Rough week, little sleep, lots of riding, new job, neato bikes, lots of coffee.
Trek is quite something. The professionalism and corporate resources and organization (and, and, and,) don't eliminate the bike shop feel. It's still a bike shop and we had beer at employee training Tuesday evening and then had more beer and hung out for a while. It was good to just have some fun at a bike shop.
Selling here is very different from St. Paul, as I can move a 3k bike on a Tuesday afternoon and tack on 1k in accessories. I had a customer who commutes come in and buy a Soho 3.0 to continue her commuting trend. Selling her that bike and seeing how excited she was to own it made me actually feel excited about bikes.
This weekend is the Wausau WORS and I'm going with Geo and some other TBS kids in the TBS van. And I'm sure we're all going to wear TBS kits and drink TBS coffee and be TBS BFFs. I'd tell you I'm not geeking out, but it might be a lie.
As for getting acclimated, it's been rough. The local coffee shop is okay. They make great lattes, but it's kept pretty clean. No ERC, let me tell you. I don't have a bar yet, but an Irish Pub is going in across from Target and my brother has some leads on a few cool places we can check out. It's been a long week. My plans have changed for the next year or so. No more tandem. Lots of solo road rides on the Madone.
In about 15 minutes I'm headed to the Waterloo trails to ride with Gehling (sales manager east) and Rabbit (tech east). I'm sure this will involve more geeking out.
Tomorrow I start the search for grad programs.
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