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Power Cranks

Power Cranks-so one of my past sponsors is Frank at Power Cranks.   In looking at my website I do not see his logo but that will change soon.  This guy is the coolest guy.   I had a pair of power cranks that i loaned to a buddy of mine.  Things got sort of nuts last year with gramps being sick so I never got them back from my buddy.  I was riding with a young pro at the beginning of the year that really wante to borrow them.   I just never had the time to loan them to him myself but he managed to get them on his own.  He called my buddy and got them without me really knowing it. 

Power cranks are my off season technique training.   When i was home at Christmas time I found out that my buddy did not have them.  i really did not know the guy that had borrowed them so I sort of felt shit-out-of -luck.   i found out recently that this guy rode the crap out of them and sent them into power cranks to get fixed.  i figuerd this was my way of intercepting them.  i called my buddy Frank today.  I hate calling when i need something.  Turns out they had been sent back to this young man and they did know they were mine to begin with.  Frank felt so bad that i did not ahve any that he stuck some in the mail for me to have by this weekend.  what a great sponsor!!!!  Frank made me feel really special today.  i hated telling him that I had loaned my power cranks out but he was so cool.

Did I get a hold of this yound man?   You bet.  i might have been a little bitchy at first but then i felt bad for being that way.  He admitted he had rode the crap out of them  and did not want to return them back to me damaged.  I cooled off seeing his point but did not like the idea of him contacting the sponsor and using my name to repair something.  the yound man is sending my old ones back to me.  i will not sell them but i will return a pair back to Frank.   I just did not want Frank to think that i had sold them for money or something.   I appreciate all my sponsors and dont want to disappoint them.  Frank was so nice and did not seem disappointed….thank goodness.  I have cooled off now but there was a moment i was pretty steamed about the situation.  Right now i am also waiting to get one of my bikes back.  i loaned my Colnogo c50 out and have been hunting that down as well.  i dont mind so long as they use it and I dont have to hunt things down when i want them back.

Flower Mound-so this week I take my physical agility test for Flower Mound.  If I pass this test on Thursday then I take the written.  i have no idea if the written is a civil service like test or what.  i have two huge books but dont know what to study in them.   I am not sure how i will do in either of these tests but i am taking them for experience.  i am still waiting for my TExas EMT license so who knows if i even have a shot.  i have sort of been playing ding dong like I forgot to attach the copies just to stall time waiting for my license to come.  Today i spoke with teh state of Texas and it could be March before I am reveiwed again.  Oh well…we will see how it goes.   i am also studying for a facial exam on Friday so my mind is going nuts….wonder why I hvae anxiety?

Chicken Blood-  today was a pretty day and nice enough to go mountain biking. I was tied up on the phone all day getting all my stuff switched over to my new address…..for the last time I hope.   I did not want to break away and take the time to mountain bike without someone being around to watch me make a fool out of myself.   I think I had a little chicken blood pumping through my veins.  The trail close to home is a little more technical then i would like to start with.  I have my mind set on Cedar Hill park.  Perhaps i might break away and go on Sunday but rain is coming so i might be just talking about it.  I am going to get out my skates as well.  I hate this chicken blood feeling I have.