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Web Beyotch Drunken Thoughts...

You ever get to the point on a cool, but warm night of drinking where all of your thoughts come flowing into your head faster than you can convalesce them into thoughts? Well, that's where I am tonight. After three margaritas and an innumerable about of Wild Turkey and somethings I have found the thoughts moving faster than I can. So this is my attempt to latch onto some of those thoughts and let it ride...

First off. Music. There is some music that just speak to me. Don't get me wrong, I like just about all of it, but there is some music out there that when I am in the right state of mind helps to get in touch with not only myself, but (dare I say) all of life; be it human or otherwise. Most times this music is some good 'ole Folk/Country/Blues. Why is this? Is it because this music speaks to me because I am a folky/country/bluesy kind of guy? Possibly. I would like to think, though, that it is because this kind of music, in the right state of mind, speaks to the human side of us. The human side that came from the backwoods. That came from the bayou. That came from the paraie. We all came from there at some time. None of can draw our heritage from the cities and urban areas alone. We are human, we are animals, and we ARE nature. We are part of it. When I hear this music I remember that and those days when times were slower and simpler. When times are slower and simpler your brain tends to wander and think about things and the life that you're leading currently....

So, here I am. Thinking about not only my life and what I am doing, but also the lives of all the other people in this world and the lives that their leading. I can't help to think that if we just could think back to the times when life was simpler and we were all happy that we would be happy. However, I do realize that for many people on this earth those times when they were happy their neighbors, who thought differently from them, weren't happy. Thereby meaning that if everyone tried to reach this happiness there would be conflicts. Maybe that's where we are now. Maybe...

So, what is a man in KC to do about his happiness? I don't know. That would suck if that's all I could come up with...I don't know. No Se. My Spanish teacher never liked that answer and I don't like it now. What make us happy? Not a boat or a car or no debt or so much money you could wipe your ass with $100 bills. What would really make you so happy that you could live you life without a care about the world around you? Can we even do this now-a-days? Are we too much of a global society? Is being a global society a bad thing? We all live on this rock together don't we???

Hmmm, maybe we can't ALWAYS ignore the rest of the world, but we can still find happiness in our own little world. Maybe that's why I drink. Maybe I drink to find my own little world of happiness. However, I can find me own little world of happiness in a forest with my campfire and some chow without any alcohol. There are other things that I could have with me that would make me be happier, but that, I think is always true. Maybe that happiness is the slowness and the simpleness of life.

Maybe happiness is ignorance. Maybe happiness is just living your life the way you want without impeding anyone else. Maybe happiness is just living you life waiting around to die.

-Nate, the Webpage Philosopher

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Yea that's a dude

'Have you drowned your shamrock yet?'

From the Kansas City St. Patrick's Day Parade website:

"Sure," he told the paper, "the first thing we did on St. Patrick's Day morning was to 'drown the shamrock ... Did you never hear tell of 'drowning the shamrock'? 'Twas an old custom and gone for many a day, like all the good old customs. When you met a friend for the first time on St. Patrick's Day in the morning, you'd ask him, 'Have you drowned your shamrock yet?' Well, maybe he had, but to be genial he'd say no, anyway, and in we'd go to the most convenient fountain of potheen and each of us would take the sprig of shamrock from our coats and drown it in the drink while we gave the old Irish toast:

Here's to the land of the Shamrock, so green!
Here's to each lad and his darling colleen!
Here's to all those we love dearest and most!
And God save ould Ireland' that's an
Irishman's toast!

Back of the Pack!

We were the media's darlings last year. Here's the first article about our Crack-A-Noon ways

July 24, 2006 Section: RC Page: 6S

Back of the Pack Forgrave Reid Staff
BY REID FORGRAVE

Dan Oldehoeft
AGE: 34
HOMETOWN: Manhattan, Kan.
YEARS ON RAGBRAI: Six
TEAM NAME: Team Crackanoon, with 11 proud slackers
TEAM SLOGAN: "You won't see my HINEY - 'til the sun's high and SHINEY!"

WHY THEIR TEAM LOVES TO SLACK: "It's a revolt against getting up at 6 a.m.," Oldehoeft said. "We were on a team for a while that did that. So we just formed our own team."

NUMBER OF VEHICLES STILL AT THE MAIN CAMPGROUND WHEN TEAM CRACKANOON WAS PACKING UP AROUND 10 A.M.: A scattered few. "Sometimes we don't wake up until after the Kybos are gone and the road signs are gone," Oldehoeft said. "That sucks."

ABOUT THE BUS: Team Crackanoon bought the old Team Smelly Cats' bus for $2,000 a couple of years ago. They repainted it bright splotches of color, and they added a couple of slogans, including "Port-A-Party."

FINAL WORD: "We're the last ones out," Oldehoeft said. "Always."

Photo_By: Reid Forgrave/The Register
Dan Oldehoeft, 34, of Manhattan, Kan., left, and Corey Steenhoek, 34, of Kansas City, Mo., hold the "homewrecker" - a handle of Crown Royal whiskey that they and the members of Team Crackanoon planned to polish off Sunday night.

I'm still searching for that picture...
-Nate, The WB

The Check is in the mail!

I mailed our waivers and registration fee today.
Now we just sit back and wait for July...
Oh! ...and ride and drink a lot!

First Training Ride Ladies!

The nasty details:

Meet at the Sleeves Resort, 108 S. Dartmouth Drive on the west side of Manhattan. Be there by 11am!!! Because we ride at the Crack-a-Nooooon!

Ride will be 30-50 miles total with 5-7 beer intervals. Yes, I said "beer intervals". Yes, I know it's shorter than last year but it's also waaay earlier in the year AND we're planning a second longer one in June. Plus, I might throw in some hills just to get you slackers jump-started on your training. So be prepared!

Anyone who needs directions to the Sleeves or has questions, email me. -FL

Some websurfing for your Tuesday

Some good bike related sites. Some you may have traveled to, some you may have not. All are OK for work viewing.

www.punkrockcycling.com - Blog like thing for cycling, don't really agree with that vegan thing at the front, but anyway...

www.carsrcoffins.com - Bicycle, Punk Rock, Action

www.bikeliker.com - Message board for cyclists across the nation

That's it for now, I got bored with finding sites and you all probably won't even look at these. ;)

-Nate, The Webpage Bitch

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