Well…there has been a bunny alert on for the past couple of days and I don’t know if it was caused by the storms or not but there has been hundreds of little ones that scurry across the trail and I am kind of afraid that I’m going to hit one of them. I do hope they get the park trail cleared soon…a huge tree fell on the entry bridge in the storms and I do miss my forest racetrack….for a couple of miles today, my ride was pine scented with all of the trees that are being cut up and I wonder why pine scented cleaner can’t be made with that smell instead of the ones they do produce….one last thing…every couple of weeks, there is an older guy practicing his roller disco moves in the parking lot of Creekside Park that is my last water stop….and he’s pretty good, too….I will be back later after the women’s world cup game with France and the USA…that’s on right now so bye….

Well….it was a nice day yesterday with lunch with T and lots of laughs….but then lots of boredom for the rest of the day that culminated with cocktails last night…I have been good lately so I thought the liver could afford a night of enjoyment….I’m still having problems with dead legs so I may have to take a couple of days off to let them rest but then what would I do? It could be that I’m not eating right but that would mean I’d have to eat more and I don’t think I want to do that…a conundrum to be sure. Not much to do today….I think I will go out for coffee this morning and read the papers since there really is nothing else to do…more later…

Well…as you saw I just did the 1,00th post here and I will come back to it later on over the course of the day…but right now I just wanted to do what I do every day…give an update on my day and the possibilities of this new one….it was a weird day when the storms rolled through…I can’t remember seeing the wind blow that hard and when I went out on the ride…I could see the damage that was centered along 60th street and was everywhere…there were at least 5 houses that had trees toppled on them and I couldn’t believe that just straight line winds could do all of that damage….it was a hard ride and I can’t figure out why my legs are so dead and I am so tired on the bike…I may have hit one of those spots where I’ve over-trained and have to take a couple of days off to make it better….we’ll see….not much to do today…okay…I do have some things to do…I’m going to be depressed over the cost of the car repairs….but then out to coffee and I’m going to get the haircut that I said I got last week…then I have to meet up with T for a couple of minutes….then maybe out with G for a couple later but I’m not holding my breath about that one since she is so busy…I will come back to the 1,000th one since I do have a few things to say….

Well…just wanted to start this thing so I’d have the 1,000th in it’s right place….not sure what I’m going to write about or how much longer I’m going to continue but I will get to it a little later…

Okay, I’m back and, as I said, I’m not sure how long I’m going to continue this…I seem to have lost the fire that powered this thing in the early days and even with reflecting on what it has meant to me over the last 1,000 of these I don’t know what to say. It’s a lot more difficult than it looks to keep these coming at this pace even if they are short ones…and they have gotten shorter over the past month or so as I have become overwhelmed with the fallout from not being able to find work…it is tiring to be broke all of the time and to have a simple car repair throw you into an almost fatal funk….oh, well….I think I’ll try to keep going forward and who knows, you may just see the whole thing blow up in real time…that would be funny, wouldn’t it? So, let’s work toward that goal and enjoy the ride….

Well…kind of in limbo today with the storms rolling through which is going to keep me here since I am waiting to hear about the car…so, I thought I’d just kind of drift through a few things while I wait for inspiration to hit me…I am quite depressed about the jobs report from last week that hiring has stopped and I am seeing that in the amount of job listings on the boards…they have just about dried up and I am looking at further depleting my resources to try to get through August and September….it is getting really tiring thinking about this stuff 24 hours a day and having no hope….and my world is getting smaller by the day…I think I’m down to about three people that I talk to or hang out with…never knew how social a person I was until the opportunities for social interaction went away…and it’s just not right for someone my age to haunt the bars anymore…so, I guess I have to find a different life, again, it is getting harder and harder to start over and over and over…..I’ll be back to add to this one later since I want to save number 1,000 for tomorrow….

I could talk politics for a while but I’m just not interested right now…I guess I could do laundry and clean but that doesn’t interest me either…..so, I guess I’ll just wait for the call on the car and try not to wince when I get the bill….

Carnage, carnage everywhere!! Well…just got back from the bike ride an there are trees down on houses everywhere…Eastern Ave. is closed from trees and power lines down in the street….and I saw a baby hawk walking on the sidewalk that must have been blown out of it’s nest…going to watch the news in a minute to see if it was a tornado….and there was financial carnage earlier when I had to pay 300 bucks to have the car fixed…

Well…it was a Sunday yesterday but that is about all I’ll say for it…..didn’t do a whole lot but watch soccer and get a long bike ride in and then took it easy the rest of the day….didn’t get a whole lot done but didn’t really plan to…I hope to get the car back this morning but it is going to be a wet one riding down to pick it up…but it’s going to be warm so that is okay….I’ve taken a few days off from cocktails and I feel pretty good today….the sleep wasn’t too good but I’ve had worse nights so I’ll take it….not much to do today, I may go out and get the papers and head for the coffee house but I’ll have to check the radar to see when the first wave of storms is going to get here….I’ll have two more for today since the brain seems to be working a bit better today…more later….oh, if I get two more out today, I’ll reach the 1,000 mark…don’t know what I’ll say about that…

Well…a day of taking it easy yesterday since I still have no car and that kind of set the tone of isolation that wasn’t really a bad thing…K did offer to let me use her vehicle to go out to M’s but I had already resigned myself to staying here for the day so I declined and just took a really long bike ride and then watched Japan beat Germany in the women’s world cup which was a huge surprise. I’m doin that same thing this morning with the first game of Australia and Sweden and then USA vs. Brazil at 11:00. So, I’ve got to get going on this one and then get the bike ride in before that. I’ve really been having trouble writing lately as you know if you’ve been here and I still don’t know why…it might be the disappointment I’ve felt about life but I should really be okay…there is a birthday coming up later in the week and that may be a component but I feel better than I ever have so I don’t know why an additional year should make any difference…my oldest brother, born on the same day as I was, nope, that’s backwards…I was born on the same day as he was is going to turn 71 this year and he still rides his mountain bike so maybe their is hope for some longevity…..not much to do today…after the soccer match, that is….might have a couple with K later but without a car..I’d have to take the bike and I don’t ride the thing after a beer…just feels wrong…more later….

Well…didn’t get the car back so it looks like a biking weekend for me…haven’t been able to get the brain working too well as you can tell from the shortness of the posts and I’m not sure what to do about it….there’s just is no flow anymore but I am going to keep trying…and there have been things to write about so that’s not it…didn’t do much yesterday…I did get a long ride in since I really didn’t have much else to do but I am having problems with pain in my legs and I hope it is just that I’m going out harder than normal…I guess I’ll try some ibuprofen before I go today and see if that helps…not much to do today…I am going to go out in a minute to get the papers and maybe having some coffee will help to get the brain in gear…..I did see a show about these guys that did nothing but drink vegetable and fruit juice for 60 days and it changed their life…..I do eat relatively well but that might help get some energy back….we’ll see….

Well…a little more interesting day yesterday with going out to have a couple with K and V…but I’m running a little late today since I had to take the car in first thing….had a brake line fail on the way home last night and the pedal went to the floor just as I was pulling into the lot here…not sure if I’ll get it back today so I may have to ride the bike all weekend…I normally do that anyway so it’s no big deal…but I will miss the party out at M’s….and I really don’t have the cash to spend but I’m hoping it will be under a hundred bucks….we’ll see later…so, not much to do today…not going out for papers and coffee and I may just clean around here…..I will get another one out later since I am falling behind…