I want to get me some of that cash

This is my official appeal to get in on some of this “bail-out” money. The other day I sat and watched Ford, Chrysler, and GM beg for more low interest loans. I want to put in my pitch for too. I’m asking for $100,000 in an interest free open-ended loan. This is equal to two years of my last salary. I can use this as I see fit with no oversight, but here is how one might just use this money (no guarantee that I will follow this outline).
1. Health care for not only myself, but my wife and 9 month old son. COBRA insurance doesn’t cut it. Due to my last salary I receive the maximum amount of unemployment benefits and this is still less per month then what COBRA would cost. What’s just as bad, because I get the max amount, I don’t qualify as low income.
2. Further education. Not only for me, but think about future cost of schooling for Mackenzie. For myself, this will allow me to position myself to be competitive in a future job market.
3. I need to buy the biggest and most inefficient vehicle produced by Ford, Chrysler, and GM. This is a really big one because if I don’t or can’t buy it, then they can’t produce it… wait a minute… I ride my bike to work (when I am not layed off) scratch this one, I’ll buy a failing bank and apply for even more cash. Better up that 100 grand, how about 100 million.

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My faithfull reader(s) may be wondering what the kenny has been up too. Well, I have been busy learning Java, as you can tell by my totally bike geek gear calc applet.

Big news... Lance returns to racing... Bigger news, The Kenny returns too.

This past weekend may have marked the end of my hiatus from racing... in a unspectacular way. I entered the Bogus Basin Hill Climb. I can't say that I was at my best, but since I have been riding this 3500 foot climb, I figured I could do it in 1h 10 mins or so. Not so. I wasn't feeling great and had no energy and ended up at the summit in 1h 17min gun time and something like 1h 16m chip time. The start was scary, it was a mass start of over 300 riders. I didn't know that was how we were going to start (I thought it would be by age group). I farted around too long and when I lined up I was at the back.

Go West Young Man

The drive is complete and I finally decided to update my blog. It took us 5 days to get hear but we made it to Boise without killing ourselves or the cats.

Day 1 - we made it all the way to West Baltimore. Well to give us credit, day 1 also included loading the ABF truck, cleaning the apartment, rounding up the cats, and loading the car. To compound the issue we were forced to drive through the section of Baltimore that formed the basis for the TV show "Homicide, Life on the street".

day 4. we made it to Lincoln Nebraska only to be awoken by drunken redneck chicks at 3 am having a fight outside of our motel room.

central Nebraska,
Mackenzie's thoughts on Central Nebraska,

Day 4. Tristan checks out the water quality in Laramie Wyoming,

Thank You officer

I just paid for 2 hours of a city meter readers salary. Why? I was 14 minutes late to plug the damn parking meter. Its 5 cents for 15 minutes and the fine was 23 dollars.

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I haven't been keeping my 3.2 fans up to date on the events in the life of Kenny. The latest news... I have become the latest casualty of down ward spiral of MFS/FedMed. My position was eliminated on 4/14 and I'm to turn over what is left of my responsibilities by this Friday. Then I get to enjoy 3 weeks severance and benefits through the end of May.
This news came as no surprise to me. What did surprise me was the timing. I was in the middle of composing my resignation letter and thinking how much time will be needed to turn over my job. 3, maybe 4 weeks of training is what I was thinking but I guess the big guys think otherwise. 2 weeks... That's only giving the guy taking over 1 data load to learn how it works. Oh well, I give this company another 6-8 months before it no longer matters.
As for what this means to where I'll be living and working next. Sarah and I have been planning to move to Boise, ID for some time now. The weekend before getting the axe, we decided it was time. We will make the move mid May. Pack up the apartment, bikes, more bikes then Sarah will realize and drive to Boise with an 8 week old infant and 2 cats... Sounds like fun, anyone else want to join in???
I don't have a definite job lined up but have a few leads. Boise is listed a one of the top Tech locations in the country but I personally think this listing is overblown and I'm going to end up back at a bike shop. Ok, I did contact a bike shop already and may have something lined up.
As for riding... I was planning to make the trip to Greenbrier, but since the Wee-Man was born, my training has been slacking and I would probably get beat by some 300lb heart attack on wheels.

First outting.

On Thursday we took the 'Wee Man' to his first doctor visit since leaving GBMC. Tristan had to make sure Mackenzie was safe and secure in the car seat.