Violet: Gee, I got a candy bar!
Kid: Boy, I got 3 cookies!
Lucy: Hey, I got a package of gum!
Charlie Brown: I got a rock.
-- from It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Its a festive mood all around. With the combination of Halloween and the big game, its hard not to enjoy the day. So I was torn about what to put up here if anything at all.
Thank goodness for Robot Chicken.
Shall we play a game?
-- Joshua from War Games
I played in my first volleyball tournament today. Matter of fact, this is the first year I've ever competed in the game. Volleyball definately isnt my primary sport, but it still takes it out of you. Between the digs, blocking, and kills, thats alot of frigging work. Then again, its not a game until you've got sand up your nose, in your eyes, and down your shorts.
The courts where we played looked like a little tent city. Everyone was camped out, eating, drinking, playing, and having fun. After several hours of playing several games, the teams met up at a local tavern where everyone was camped out, eating, drinking, playing, and having fun.
That's probably the best facet of the entire game (or come to think of it, any organized sport). The camaraderie that draw people together and the fun to be had. If it wasnt for the fact that some of my friends were on the same team, I wouldnt have been playing at all. It was definately worth it. We had so much fun this year and the tournament capped off the entire season. 
So the 2009 campaign for Team Rock-N-Sprawl ends on both a high and loud note.
Thanks for the memories, mates! I'm already anxious for next season.
Boards dont hit back.
-- Lee from Enter The Dragon
When I was younger, an anime movie came out on VHS that really turned me into a fan. Fist Of The North Star was unique, imaginative, and nothing like I had ever seen. I even considered the dubbing pretty decent despite the slight off-timing and plot holes it created.
For American audiences, the best we had were things like Transformers, Battle Between The Planets, and Voltron. They werent as good. Even, the 1995 live action film wasnt as good as the anime.
So finding the movie on YouTube is a guilty pleasure.
Too bad anime hasnt gotten that much better for the US since then.
Enough of this Sunday stroll.
-- Muzzin from American Flyers
Once again, the MS Ride was upon us. Team Blue joined the fray with another 2,000 cyclists for this great charity event. So once again, the action report must be scribed.
1. What happened to the rain?! Many riders were sunburned just from the first day. Even I look brown now.
2. Congrats to all the new riders that made it with us this year. Now you truly understand the things that only a cyclist can understand: the preparation, the frustations, the exhaustion, and the pain. And that is just to get up in the morning.
3. What recession? If there were less people this year, I couldnt tell. Hundreds of people trying got leave thru an exit the size of a garage still means its freaking crowded.
4. Thanks must go out to the tent team. They were the first group that Team Blue saw when we came in at the end and they made us feel right at home. Well that and they had to use a spatula to get my lazy arse up.
5. Thanks must also go out the rest stop crew. Not only did you help out Team Blue, but you helped out every rider in the event. If it was feasible, I would have gotten them to put those molasses cookies into an IV for me.
6. There were other teams that obviously didnt know what "On Your Left" means. We might have forgiven the father from the Boy Scouts' who was pinned between the Scouts on his right and the two pace lines passing on his left except for the fact he was too busy stretching and acting like the Running Man.
7. Granted, cars can still be a problem, especially those mini-vans that decide to turn into a drive-way right in front of a 20 man paceline.
8. The live band decided to play "Crash Into Me" by The Dave Matthews Band. It seems abit ironic considering some the accidents a riders had.
9. Sign of a hard-core cyclist: After a crash, the first thing a rider asks "Is my bike ok?"
10. The battle still rages on. MS is still out there and the fight continues. Enjoy the time off because we will be riding again soon. 
Don't get set into one form. Adapt it and build your own and let it grow. Be like water. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it, becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
-- Bruce Lee
Into the fray we enter once more, dear friends.
Gather your gear.
Pick up your helmet.
The battlefield calls our name.
We scream and cry and gnash our teeth
Even if the enemy is within ourselves.
Prepare to fight.
On wings of carbon and steel,
Prepare to fly.
Don't Drink The Water by The Dave Matthews Band
