Well…It’s been a kind of weird day with one occurence that I feel I had to share…had a flat tire on the bike today that was kind of exhilarating…it was on the fastest downhill on my route and damn near flipped me into the weeds when it went. I’m glad I wear my running shoes to ride the bike…it was a long 4 1/2 mile walk back but taking it slow allowed me to just look around and enjoy the trail and the day. The flat did one more thing..It reminded me that I do like living where I do…even in this small apartment. The bike shop is less than a block away and it took all of 5 minutes to get the tire fixed including travel time there.

It’s becoming a nice little community out here with the movie theater and the new bar that is opening in a couple of weeks…and even the clientele at the coffee shop is taking on a more eclectic flavor that reminds me of the ones I’ve been in in Chicago…well…that may be stretching it a little but there is more activity happening every day and I kind of like it…

Well…out for a little while last night with K and C and had a lot of fun…had a little argument about the scientific method and the conflict between science and faith (yeah, we do talk about more than hockey) and I guess I went off a little…but I’ve been so good lately about politics and religion that I think I had one coming. I am getting back to resting the liver starting today and it will probably last until Monday, or at that’s the hope. Not a lot to do today…need to get back on the bike and work out, then clean a little…the kitchen needs some work that I have been putting off so that will be a goal…more later…

Well…got my butt kicked at pool yesterday….but that’s okay…have had a pretty good run and there is always next week. I have found out one thing…going to stay away from drinking for while…didn’t sleep at all last night and feel like crap again today…don’t want to have to just survive my days…I’d gotten used to feeling okay when I got up and want to keep that up, so I think the liver is going to get a rest for a while again. That’s not even mentioning the empty calories that come with booze…I need to drop another 10 pounds before the end of the biking season and taking in an extra 1000 calories a day really gets in the way.

Not much else to do today…just coffee and a workout…no bike ride today since it’s raining and I think it’s a good idea to let the legs rest at least one day a week…well…if the weather gets better late on, I’ll probably take a leisure ride with no sprints…and I may meet up with K later…so I’ll have a couple of beers today but that will be it….then dry for the weekend…except Sunday Funday if that happens…so you can see how hard it is to be good…more later…

Well…as you can see from the earlier post…I was up pretty early this morning…I think it was about 5:30 or so but I feel okay since the liver rest program is still in full swing. That will not be the case later today, though, have lunch plans with T and then the normal wed out to Ada to shoot pool…this could be 5 weeks in a row if I win…but last week Tom gave me almost as many games as I won so I really can’t feel too good about it. The roast in the slow cooker was not as good as the traditional way…not anywhere near as much flavor so I’ll probably go back to the tried and true…but the bottle of Cabernet that I got cheap from Meijers almost made up for it.

Not a lot else to report right now…so I’ll end it here…more later…

Well..there are so many things in my head right now that I sometimes think that the thoughts are going to bleed out my ears…or maybe that is happening right now…I’ll have to check…nope…nothing but soap from the shower after the bike ride. But, maybe that explains why I forgot about this bit of weirdness that happened yesterday…out on the bike and normally, there are a few grasshoppers on the pavement but they are easy to miss and I always try…but, yesterday, there were thousands of them everywhere; jumping into the air when I got near and it reminded me of the videos of that river in Illinois that the carp jump out of when boats go by. I must have had 20 or 30 of them plastered to the front of my shirt and had to keep my mouth closed or I would have eaten at least a few of them. Compounding that strangeness, today they were back to normal and it looked like any other day….match that one….

Oh, the observation. Well…part of my trail runs along M-6 and this morning, I looked up to see the coolest semi-truck I’ve ever seen…it was a modern one but looked like an update of a 30′s truck with a v-shaped, chrome, art deco like grill that resembled the front end of the streamlined trains of the same period. I still think things should look good….

Well…have a bunch of topics for the day and, as you can see, I’ve already weighed in on one of them….but I think it may be time to tie together a theme for the fall elections…or maybe I’ll get sidetracked again…geez…I feel like I’m watching fireworks; that new ideas are exploding above me but they flash and then are gone…leaving me to try to make sense of the afterglow and turn it into some sort of lucid commentary. It’s not as easy as it looks…especially working without a net. But…that’s enough of that, if you’ve read these at all, the date in the title means this is supposed to be about my life so I’ll get on with today’s mundane description of the obvious…you can probably recite these in your sleep….

