But This aint about flowers growing in your raised bed urban gardens.
This is about SUN!
This is also about changes of attitude, changes in latitude.
This aint no cheeseburger in paradise.
This is life, the constant evolution, revolution, of it all.
ALL.
You have a conversation with a fun new job one day - about how you wish you could do more but you have another job comitment, and in June you will make yourself more available...
The next day that other commitment fires you by TEXT!?
I wish you could hear my laughter - TEXT!? Yeah, the millineals are now in charge. they are setting the norm for how its done. And its done by text.
I spent the last week shredding with one of the Top 5! And to be honest, hes pretty damn far up there! Jesse Huselid and I have been on all kinds of bike, in all kinds of places. He has driven me to airports at ungodly hours, and bought the first rounds when I landed. He has scooped me up when I was drunk and picked me up when I was sad. Hes a TRUE FRIEND! Hes also a wicked smart dude, who is in the midst of changes himself, graduating with another degree and entering into full on work world with fancy clothes and a commute and everything and I could not be more proud of him.
This past week we shredded on mountain bikes all over Appalachia and I can honestly say that having him here to explore some new trails together makes me really feel like this could be HOME.
WHAT!?!?!
Is Olde Scotty Boy gonna settle down? Who knows. I did by an ice cube tray at the thrift store today, that could be a sign of things to come... but I do know that spring has brought the changes I needed to see happen to consider this place home for a bit. Im no longer working the shitty underpaid bike shop jobs of the past, where my skills and experience are undervalued and underpaid. I turned my back on beer jobs in 2009 when I thought it just wasnt going to do it for me, and bikes have allowed me to travel all over the world. But bike jobs always came with the stress of under-appreciated hard working hours and ultimately abandonment in the end for some reason related to the fact that my energy is not for the typical bike shop owner, and my mouth is not needed as much as my hands and back.
Im working at Appalachian Mountain Brewery, and after my resume was passed around from brew-house, to tap room, and after I was fought over for that first big weekend of events, after being asked by customers 4 out of 5 shifts if I was the owner (even right in front of the actual owner one time!) and after my enthusiasm, knowledge, work history, and ethic has been discussed by decision makers as something to retain, I'm feeling like I have again not just turned towards the beer industry, but have received the recognition I deserve and a chance to thrive in an environment that fits who I have become.
Now dont go thinking this is some kind of "Return of HANK" cause I am certainly NOT the same dude I was in 2009. I have also learned a lot of good lessons. Im STILL learning lessons, what works in any particular situation and what does not in another... its a tricky world to navigate out there. Sometimes you get a jolt of electricity sometimes you get the cheese. But I do seem to have a lot of fun with it...so...
Here I am.
In BOONE NC
Working at a fun brewery that is about to blow up!
Feeling like I have community.
Theres a Farmers Market
Theres some great riding around here.
The people are really friendly.
The weather is spectacularly copricious
COME VISIT!!!!
And Im feeling home...
at least for now....
S.
