What did you end up doing?

Its making fun of rippetoe, its hilarious.

Theres 3 of them, there old, but oh so funny!

Is that Rippetoe?  No wonder he seems like an asshole.

fuck it go have fun !

All of what Bri said for me too, except for smoking doobs.

Listening to Smoundzou would most definately be the smarter choice in almost any similar situation....

But personally, I'd not only go with C, but once I got a few drinks in me, I'd probably be out looking for afterparties after seeing the band...stay up all night drinking and trying to fornicate with hot women....burn a few more doobs....then maybe eventually make my way back home with the hot women, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll get a good 2 hrs. of sleep only to wake up the next day feeling like a huge piece o' shit....but of course loving the experiences that I had!

necks are no fun and no joking matter.. go home, take a hot bath, take 800mg of IB, put some ice on it, have your BF massage it..

HW,
   Hope your neck feels better soon! 

Hardway,
   Thanks a ton for all of your excellent insight!    I monkeyed w/my bike over the weekend.  Amazing what good a screwdriver will do!  The bike is now in good enough condition to get me through the cardio over the next several weeks for the show.  I will eventually get it at least tuned up though and will ask them the worth of the bike (frame).  There are some Japanese components on the bike and it looks, from a little research, that my bike may have actually been make in Japan for Bianchi.  It is a Sport SS model and I have the serial number so I'm sure with digging I could find a pretty accurate provenance if you will.  From what I gather the bike probably isn't worth a lot but we'll see.  It does what I need it to do so I'm happy now!  Thanks again!