The Ghoulies are taking off the pounds in February!!! (Page 24)

kcarroll - 2010-02-04 9:43 AM

SCORE!  Myoplex Lite Peanut Butter Crisp.  Going to eat half now and save the other half for mid-afternoon snack.

ceilidh - 2010-02-04 9:37 AM lest see if this works. It is the view from my office window.

kcarroll - 2010-02-04 9:47 AM

Nice!!!

I have a view of a cabinet with a plant on top.  I'd post a picture for you to admire if I had my camera.  Ok, I have an iPhone and a mobile phone, both of which have cameras.  Maybe later when the sun is just right.

wgraves7582 - 2010-02-04 9:49 AM

Not going to share Ann(e)???

That is not fair you know.  We have all posted pictures of ourselves in here.

ironannekidd - 2010-02-04 9:46 AM Bill I took a picture of the guns yesterday, to see if they'd qualify for the permit. I think they look better in the mirror than they did on the picture.

I've gotten compliments on my shoulders and biceps, but the pics just didn't look good.

Sorry.

wgraves7582 - 2010-02-04 9:51 AM

Which thread - the old one???

I must have missed it!

wgraves7582 - 2010-02-04 9:54 AM

The race one?  Then I did see it.  Sorry that is what happens when you hit 43

givemashot - 2010-02-03 9:54 PM So I still haven't had a chance to go back and read--except for this page--but I wanted to say something:

GUESS WHAT!?!?!?! Today was our 14th wedding anniversary, and Hubby gave me my anniversary gift tonight. Well, sorta. He ordered it today and told me about it tonight. I am getting a brand spankin' new all carbon road bike!!!! It's pretty and black, and will have new speedplay pedals, and SRAM components, and ergonomic-shaped carbon handlebars with oh-so-sweet bar tape. (Guess what I got for my hubby? The same bike, only in his size, LOL). He took me out for ice cream after the kids were in bed tonight, and he kept drooling over all the new bike lanes on the newly resurfaced roads around our house. The only bike I currently have is my tri bike, and I've never owned a road bike, so this will be fun. Here's a pic:    http://www.javbike.com/Amarone.html I am looking forward to sharing this sport with my hubby. Of course, he still has to learn how to swim without sinking, then he has to get his core strength up enough to not re-injure his bad back (disc problem/surgery years ago). 

I'm not spoiled or anything.

wgraves7582 - 2010-02-04 6:04 AM So yesterday I decided I was going to ask for bike sponsorship from Salsa bikes.  This is what I wrote:
Howdy,

I don't know if you are the Salsa employee in charge of offering sponsorship to mortals such as myself but I figure I might as well start with the e-mail address they post on the site.

My name is Bill Graves and I do not own a Salsa directly but have been drooling over the Fargo since I first saw it on G-Ted productions website and now the Vaya where I saw it posted on FB and then G-Ted wrote it up as well. I don't win races, as a matter of fact I usually get dropped in local crits because I am chasing them down on my touring bike or busting out a cross race on my single speed.

I attempted TransIowa v5 last year and made it to the 1/2 way point and thought it was insane to continue on so I dropped. Yes I was pizzed off by the time I got back home because the conditions were ideal and I could have fought through that dark point and made it but that is the past and I will be there again this year.

I really don't even know if you have an amateur sponsorship program but I do know that I believe in the Salsa products and have an add posted on my blog just because it shows off a great machine and I believe in that line of thinking as well: http://enduranceeventtraining.blogspot.com/

You can also see my training log: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/index-weekly.asp?memberid=85902&year=&month=&day= - I would be able to put your company link right there with Nuun and Twin 6 as a sponsor if you deem me worth.

So what am I asking for? If you have such a sponsorship I would love to learn more about it. If not, do you give hard working, honest, amateurs the opportunity to purchase your bikesets at a discounted price?

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Your photo will stay up on my blog regardless of the decision made by Salsa - once again because I believe in your products and I believe in the words!

Regards and have a great day.

Think it will work - LOL

ceilidh - 2010-02-04 6:44 AM These are the "pot people" I made a few years ago.

deehtz - 2010-02-04 10:30 AM

Have no idea if it will work, but it is certainly worth a try and is good reading!

deehtz - 2010-02-04 10:37 AM

Nice views.  I like the pot people! 

ironannekidd - 2010-02-04 6:57 AM Can't post them now anyway. They're at home on my camera and I'm stuck here at work even though I'd really like to just go home and go to bed.