Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ultra light weight backpacking gear

So, I have something of an obsession with ultra light weight gear. The obsession began with my quest to crush the Tour Divide (still ongoing by the way!).

Here are a few links for some light weigh deliciousness.

Custom ultra light gear. Suluk46.com

Ultra light sleeping gear. Enlightenedequipment.com

Online forum. Backpackinglight.com

I just had a thought that some of you might find it interesting.....

Other than that, I studied for 10 hours today. I'm going to eat some sustenance and hit the hay.

Monday, October 15, 2012

It's been over a year!

I love what I'm doing's first anniversary has officially come and gone.

And now, I will give a pictorial explanation of why I don't blog everyday like I should.


Thursday, October 4, 2012

I love what I'm doing day #362

The post birthday deluge...

Yesterday was interesting. I usually get a bit sick a few weeks post flu shot, nothing bad but I'll sniffle for a few days and move on.

Not this year.

I got full on dripping from my nose, hoover dam, sinus drainage going on. Double doses of dayquil(registered trade mark!) weren't even cutting it. I think the major cliff in my precipitous descent into a full on medical emergency took place in the days leading up to the last exam. You know, stress, no sleep, more stress, more no sleep...

Which leads me to the days events. I woke up late thanks to a drug induced coma from the night prior. Greeting me on my phone was a text from my prof wondering why I wasn't in small group. I had of course sent out an email advising I was sick the night before, and I of course sent it to the wrong email address. Oh well.

I then spent the next day alternating between studying and checking to see if the grade from my last exam was posted online. Mind you these cycles lasted anywhere from .3 seconds to 15 seconds at the longest.

After doing this for 8 hours, I decided that it was time to party. I went home and was greeted by my wonderful wife who had set up a really sweet surprise for my birthday.

Look, I can hang things on walls!
For those of you not in the know, I raced my mountain bike over the Rockies from Canada to Mexico (all by myself and everything). There were lots of pro photographers on the course in different places and Liz went around online finding some really cool shots of me. She then got some great custom prints. The big one is printed on sheet metal and the smaller ones are printed on a metalic paper and framed in custom bike chain frames. Totally sweet.

Wanna know what's also sweet? Now you're in the know about the bike race! Aren't you awesome! Be sure to go to tour divide.org for more!

After the picture fest, the lucky lady and I went to a swank little bistro for burger and debate. All I'll say about that is, "I love Big Bird." And, I also want to see him in the unemployment line.

After that I went to bed, early, with tons of nyquil (trademark!) onboard.

Pretty good day, lord knows I loved it!

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

I love what I'm doing day 360

Today is alllllmost the one year anniversary of the daily I love what I'm doing series. Although, it has ended up becoming a semi-monthly (ok, bi-semimonthly-ish) occurrence.

Yesterday was the first final of second year. It was awful. No, it was beyond awful. Which is only compounded by the fact that I aced the midterm. Talk about having the rug pulled out from under me...

Oh well. We get our grades tomorrow, which also happens to be my birthday. So hopefully it will be a good present for me. If not, 32 might not be my year.

Oh well, it could be worse. I could not be at the best medical school on the planet. I could not be in medical school. I could not be married to the love of my life. I could not have the most awesome dog ever. I could not have... well another dog. I could not own tons of bikes. I could not have a cooler than thou cat. I could not own a Harley.

I love what I'm doing, for almost a year straight.

Proof of the most awesome dog ever.