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This is the worst winter in my recent memory and it has brought up a debate about just why my ancestors picked here to settle. Quinn and I have been joking about this off and on the last few weeks. I mean they got here after traveling god knows how far, struggle through plowing and planting, stored up for winter and then the glazer that is a long Iowa winter. I mean were things really that bad in the old country? Or were they simply just too lazy to cross the Missouri river after braving the Mississippi? I guess more importantly why the hell did I stay?

Well, if anyone follows gadgets or tech has to know that today Steve Jobs of Apple announced the release of the iPad. For the last 6 months, there has been an on going discussion of what this tablet would be and how it was going to change the way we use tech and interface with it. Today at long last the world got it's first look at the real thing and unlike the game changer it has been hyped as, it seems to be as earth shattering as a wet fart. What it turns out to be is a larger iPod Touch or iPhone without the phone function.

So on comes mother nature with all the force of a freight train and I get a day off and right now it feels like I'll never be warm again. Yes folks it is the dead of winter. Ever noticed that we always reference death with winter. Sure there is the natural connection with the season. Everything turns grey and the vegetation dies off or goes to sleep. The days shorten and without the modern conveniences, your average human would die. So it rolls together and the thing is that it establishes this feeling of hope and renewal. Of course, that renewal is in fact, 4 months away.

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Our Haros: Quinn on his Haro Revo and DaVo on his 86 Haro MasterI've covered this subject in the past and in fact have a whole page/section that is about nothing but bmx - http://axiompiercing.com/bmx. It covers the past, my interests and who was involved but it really doesn't go into my love affair I had with it or what is going on now. In a recent conversation with my friend Stacie, she commented that I tend to always be obsessed with something. Not really in a negative way but in a passionate way.

I was listening to an interesting interview last night on NPR on the way home. Didn't caught the subject of the interview, the name of the show or who was interviewing who but the thing that stood out in the few minutes I did hear, was how the cult of capitalism had created anti-social behavior.

Alright I had planned on doing only one of these and then kind of forgetting about and moving on to something else. But right now I have a lot on my mind and I think it might interest a few of you.

Been a while and I know it has. Well, I could go on to say that I just had so much going on in my life but to be completely honest I really haven't. Sure things have been happening but nothing that should have kept me from posting a blog beyond basic laziness.