, The Sundays, Sugar, Joe Strummer, Squeeze, Son Volt, The Smiths, Slobberbone, Frank Sinatra, Silversun Pickups, The Sawdoctors, The Samples, Rusted Root, Rush(guilty pleasure) Rilo Kiley, REM, Radiohead, John Prine, Poison(another gulity pleasure) Poi Dog Pondering, The Pogues, Pixies, Phish, Liz Phair, Pearl Jam, Of Montreal, N.W.A., Midnight Oil, John Melencamp, Material Issue, Bob Marley, Luna, Ben Kweller, Alison Kraus, Leo Kotke, Killers, Jack Johnson, The Jayhawks, The Housemartins, Josh Holmes, David gray, The Grateful Dead, Robbie Fulks, The Freddy Jones Band, Fountains of Wayne, Jay Farrar, The Farm, Fannigan's Isle, John Denver, Dave Matthews Band, The Cure, CCR, Cracker, Coldplay, The Clash, Johnny Cash, The Cardigans, Cake, David Bowie, The Bodeans, Big in Iowa, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Ben Folds, Belly, Barenaked Ladies, This is mostly my old stuff, my band and and artist list grows every day.....

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, I am trying to break your heart, Goodfellas, Raising Arizona, Office Space,The great escape, Old bike races on DVD or Vhs, I do have a guilty pleasure for Blue Crush, I know it's sad, anyhow,this list is so long.........

Television:

The Office, the simpsons, the price is right(not really now since it is post-Barker), sports, especially bike racing,that's really about it.

Books:

Democracy in America, The modern drunkard, Lincoln, Devil in the White City, many many more

Heroes:

not sure if anyone should be considered a hero. I have found one, his name is Jens Voight.

My Blog

summer highlight

Finished my first organized run/race yesterday.  I finished 901st of over 9000 runners.  My time was 1:41:23 or something really close to that. But that puts me into starting corral C for th...
Posted by bill on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:55:00 PST

failure

I stopped.  with 7.6K to go I stopped.  I did not have the mind tell the body to continue on.  I gave in and walked home. Now I sit here hydrated once again, and with a little food in m...
Posted by bill on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:11:00 PST

may already

Hello again everybody, What's up? just killing a little time here.  Cubs don't play until later, so I'm going to get a run in and head out to watch.  Nothing much has changed, softball seaso...
Posted by bill on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:37:00 PST

random musings

Hello all, just Bill again with a mid-winter re-cap. Wow, double hyphens in one sentence, is that so wrong?  Any how it's chilly and snowy here, but not too terrible. Not like Minnesota, or some ...
Posted by bill on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:21:00 PST

January has begun

Hello all,  it's been a while.  I'm using my day off to catch up on some x-files reruns and hopefully some exercise.  It has officially gotten cold here, but we knew it would happen eve...
Posted by bill on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:50:00 PST

late October

Hello monkeys, hell yeah Def Leppard is on vh1 classic as I write this.  What's new with you all?  Not much here, it's getting late in the year, that means darkness and the cold. Boo.  ...
Posted by bill on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:47:00 PST

thursday catch up day

Hello people. what's new. I'm recently back from MN from the Bryan and Julie wedding.  Who would have thought they were the best man and maid of honor in my own and now they're married. weir...
Posted by bill on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:04:00 PST

back to the routine

things are settling in a little bit.  I'm back at work and with everyone gone I seem to be extremely busy, but it makes the day go by quick at least.  I'm still commuting to work by bik...
Posted by bill on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:07:00 PST

Back From Dairy land.

Hey all. I have returned from Wisconsin for a work convention. Overall the trip was a success. I'll get some pictures posted soon.  It was sad to say goodbye to all the seasonal workers as they h...
Posted by bill on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:38:00 PST

ain't no party like a rooftop party

as I get ready for Bryan's bachelor party, no one forget to take a day, let the car sit where it is and ride your bike around. you may get hooked .  other than that not much is new.  I'...
Posted by bill on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:06:00 PST