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Coltrane Elan Scott
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Baby on the wy mad bills to pay! Thanks biggie for that one. It has summarized my current state of mind. My son is due any day now. In fact he is a little overdue but I can't complain about him wanting to be a libra. We da best! So any day I will become a dad and have me a little libra to teach about fashion and balance.
In the meantime Karen and I fend off questions from co-workers, soon to be grandparents, and friends eagerly ready to enduct Karen into the mommy club. It's been pretty hair raising at times but it's all coming from excitement and love so we don't complain.
I have finally done all my cutting and customizig and have a pair if new valos to rock. I'm pretty stoked they have live up to the hype and I see myself riding Valo for a while. Blading has been a great source of exercise and fun recenty with some new tricks added to the docket and some others still casuong frustration. I think today is a practie day. I need to get past this plateua I'm currently stuck at. Perhaps a weeken session with Valo head honcho JJ will get me juiced.
It's cutting time
I've got a new pair of skates in need of customization and it has really taken over my brain. I have a pair that is not perfect. The art of cutting valos is well documented and the techniques growing. Too me it feels like 1999 when you had to do this with less option. Somehow the options now are overwelmingly lackluster yet numerous. As I sift through finding amazing products in the wrong aplication. Tonight though I'm getting aggressive. Taking some boots apart and making some cuts. Should be exciting. Hopefully I can find the right mix. Thanks to Valo and Trust. Their products are amazing and I hope to find the best combination o cutting and comfort.
Full of blog
This is it. This is the month when my son is to be born. I'm actually in my first week of doing the mornin ritual alone. Karen is finally done with work, until January but thts no time soon. I on the othe hand, have to wait for the call. Then like the flash will bolt home to support the entrance of Coltrane Elan Scott into the world. Pretty exciting stuff in the end. Plus I haven't taken consecutive days off from work in 7 months. So it's time to be home. Thank you California paid family leave act. We actually give poppa more rights than the French.
On some lesser news, My Valo experience has been very challenging. Finding comfort will be the ultimate hurdle but grinding and solid skating has been a prime benefit. So far breaking in my trusts has been painful. Pain on the outside of my foot. A New footbed hasn't provided much relief either. The experiment is going to the next step though. I have some new boots to cut and hve been devising schemes to isolate problem areas.
Football, so you think you can dance and school all start right now. School is two weeks in and wraught with problems, fixable only by a strong belief in the universe.
Trust in Valo
Ok so I'm treating this all WWDC and micro bogging my adventures in blade switching. Im seriously feeling like I'm going from a mac to a pc at times but a pc with the best tech support line and major mods. My victims of this test are some vali JJ's Velcro size ten major toe cuts all the way back. Freeing up the entire boot. I has been warned by tinkerer Justin Hertel that this may lessen stability but coming from xsjados I have felt the opposite. This has been the best part of my experiment. The increase in support when grinding and landing is undeniably fresh.
