Friday, November 16, 2007

News of the Day

Well, it's official.

Mikey Hernandez has asked Junior to be a part of the new VOS P~1,2 squad. Waaaaaayyyy
cool!

He was all set to ride for the Lombardi U23 boys but nothing ever seemed to come of it.It would have been a good team for him, three of the strongest juniors he's had to race against, and with, over the years but things just didn't work out.

But now he has the perfect opportunity for growth and developement with Mike. If Hernando can't show him the ropes no one can. It's especially cool 'cause Michael has been Micah's hero since Junior got into racing about 5 years ago. Olaf used to live in Reno and was the guy who always crushed our poor little bike club when he raced for the Mighty Reno Wheelmen. We've since forgiven him. They've always had a good relationship as Mike LOVES to talk bike racing and I've always instilled in our
yoots to ASK QUESTIONS, especially ask those who know what they're talking about.

So now he's taking the next step to see how far he can go with racing. One day at a time, eh? Daddio is jumping up and down and trying to stay out of the way, (that's got to be the toughest part) and couldn't be prouder!
His grandpa is all excited as well...he used to race a Lotus sports car so can certainly relate. That's the reason I HAD to race Sea Otter this year, (see earlier post).

Now that he's going to be on a new team, maybe I can grab some of the AMD stuff!!!

caio

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Country-Western Bass Player

So this kid decides he wants to be a country western bass player and moves to Nashville, seeing as that's the home of county music.
He seeks out the top bass player/teacher and approaches him about bass lessons.
The pro says that in order for him to teach the newbie, the kid has to show up on time and learn what was taught. "OK, I can do that." says the prospective student.
Says teach,"My house, 4:30 Tuesday next."

So the next Tuesday the kid shows up and the teacher describes the biggest, fattest string closest to his chin: "That's the E string. Start at the bottom and play the first 12 notes up the neck and back down. That's called a chromatic scale."

Next week the kid executes his first lesson and teach describes the next biggest,fattest string, calling it an A string and tells him to do the same thing as the week before.

Nest week comes and the student is a no call, no show.
Teach is angry, very angry, but there's nothing he can do about it so he forgets about it.

Many weeks later Teach spots kid at the grocery store and calls him on not showing.

Says Teach,"What happened to you? No call? No show?"

Says student,"I got a gig!"

Friday, November 2, 2007

The Jazz Musician

So this jazz sax player comes back to New York from L.A. for a short vacation and runs into an
old buddy.
JSP: Yo, 'sup?
OB: Not much, you?
JSP: Oh man, I've been in L.A. for the last couple of years.
OB: Oh yeah? I hadn't heard about that.
JSP: Yeah, and shortly after I moved there I got a gig playing for Sting on his world-wide tour!
OB: Wow! I hadn't heard about that.
JSP: Yeah, and after that I got a call to record on Barbara Streisand's new CD.
OB: No kidding, I hadn't heard about that.
JSP:And if that weren't enough, I landed some studio gigs and have been heard on several TV shows and three movies in the last year!
OB: Amazing! I hadn't heard about that.
JSP: Yeah, man. But then I came back to New York for a short vacation and, not wanting to let
my chops go to waste, I took this stupid wedding gig and must have had a bad reed or something 'cause my playing really sucked!
OB: Yeah, I heard about that!