Not much to do today (see I told you…but it’s not a re run) but I do have to get groceries since I’m making T’s pot roast recipe in the slow cooker today and I’m going to try to use veggies from C s for all of the aromatics…I even have heirloom carrots that he grew that actually taste like carrots….then, I actually have some stuff to get done today…yay, and the 6th day of resting the liver was another good one…but, I am going to get a bottle of cabernet to have with dinner…maybe class this place up a little bit…is it wrong to still drink milk with dinner when you are 57? Don’t know where that came from…damn…do you ever type form when you meant from? In this post, and I guess every one….it seems that form comes out every time and I have to go back and correct it. Well….you know I’m weird…

Well…it was kind of a Sunday Funday yesterday….won about 30 bucks playing Keno so the tab was quite small…took it easy the rest of the day after that so I feel okay today…I really like the idea of giving the liver a rest and feeling good in the morning but a pretty big setback on sleeping last night disappointed me a little. Oh, well…looks like it’s going to be a pretty nice day but no plans other than the regular stuff that I won’t bore you with today…tomorrow is a different story, though. I know I still have the Keynes placeholder for later and maybe a comment on a Fareed Zakaria article in the Washington Post that posits that we are overstating the threat from terrorists; but no mention of the reason why we are still doing it, and that is the key to the whole issue. So, there will be some topics for later if you come back…if not, have a nice day…

Well… I may not get political for the rest of the day…so the last placeholder may be left until tomorrow…who knows….not a lot to do today, have been up since about 6 but that’s not bad…I think the sleep is getting better…still up and down but longer intervals so some progress.

I did make the decision to not ride today since it looked like it was going to rain and it just started so I don’t feel nearly as guilty now as I did earlier….as you know, I have a really well developed sense of guilt about just about everything that I do…growing up in West Michigan, you can’t help it…it’s the puritan capital of Michigan and it’s another reason that I don’t feel I fit here any more…but that’s another story for another time…

No plans for the Michigan game but to watch it here and that may be a good idea since I’m still working on cleaning out the liver….but I may have a beer or two during the game. Then, the Penn State Alabama game later in the day and I am loathe to root for Penn State but you have to support a Big Ten team that might knock off the number one. Don’t worry, I’ll go back to hating them later in the season when it gets to be time for us to play them.

Geez…I’ve already gotten everything done I wanted to do today and it’s only around 10….I do have more of the books that T gave me (down to the last two) and I want to have them finished before we have lunch next week so she can bring me another bag…much better than the library…it’s like having a personal book consultant but I am a little concerned that she has just ordered the new 3G Kindle…foiled again by modern technology but she has a whole wall of bookshelves that I haven’t read so I should be good for about a year…and then I may have to get a Kindle but I want to see hers first to see how it works in daylight…need to be able to read it at the beach.

That’s enough for now…may have some sports updates for later, especially if Michigan wins….Oh, I purposely didn’t comment on my feelings about 9/11 since I feel that it’s meaning is personal….not something to be worn on your sleeves and trotted out to show your bona fides as a patriot.

Well….saw some things out on the trails that puzzled me and thought I’d pass them along….the first is the top of weirdness to me…why would anyone discard the box for a pregnancy test out on the trail miles from nowhere? Did they use it out on the trail? Did they just take the box out there to dump it so no one would know? I’m sure someone using it is not something that I want to see when I’m on my bike…might even fall off. Then there was the guy that was running 50 ft up the trail, then turning and running back; this cycle repeated for about four times while I was in the area…was he an ex-con that was used to the exercise yard? Did he think he had to pay by the foot? Or, was that just his favorite part of the trail?

As I said, trail weirdness, but fun, too…I had a smile on my face the whole way today since I feel so good…and I have to remember that most 57 year olds can’t do what I take for granted everyday. I promise that there will be something topical today…don’t know what it is yet but something…more later.