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Bourbon Bikes Kentucky Yay.

KENTUCKY SPIRITS
Grab your road bike and head for the heartland, where the two things that make Kentucky great—bourbon and horses—are within weekend spinning distance of Lexington. After an inspirational stop at the Kentucky Horse Park (kyhorsepark.com), where more than 50 breeds graze near Man o' War's gravesite, it's 17 miles west to the historic Woodford Reserve Distillery (woodfordreserve.com), along Glen Creek. Sample a snort of small-batch bourbon and keep rolling past white-fenced thoroughbred farms to the Wild Turkey Distillery (wildturkeybourbon.com), in continuous operation since the late 1860s except for a blip during Prohibition. The oyster po'boys and Bridge Street Bourbon Balls at Rick's White Light Diner & Barbecue (502-330-4262), a vintage hideaway in downtown Frankfort, are worth pulling in for. After a night at the Meeting House (doubles from $100; themeetinghousebandb.com), an 1840s bed-and-breakfast, point your wheels north toward Franklin County and the Buffalo Trace Distillery (buffalotrace.com), whose 15-year-old George T. Stagg bourbon took home the gold in the 2006 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. From there, it's a straight shot back to Lexington, where you can recover (from the riding!) among mahogany furnish-ings and regional artwork at the Gratz Park Inn (doubles from $169; gratzpark-inn.com).
Route: Start the 88-mile loop at Lexington and ride north on Highway 922, west on 1973, then right on Iron Works Parkway. Head back to Lexington and go west on Highway 60/62 to Lawrenceburg. Take McCracken Pike, then Steele Road, then Highway 127 north to Frankfort. To return to Lexington, take Highway 421 via Midway.

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should i turn left or right?

worse

triumphant return

yes my voice sounds like that.

i know what i want for xmas...

SPECIAL OCCASION

I present HBG KOTBR #100:

http://www.hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com/

nothing new nothing new

i was tired of julia child leading the page.

this will change your life if you let it.

pushups what pushups

part of the problem with a regular diet of craft beer events is that often times you'll arrive at home at 11:30 pm and think "fuck i gotta do pushups?" and then you won't

back on the pushup wagon next week, though.

rode to work today. that was ok.

OH

last week (on a pushup night) i was headed back home and hit a really nice pothole, the kind that immediately flats both driver's side tires.

$402 later i have a new set of rear tires (after rotation)

didn't really have that money to throw out the window. i did have it in savings for bike parts.

boo.

Week 2 day 1

tried it last night, couldn't get through the fourth set. back to week one, i guess?

i think part of my problem is breathing. like i forget how to breathe completely.

hmmmmmm

day 2

started the pushup thing monday. i get winded way fast. i hate doing it. that's why i quit the last time, i suddenly remembered between sets.

tonight i'll do workout 2 or day 2 or whatever they call it.

this is so much worse than any sort of cardio.

things i would buy if i had money

lapierre xelius 400 fdj

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embarrassing, really.

i suppose if i'm writing this thing to aid my memory then i should note that last weekend, kotbr llc (parent company of hbg) did our first paying gig - winterfest 2010. 2700 people, ag/hort building on the fairgrounds, outdoor beer garden, happy customers, a long bathroom line.

no complaints aside from the bathroom thing, but even those complaints were pretty minor. i'd call it a success.

in other news, i've been extremely lazy and lethargic the last two or so weeks, and i rode my bike to work this morning (23ish degrees) and it nearly killed me. i really hope i was riding into the wind. but i doubt i was.

been thinking about taking up the small bit of running i did again. but i've also been thinking that every night when i get home from work i should go directly to bed. maybe i've got mono.

is that how mono works? maybe i've got malaria.

i know that come warmer weather i'll be fitter and slimmer and vibrant and slippery but right now i'm a la-z-boy chair sitting upside down in the corner - lumpy and useless.

love letter to mark

Dear Mark,

Sometimes late at night I lie in bed and think about what could have been. And I never think of you. I guess that means we're not meant for each other.

Regards,

Mike

boring.

this morning: 28 feels like 23, winds w/sw 10ish. a little foggy/wet.

getup: toe covers, oversocks, wool socks
leg warmers, rapha knickers, baselayer, rapha winter jersey, rapha winter cap, performance gloves, pi overgloves.

perfecto.

for the month, mileage (guessing):

02 jan 23
05 jan 23
06 jan 23
13 jan 23
16 jan 30
18 jan 23

145 miles so far. not too shabby..

weighed 196 this morning. perhaps i should stop eating crap.

this month and the month prior we've (the hbg folks) been putting together the brewers of indiana guild winterfest, lining up the breweries attending as well as the volunteers who will staff the event.

for this we will be paid.

we'll also be doing the summer event, same stuff.

and we'll be paid for that as well.

the end result is a budget that means that our larger drinking expenses are covered by money earned putting together our prior larger drinking expenses. kinda sorta.

we're under contract for a year.

got a new bike

this was a leap of faith (as i'm broke and gina actually paid for the bike) but it was too cheap to pass up.

i think.

Review 2009

I ended up seeing a ton of movies in 2009 - I think at some point I just decided it was the best way to waste time.

I think the only way to review something is based on enjoyment. And so, in order, here's my lists. The following are all movies released this year.

In the theater:

The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The trailer looked annoying and overly quirky. I'd pretty much given up on Wes Anderson, but a few enthusiastic online reviews convinced me to give it a shot. As it turns out it was my favorite movie of the year, and one I wanted to see more than once. Unfortunately it didn't last long in the theater. Too bad, really, as I think it was a movie suitable for pretty much anyone, and by far the most entertaining thing I saw all year.

Watchmen
I didn't know anything about this going in other than the fact that it was based on a comic book. I just thought it was really well done, and I was tempted to go see it twice.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
I thought the dialog was clever (and sort of accurate as I remember conversations when I was that age). I've like all the Harry Potter movies, despite never reading any of the books. I thought the last 3 were particularly well done.

Up In The Air
Moon
Whip It
District 9
Where The Wild Things Are
Inglorius Basterds
Up
Zombieland
Star Trek
Objectified
The Hangover
Extract
Public Enemies
Ponyo
Beer Wars
Avatar

And on DVD:

Antichrist
Comically Disturbing. As fun as watching someone mutilate their genitals can be. CHAOS REIGNS

Tyson
Tokyo!
Food, Inc.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Taken
Observe and Report

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
This was like watching someone else play a really bad video game.

Bruno
Holy cow was Bruno bad.

wait for it....

cuz we're hardcore (we got more flavor than skittles)

today it snowed and my car went sideways only a little bit once so far. i consider that a small victory.

i'd like to buy another (second) car for this sort of weather but how stupid is buying a car just for weather? i am not professor moneyshorts.

i didn't write about gina getting a new job, but she did, and now she is astronaut moneyblouse. well, not really, but she's closer than i am.

193 this morning. thanks giving.

So I've noticed lately that when I cut myself or get a scab or anything along those lines, it takes forever to heal. I also have noticed that my toenails are more brittle. And my hair seems to grow much slower. I feel like this has all happened in the past year, maybe, and that it must mean I've reached my physical peak, and now I'm on the backsides, sliding down the mountain that eventually leads to a pleasant valley, then a still river, then death by drowning.

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so far so good on the gym thing.

back to the gym tonight, first time in about 6 months if i'm counting right.