MMP

My good friend, Fielding Miller, is fortunate enough to wake up to this sight every morning… It’s the base of Aspen Highlands, one of my favorite places on the planet to ski. I’m very excited about the upcoming ski season, however very disappointed that I’ll no longer be able to crash on his couch and wake up to sights like this and tear the mountain up with one of my buds.

One to One Interactive is having their summer outing this Thursday. One the dockett, the OTO Olympics… an event to which I’ve been made captain of the yellow team. Figured it was high-time to show some team spirit.

I ordered this bike a few months ago while living in Boulder, finally got my hands on it this past weekend. It’s a 2010 Trek District: Aluminum frame, carbon fiber fork and most importantly it has no chain. It’s an amazing, lightweight city bike with a carbon belt drive. The belt contains no lubricants, is 100% dry and won’t mess up your pants. Another plus, the belt drive lasts forever and is ninja quiet.

Yes, I know that I have two other bikes, however I can’t ride my road/race bike around the city for errands and Large Marge is entirely too heavy and slow to run errands. The District will allow me to zip around the city, get to work, friends houses and leave my car parked wherever it is that day.

2010 Trek District

Where we’going we don’t need chains. Yes, I took the belt-guard off.

It was a beautiful day on Saturday, so I took it down to the bay for a little cruise.

Back Bay at the Christian Science Reflection Pool. The lame wheel reflectors are now history.

It’s a city bike, so you ride it in the city, I guess.

It sticks out like a sore thumb, granted it’s a very good looking sore thumb.

Stickers and badge pins arrived in the mail today. Quickly affixed them to my Jack Spade messenger bag. Told you I am a prepster.

I hope that Facebook Answers doesn’t end up in the toilet like Yahoo Answers.

Then again, it could end up a comedic goldmine.

I know a few folks that would roll on the sabbath if it was more like this:

It’s god-damn beautiful in Boulder. I’ll have to catch one here in Boston since the sun comes up over the water.

Apparently I’m now a “prepster”?

Prepster
Really a chimera of two existing groups, the prepster is someone most likely raised in the suburbs and very preppy, that moves to a very hipster centered city (Brooklyn, Portland, Austin), and due to scene exposure adopts certain hipster trends whilst retaining the preppy spirit. Specific examples are skinny jeans with boat shoes, or skinny Nantucket red jeans, cardigans, and keds (although arguably of preppy origin, now adopted by the hipster). The prepster has the ability to flow seamlessly between the two scenes, adopting the traditional seersucker and polos while home, and looking very trendy at loft parties in Williamsburg. This emerging scene has been officially typified by Brooks Brothers new Black Sheep line, designed by Thom Browne, and the new J. Crew Men’s store being created with help from Jack Spade. The major difference between the prepster and hipster is money and cleanliness.

Well, no argument there.

It’s happening…
My best friends are starting to get married. This summer’s wedding plans: Rusty, Charlie, Allison, Steele & Justine. Good lord.